The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-05

western Railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent. interest coupons, III bid, 11S
asked; Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage 5 per cent. gold bonds, due
1924, 1882 bid. 1O9ls asked; Cen
trail Railroad and Banking Company coll
lateral 5s, 81 bid, ~ asked Central of
Georgia Railway first mortgage S. So
year gold bonds, 116 bid, III asked; Central
of Georgia Railway first consolidated
mortgage 5s 90la bid 9llA asked; Central
of Georgia Railway first preferred incomes,
4O1a bid, ala asked; Central of Georgia
Railway second preferred incomes, 1879
bid, li1a asked Central of Georgia Railway,
third preferred incomes, IA bid. asked
Georgia Railroad IS, 1910, ia bid, 115 asked
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta first IS,
ITO bid, III asked; Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta second mortgage rs, lis bid, lis
asked; Georgia Southern and Florida new
5s, 100 bid, 101 asked; South Georgia and
Florida first mortgage Is, 1929 bid 1885,
asked; South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage Is, 1903 bid, l05 asked Ocean
Steamship per cent bonds, 1926, 105 bid.
1O6 asked; City and Suburban Railroad
first mortgage per cent. bonds, "a bid -
asked; Alabama Midland per cent in
dorsed, Sc bia 90 asked; Brunswick and
Western As, 70 bid. 771k asked; South
Bound Railway 5s, 741a bid, 751a asked;
Georgia and Alabama first preferred IS.
cons. 5s, IS bid, SO asked; Eatonton
Branch, 81 bid, s9h asked Central of
Georgia, Middle Georgia and Atlantic Di-
vision IS, 8O1a bid, s21a asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savannah.
"a bid, 80 asked; Georgia, common. 175 bid
1S0 asked; Southwestern, 93A bid, 9ll6
asked; Atlanta and West Point stock 1902
bid, 10i asked; Atlanta and West Point &
per cent. certificates, 102 bid, 1O4 asked
Savannah Construction Company, n bid.
80 asked.
Gas stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock.
" bid 20 asked; Electric Light and Power
Company, rs bid, "a asked
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank 1O93t
bid, 1101a asked; Chatham Bank
1872 bid 40 asked Germania Bank. los
bid, 1O9 asked National Bank of savan-
nah, l29 bid 126 asked; Merchants National
Bank, u bid, S7l2 asked Oglethorpe Saw
| ings and Trust Company, 105 bid, 1O6
asked: Southern Bank of the State Of
Georgia, bid, 1873 asked; Sa-
vannah Bank and Trust Company, l02
bid, 102l5 asked; Chatham Real Estate and
| Improvement Company, A, So bid, Sc
asked; b. 5i1a bid, IS asked; Peoples Saw
ings and Loan Company, IS bid 81 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 81
bid, A asked; Graniteville Factory, las bid.
$50 asked; Eagle and Phoenix Manu-
| featuring Company, 5 per cent. bonds, -
Dlu, ~ dSkeQt SlDley MunuIdCluflUR COM
pany IS, 101 bid 1902 asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, 50
bid, SO asked: Granitcville Factory, las bid,
l5l asked; Langley Factory, 10l bid, 1854
| asked; Enterprise Factory, common. %
bid, 90 asked; J. r. King Manufacturing
| Company, 104 bid, 105 asked; Sibley Manu-
featuring Company, 20 bid, 76 asked; Sa-
vannah Brewing Company, IS bid. 81 ask
ed.
New York, March 4.-Money on call firm
at 2d2ia per cent; the last loan was at 2
per cent. Prime mercantile paper 4G415
per cent. Sterling exchange weak with
actual business I'm bankers bills at &8f1s
for demand, and $4.811x@4S1A for 60 days.
Posted rates, "a. s3d4. s515. Commercial bins,
$4.80A. Silver certificates, 54h@55ssc. Bar
silver, SAC. Mexican dollars, 45c Gov
ernment bonds were weak. State bonds
were dull. Railroad bonds were weak
New York, March 4.--The Evening Post S
London financial cablegram says: 1.-THE
stock markets were quiet to-day, except
Grand Trunks and Americans The ten
dency of all first-class stocks is either
20 remain idle or depressed, partly in con-
nection with the forthcoming China and
other loan operations. The buying of
Grand Trunk was large and influential,
partly by a Montreal clique. Americans
were itful and closed dull. The general
Americans until there is distinct feeling
in New York"
New York, March 4.-Prices of stocks
show losses of from 20 points to-day
on a very small business. The market
was quite inanlmate at times, and what
business there was. was conducted in "A
few leading stocks. All of these showed
weakness, but the downward course was
pursued in very desultory manner, until
the final hour when the bears made quite
TO determined drive They broke the price
of Reading first preferred 4 points anG
carried the general list TO the lowest for
the day, but covering in special stocks
induced some sharp rallies, notably in
Heading first preferred New York Cen
trail and Metropolitan Street Railway.
Higher quotations from London lifted
the level of prices al the opening but
the fall was practically uninterrupted
afterward Efforts to rally the market
were feeble and unsuccessful. Sugar was