The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-04

pies Savings and Loan Company, 81 bid,
SO asked.
Factory Bonds-Apgusta Factory 6s, 100
bid, 102 asked: Sibley Factory 6s 100 bid
101 asked; Enterprise Factory IS, 1o1 bid,
l02 asked: Eagle and Phenix Manufacture
tns Company, per cent. bonds, 40 bid, so
asked.
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, - bid, 50 asked; Augusta Factory, n
bid, SO asked, ex-div.; Graniteville Fac
tory, las bid, $50 asked; Langley Factory,
100 bid, 105 asked: Enterprise Factory
common. IS bid, 100 asked; j. p King
Manufacturing Company, 10e bid. los ask
ed; Sibley Manufacturing Company IS bid.
a asked Savannah Brewing Company, "a
bid. 81 asked.
London, Dec 3.-Bar silver. 2s7sd; con-
soils, III 7-l6 for money ana 11l94 for the
account
New York. Dec. s.-Afoney on call was
easy at 1902 per cent; the last loan was
at IL per cent. and at the closing, was
offered at III per cent. Prime mercantile
paper 4d41s per cent. Bar silver, 65isc.
Sterling exchange was firm, with actual
business in bankers bills at 81. SSlzd4. S2sl
Tor sixty days, and 81 S6ia. Posted rates
slAlsQ4@. Commercial bills, 81 2i2GI
4.SSla Government bonds steady: state
bonds dull; railroad bonds steady. Sill
Yer at the board was neglected
New York, Dec. 3.-The treasury bal
-
currency. $40, 53S,7OS.
New York, Dec. S.-The security market
at the Stock Exchange started off weak
ohsloWer cables from London and made
the sales for foreign account. The traf-
hereturns of the St. Paul and Rock Island
also induced sales for a turn The pres
sure to sell at no time reached important
proportions, and soon after the opening The
market took on firmer tone The St
Paul statement proved to be more favora-
ole than generally expected, and this had
tendency to check the aggressive action
by the bears. For the fourth week of No
Vember the decrease in gross reported bv
the company was a little over Sl51 900
whereas 1T had been freely predicted that
the loss would reach nearly 100000 The
| Changers were strengthened by the dec
laratlon OF the regular dividends by the
chicago and Northwestern directors and
semi-otficial statements to the effect that
the road had earned entire dividend on
lhe preferred on the year, the half-yearly
dividend on the common and a surplus
or S60,VW during the first six months of
the nscal year. Omaha common rose to
1919 on the reiteration of the dividend ru-
mors. Denver and Rio Grande preferred
advanced from 42lz to 44lt on the declara-
tloh OF a semi-annual dividend of 1 per
cent "A good demand prevailed for The
gllt-edged investments stocks, and Lake
shore advanced to 155; Lackawanna l.
TO 100, and Delaware and Hudson. pa 20
Us. Manhattan was i'm demand TO cover
short contracts, and Southern Railway
preferred improved on vague rumors of
dividend in January. In the Industriais
Sugar sold from 1155s to 1l634c. closing at
10 loss of q for the day. Consolidated
Gas first advanced ga to 16l1a, and then
receded to 1921. Laclede Gas fell from "a
to H15g22h- Chicago Gas was strong, and
advanced about per cent. to 765sc Spec
Ilatinn PlnGnA ctr
rise IN Lake Shore, and other high-priced
issues. Net changes show gains of H02
per cent. Total sales were 179125 shares
including $1,000 Sugar; 1850 Chicago Gas:
1920 st. Paul and L, 800 American Spirits
Bohds were strong; sales footed up S16S 600
New YORK Stock List-Stocks and Bonds
at the os3ng-American Cotton Oil 14h:
do preferred "a; Sugar Refinery. rs; do
preferred, 1O3; American Tobacco rs: do
preferred, 10l; Atchisen, Topeka and San
ia Fe, l412; Baltimore and Ohio. Is; Cana
da Pacific, Sc; Chesapeake and Ohio, 1914
Chicago and Alton, 100; Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy, 1855; Chicago Gas
I6A; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
l9Sl2 Erie, l51s; do preferred. S. Edison
! General Electric, BPS; Illinois Central,
%; Lake Erie and Western 1872; do prefer
red, t10i Lake Shore, 15415; Louisville and
| Nashville, 509s; Louisville and n A. q;
Manhattan 1855 Memphis and Charles
Pacific. 22s4; Mobile and Ohio, %; Nash
vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis. 671b:
United States Cordage. 81; do preferred,
l2A; New Jersey Central 1O5; New York
Central, sac; N. Y. and ~ E., 451z; Nor
folk and Western, preferred, IL Northern
Pacific, Az; do preferred, 24K; Northwes-
tern, 1O6; do preferred, $50; Pacific Mail
z5A; Reading, 29A; Rock Island, 695s; St.
Paul, 751s; do preferred, 1895: Silver Ger
tiicates, 65l4; Tennessee Coal and Iron
293s; do preferred 30; Texas Pacific, 81:
Union Pacific, 10; Wabash, St. L. and p,
81; do preferred 1875; Western Union
S69s; Wheeling and l.. E., So; do prefer
red, 30ls; Southern Railway IS, 9lA South
ern Railway, common, 1917; Southern
Railway preferred 302s.
State Bonds-Alabama A. 10l1k; do B.
100; do c, $751; Louisiana stamped As, 9S;
North Carolina As 1907 North Carolina 6s,
ll9; Tennessee, new set, S's, so; Virginia
SIS, preferred, s.; Virginia Trust Receipts
AZ; Virginia Funding Debt, coz; South
Carolina 41as 100.
Government Bonds-United States As
registered, 100; United States As, cou-
pons, 11012; United States rs, registered.
IS; United States As, new, registered, 1893
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