The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-31

Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock
22ls bid. % asked; Electric Light and
Power Company, 67ls bid. ssh asked, ex-div.
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizens Bank. s0Sls
bid, 100 asked. ex-div.; Chatham Bank,
~ bid, 10 asked, eN-div.; Germania Bank,
lQi bid, los asked. ex-div.: Merchants Ma
tional Rank. 81 bid, 96 asked: National
Bank of Savannah, t27 bid, 1870 asked /:
Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company,
100 bid, l0l asked. eX-div. Southern Bank
of the State of Georgia. l6S bid, Ill asked /;
Savannah Bank and Trust Company, 100
bid, 10l asked. ex-div.; Chatham Real Es-
tate and Improvement Company, A, 81
bid, = asked; b, 5012 bid, 5lls asked Peo-
pies Savings and Loan Company, 81 bid.
80 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 6s, 100
bid, 102 asked: Sibley Factory 6s, 100 bid,
10l asked; Enterprise Factory SIS, 101 bid,
1O2 asked; Eagle and PheniX Manufactur-
ing Company, 6 per cent. bonds 40 bid 50
asked.
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, = bid, 50 asked Augusta Factory 50
bid, 50 asked, ex-dv,; Graniteville Fac
tory, $50 bid, ISL asked; Langley Factory,
lO6 bid, l0 asked Enterprise Factory,
common, 80 bid, lO2 asked; ] r. King
Manufacturing Company, 1906 bid, 107 ask
ed; Sibley Manufacturing Company, IS bid,
IS asked; Savannah Brewing Company "a
bid, 81 asked.
London, Dec. Solar silver. 2S7sd. Con-
soils, Ill 7-16 for money and lila for the
account
Paris, Dec. 3O.--S per cent. rentes, 1o2
francs As confines for the account.
New York, Dec. 30-Money on call was
easy at 1902 per cent; the last loan was
at 2 per cent, and at the closing was Of
fered at per cent. Prime mercantile pa
per, 31RG4 per cent. Bar silver, 65c. Ster-
ling exchange weak with actual business
in bankers bills at $4SS1aG14.s4 for sixty
days and S4.S6AG4S615 for demand. Post
ed rates. S4.S4 and $4S. Commercial bills,
S4S2G4.SS. Government bonds steady;
state bonds quiet; railroad bonds firm.
Silver at the board was firm.
New York, Dec. 30.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, $121, 1927 075 /;
currency, $56,921 ,52S.
New York, Dec. 80 noon.-Erie, ISIS;
Northwestern, 101B; do preferred, 15lh
Lake Shore, l5312 Norfolk, and Western,
preferred, 1872; Western Union, SSls; South
ern Railway common, 9A; Southern Rail-
way preferred, 264; American Sugar, 110A /;
Baltimore and Ohio, 1914; Canada South
ern, as; ST. Paul, 70; Rock Island, S.;
Delaware and Hudson, 1l7A; Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, 156; Manhattan,
So; Michigan Central. 80; New York Gen.
trial, 9312. Speculation dull.
New York, Dec. 3O.-The only redeeming
change to-day was squirt in American
Tobacco and Sugar in the. late trading.
The movement in these shares saved the
day from being one of the dullest on rec
ord. The early cables from London occa-
stoned no little disappointment, inasmuch
as quotations from London came lower,
where the reverse had been looked for on
account of the strong closing here yester-
day. The traders promptly set to work to
adjust quotations to the London parity, land
accordingly the market yielded Aq% per
cent, the Changers leading. The deal
ings were in small amounts and the de-
cline brought business practically to a
standstill. AS a matter of fact the fiuc-
tuations from 1880 o'clock a. m. up to the
close of business were merely nominal,
covering a range of only 1s0G12 per cent,
outside of a very few stocks. The de-
claTation of a per cent. dividend on To-
bacco preferred and per cent. on the
common started up little speculation in
the latter although as soon as the stock
advanced realizations seemed to be in or
der. The price first fell Is to 1915, then
rose to SO1h, and closed at 1878 against 80
on yesterday. The real feature of the day
was the execution of buying orders for
considerable amounts in Sugar during the
last hour of business, which carried that
stock up from HOS to III. Manhattan,
after selling down 5s to SS1s, rose to SO;
COnSOnudJ6Q GdS rose 1, Wiil6 OeldWdTe
and Hudson declined per cent. The
jump in Sugar failed to stimulate dealings
in the prominent railway stocks, such as
the Changers, Chicago Gas and Louisville
and Nashville, and these shares closed with
net losses of A@s per cent. for the day.
There was a remarkable lack of interest
in the shares named and commission
houses were bewailing the absence of out
side orders. Speculation closed strong for
Sugar and firm for the remainder Of the
list. Total sales were 1854 shares, in
GLIDING $1,000 Sugar, 1850 Burlington and
Quincy, and i, 600 Tobacco Bonds were
higher; sales footed up $1,740000.
New York Stock List-Stocks and Bonds
at the Closng-American Cotton Oil, IL;
do preferred, 53ls Sugar Refinery, 111A;
do preferred 1907; American Tobacco,
7934; do preferred, 101; Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe, IA; Baltimore and Ohio,
16; Canada Pacific. So; Chesapeake and
Ohio, 1915; Chicago and Alton, 100; Chica-
go, Burlington and Quincy, 69B; Chicago
Gas, 73A; Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western, 15611; Erie, 147s; do preferred, 81;
Edison General Electric, 80; Illinois Cen
trail 92; Lake Erie and Western, 1871; do
preferred, 671S; Lake Shore, 15315; Louis
vile and Nashville, As; Louisville and N.
A., "a; Manhattan, SO; Memphis and
Charleston, IS; Michigan Central, 80; Mis-
rouri Pacific, 201s; Mobile and Ohio. 2112;
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis,
671k; New Jersey Central, 991k; New York
Central, SO; N. Y. and N. E., As; Norfolk
and Western, preferred, 1871 Northern
Pacific, 1875; do preferred. 32%; North
western, 1O1%; do preferred. 1871; Pacific
Mail, "a; Reading 26; Rock Island 66A;
st. Paul, 70; do preferred. 1401z; Silver
Certificates. 65; Tennessee Coal and Iron,
259s; do preferred, 80; Texas Pacific, S1a
Union Pacific, 9A; Wabash, st. l.. and
p, 6Is: do preferred. Is; Western Union,
SSis; Wheeling and l.. E.. ga; do prefer
red, "a Southern Railway SIS, 9l15; South
ern Railway. common, 9A; Southern
Railway preferred, 26ss.
State Bonds-Alabama p, 104 do c, Sc;
Louisiana stamped As 96; North Carolina
es 10e North Carolina 6s, 100; Tonnes
see, new set. S's, sl1a; Virginia S. pre-
ferred, 5; Virginia Trust Receipts, 6; Vir-
ginia Funding Debt, GA; South Carolina
rs, 1929.
Government Bonda-United States As,
registered. 10; United States Is. coupons,
1l1ls; United States rs, registered, 951k;
United States AS. new, registered. 1875;
United States As, new, coupons, 1879.
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Racon-The market Is firm Smoked