The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-06

New York, March 5.-During the early
trading at the stock exchange the market
Was in the main firm. The improve
ment IN prices ranged from Il 10 ? per
cases OF Tobacco and Burlington and
quincy The short interest in these
as usual in small markets, spectators
We're nervous. II was natural for the
snorts 70 rush into cover when the stocks
named began to give evidences Of strength
The bears In their efforts 10 cover nut IN
Io1acco 70 Is and BURLINGTON and Quincy
70 IS When the demand from the short
Rai 49, aDa5ed the market weakened.
RaltiInore ana Ohio then sold down to 49,.
the lowest point ever touched. The weak
ness OF the stock finally affected the gem
eFal INST, and in the last hour the whole
t9larhet was heavy The weakness of Bal
tlmore and Ohio was due to the general
oellet that the stock will be heavily as
49, a,,, IN me proposed reorganization. 1t
" - announced to-day that President F'itz-
gerald of the Mercantile Trust Cornnanv
Is 10 De the chairman OF the reorga MIA
T Iion S93II1Imntee. August Belmont OF the
4455o9lsNlle and Nashville and Henry
-. oIuse OF hallgarten & Co. have been add
- 70 the company. In the InduStrials
SUGAR and General Electric were strons
S IIu Ldcieue Gas weak. In the closing
your your me market was weak on realization
Het changes show losses of lt6I1 per. cent .
pa attd w and Ohio, having. however
lost IS per cent. Bonds were strong. The
sales footed up 81 1910
New York Stock List-CIosing Bids
-e,SNNfs anu IoOnuS-Amerlcan Cotton Oil
1914 DO preferred, 62is: Sugar Rem merry,
itlo52; DO preferred. 10l2s: American To-
1acco, I5A; do preferred, 100: Atchison.
Topeka ana Santa Fe, 1855: Baltimore and
ONO, l5A; Canada Pacific. 5534: Chesa-
peake ana Ohio l6aa; Chicago and Alton.
I59; chicago, Burlington and Quincy. 76IS:
ChicaSo Gas, 669s; Delaware, Lackawanna
anu aI w estern, l6l12; Distillers and Cattle
y SeuSTs ), ny; Erie. 15s4 do preferred,
"a; Edison General Electric 325s; Illinois
central, 95l2; Lake Erie and Western %.
10 preIerred %; Lake Shore, 14S: Louis
Nlle ana Nashville, 534 Louisville and
y, A, ia; Manhattan 1051b; Memphis and
SnarIeston, 10 asked; Michigan Central. IS;
missouri Pacific, 2iA; Mobile and Ohio
.; Nashville, Chattanooga and St Louis
6S; United States COrdage, ia; do pre-
IerTed, lOA; New Jersey Central 1O7: New
1ork central, 9Il2; New York and New
england, 40: Norfolk and Western pre-
ierred, "a; Northern Pacific. AS; do pre-
1erred, 49,; Northwestern, 1O32t; do pre-
ferred, AS; Pacific Mail, 27T: Reading.
12; Rock Island, 717s; ST Paul. 773s: do
preferred, l2915; Silver Certificates, 6SI5;
tennessee Coal and Iron, 303s: do do pre-
1erred, 100, Texas Pacific, So: Union Pa
cific, ~; Wabash, St. L. and p, 67s do
do preferred. 177s; Western Union, S4A /;
1erred, 81 Southern Railway 5s, 80; South
eTn Railway Common, go Southern Rail-
way preferred, 81
State Bonds-Alabama A, 1OS: do r los.
DO {, 1902; Louisiana Stamped As 9Ss,
North Carolina As 1903; North Carolina S.
l2S Tennessee, new set IS. IS; Virginia
6s, preferred, 5is Virginia Trust Receipts
s; Virginia Funding Debt, 6O24 South Car
olina 41as, 10S.
Government Bonds-United States IS
registered, Jos; United States As, coupons
1882; United States Is, registered, 80.