The morning news., 1898-12-30

/ 80 asked; brunswick and Western As so
bid, 50 asked S1uth Bound Railway IS
! 90l2 bid 81 asked; Georgia and Alabama
first preferred 5s, 1916 bid, 1912 asked: Geor-
| gia and Alabama cons. 5s 1Ol bid. 102
asked; Eatonton branch, 96 bid. 80 asked
/ Central of Georgia Middle Georgia and
Atlantic division 5s, 96 bid. 81 asked
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah. lC7 bid, Jos asked; Southwestern. 1O5
bid, 106 asked, eX-div; Atlanta aud West
Point stock, 10 bid, 112 asked; Atlanta and
West Point per cent. certificates 101
bid 1O2 asked, ex-int; Georgia common,
1877 bid, 200 asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock
24l2 bid % asked; Electric Light and
Power Company, - bid asked eX-div.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizeus Bank, Jos
bid, - asked; eX-div; Chatham Bank 47ls
bid, 4SA asked; ex-div. Germania bank,
lOS bid asked; eX-div.
National Bank of Savannah. 1875
hid, - asked; Merchants National Bank.
| $50 bid, - asked; Oglethorpe Savings and
| Trust Company, l02 bid, - asked; ex-div.
Southern Bank of the State of Georgia, $50
bid, 1871 asked; Savannah Back and Trust
Company, 103 bid asked; eX-div. Chat
! ham Real Estate and Improvement Com
pany, A, 5512 bid, Sc asked; b, So bid, 55la
asked; Peoples Savings and Loan Com
pany, 1914 bid, "a asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory. 105
bid l06 asked SiDey Manufacturing Com
pany Is, 100 bid, 102 asked; Eagle and Phe-
nix Mills per cent. bonds, due 1928. 1929
| l03 asked
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, 55
i bid, % asked; Granitevi,le Factory, 40 bid,
| l45 asked; Langley Factory, 100 bid, 101
| asked; Enterprise Factory common. 80
bid. 81 asked; j. r. King Manufacturing
Company. 100 bid. lOl asked; S.bley Manu-
! featuring Company, 70 bid, rs asked; Sa-
vannah Brewing Company, 10l bid, 103
asked.
New York, Dec. 29-Money on call was
| steady at 204 per cent; the last loan was
at per cent; prime mercantile paper,
! 3Q3$4 per cent. Sterling exchange firm,
| with actual business in bankers bills. at
$4&AQ4S41a for demand and at $481%d a
4 81 for sixty days; posted rates $4.S212 and
$4.S512; commercial bills, $4S012dASl12. Sill
yer certificates, 59l9@6012c bar silver, 59c:
| Mexican dollars, 1850. Government bonds
| irregular; state bonds inactive; railroad
| bonds strong.
New York. Dec. 29,-After an early per-
! iod of hesitancy and irregularity stocks
| to-day resumed their upward movement.
In some stocks the advance was large,
while in standard shares it was confined
| 10 fractions. The trading was broad and
| there were few haggards in the advance.
| Although there was moderate buying on
| balances, there was a disposition in the
early trading in that quarter TO be very
| cautious after the decline here yesterday.
| The tendency in the home market was
| first downward sympathetcally with the
| early foreign prices. The Changers and
Pacifics We're off fractionally and profess
sional traders worked for a reaction, but
| found few vulnerable orders. Sugar was
| marked UP on the shorts who had put out
| large lines because of the disturbing fac
| tors in the trade situation. The favor
| able November reports, that of Jersey
| Central published yesterday and that of
Reading published to-day, the latter road
| showing an increase in surplus of nearly
| 600 for the month, were instrumental
in arousing renewed interest in the an
| thracite. The strength developed there is
| attributable in part to renewed reports
| of an advance in coal prices with the first
| of the year Erie first preferred rose SYM
] pathetically The recuperation of the mar
l1et spread from one group 10 another and
| the rates for money which had advanced
| slightly gradually eased off with plenti-
full supply TO very low figures. The Gran
gers rallied point or more from the low
| figures and sellers of yesterday were pur-
| chasers to-day for Central Pacific, which
| advanced over three per cent, and the
| other Pacific improved in a lesser degree.
Pittsburg, Cincinnati Chicago and st.
Louis, and Chicago and Eastern Illinois
recorded new high records. New York Air
| Brake made an extreme rise of 91ac, C.
companied by talk of a favorable judicial
decision, American Cotton Oil, Bay State
Gas and Federal Steel were all strong.
The closing was strong at the top in most
| cases and at slight concessions from the
best in others.
The bond market showed early hesi-
fancy, but later rose strongly with sub
stantal gains in some cases. Total sales
amounted TO 81, ,415,O00. United States IS,
advanced Ac and the new AS 1sc in the
bid price. The old is registered, fell off
1sc.
The total sales of stocks were 7A 100
! shares including 1852 Atchison; 1880 do
| preferred; 81 900 Central Pacific; 13 $50 Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy; 800 Chi
cago and East illinois; 7311 Erie first pref;
81 $50 Reading first preferred; 1850 Mis-
souri, Pacific; 11,47O Northern Paci-
fc: 25151 Ontario and Western
preferred; D,G2O Reading; 23,720
Rock Island; q $50 Union Pacific; 1880
st. Paul; $500 Southern preferred;
$3.50 Texas and Pacific; 16O7O Union
Pacific; preferred 12,A1 international
Paper; 4,SlO do Preferred; 5,475
American Cotton Oil; 56,220 Bay
State Gas; 1880 Federal Steel;
16 $50 DO preferred; 1870 Pacific Mail 3d.,
GiO Sugar; 7450 Leather preferred.
New York caosing stocks-West
Atchison ........ 1873 do pref ........ 67
do pref ...... 5lgs do Ind pref 80. 34l4
Balu, & Ohio . 6s2 St. L. & S w. 7lBl
Can. Pacific m S5A do pref ........ II
Can. Southern =. 56 ST. Paul ........1195s
Cont Al do pref