The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09

while a little livelier than yesterday may
sun be called intensely dull The total
transactions were 49, So shares. the great
elih or which were IN Sugar. Tobacco.
d Paul. Burlington and Quincy. Chica-
80 Gas and Rock Island. Prices declined
tsc 70 sc AT the opening, and later re-
covered. sugar and Tobacco made eNcep-
tlonal gains OF about per cent. the for
mer rising from loss 10 lllis. and the lat
yer from 6olz TO 62iz. The rise induced
realization during the afternoon. under
which the whole list yielded Z TO IL per
cent In the absence Of any known cause
the decline was ascribed TO the news re-
ceiFed from Chicago concerning the
strength OF the free silverites and the
radical measures proposed in the plat
forms. These matters gave the bears an
opportunity to hammer the list. but they
made comparatively little impression on
prices and commission houses reported
lew offerings for the long account In
many quarters the belief obtains that the
late depression in prices fully discounted
anything that the Chicago convention
may DO IN the way OF free silver at the
moment. The business OF the exchange is
connned almost exclusively to the room
traders, but leading operators are eN-
pected 70 take a hand after the convention
takes definite action Speculation closed
weak IN tone, the active stocks showing
net losses Of IS to s per cent, the Grang
ers leading. Leather preferred gained &
Jersey Central ! and Tobacco IL on the
day. The operations for London account
sisted of sales Of about 1000 ST. Paul
Bonds were dull and firm; sales were $685.
New York Stock List-Closing Bids
Stocks and Bonds-American Cotton on,
10; do preferred, 5Oi4 Sugar Refinery. 10;
do preferred, 100; American Tobacco, 6lS4;
do preferred, 100; Atchison. Topeka ana
santa Fe, lSSl; Baltimore and Ohio, 1724
canada Pacific, COZ; Chesapeake and
Ohio, 14Ss; Chicago and Alton. 156; Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy. 7l7s: Chi
cago Gas, SIS; Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western, ISL; Distillng Cattle Feed
ing, 1855; Erie. 14lz; do preferred, "a:
Edison General Electric, 257s; Illinois Cen
tral, 9212; Lake Erie and Western, 1912;
do preferred, S.; Lake Shore, 147; Louis
Vile and Nashville, 4S3s; Louisville ana
New Albany, z; Manhattan, 967s; Mem
PMS and Charleston, Is; Michigan Cen
tral, 81; Missouri Pacific, 2Oj5; Mobile and
Ohio, 49,; Nashville, Chattanooga and ST.
Louis IS; United States Cordage, AZ;
do preferred, sIa: New Jersey Central
lOl12; New York Central g5ls; New York
and New England. As; Norfolk and West
ern preferred, 1lls; Northern Pacific, 8;
do preferred, 16L; Northwestern 9qlf.
do preferred, 149: Pacific Mail, 221b; Read
ing, 1875; Rock Island, 62Ss: st. Paul, 747s;
do preferred, 1Nia; Silver Certificates So:
Tennessee Coal and Iron. 2OIa; do do pre-
ferred, 80; Texas Pacific rs: Union Pa
cihc, go; Wabash, st. Louis and Pacific
612; do do preferred, 1914; Western Union,
SLY; Wheeling and Lake Erie, so; do do
preferred, 5l9s; Southern Railway 5s S9Ss
southern Railway, common, SIS; Southern
Railway preferred, 25ia.
state Bonds-Alabama A, 103; do B, los.
do c, 100; Louisiana As. 95; North Caro-
lima A. 100; North Carolina 6s, 12O; Ten
nessee' new. set, IS. 50; Virginia 6s. pre-
ferred, 8; Virginia Trust Receipts, S; Vir-
ginia Funding Debt, 561A; South Caro-
lima AS, l02.
Government Bonds-United States A.
registered, 10S; United States As. coupons
10SA; United States rs, registered g5
United States, As, new, registered. i16iS
United states. As. new. COUPONS. 1l6h.