The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-08
PAGES 8 TO 10.

red 5s l07 bid los asked; Georgia and Ala
bama consolidated IS, l03 bid i04 asked:
Eatonton branch. 99ia bid, i00iz asked;
Central OF Georgia. Middle Georgia and
Atlantic division IS. 99ia bid, 100 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and SaVan-
nah, l07 bic, los asked; Southwestern,
l07la bid l0Sla asked. Atlanta and West
Point stock. 10 bid. 800 asked; Atlanta
and West Point 6 per cent certificates,
l02ls bid, lO31a asked; Georgia common, 24
bid. 2B asked; Georgia and Alabama
stock. IS bid, SO asked
GAS Stocks-Savnnga Gas Light stock.
% bid y asked
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Chzens' Bank. li6
BID. asked; Chatham Bank. 1O2ls bid.
1O3la asked Germania Bank. ll3 bid,
asked National Bank OF Savannah l27
bid, 80 asked; Merchants National Bank
of savannah So hid, 81 asked; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company, 1862 bid, -
asked; Southern Bank Of the State OF
Georgia, 1873 bid, 1870 asked; Savannah
Bank and Trust Company, 1906 bid, ask
ed; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company, A, 50 bid IS asked: b. 81,
bid, So asked Peoples Savings and
Loan Company. 81 bid 96 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory. l01
bid, l02 asked Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany 6s. lo2 bid. 1903 asked; Eagle and
FheniN Mills per cent. bonds. due 1929
Company 1913 bid. lO5is asked
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory 50
bid 50 asked, Graniteville Factory. $50
bid 100 asked; Langley Factory "a bid,
lOlls asked; Enterprise Factory, common,
so bid 92 asked; j. r. King Manufacture
ing Company, 81 bid l0l asked; Sibley
Manufacturing Company, 6S bid 70 asked:
Savannah Brewing Company, 1Oi BID. 1867
asked.
New York, March money on call
steady at 2l8@3i5 per cent; the last loan
was at 2lR per cent. Prime mercantile
paper. 3a3ls per cent Sterling exchange
steady with actual business IN bankers
pllls az AsaA9 ls5A for demand and at
NS3l8Gtl63at for sixty days. Posted rates
$Si}a@45 and AS6lkpLS7. Commercial
Dills H.S2l2. Silver certificates. nominally.
oSlan6Ol2c, Bar silver, 59I5c Mexican dol
lars, 4Ilsc. Government bonds were weak
state bonds were inactive, and railroad
bonds were irregular.
New York, March THE stock market
To-Day IN the final dealings, recovered
earlier losses, and ended strong ana high
err ihan yesterday. There was al EFFORT 81,
the part of the professionals to depress
prices In the early dealings, which was
successful only temporarily and 10 n mod
crate extent Investors generally held ON
TO their stocks and the market became ex-
ceptionally dun. The rate for can money.
| which, IN the initial transactions. touched
| Si2' win an accompanying easier tone in
the sterling exchange market eased Off
| with the last tOan at 2iS, with a resultant
better tone in the general market.
II was said that because Of Yesterdays
! hurry IN call money a considerable amount
OF unemployed country bank balances was
expected 10 be transferred to New York
THIS week. The dealings for the entire
| day were less than 100000, and except for
the opening and closing dealings. the tick
| er was practically silent at intervals
The dealings for London account were
| or small volume with hardening ten
| dency at the close and about the best
| prices of the day on the curb. Third Ave-
| nue. Railroad lost about points on the
| public agitation against increasing the
! electric lines already on prominent ave-
nue.. The Changers some other standard
stocks and The Pacifics we're even more,
prominent on the rise than in the earlier
weakness The Anthracite stocks, except
Lackawanna and Rubber were strong. be-
cause of the snowstorm and the cold
weather
Forecasts of General Electries annual
report being favorable strengthened that
stock. A number of the speclaIties, in
Guiding Peoples Gas, rose easily. Re-
ports that the Chicago and Alton was
| planning to use Chicago terminal facilities
| brought out speculative activity in the
latter There was much difference Of opin-
| lon on the board regarding the. dividend to-
morrow on Sugar, with the general expec-
| tation of the regular disbursement closed
| at the best prices. Considerable firmness
| developed In various spots In the bond
market but this tonight was in a meas
ure offset by heaviness In others. Total
sales, S31S5.O0O United States 3s and ola
As registered declined "a and the new 4s
| "a In the bid price.
The total sales of stocks we're 49,, 400, in
| Guiding 1850 Atchison. 24051 Atchson pre-
ferred, S.e72 Central Pacific, 10000 Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy, 1880 Reading first
preferred. 5GiJ Missouri Pacific, 1929
Northern Pacific, 29,710 ST. Paul, 141n
American Tobacco, 11,4lO Bay State Gas.
! Sl71 Federal Steel 1880 Brooklyn Rapid
| Transit, 16,610 Sugar
New York Closing stocks-West