The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-15
PAGES 9 TO 10.


81 bid SO asked; ISatonton Branch, s. bid,
Wh asked: Central of Georgia, Middle
Georgia and Atlantic division 5s. 70 bid. Is
asked
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, 81 bid. 92i9 asked; Georgia common.
40 bid, $50 asked Southwestern, 9OIs bid.
9lia asked; Atlanta and West Point stock,
1881 bid l0ila asked: Atlanta and West
Point per cent. certificates, 1903 bid, 104
asked; Savannah Construction Company.
81 bid, 66 asked
Gas Stocks--Savannah Gas Light stock
0la bid, 2lla asked: Electric Light and
Power Company. 74Ia bid, 75la asked.
Bank Stocks Etc.-Citlzens Bank, 100
bid. 40 asked: Chatham Bank, 4S bid ~
asked; Germania Bank. 100 bid 10 asked:
National Bank of Savannah, lbs bid, 126
asked; Merchants National Bank, "a bid
50 asked; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
Company. 105 bid, l06 asked; Southern
Bank of the State of Georgia, bid, 1SS
asked: Savannah Bank and Trust Compa-
ny, 10ih bid lO2Is asked Chatham Real
Estate and Improvement Company, A. IS
bid, Sc asked b, S4ls bid. 50 asked: Peoples
Savings and Loan Company % bid. 81 ask
ed.
Factory Bonds--Augusta Factory, 101
bid, l02 asked; Eagle and Phoenix Manu-
featuring Company, per cent. bonds, 30
bid, 10 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany, 6s. 100 bid, 1902 asked
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, IS
bid, rs asked; Granteville Factory, 145
bid, 151 asked Langley Factory. 1O1 bid.
lOi asked; Enterprise Factory, common,
SO bid 96 asked; j. r. King Manufacture
ing Company, 10i bid, l05 asked; Sibley
Manufacturing Company. 20 bid, 76 asked:
savannah Brewing Company, 30 bid, %
asked.
New York. April H.-Money on call firm
at 2nl per cent; the last loan was az
per cent; prime mercantile paper. 81 per
cent. Sterling exchange was easier, with
actual business In bankers bills az "a. SS1. N
ASA for demand and at 4.79s.a4sO for
sixty days posted rates, $4.sOlau4.sl and
AA}a; commercial bills. $479I4 50. Silver
certificates. 56a56Ac; bar silver, SEC; Next
can dollars dull Government bonds werB
weak; state bonds were duh; railroad
bonds were weak.
New York, April 1.-THE Evening Posts
London financial cablegram says: THE
stock markets here opened fiat to-day on
the war news from the United States.
Spanish fours at one time fell to 42h
New York was said 10 have opened large
engagements for the putting" of stock
on which large profit has already been
shown Americans were shown at the
opening, but New York absorbed stocks
freely through the arbitrage dealers and
prices closed above the worst. After
hours In the street there was sharp re-
coVery In Spanish tours to Az Ameri
cans were also better. Even IL war uiti-
mately results, many here believe that the
GATE or declaration liz some way off All
foreign stocks were fiat on heavy selling
from Paris. The London money market
stands very firm at 37s per cent. and for
ward business IN American bills Is done
at T.
New York, April l4.-~There was pr,.ertss.-
sbonal buying of stocks to-day which
gave the market firm tone all day The
extreme advance from the low level az
lhe opening was a point or over I'm most
OF the leading stocks, but the net game
are less than point except in a few cases
Inc bull movement is based ON the arot,.
ment that a protracted DELAY In The Sen
ate over the Intervention resolution Is ike
~ ana that II the Senate resolution. ia
adopted there viii be further delay in he
conference.
large part of the days activity was
centered in Sugar, the Changers ana I'm.
ION Pacific preferred. Prices Nell from fhe
highest In the last hour on the report
,hat the spanish minister was preparing
60 leave Washington. Tobacco Gucfllats.l
violently but advanced al one time 9
points. Rates for call money eased off 10
per cent. this afternoon, and only $500
Vo OF gold was engaged for import The
demand for cash by interior banks to
strengthen their reserves against the con-
tingency of war continues undated and
the supply Of legal tenders has become so
depicted that New York banks are likely
TO offer gold 10 supply the interior demand
II It shall continue.
Business in the bond market was con-
fined TO few speculative issues. ard
prices show net declines. There was a
sale of block of $4,000 of Union Poetic
As at 90. the lowest point Total sale.
amounted 20 $i,275OO0. United states %
and the old As coupon declined ], the ola
IS registered and the new As r. and the
So a per cent.
The total sales of stocks were 255, 100
shares, including Chicago Burlington ana
Quincy, Bill; Louisville and Nashville.
s,435; Manhattan, $685.; Metropolitan Street
Railway, 5.505; Northern Pacific preferred.
$50; Rock Island. 6.7O0; ST. Paul. Is, 500,
American Tobacco. 5O.467; Sugar 57,7s5.
New York Closing gforka