The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-27

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/ Is. bid, los asked; South Georgia
/ and Florida. second mortgage Is. IT. bid. los
! asked: Savannah. Americas and Mont
/ gomery. IS, - bid, S. asked: Ocean Steam
| ship per cent bonds. 1926. - bid, IS asked:
/ City and Suburban railroad first mortgage
! 7 per cent. bonds. - bid. IS asked: Electric
! Railway S. due 1855. - bid. - asked: Ala
! bama Midland per cent. indOrSed, - bid
/ 90 asked; Brunswick and Western. Is =
! bid, % asked, South Bound railroad s.. -
/ bid, Is asked: Southern railway IS 70 bid
| 50 asked; Georgia and Alabama Z con-
| soils - bid, y asked.
/ Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
/ nah, IS bid, SO asked eX-div.: Georgia
| common, 100 bid, 164 asked; Southwestern
| Sf2 bid, $50 asked. ex-div.: Atlanta and
| West Point railroad stock, 81 abid. $751; ask
/ ed; Atlanta and West Point per cent
/ certificates. - bid IS asked; Savannah
! Construction Company. IS bid. 10 asked.
Gas StOcks-Savannah Gas Light stock
! 20 bid, p asked, eX-div.; Electric Iight
and Power Company. So bid. 60 asked,
| ex-div.
Bank Stocks. Executions Bank. uOiL
| bid 11lia asked. ex-div.; Chatham Bank
! 46lz bid, AIR asked, eX-div. ;Germania Bank
| 107 bid, 1914 asked; ex-div.; Merchants
| National Bank, % bid, 91l5 asked National
| Bank of Savannah. 100 bid 1872 asked, ex-
| div; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Com
/ pdny 1922 bid, 1882 asked, eN-diV.: South
ern Bank Of the State of Georgia. 1891 bid.
| 1902 asked. ex-div.; Savannah Bank and
| Trust Company. 1OS bid 1O4 asked.
| ex-div.; Chatham Real Estate and I'm
| provement Company. A, So bid, 53% ask
| ed; b. 50la bid. 81 asked. ex-div.; Peo-
pies Savings and Loan Company, 9i15 bid
S2l2 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory Is. 102
| bid, 103 asked; Sibley Factory IS 100 bid
| l02 asked; Enterprise Factory 6s, l03 bid,
lOi asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufactur-
| asked.
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
I Augusta
| n bid, so asked, eX-div.; Granite vile Fac
| tory. li5 bid, $50 asked; Langley Factory.
los bid. 10 asked; Enterprise Factory,
| common, 80 bid. 102 asked, eX-div.; J. p.
| King Manufacturing Company, los bid los
| asked; Sibley Manufacturing Company. rs
bid, rs asked; Savannah Brewing Com
| pany, y bid, IS asked.
London, Aug. 26.-Bar silver. 30 l1-16d
Consols, 1lS 1-16d for money and 1875 for
| the account.
New York. Aug. 26.-Money on call was
firm at 5d10 per cent; the last loan was
| at per cent, and at the closing was
! offered at S per cent. Prime mercantile
| paper, SQl0 per cent. Bar silver. $3.50.
| Sterling exchange weak with actual bust
| ness in bankers bills at siS3AdAS31s for
sixty days, and S4S4Ad4S4Ia for demand.
Posted rates, S4.S4QAS5l2 Commercial
| bills, $4S2d4 S224 Government bonds
steady; state bonds dull; railroad bonds
lower. Silver at the board was higher.
New York, Aug. 26.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, sl1, 635, S2S;
currency, S79710.547
New York Aug. 26. noon.-Erie. liz;
| Northwestern, 92h; preferred 14415; Nor
folk and Western preferred, 11A; West
ern Union, 752s; Southern Railway com
mon, SIS; American Sugar, 1885 Balti-
more and Ohio 141a; Canada Southern, Al;
st. Paul, 63A Rock Island. 517s; Delaware
and Hudson, 116; Delaware. Lackawanna
and Western, 1852; Manhattan, 1914 Mich
igan Central, IS; New York Central, 9O1z
Speculation quiet but steady.
