The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-21

III asked; Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany, 1914 bid. 1929 asked; Chatham Real
Estate and Improvement Company, A. 521b
bid, 5Si9 asked; B, 50 bid, 81 asked; Poo
Pies Savings and Loan Company, 80 bid,
9lia asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory. 6s, 100
bid, 1O2 asked; Sibley Factory 6s, 100 bid.
10l asked Enterprise Factory 6s. 101 bid,
1O2 asked; Eagle and PheniX Manufacture
ing Company, per cent bonds, 81 bid, IL
asked
Factory Stocks-savannah Cotton Fac
tory. - bid, so asked; Augusta Factory. rs
bid, II asked, ex-div.; Granitevile Factory.
l4o bid. $50 asked; Langley Factory, 103 bid,
Jos asked; Enterprise Factory, common,
% bid, 100 asked; ]. p. King Manufacturing
| Company 100 bid, 1903 asked; Sibley Man
ufacturing Company, 20 bid, rs asked Sa-
vannah Brewing Company, SO bid, 50
asked.
London. Oct. 20.-Bar silver, S0lsd; con-
soils 1925 for money and 1914 for the ac-
count.
New York, Oct. 2O.-Money on call was
firm at 6lpS per cent; the last loan was
at per cent, and at the closing was Of
fered a 6 per cent Prime mercantile pa
per- SG10 per cent. Bar silver, 65l4c; ster-
ling exchange was steady, with actual
business in bankers bills at &S9AG4S012
for sixty days, and $AS3hGAS314 for de-
mand. Posted rates SiS0la@LS4 Com
mercial bills $4.7934dAS0. Government
| bonds steady; state bonds We're dun; rail-
road bonds were higher. Silver at the
| board was steady.
New York, Oct. 2O.-The treasury balan-
| ces were as follows: Coin, $l25, 973, $40; cur
relcy, $569l9,503.
New York, Oct 20.-noon. Erie, 1915;
Northwestern 997s; preferred, 142; Lake
! Shore, 146; Norfolk and Western prefer
red Is; Western Union, S312; Southern
Railway, common, S2s; Southern Railway
preferred, 241a; American Sugar, 10; Ba;-
timore and Ohio, 1872; Canada southern,
461s; St Paul 71as; Rock Island, 627s; Del
! aware and Hudson, 122; Delaware, Lack
| awanna and Western 154l2; Manhattan,
9012; Michigan Central, IS; New York
| Central, 9112. Speculation firm.
New York, Oct 2O.-The stock market
| to-day was strong almost from the open
| ing to the close of the session. The deal
| inSs, while not specially large aggregated
| 223,O90 shares were well distributed at
| higher prices. The main causes for the
| Improvement were the engagements or
| 100000 gold in London to-day, for ship
| ment to this side, and the fact that stec
| ling exchange ruled barely steady, thus
! indicating renewed imports of the yellow
| metal in the near future quite as i'm
| portant as the foregoing in it's bearing
| upon stock values was the continued for
| eign demand for our breadstun and cot
| ton, and the railroads are taxed to the u
| most to carry the grain now Offering. In
| fact advices are to the effect that a car
| famine is in progress. All this lifted
| prices and succeeded in forcing a large
| short interest into covering. Although
| Chicago Gas came second in point Of ac-
! tivity, it scored the greater gain, namely
| Az per cent. The rise was due to pur-
| chaseS by those who claim to nave pollti-
| cal news from Illinois more favorable 10
| of 10 In
| the remainder of the list the advance was
| equal to 12Q1B per cent, the Changers
| and some of the low priced shares leaG-
| ing. Sugar was traded in to the extent CT
| 3l,l0O shares, and was most conspicuous
! so far as volume of business is concerned.
| The stock did not share in the general
| buoyancy. 1t closed q 1l0A, net gain of
| Is per cent. Manhattan dropped from
| 9l% to 90ls, and rallied to 9ll5 Speculation
closed strong in tone. Net changes show
gains of Is to per cent The mscel,a-
neous bond market was active. The sales
| amounted to $1,2S5,000.
New York Stock LIST Closing Bids,
Stocks and Bonds-Amercan Cotton Oil,
| 14A; do preferred. 541@; Sugar Refinery,
HOS; do preferred, 81; American Tobacco,
| ia; do preferred, 95; Atchison, T. and S.
| F., 1874; Baltimore and Ohio, IA; Canada
| Pacific, 5612; Chesapeake and Ohio, 14B;
Chicago and Alton, 157; Chicago, B. and
O., 723l; Chicago Gas, SOS; Delaware,
| Lackawanna and Western, 1917; Erie,
| 142s; do preferred, Sly; Edison General
Electric 275s; Illinois Central 9112; Lake
| Erie and Western, 1914; do preferred SIS;
| Lake Shore, 145; Louisville and Nashville,
| 1874 Louisville and, n. A., q Manhattan,
| 91A; Memphis and Charleston, IS; Michi-
| gan Central, 80; Missouri Pacific 20h;
Mobile and Ohio. II; Nashville, Chatta-
| nooga and st. Louis 67l2; United States
| Cordage, AS; do preferred, 9A; New Jer-
sey Central, 101la; New York Central, %;
| New York and New England, As; Nor
| folk and Western, preferred, 14% North
| ern Pacific, IA; do preferred, 211a; North
western. 1907 do preferred, l4215; Pacific
Mail, 1874; Reading, 235s; Rock Island,
| 635s; ST. Paul, 7l34; do preferred, 1924; Sill,
! yer Certificates, 6515; Tennessee Coal and
Iron, 227s; do preferred 90 Texas Pacific,
! rs; Union Pacific, rs; Wabash, St. L. and
| P, 63s; do preferred, 1914 Western Union,
| SS%; Wheeling and L. E., So; do pre-
ferred, q: Southern Railway S. 841A;
| Southern Railway, common, 81; Southern
Railway, preferred 2i7s
State Bonds-Alabama A, 100; Alabama
| b, 100; Alabama c, 9il2; Louisiana stamp
| ed As, go; North Carolina As 95; North
| Carolina IS, ia; Tennessee, new set, IS,
! n; Virginia SIS, preferred, s. Virginia Trust
Receipts, 81; Virginia Funding Debt, 56l5;
| South Carolina 412s, 100.
Government Bonds-United States is,
registered 1868; United States As cou-
! pons, 107s4; United States Is registered,
! 921h; United States new As, registered,
| 1853; United States new As, coupons, 1854
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.