The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-09

., Gas stocks-7sayannah Gas Light stock,
u PIG, 2lh asked, ev-div.; Electric I4lght
d dnG rover Company, So bid. 6S asked, eM-
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizen's Bank. Jos
y pu iUS'a asked, ex-div; Chatham Bank.
Bank, lO7 bid los asked, ex-diV.: Me eI-
chants National Bank. 92% biz 9SA ask
eu, eX-div.; National Bank of Savannah
10 bid, l96ls asked, eX-div; Oglethorpe Saw
lngs and Trust Company. 1O1ls bid, lO2lh
asked. ex-div.; Southern Bank Of the State
Savannah Bank and Trust 9 Gomps 1Ayo'T loo
oIu, IUl asked eN-diV.; Chatham Real Es-
tate and Improvement Company, A. SO
6ld asked; 3, 81 bid, 51la asked ex-
div: Peoples Savings and Loan Com
pany, 90 bid 80 asked.
bid 1e2 asked; Sibley Factory SIS, 100 bid,
lOl asked; Enterprise Factory 6s, lOl bid
l02 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufacture
ing Company, per cent. bonds. 40 bid,
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
! tory, = bid, so asked; Augusta Factory so
tory, 145 bid, Isl asked; Langley Factory,
lO3 bid, l04 asked; Enterprise Factory
e5qmmon, S. BID, 80 asked; J: R. King
Manufacturing Company, 103 bid 104 ask
ed; Sibley Manufacturing Company. Is
bid, Is asked; Savannah Brewing Com
pany. 90 bid. 80 asked.
London Feb. S.-Bar silver, 2934d. Con-
soils ~ Ills for money. and liz 1916 for
! the account.
Paris, Feb. S.ZThree per cent. rentes.
III! francs. gig centimes for the account,
New York Feb. S-Money on call was
easy at pa@2 per cent; the last loan was
at H. and closing 11s per cent. Prime
mercantile paper, 3 per cent. Bar silver,
business in bankers bills at $4.S4l5G4S4S4
for sixty days and ASjhm4S6ia for de-
mand. Posted rates %.S5ihd4.S7la. Com
bonds steady; state bonds dull railroad
bonds firm. Silver a the board was quiet.
. New York. Feb S.-The treasury ,oo bal
currency, S5904S,06l.
New York. Feb. g. noon.-The specula-
tive market was dull and weak, at the fol-
loving I9rid quotations;
northwestern 1883 Can: Southern 44A
90 pref ...,...l53 St Paul ......... 75l2
n. & w. pref. ia Del. & Hudson. los
western Union. S2A Del, L. & VILE
So; Ry com "a Manhattan ..... SO
do pref NON. 2Sls Mich. Central 80
Am. Sugar .....11SAlN. Y. Central. SO
New York, Feb. S-Considering all the
developments during the days session a
the stock exchange the markets for Sc
curities held up remarkably well. The
news and rumors were well calculated to
make depression. but except i'm the case
of the Industrial group the bears made
put Httle impression upon values. The
first thing that gave operators for de-
cline courage was the receipt of lower
quotations and of selling orders from Lon
tigation committees inquiry into the af-
fairs of the Sugar Trust, which invited
an attack upon that stock, under which
It broke nearly per cent, to Ills. To-
bacco fell to ia, Leather preferred IA,
to 5Sl5c; American Spirits a. to 1917 and
the preferred rs TO 32A In the remand
er of the list the losses were only "a to
l per cent, although efforts were put
forth to make capital out of the vague
rUmors concerning an alleged disruption
OF the Joint TrafTic Association. The
cTcWnlng effort of the bears, however was
cunningly devised statement that a fleet
had been ordered to Cuba to release Amer
lean prisoners. The denial of this senSa-
tlonal report came so promptly from
Washington that the instigators were I'M
pose. of breaking the market, and in the
last hour they were running in lively fash
ion to cover their shorts. Sugar moved
up over points, rising to 1131b other
stocks recovered 4 10 rs per cent. from
the lowest. the latter in Leather pre-
ferred. Manhattan. Metropolitan Trac-
ton and General Electric were
noticeably weak. and yielded 3,
10 per cent. on comparatively Hghi
offerings. 1t had been supposed that Cen
eral Electric would be benefited by the
ofhclal statement that the company had
secured the contract to equip the surface
lines recently acquired by the Metropolis
tan Traction Company with the under
ground trolley. The days opera lions re-
suited in an addition to the outstanding
ana hrmer in tone. The transactions ag-
gregated 1887 shares, including Is 900
sugar, 10000 Leather preferred 10000 St
Paul, $500 Burlington and 1000 American
Spirits Net changes show losses of lk0o
IA per cent, Tobacco leading Bonds were
Irregular, but in the main firm. Sales
footed UP Sl,5240O0.
New York Stock T,ist-Sfocks apd r,n1-