New York, Aug. 26.-The announcement
of the failure of Hilton, Hughes q Co.
had only a passing effect upon the mar
kets for securities at the opening. There
was a disposition to hammer the list at
that time, but the decline was only frac-
tional, and was soon checked by further
reduction in the rates of sterling ana
cable advices from London that Kuhn,
Leob & Co and other banking houses in
tended to import additional amounts of
gold on the steamer sailing from the other
side this week. The first decline was equal
to 1kdB per cent, but before 1890 a. m.
most of the loss had been recovered. Stu
later there was another downward turn.
| the extreme apathy shown by the bulls
inviting another attack. At the lowest
point Illinois Steel showed a decline of )
points, Baltimore and Ohio "a, Minnesota
Iron 2 Bay State Gas 3la, and the general
list "A to 13s per cent. The heaviness OF
| Baltimore and Ohio was attributed to re-
| ports that Expert Titles statement Of
| the affairs of the company,
viii make very untavor-
| able showing, but as far as known, noth-
| ing new has developed concerning the
property. There was almost an entire alb
sence of outside orders and the movements
| were sluggish throughout. Near the close
there was a little more pressure in con-
sequence Of the advance of call loans to
10 per cent. The market left off duh ana
| steady in tone. Net changes show losses
of u to Is per cent Burlington and Quincy
| leading Manhattan rose Il and Northwest
| 81 per cent. In the inactive list Illinois
| Steel fell 5, Minnesota Iron and Balti-
more and Ohio 2. Total sales We're 1922
464 shares, including 24.7OO Sugar, 1860
| Western Union and 10000 St. Paul. Bonds
were weak. Sales were only $4,000.
New York Stock List-Closing Bids
| Stocks and Bonds-American Cotton Oil,
80: do preferred, 401h; Sugar Refinery, 104;
do preferred, 9512 American Tobacco,
5624; do preferred, SO; Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe 10; Baltimore and Ohio,
| 1873; Canada Pacific, 561a; Chesapeake and
| Ohio. -; Chicago and Alton, $50; Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy, 571a; Chicago Gas,
| 51A; Delaware, Lackawanna and Wes-
| tern. IA; Erie, liz; do preferred, 26; Ed
| son General Electric, 223s; Illinois Central,
| Sc: Lake Eric and Western, 1874; do pre-
|
| and Nashville, S77s; Louisville and n. A,
| 49,; Manhattan. 765s; Memphis and Char
! lesion, IS asked; Michigan Central, 81;
Missouri Pacific 15A; Mobile and Ohio,
| 15lk; Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
| Louis 6715 asked; United States Cordage,
32s; do preferred, 6; New Jersey Central,
| 9O1a; New York Central, 90A; N Y. and
| n. E. 20 bid; Norfolk and Western pre-
/ ferred, u; Northern Pacific, S%; do pre-
| ferred, 1914; Northwestern, 9234; do prefer
red. 144lb Pacific Mail, 173s; Reading, Ga;
Rock Island, 52]a; St. Paul, 6319 do prefer
red, 1909 bid; Silver Certificates, 66b;
| Tennessee Coal and Iron. 1875; do prefer
red, 90 asked; Texas Pacific, 5; Union Pa
cific, AZ; Wabash, st. L. and P, Az; do
preferred, y; Western Union, Is; Wheel
| ing and L. E, 53s; do preferred, 211z;
Southern Railway SIS, 70; Southern Rail
way. common, 67s Southern Railway,
preferred, IS.
State Bonds-Alabama A. 100 bid; do B.
100 bid; do c, 80; Louisiana stamped As.
81 bid: North Carolina As, IS; North Car
DINA SIS. 10 bid; Tennessee, new set, 3's,
70; Virginia SIS, preferred, 5; Virginia Trust
Receipts bid; Virginia Funding Debt,
55sL al xed. South Carolina 4Iz's 90