The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-05

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/ Gas sIOcks-Savannah Gas Light stool,
I e2I- bid 3 asked Electric Light and l5(v--.
/ er Company. g bid, 81 asked
I Rank stocks. Eac--CltlEcn's Bank ia
/ hid ia asked. Chatham Bank. seiH M 81
I 81 asked. Gsrmanla Bank. l09 bid no ssl-,
/ ed; Merchants National Bank i0Ois bid
I T01iL asked, National Bank OF SaVs-1-s-ss'
[ Isfts bid. <35 asked; Oglethorpe Savines
1 and Trust Company. looia bid, lO7is asSs51.
{ IA ASKED. savannah Bank and Iir-isr -
/ pany, I09 bid. 10 asked; Chatham ResI
/ Estate and Improvement Company. A. 80
I bid, IS asked Is, 81 bid, 5lie asked; Peo-
pies Savings ana Loan Company, 81 bid.
! Factor Bonds-Augusta Factory 6 1o7
I bid, l03 asked; Sibley Factory 6s 105' Ri
I los asked: Enterprise Factory 6s i02IS MA
/ 1u3 asked: Eagle and Phenix ManufacttI--
ing Company per cent bonds. IS bid. 80
Factory stocks-Savannan Cotton Fac
/ tory. - bid, 50 asked: Eagle and Phenix
Manufacturing company, 3 bid, Is asked;
/ Augusta Factory. IS bid, Is asked; Gram
iteville Factory. l50 bid, l55 asked; Lang
ley Factory, lUS bid, 10 asked; Enterprise
| Factory, common, 100 bid, 105 asked: j p
/ King Manufacturing Company, los bid 10
| asked: Sibley Manufacturing Company Is
| bid Masked: Savannah Brewing CornnsrSJ
! - bid, e asked.
New York, June Mooney on call was
| easy at lsd2 per cent; the last loan was
| at per cent, and at the closing was
| offered at per cent. Prime mercantile
| paper 4G5 per cent. Bar silver. 6S7sc.
| Sterling exchange was dun, with actual
| business in bankers bills at AS74@ 4.S7ia
| for sixty days and S4SSifG4 ssh for de-
! mand. Posted rates. $4SS04SSi4. Com
mercial bills, 4S6i4GLS6st Government
| bonds steader. State bonds dull railroad
bonds Irregular Silver at the board was
New York, June 4-The treasury bal
ances We're as follows: Coin, 500 SSi. 1872;
| currency. SCI, 5i90l5.
h Northwestern, l0i3s; preferred, 14S; Lake
sHShore 1872; Norfolk and Western pre-
| ferred, leA; Western Union, Slai; South
I o. do ffra felr7s =
80; American Sugar. l22i4; Baltimore and
ONO, Ila; Canada Southern, 90; St. Paul.
! 1914; Rock Island 69ia; Delaware and Hud-
SON l-oi delaware, LackaWanna and
Western, 161; Manhattan. 102la; Michigan
Central. 81 =; New York Central 96. Spec
New York. June 4-The dullness at the
Stock Exchange continues the sales to-
day footing up only ll29l shares, of
which 2i,D0 shares We're Sugar, IA 500
shares Tobacco and 800 shares Missouri
Paclfc. The main cause Of the condition
OF affairs is the uncertainty surrounding
the present situation. While the friends of
the leading republican candidate for the
presidential nomination assert that he
! Is sound on the currency question, the
street Is inclined TO wait until the con-
| VentOn at ST. Louis is heard from. The
| recent victories of the s.lverite men and
that the Chicago convention will come
! out strongly for this metal is also max
| ing traders on the bull side more eau
tIUus. At the opening, business was duh,
but generally firm. Sugar sold down on
| the reports of another decline in raws
| ABROAD. ana TOBACCO was depressed on
the IaVoraple trade conditions. London
bought st. Paul and Louisville and Nash
| Vile TO moderate extent at this time.
/ after this little squirt there was a long
period of dullness. but IN the last hour
| the whole list strengthened under the
leadership Of the Anthracites. The i'm
| provement was the result of the decisive
defeat of the Butler bond bill in the ways
| and means committee of the House, but
the belief that the gold shipments VIII
be light in the immediate future Rumors
of an advance in Anthracite coal, the
favorable annual report of the Chicago
and Northwestern, and the declaration
of dividends by the company named, as
well as the Denver and Rio Grande also
stimulated purchases. Missouri Pacific
Il dropDod from "a 10 DOS on the detrease Of
$4,000 in gross earnings for the fourth
week in May. In the late trading Lacka-
wanna bounded up to 1853, New Jersey
; Central, 29s TO 1854, and Delaware and
| Hudson, l12 to ZbA. Reading, which has
been sold down to Us on the CERTAINTY Of
, fell 1i5 to %, and later rose to 277s on ad-
} vices that the Massachusetts Senate had
) company. The market closed firm. and
0 Is TO per cent. higher the Anthracites
leading. Reading lost Il and Missouri
Pacific rs. Bonds We're irregular, but in
e the main, lower. The sales footed up
New York Stock List. Closing Bids.
Stocks and Bonds-American Cotton Oil,
5 lie; do preferred, 549s; Sugar Refinery,
) l225s; dc. preferred, 1881 American To-
I baceo, s.; do preferred, SO; Atch.son. 7.
and 5. F., 145s; Baltimore and Ohio LIS
, Canada Pacific GO; Chesapeake and Ohio,
1874; Chicago and Alton, 157la; Chicago, b.
and O., 73s; Chicago Gas, 67$s; Delaware,
, Lackawanna and Western, 1872; Distill-
ers and Cattle Feeders, II; Erie 143k; do
, preferred, 34i5; Edison General Electric.
1914; Illinois Central. 80; Lake Erie and
/, Western, 17&; do preferred, 30la; Lake
! Shore, $50; Louisville and Nashville 499s
? | Louisville and n. A, 91B; Manhattan. 1903;
} Memphis and Charleston, Is asked; Michi-
gan Central, 90; Missouri Pacific, 23is Mo
bile and Ohio, 1915 Nashville, Chatta-
, noOga and St Louis. 6S. United States
Cordage, 5ls; do preferred. TO- New Jer-
sey Central, 1855; New York Central, 96lk;
New York and New England, As asked
Norfolk and Western, preferred 10h
; Northern Pacific. s. do preferred 1874
2 Northwestern, 1913; do preferred, 148;
Pacific Mail, 25A Reading, 93s; Rock Is
land, e9A; 81 Paul 75ss COZ DO pre- preferred,
Coal and Iron, 255s; do preferred, 100;
Texas Pacific. ~; Union Pacific, z; Wa
bash, St L. and p go DO preferred 1G34
Western Union S4A; Wheeling and L. E..
9%; do preferred, 34 Southern Railway IS,
92A; Southern Railway, common, So;
Southern Railway, preferred, 2S1a.
| State BOnds-Alabama A, 106; Alabama
3, los; Alabama c, 1912 asked Louisiana
stamped As, %; North Carolina As, 104 bid;
| North Carolina IS, 12i bid; Tennessee,
| new set. 3s, 81; Virginia 6s, preferred, 5
bid; Virginia Trust Receipts, bid Vir-
ginia Funding Debt 604 asked; South
| Carolina 4l2s, 106 bid.
registered. 1874 United States As cou-
pons 1921 United States IS, registered,
! 94lb bid: United States, new As, registered,
1l6ss; United States new As, coupons, 1863.
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.