The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-07


bid. ll3is asked. Chatham Bank. ~ bid.
s9lt asked: Germania Bank los bid no ask
ca; Merchants National Bank. l01ia bio.
lf3i4 asked National Bank OF savannah.
1874 BID, l5j asked; 0g.ethorpe Savings
Southern Bank OF state Of Georsia- 17l bid.
IL asked; savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany, lV9 bid, 10 asked. Chatham Real Es-
tate and Improvement Company A 81 bid.
5iIs asked; b, 81 bid, 5lia asked: Peoples
savings and Loan Company. ga bid. 92i2
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory Is. 10iis
bid, I06 asked: SIDley Factory 6S. 1llla bid,
-g932 asked; enterprise actory os, luo Dld,
lo6 asked; Eagle and PheniN Manufactur-
Ing Company per cent. bonds. q bid, 81
Factory Stocks-Savannan Cotton Fac
tory. = bid 50 asked; Eagle and PheniN
Manufacturing Company. 4 bid, 10 asked;
Augusta Factory. . bid, q asked; Gran
ley Factory, JOS bid. 10 asked; Enterprise
Factory. common. 100 bid. los asked: j. Z.
King Manufacturing Company, los bid, 10
asked; Sibley Manutacturlng Company, IS
bid, 80 asked; Savannah Brewing Company
bid. ~ asked
London. MAY 6-Bar silver. 31Isd con-
soils. III 9-16 for money and 11l5s for the
account Paris adVIces quote s per cent.
rentes. l02 francs 70 ceutimes for the ac-
New York. May 6.-SIoney on call was
easy al 2U2ie per cent; the last loan was
at per cent. and at the closing was Of
fered at 2 per cent. Prime mercantile
Sterling Exchange dull and steady. with
actual business IN bankers bills at SiSI3i.
ass for sixty days. and SiSSl2d4SS34 for
demand. Posted rates, $i.SSiz04.s9l2. COM
mercial bills. S4.S6a4 0AS14. Government
bonds firm; state bonds dull. railroad
bonds lower; silver at the board was
New York, May 6.-The treasury bal
ances Were as follows: Coin, 12l 81. 291;
New York. May 6. noon.-Erle. 143s
Northwestern, l0o9s preferred. 1881; Lake
ferred, SIS; Western Union. S5la; Southern
Railway, common. 9ss; Southern Railway
preferred, BIS; American Sugar. l2Sl2; Ball
tlmore and Ohio, 1875; Canada southern,
50&; St. Paul, 1875; Rock Island, ma Del
aware and Hudson, 127; Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western, 1904; Manhattan,
lGl12; Michigan Central, 30; New York
New YORK May 6-There was a moder-
ate increase in business at the stock eX-
change to-day, but the market is still I'M
der the professionals. outside interest is
at a very low ebb and the changes in
prices simply reflect the opinions of a few
room traders. At the start, prices tended
downward, the comparatively heavy with
drawals of gold from the subtreasury, 81
100000. the bulk of which is for export,
ard rumors that President Cleveland in
tends to send a warlike message TO con-
gress on the Cuban question, having as
sisted local bears IN their work or de-
pressing prices. As of late the greatest inn
preston was made in the Industrials The
issues broke anywhere from l to pa per
cent. Bay State Gas, La Clede Gas, To-
bacco, Sugar, General Electric and Rub
Der common suffered the heaviest losses.
The railway list yielded only Is to 1 per
cent, Notwithstanding the pressure
| brought to bear by well-knOwn operator.
1t is alleged that this trader sold nearly
5000 shares of the stock dealt in to-day.
A the afternoon session a tirmer tone
prevailed as the result of covering of short
contracts. Washington advices indicating
the closing up of contracts by certain
bears. The afternoon rally was equally
70 Aq2& per cent cent Speculation closed Po
losses of k6A per cent. in the railway
list. and AQ94 per cent. in the Industrials.
/ In the inactive stocks Great Northern
preferred jumped to lis, and Edison IL
| Eliminating of New York, 2ia to 1902 Total
/ sales were 1H,1S7 shares, including 5000
Louisville and Nashville, $500 Burlington
/ and quincy and 400 Bay State Gas. Bonds
were lower; The sales We're l,l28'eO9
| Stocks and Bonds-American Cotton Oil,
/ 1884; do preferred 5S4 Sugar Refinery,
| l2lla; do preferred, 103; American Tobacco,
| &c. do preferred, 81; Atchison Topeka and
! Santa Fe, 1875; Baltimore and Ohio, IL;
! Canada Pacific, 6OA; Chesapeake and
! Ohio, II; Chicago and Alton, l54; Chicago,
4 Burlington and quincy, o012; Chicago Gas,
! 697s; Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern, 1914; Distillers and Cattle Feeders.
1875; Erie, l4i5; do preferred. 81; Edison
| General Electric, 353s; Illinois Central,
/ 1864 Lake Erie and Western, 1874; do pre-
! ferred, IA; Lake Shore, 1895; Louisville
] ana NaSnNlllet 0UtSi LOUISVILLE ana y. Al
/ S12; Manhattan, 1918; Memphis and
| Charleston Is; Michigan Central, 80; Mis-
souri, Pacific, 267s; Mobile and Ohio. 20;
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis, 6S;
/ United States COrdage, 5; do preferred,
! 10: New Jersey Central, 105%; New York
/ Central 977s; New York and New Eng
/ land 40; Norfolk and Western preferred,
I So; Northern Pacific, 49, do perferred,
| 1871; Northwestern, 1059s do preferred,
/ 14S; Pacific Mail. 26a4 Reading 129s. Rock
1 Island, 71B; St. Paul, 1875; do preferred,
/ 12SA; silver Certificates, 6Sh; Tennessee
Coal and Iron, 291z; do do preferred. 100;
| Texas Pacific, 81; Union Pacific, SIS; Wa
| bash, St L. and p, Z; do do preferred,
| 1875: Western Union, S512; Wheeling and
| Lake Erie 10; do do preferred, 30; South
/ ern Railway IS, 927s; Southern Railway
! common, 915; Southern Railway preferred,
! 31%.
4 do c. 1907 Louisiana Stamped As, STA
/ North Carolina As, 1919; North Carolina
| IS, 124; Tennessee, new set IS, So; Virginia
| 6s, preferred, 8; Virginia Trust Receipts,
| s; Virginia Funding Debt 6l7s; South Car
| DINA 4las, 106.
Government Bonds-United States As,
! registered, 109 United States As, coupons.
! 10; United States Is, registered, 941s
| United States new As, registered, 1175s
| Tinted States new As COUPONS ll75s.