The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-18


Gas stocks--sayannah Gas Light stock.
Company, So bid SO asked
I Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank 10
F bid, III asked; Chathams Bank
4S5s BID. AZ asked; Germania Bank,
lG7 bid, lo71s asked; Merchants
National Bank. 80 bid, 9lIs asked; National
Bank of Savannah. l29 bid, 1871 asked;
Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Com
pany, ie2 bid, 1903 asked: Southern
/ Bank of the State Of Georgia, 1863 bid.
Ia asked Savannah Bank and
Chatham Real Estate and I'M
provement Company, A, SO bid, 81 ask
ed; B, so bid, 50 asked; Peo-
! pies Savings and Loan Company, 80 bid,
81 asked, ex-dividend.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory IS, 1O2
pid, leS asked; Sibiey Factory 6s, 100 bid
| lOz asked; Enterprise Factory IS, 103 bid,
| lO4 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufacture
ing Company per cent. bonds, - bid. 90
Factory stocks-savannah Cotton Fac
Tory bid, 50 asked; Augusta Factory,
a bid 80 asked. ex-div.; Granite Vile Fac
| Jos bid, ITO asked Enterprise Factory,
| common, So bid, 102 asked; ]. r.
King Manufacturing Company, 105 bid los
asked; Sibley Manufacturing Company, IS
bid. rs asked; Savannah Brewing Com
| panys = bid 70 asked
London, Sept. I7.-Bar silver 302sd. Con-
soils, 1898 for money and 1925 for the ac-
| count Paris quotes per cent rentes, 1O1
francs 9712 centimes for the account.
| New York, Sept. 17.-Money on call firm
| at 5QS per cent; the last loan, at 6 per
cent, and at the closing was offered at
per cent. Prime mercantile paper, Sd10
| per cent. Bar silver, 65&c Sterling ex-
change steady, with actual business in
bankers bills at $S11ad4S1% for sixty
days, and $4.S3s4 04S4 for demand Posted
rates, &.S2d4S91a Commercial bills 81 S0S
| q4.S1. Government bonds firm; state
bonds duh; railroad bonds higher. Silver
at the board was firm.
New York, Sept 1.-THE treasury bal
| ances were as follows Coin, $122, 500, 2O1
| currency. $66, 80 col.
! New York. Sept. II, noon.-Erie, 1914;
| Northwestern, 971a; preferred, 40; Lake
! Shore, 14212; Western Union, SOL South
ern Railway, common, Z; Southern Rail
way preferred, 20; American Sugar, 10;
| Baltimore and Ohio 1874 Canada South
ern, 49,; St Paul, 69A; Rock Island, 5SA;
| Delaware and Hudson, zoos; Delaware.
| Lackawanna and Western, $50; Manhat-
tan, 81; Michigan Central, 81; New York
| Central, 9112. Speculation dull
New York, Sept. H-Stocks were dull
! but strong to-day. The transactions foot
| ed up only 1871 shares, including $500
| Sugar; 20700 St. Paul and 1890 Manhat-
tan, Operators, who were generally ar
! rayed on the bear side yesterday, made a
| complete change of front and were mod
| crate buyers throughout the session. At
| the start the market was stimulated by
more favorable advices from London re-
| garding the political situation in the east,
| and by the announcement that the COVER
! nor's of the bank of England had not adj
| vanced the rate of discount after all Near
| the close it was rumored that LaZard
| Freres had engaged a big block of gold
| abroad for shipment to New York. The
report was subsequently confirmed and it
was stated that the firm in question had
| secured S4, 100000 of the metal This brings
the total on the way, engaged and arrived,
| since Aug. % last, up to $36,000,000. This
| new engagement had a strengthening eff
| feet and the shorts were bidders for stocks
! right up to the adjournment of the board.
| Manhattan and Sugar were the particu-
| larly strong stocks. The former advanced
| from S11a TO S534 The rise was attributed
| to covering ola long outstanding short in
| terest Subar bounded up from 1093s to
HIS, and was in sharp demand through
out. The Changers, International, Chica-
| go Gas, Tobacco and Leather, preferred,
! advanced y to 13s per cent, and closed at
or near the best figures of the day. The
unfavorable developments were the dear
ness of money, s per cent. being paid for
! call loans in some cases, and the decrease
of S112500 in gross earnings of the St.
! Paul for the second week of September
NeIth 81 n ad any influence, however, and
speculation closed strong, with an upward
tendency. Net changes show gains of 40
VIZ per cent the latter in Manhattan.
Bonds were dull and firm sales were only
$4,000
New York ste ok disclosing Bids
Stocks and Ror15--American Cotton Oil
1O34; do pr aia.red "A; Sugar Refinery. 1l1a
| Go preferred, 9E12; American Tobacco, SOS;
dc prefer "ei, 95: Atchison, Topeka AMI
! Santa Fe, il1, Baltimore and Ohio. Is;
| Canada Pacific. 8; Chesapeake and Ohio
.9as, Chicago and Atom, 15}; Chicago, Bur
| linSton and Quincy, 66A; Chicago Gls
! 81; Delaware, Lackawanna and Was:2rn.
| f51. DisHllers snd Cattle Feeders -:
| Erie, 12tl do preferred %; Edison General
| Electric, 26lA; Illinois Central, IS, Lake
! Etic and Western 14j2; do preferred, CO 8;
i Lake Shore, 142i4; Louisville and Nash
! Vile. 409i, oil sviile and N ~, 2H; Nan
hlttRn. S55s Memphis and Charleston "a:
| Nichigan Central, 81; Missouri Pacific
| 49,: Mobile and OHIO. II; Nashville, Chat
| tanooga and St. Louis, 67la; United States
! Cordage, 35s do preferred, IA New Jer-
sey Central, 110, New York Central, 91A,
| New York and iSCw England 20 bid; Nor
folk and Western preferred, Il; Northern
| / aCiiic, ILL.,; dc u eferred, 1875. NCrthwCs;
| ec1 3sit. do preferred, AS; Tactic Mail
49,, Readi; z, 1871 Rock Island 9A 81
Paul, 70h: do Preferred 1861; S liver Ger
! tifcates. 65i1; I'enr essee Coal a':d Ircn
| on do do TreftIi ed, 80 asked; TeyA. Ia
eifc. g., Union Pacific, So; Wlhasl.. 81
I. and F.. 81 dc dc preferred, 1SH West
en- Union, .l5s; Wheeling ana Lake lGr.e,
| Ga do do preferred, 2s1a; Southern Rail-
| way IS. S21h: Southern Railway comm0n,
! Z. Southern Railway preferred. 81.
State Bonds-Eiabama A. 1G1 asked, do
/, lOl asked 10 {, IS asked; LouisiGaa
STAMPED As, SO old North Carolina ~. e5
North Carolina 6s 10 bid; Tennessee, new
SCI IS. 40 Tirg mia 6s, prefe rcd, . BID:
Virginia Trust Receipts, 4; Virginia Fund
ing Debt 56ia; South Carolina AS. 90
Government B )nds-United States As
rcgiste, ed, 1O514: Omitted States a., cou
mons. 1O7; United States Is, registered, %
bid United States new As, registered,
1ilst; Jniyed States new As, couponz, 10
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