The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-12

asked: Ocean steamship per cent.
bonds, 1926, 1903 bid 1872 asked; City and
Suburban Railroad first mortgage per
cent bonds, bid, rs asked; Electric
Railway s. due 1885, Il bid, 10 asked; Ala
hama Midland per cent. indorsed, So bid,
SO asked; Brunswick and Western As,
bid, 20 asked South Bound railroad 5s.
20 bid Is asked; Southern Railway, 5s, 81
bid. % asked; Georgia and Alabama hrst
preferred 5s, 9sls bid, 100 asked; Georgia
and Alabama first consols, so bid, 81
asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, 95 bid, 96 asked; Georgia common,
1854 bid, 167 asked; Southwestern, IS bid
Sc asked; Atlanta and West Point rail-
road stock los bid, 40 asked; Atlanta anu
West Point per cent. certificates los
bid, asked; Savannah Construction
Company, 20 bid, "A asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock,
20 bid, % asked; Electric Light ana
Power Company, 67is bid 6Sl2 asked eN-div.
Bank Stocks, Etc--Ctizens Bank. 1lOh
bid, Ill asked; Chatham Bank, 46 bid.
AZ asked Germanfa Bank 1O7 bid. 1oS
asked; Merchants National Bank, 80 bid,
asked; National Bank of Savannah.
127 bid, 1870 asked Oglethorpe Savings and
Trust Company, 100 bid, 10l ask
ed ex-div.. Southern Bank Of
the State of Georgia. 1863 biz,
III asked; Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany, 101 bid, 1921 asked; Chatham Real
Estate and Improvement Company A, "a
bid, - asked; B, 5O1a bid, 51A asked; Peo-
pies Savings and Loan Company 81 bid,
SO asked
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory. S. 100
bid, 102 asked; Sibley Factory Is, 100 bid.
101 asked; Enterprise Factory IS, 101 bid,
102 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufacture
ing Company, 6 per cent. bonds, 40 bid, 20
asked.
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, - bid, so asked; Augusta Factory. II
bid, so asked, ex-div; Graniteville Fac
tory, las bid, $50 asked; Langley Factory,
100 bid, 1O5 asked; Enterprise Factory,
common, IS bid, 100 asked; ]. p. King
Manufacturing Company, 102 bid, los ask
red; Sibley Manufacturing Company, rs bid,
n asked; Savannah Brewing Company, "a
bid, 81 asked.
London, Dec. 11.-Bar silver BOD. Consols,
11115 for money and 111% for the account.
Paris, Dec. II, 4:3O p. m.-Three per cent.
rentes 1OS francs 101s confines for the ac-
count.
New York, Dec. 1l.-Money on call was
easy at 1hQ2 per cent; the last loan was
at IL per cent, and at the closing was
offered at ~ per cent. Prime mercantile
paper, 315d4 per cent. Bar silver, 652sc.
Sterling exchange firm with actual bust
ness in bankers bills at $4.S3ls@4S3% for
sixty days, and $4.S6l5G4. S6A for demand.
Posted rates, &S412@4872. Commercial
bills, $4S2Aa4S3h. Government bonds
steady; state bonds dull; railroad bonds
quiet. Silver al the board was higher
New York, Dec 1.-THE treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, 1921, $50 2l6;
currency, S5.62O345.
New York, Dec. II, noon.-Erie, IS;
Northwestern. 10Sla; preferred, 149; Lake
Shore 1888; Norfolk and Western, pre-
ferred, 1914, Western Union, S52s; Southern
Railway, common, 1917; Southern Rail-
way, preferred, 2S%; American Sugar.
1863; Baltimore and Ohio, 14l5; Canada
Southern 40; st. Paul, TAI; Rock Island,
esq., Delaware and Hudson, 1854; Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western, 1853; Man
haitian. 951a; Michigan Central, 90; New
York Central, 95lz. Speculation dull.
New York, Dec 1.-THE stock market
was duller than ever to-day and even the
professionals displayed only a languid in
terest in speculation. Considerable disap-
pointment was manifested because the faV-
orable government crop report failed to
stimulate business. The only reason as
signed for the dullness Is the prevailing
uncertainty in regard to the action of con-
gress on the Cuban question, it being fear
ed that resolutions may be introduced that
will upset the calculations of the bulls If
they should start into a campaign at this
time. The traders were much mixed in
their views, some Of them bid up the prices
for certain shares, while others succeeded
in depressing Burlington and Quincy, St.
Paul Reading, General Electric and Unit
ed States Cordage. General Electric ran
off IL per cent. to 311a on the sale of a
block of stock carried by well known spec
ulators, but 1t subsequently rallied to 20.
Reading was sold down from % to q on the
proposed investigation by the Pennsylva-
a. IL - ll.e4 gFEV
which the property has been re-organized.
Sugar, Missouri Pacific, Manhattan, and
Rock Island were comparatively firm.
Among the specialties, Consolidated Gas
fell w to 153A and rallied to 154ik. Minne-
sofa and st. Louis preferred fell to 541s,
and United States Cordage TO %. Specu-
lation closed dull and about steady in tone.
The net changes in the prominent shares
,Tere slight either way. Big -Four, how
ever, gained 1%. while Reading lost Is per
cent. Total sales were 81 i69 shares, in
Guiding 1890 Reading, $500 Manhattan.
800 General Electric. 300 Burlington an@
Quincy. $500 St. Paul. Bonds were quiet
sales 81 ,625,000.
New York Stock List-Stocks and Bonds
at the Closing-American Cotton OIL, II;
do preferred, 81; Sugar Refinery, n6&;
do preferred, 1O2; American Tobacco. 75M;
do preferred. 1919; Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe i4k; Baltimore and Ohio, l34 j.;
Canada Pacific, 55M ; Chesapeake and ONO,
1874; Chicago and Alton. 100; Chicago, Bur-
llngton and Quincy, 779s; Chicago Gas.
"a; Delaware. Lackawanna and Western,
1856; Erie, Is: do preferred. "a; Edison Gen
eral Electric, 80; Illinois Central, SO; Lake
Erie and Western, 1871; do preferred, ~;
Lake Shore 154ik, Louisville and Nash
Vile, 493l; Louisville and n. A., q; Man
haitian, 90; Memphis and Charleston, Is;
Michigan Central, 92 Missouri Pacific.
2iA: Mobile and Ohio p; Nashville, Chat
tanooga and ST. Louis. 67lk; United States
Cordage 5k; do preferred, II; New Jersey
Central. 1929. New York Central, 95A:
N. Y. and n. f., As; Norfolk and Western
preferred, 1917; Northern Pacific, "A; do
preferred, 28gs Northwestern, 1903, do pre-
ferred. Ia; Pacific Mail. 25h; Reading.
27K: Rock Island 6S7s: St. Paul, 7i3s: do
preferred. 1890: silver Certificates, 653s;
Tennessee Coal and Iron. 28: do preferred