The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-06

way SIS, 93ls bid, 9p5 asked; Georgia and
Alabama first preferred IS, 10S bid 104
| asked; Georgia and Alabama first consols,
81 bid, So asked
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, SO bid. 81 asked; Georgia common,
| lI2 bid, l7S asked; Southwestern, SO bid, 1884
| asked; Atlanta and West Point stock
| l0zl2 bid, 1882 asked; Atlanta and West
| Point per cent. certificates los bid, l05
| asked; savannah Construction Company,
81 bid, 20 asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light Stock.
| 2212 bid, 90 asked: Electric Light and Pow
| er Company, SO bid, = asked
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank 1884,
! bid asked; Chatham bank AZ bid 42la
asked; Germania Bank lOSI6 bid 1914
| asked; Merchants National Bank, 81 bid
| Se42 asked; National Bank of Savannah.
| l25 bid, l26 asked; Oglethorpe Savings and
| Trust Company, 10S bid, 104 asked South
| ern Bank of the State of Georgia 152 bid
| l55 asked; Savannah Bank and Trust
! Company 100 bad, 102 asked; Chatham Real
| Estate and Improvement Company, A, 80
! bid, % asked; B, 5415 bid, 50 asked; Peo-
| pies Savings and Loan Company, 80 bid,
| So asked.
| Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 6s, 10l
| bid, 102 asked; Enterprise Factory 6s, 100
| bid, 10l asked; Eagle and PheniX Manu-
! featuring Company { per cent. bonds, 10
| bid, ~ asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
! pany 6s, 101 bid, 102 asked
| Factory. Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
| tory, = bid, . asked; Augusta Factory,
| 50 bid, SO asked; Granitevine Factory, 40
| bid, 151 asked; Langley Factory, 104 bid,
! 1854 asked; Enterprise Factory, common,
| SO bid Sc asked; j. r. King Manufacture
| ing Company 104 bid, 105 asked; Sibley
! Manufacturing Company, 70 bid, rs asked;
| Savannah Brewing Company, so bid, So
| asked.
New York, Oct 5.-Money on call was
| easy at 2d3 per cent; the last loan was
! at per cent, and closed at 2la13 per
| cent Prime mercantile papers, 412@5 per
! cent. Sterling exchange weak, with act
| ual business in bankers bills, at 4.S43s
for demand and at $4S214 @4.S23s for sixty
| days; posted rates, $4.83I44 and A.S5l2G
| 4S6; commercial bills, $i.Sll2. Silver GER
tificates, 55Q56c; bar silver, soc; Mexican
dollars, 4224c. Government bonds We're
| strong state bonds were dull; railroad
| bonds were firm.
! New York, Oct. 5.-The Evening Posts
| London financial cablegram says: "The
| stock markets were queter and irregular
| to-day the falling off in speculation be-
| ing entirely due, probably, to the fact
! that tomorrow will be a strict Jewish
holiday. Mines were easier Americans
| opened lower, in sympathy with the
| New York close of yesterday. They closed
| strong, however on New York support,
and with steady increase of interest on
'4IiS sue american DiilS are freely offer
ed to-day for discount. The Paris and
! Berlin marlSats were firm. Vienna bourse
! was calm. considering the heavy failure
in Vienna"
| New York, Oct. 5.-Not for many weeks
mas Wall street seen so duh day as this
was. 1t was offered as an explanation
| that the evening of the Jewish day of
| atonement called many brokers and opera
! tors from the street. But there was apart
| from thissa manifest disposition to refrain
from trading and 10 leave the market to
lie fallow for a time. Yesterdays sharp
reaction apparently admonished the bulls
that conditions are not yet ready for
resumption of the advance. The favora-
BILE factors which developed during the
day although they affected for time the
individual stocks to which they applied
Were ineffective in causing a general adj
vance, and prices of most stocks closed
! lower tonight Union Pacific was excep-
tionaly firm and practically recovered
| from yesterdays decline owing 10 the dis
credit attached to reports of an English
! syndicate s. intention to outbid the reor-
| ganization committee at the approaching
| foreclosure sale. Louisville and Southern
| preferred were sustained by their good
| showing of earnings. All of the traffic
/ statements at hand showed a notable in
| crease in earnings, but NOT all of the
4 stocks of the roads affected derived any
! benefit. Union Pacific was assisted as well
| by a report that it's differences over traf-
| fic exchange with the Oregon Short Line
| had been adjusted. The latter stock was
also strong during he day.
The principal activity centered in the
specialties, and the trading in them was
largely based on vague rumors that had
nothing TO do with the general situation.
Actual rates for sterling exchange fell Is
| per cent. for sight and a per cent. for
| long This led to increased talk of early
In r 10 in
teresting to know that to-day's statement
of the weeks exports of general merchan-
disc shows a decrease of $780, 773 from last
week, while that week imports, ii viii be
remembered, increased $1,S82,364 over the
preceding week. Additional deposits of
gold, which were received from San Fran
cisco, were made a a clearing house bank
to-day, and the continued increase of the
gold reserve in the United States treasury.
even in face of an excess of disbursements
over receipts, is additional evidence of the
abundant supply of gold at present in the
country, To-days losses We're, for the
most part, fractional
There was falling off in activity in
the bond market, but prices, for the most
part, were steady, and in some cases
strong. Total. sales, 81, 10000 United
States new As, registered, were advanced
nc bid and United States new As, coupons,
1sc bid. The 5s registered, also rose sc.
There was sale OF the SIS, coupons, at
1151a.
The total sales of stocks to-day were
346,600 shares including Atchison. prefer
red, 5812; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
q, 115; Louisville and Nashville, 1S,520
Manhattan L, 1850; Missouri Pacific a.
1856; Missouri, Kansas and Texas, S,125
Northern Pacific preferred 1904; Onta-
rio and Western, 5,1S1; Rock Island, 1921
st. Paul, 26,705; Southern railway, prefer
red, 6.S45; Union Pacific 1890; Wabash,
preferred, $685.; Bay State Gas, 1920; Chi
cago Gas. 1880; Sugar 2S,347; Western
Union 1850; Chicago Great Western, H.
340
New York Closing Stocks.
Atchison ........ Is do do pref. 1914
do pref ........ 1925 St. Paul ......... 967s |
BALTIC. & Ohio. 1G5 do pref ........14L
Canada Pacific. 1873 st. p. & Omaha. 81
Lanada Sou 49, STA do do pref lilo
Central Pacific. II st. p. NJ. & NJ. .120
Ches & Ohio. 24k So. Pacific ..... 10
Chi & Alton 1850 So. Railway 800. II
Chi, b. & o.. 971Al do pref ....... 33a,
Chi. & e. M. 81 Texas & Pacific. 12i% |
c. c. c. & st. L. 36A Union Pacific -. 2si%
do do pref ... S31b u. p. p. &, G. qM