The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-18

Nov York. Jan. Il. noon.-Erie. 143s;
-NoIl hWestern. sess, preferred, l4iig: Lake
oIo5es Ita. Nortolk and Western PREFER
ed q Western Union. S37s; Southern Rail-
way common 9. Southern Railway pre-
derred, 2li; American Sugar. lU256: Balti-
more ana ohio, flI2; Canada Southern, As;
~. raul, 6sSa; Rock Island. C.; Delaware
ana hudson, l25; Delaware. Lackawanna
anu W cSterl, lo2; Manhattan, 1O0li; Michi-
gan central, 81; New York Central. 97lk.
New York, Jan. 17.-'rhis was an un-
usually dun day at the stock exchange.
Inc transactions aggregated ll3. 16i shares.
we smallest total on any day for some
tme. Inc dealings were almost entirely
professional, and the movements in quo
tdtiohs exceedingly erratiC. Generally
speaking the market ruled higher during
the nrst half OF the daV. and lower to-
ward the close. In the early Improvement
Manhattan, Tobacco, Sugar Wheeling
ana Lake Erie, Jersey Central and Long
l 1SIahd traction We're most conspicuous.
Inc gains IN these varied from a to ia
per cent. As the day advanced the street
seemed to have renewed apprehension as
70 t4e effect upon the local money market
OF me prospective payment for the new
government loan. AT any rate. the talk
TO TINS effect, was made the text for "A
rald upon the market and prices declined
an around. The bears We're most success
tul IN the case in the Industrials, Leather
preferred sun selling down pa to 6li4:
sugar ~ to l0lis; Chicago Gas, ~ to
O1is; Colorado Fuel and Iron, ~ to 26ig;
ana Manhattan, IA to 1884. The railroad
lst yielded q 10 ia; the latter in Rock
Island market left off dun and rather
weak in tone. Net changes show losses
OF "a to rs per cent, Lake Shore and
southern Railway preferred leading. The
loss IN the lndustrials ranged from "a TO
"a per cent. Sugar, which was the most
active stock figured for only 1880 shares
iOnus We're lower. Sales footed up ST.
Ol5'OO The sales of listed stocks to-day
aggregates s6.Q8 shares, and Of unlisted
New York Stock List-Closing Bids
STOCKS and Bonds-American Cotton oil,
ii66H' DO preferred 6o' Sugar Refinery,
l0l12; do preferred, So; American Tobacco,
7Sla; do preferred. l02A Atchison r. and
;. IT,, Il; Baltimore and Ohio, 39i5; Canada
Pacific, 52ls; Chesapeake and Ohio. l4ss;
chicago and Alton. 1888; Chicago, h. and
g, 1i1s; Chicago Gas. 65M; Del, Lack and
west, l6}2; Dis Cat. Feed, 15N: Erie
IA; do preferred, 28lA; Edison General
Electric, 2512; Illinois Central, So, Lake
Erie and Western, 1917; do preferred, 70lk;
Lake Shore, li2; Louis. ana Nash. 1894 .
Louis. and n. A., 9ls; Manhattan, 1914;
Memphis and Charleston. Is; Michigan
Central. "a; Missouri Pacific, 2lia; Mobile
and Ohio p; Nash, G. and st. L., Co. T.
:, Cordage, IS; do preferred, 91a; N. J.
n. e., 45; Norfolk and Western preferred
Z; Northern Pacific. g; do preferred 12:
BBoritahweSsIt t ga; do preferred, l44lz
Island, 65h St Paul, IS; do preferred, 1885,
Silver Certificates, 67h; Tenn, Coal and
Iron. 26l2; do do preferred, 100; Texas Pa
cihc, "; Union Pacific, 3ia; Wabash, St
l.. and F., 69s; do do preferred, 1874; West
ern Union, 1895; Wheeling and l.. F., 1iIh;
do do preferred, 1914 Southern Railway
IS, Oh Southern Railway common, So
Southern Railway preferred, 26%.
State Bonds-Alabama A, 1O7; do b,
l07; do c, So; Louisiana stamped As, 97
North Carolina As. 1902; North Carolina 6s
l2O; Tennessee, new set, 3s, a.; Virginia
6s, preferred. 5ls; Virginia Trust Receipts
6 asked; Virginia Funding Debt, 597s
South Carolina 4zs, 10l.
Government Bonds-United States, As,
registered, 1882; United States As, cou-
pons, 1O9; United States Is, registered &c.