The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-28

New York. March 26.-Money on call was
easy at ga 3l2 per cent. the last loan was AT
3 per cent. and at the closing was offered
at per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 5ls
M6c. Bar silver &c; Mexican dollars, 0iAu
| Size. Sterling exchange strong with actual
business in bankers bills, at St.S1lE0AS1A
for % days and ASSiRm4 $50, for demand.
Posted rates, Si.SSihN4. S9ih. Commercial
bills. $LS6i4@4.S. Government bonds dull
state bonds steady; railroad bonds lower.
Silver at the board was neglected.
New York, March 21.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, Sl2S 2o5, 292
currency. S92, S6S 5S5.
Northwestern. 102; do preferred. 145i5; Lake
Shore, 146: Norfolk and Western preferr-
ed 6; Western Union, SIS Southern Rail-
way. common, 81; do preferred, 2SA
American Sugar. 1ll2s: Baltimore and Ohio
| 17h: Canada Southern. ASH; St. Paul, 74h;
Rock Island, SO; Delaware and Hudson
, 125; Delaware. Lackawanna and Western
| 16Oib Manhattan 1887: Michigan Central,
90; New York Central, 96. Speculation
quiet.
| Stock Exchange continues quiet, the
| transactions to-day amounting TO only
| 1871 55 shares of stock. and S6l5.0OO railroad
| and miscellaneous bonds. At the opening
Of the market for stocks was weak and
lower, London having turned up as a sell
| err. parting with nearly 10000 shares OF
| st. Paul and other issues, with an inter-
/ on the part of the foreigners was due TO
| the Egyptian complications. Operators
were also disposed to sell moderately on
rumors that there would be exports of
! gold next week. 1t is understood that a
| Broad street commission firm, which was
| quite a factor last fall in the foreign ex-
| change market, had received an order to
| forward 81, 100000 gold next week. This
could not be confirmed, and IL was thought
| that If the treasury department should
| make another call on the depostary banks
for part of the money held by them on
4 bond account, or II the premium for gold
bars was again advanced, shipments OF
J al a mr. MT OIL r.
/ cline ranged from "a to per cent, Sugar,
! the Changers, Louisville and Nashville,
| Chicago Gas, Leather preferred. Manhat-
| tan and Pacific Mail scoring the greatest
| losses In the afternoon trading Tobacco
was the feature, and rose from S32 to S7i4
! on vague rumors that the company will
| week, and that the difficulties with the
| outside concerns had been adjusted Bal
I timOre and Ohio also met with better sup
| port and rose l to 1875. Speculation closed
| firm Net changes were merely fractional,
| except for Louisville and Nashville, which
| declined Is, and Baltimore and Ohio, and
! Tobacco, which gained 18s@9s respectively.
| The bond market was dull and lower
New York JStock List-Closing Bids
! Stocks and Bonds-American Cotton Oil.
| Is; do preferred, 81; Sugar Refinery 1l4ih
40 preferred. 1904 American Tobacco,
| SIS; do preferred, 100; Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe l4A; baltimore and Ohio,
Ohio, l5A; Chicago and Alton, 1856; Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy. 74%; Chi
cage Gas, 67A; Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western, 1911 Distillers and Cattle
Feeders, ia Erie, IA; do preferred, 37ia
| Edison General Electric, 1914; Illinois
| Central. "a; Lake Erie and Western, 1914
do preferred, 90; Lake Shore 1854; Louis
Vile and Nashville 48%; Louisville
and N. A., Sh; Manhattan. l03ss
Memphis and Charleston, Isl Michigan
| Central, 3d. Missouri Pacific, 22#; Mo-
bile and Ohio, 21% Nashville, Chatta-
| nooga and ST. Louis, 6S: United States
| Cordage, AZ; do preferred, 9A; New Jer-
| sey Central, 1861 New York Central, So
| New York and New England 80; Norfolk
| and Western preferred 81: Northern Pa
| cac, 49, do preferred, liz; Northwest
| ern 102IA; do preferred, 1857; Pacific Mail
| 2C5s; Reading, 9B; Rock Island 69A; St
| Paul, 74jz; do preferred, 125h Silver Ger
| tihcates, 6SA; Tennessee Coal and Iron
| 27A; do do preferred, 100; Texas Pacific
7st; Union Pacific, 6ss Wabash, st. l.. and
| p. 63a; do do preferred, 1914; Western
| Union, SO; Wheeling and Lake Erie. 92s
do do preferred, 80; Southern Railway 5s
9OA: Southern Railway common, So
| Southern Railway preferred 29h.
State Bonds-Alabama A, 1866 do -
| 1867 do G, 100; Louisiana Stamped As, 81
North Carolina Is. los; North Carolina IS
| 1221a; Tennessee, new set IS, So; Virginia
IS, preferred, s; Virginia Trust Receipts
| g. Virginia Funding Debt, 81; South Caro-
Government Bonds-United States As
| registered, 1854; United States As. cou-
| pons, 1101k; United States Is, registered
95; United States registered As, 11634
| United States coupons, 1858.