The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-18

per cent, premium; $500 TO 1000. at x per
cent. premium; $1,000 and over. 81 per ST.
900.
Securities-The market is quiet
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
SlA per cent. bonds of 1880, 1la bid, 1i6 ask
ed Georgia, So per cent, due 1916 li2
bid 1is asked; Georgia AZ per cent. bonds,
1915, l22is bid, 1923 asked Georgia per
cent, due 1920, 1870 bid 121 asked South
Carolina as, III bid, IFS asked
city Bonds--Atlanta Az per cent, 1923.
i0s bid, asked; Augusta Sias, 1928 1o1A
bid, 102 asked; Augusta AVS, 1926 107 bid
los asked; Augusta per cent, iii bid, 112
asked: Augusta per cent, Ill bid, 1ls
asked; Columbus per cent. 107 bid 1903
asked Macon per cent, il6 bid, 100 asked !;
Macon 41as, 1926, 105 bid, asked; Savan-
nah per cent, quarterly July coupons,
ia bid, asked; Savannah per cent,
quarterly May coupons l15 BIO, 1854 ask
ed Charleston Is. 1864 bid, 1864 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah. Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent interest coupons, 1875 bid. l25
asked; Savannah. Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds, due
1924, 1872 bid 115 asked Central Railroad
and Banking Company collateral IS, 96
bid 81 asked, Central of Georgia Railway,
first mortgage 5s 50-year gold bonds, 1I7la
bid 1881 asked; Central of Georgia Rail-
way first consolidated mortgage 5s, 96la
bid, 9Tls asked; Central of Georgia Railway
first preferred incomes Al bid az asked .
Central of Georgia Railway second pre-
ferred incomes, 12l2 bid, 1872 asked: Gem
tral of Georgia Railway third preferred
incomes, bid. s asked; Georgia Rail-
road IS, 1910, 116 bid, III asked Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta first, S. 109 bid ITO
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is. 12S bid, 1876 asked
Georgia Southern and Florida new IS, 100
bid, ITO asked; South Georgia and Flor
ida second mortgage 7s, 100 bid. 101 asked;
Ocean Steamship 8 per cent. bonds 1926,
105 bid, 107 asked; City and Suburban
Railroad first mortgage Z per cent bonds,
1Olla bid ,102 asked Alabama Midland per
cent. indorsed, 99la bid, 100ls asked; Bruns-
wick and Western Is. so bid, SO asked.
South Bound Railway IS. 80 bid, 100 ask
ed: Georgia and Alabama FIRST
preferred IS, JOG bid 107 asked; Georgia
and Alabama consolidated 5s, 10t bid 100
asked; Eatonton Branch, 100 nd l0t
asked; Central of Georgia. Middle Georgia
and Atlantic division IS, 991s bid, 1904 ask
ed.
Railroad stoeks-Augusta and savan-
nah. 1l2Ib bid. = asked; Southwestern, l12%
bid 1873. asked; Atlanta and West Point
stock. l24 bid, asked; Atlanta and
west Point per cent, certificates, 1903 bid,
i04 asked; Georgia common, 206 bid,
7O7 asked; Georgia and Alabama stock.
So bid, SO asked.
Gas Stocks--Savannah Gas Light Stock,
q bid, asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens' Bank, 11s
ibid, 1l9 asked Chatham Bank, 1041b bid,
1854 asked; Germanla Bank, lie bid =
asked; National Bank of Savannah 12s
of Savannah, 92 bid SO asked; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company. l07 bid, :
asked; Southern Bank of the state OF
Georgia, 129 bid, 1870 asked Savannah
Bank and Trust Company, 10 bid III ask
cd; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company. A, Sc bid, 81 asked d. SSH
bid, IS asked; Peoples Savings and Loan
Company, "a bid, IS asked.
Factory Bonus-Augusta Factory,N 1O1
bid, 102 asked, Slbley Manufacturing Com
pany 6s. 1O2 bid, 1O3 asked; Eagle and Phe-
nix Mills, per cent bonds, due 1928, i0l
bid, 1893 asked; Bib Manufacturing Com
pany, 1903 bid, 1889 asked.
Factory stocks-Angusta Factory, IS
bid, 80 asked; Granitevise Factory 100
bid, 1855 asked; Langley Factory, 81 bid,
1919 asked Enterprise Factory, common.
90 bid. 80 asked; j. r. King Manufacturing
Company, 81 bid, 101 asked: Sibley Manu-
featuring Company, 6s bid. 70 asked So
vannah Brewing Company 10l bid. 1o5
asked.
New York, April f7--Money on call was
firmer, 446 per cent; the last loan was
ats per cent Prime mercantile paper,
31aa4A per cent. Sterling exchange strong,
with actual business In bankers bills at
sfS6l3d4 s6% for demand. and at $4.S41sGl
4.s4% for sixty days; posted rates, 81. $50
4.s5lA and $4.s7dt4 STA; commercial bills,
a.S3M4 .S334, silver certificates, 60Gi601kc; bar
silver, 50sse; Mexican dollars, 475sc gov
eminent bonds were strong; state bonds
were strong; railroad bonds were strong.
New York, April ia rise In call
money and recurrence of discrimlna ion
in loans against the industrials caused
prices to recede below Saturdays close I'm
the afternoon trading. -9lrcs market, as
usual on Monday after a strong Saturday
closing, opened active and strong on an
accumulation Of outside orders. Except
for a squirt Of strength in the grangers
with Burlington leading, although they
subsequently lost about all OF their earlier
gain, the dealings were largely confined
TO the industrials and specialties Promi-
nent In the carly strength were the To-
baeco, Iron and Steel shares, Anaconda
mining, Cotton OH and General Electric.
The latter was influenced by gossip reia-
tive to dividend prospects.
Manhattan and Sugar and Brooklyn
Rapid Transit were consistently weak, al
though Brooklyn Transit recovered some
what from tire lowest Many OF the spec
ialties which had advanced most readily
early we're equally conspicuous in the af-
ternoon decline. especially Continental To
bncco Federal Steel, Colorado Fuel and
Iron and American Steel and Wire. An
advance in wheat gave an encouragement,
10 bears who construed ID as confrmatory
OF the crop damage gossip. The strength
in the call money market, which ranged
from ~ to s, was In a measure due to the
financing of another crop of Industrial
combinations. including payments inc!-
dental to the organization Of the American
Hop Company.
There was considerable selling for West
ern account IN the afternoon trading.
which gave encouragement to q large in
terest which operated apparently on the
short side. London was a purchaser Of
a number OF dividend paying internation-
ais, and a seller OF speculative low grade
shares. Expectation that the decision OF
the Rapid Transit combination will be ren.
dered this afternoon was a source OF
strength 70 Metropolitan and weakness "a
Manhattan on the possibility that IL might