The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-24
NAVAL STORES STATEMENT.
on hand and on shipboard

to-day Observation-Disclosures. 5,0SS 1l6,62l
Receipts same day last year.. II 1874
FINANOIAL-Money is easy and in good re-
quest.
Domestic Erchdnge-Is scarce, Banks and
bankers are buying sight drafts at II per cent
premium and selling at II per cent pre-
MUM.
Foreign F!rchaage The market is steady
Commercial demand 81 S614; sixty days 81 S4I ;
ninety days 8 s314 francs, Paris aud Havre,
commercial sixty DAYS. IS 23A; Swiss, 81 % {;
marks, sixty days, 1890.
SECURITIES market is quiet for all classes
of bonds and stocks, but the undertone is firm
and the offerings of every description are light.
STOCKS AND BoNDs-City BoHGS-Atlanta 6
per cent long date. exinterest 10S bid ia
asked; Atlanta per cent, ll8 bid, 12l asked j;
Augusta 7 per cent long date, 1l3 bid, us
asked; Augusta 6s long date, 100 bid lip
asked; Columbus per cent % bid 101
asked; Macon per cent, i06 bid ITO asked {:
pew sayannah ; per cent, April coupons l92
bid, 1924 asked; Savannah per cent
May coupons, folh bid 1919 asked
State BOnds-Georgia new IS. 1859, ex-coupon
1001f bid, 10lA asked; Georgia new 41ks. ex-
cent gold, quarterly coupons, 100 bid, 1O6
asked; Georgia per cent, coupons January
and July, maturity 1896, ex-coupons III bid,
Railroad Stocks-Central common, 1875 bid
1875 asked; Augusta and Savannah per cent
guaranteed, 1872 bid 1874 asked; Georgia com
mon, 203 bid, POS asked Southwestern per
cent guaranteed, lS bid, 1870 asked Central
8 per cent certificates, l01N bid, 1921 asked:
Atlanta and West Point railroad stock, 1O9l6
bid, i10A asked; Atlanta and West Point 6
Per cent certificates, exinterest 1925 bid, 103l9
asked.
Raiirodd Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway Company general mortgage &
per cent interest coupons October ex-interest
11e bid, ia asked; Atlantic and Gulf first
mortgage consolidated per cent, coupons
January and July, maturity 1897, ia bid,
III asked; Central consolidated mortgage I
per cent, coupons january and July, maturity
1893 ITO bid, 1l2 asied Georgia railroad 6s
1897, 100 bid, 10 asked; Mobile and Girard
second mortgage Endorsed s per cent, coupons
January and July, maturity 1880, 10216 bid,
1855 asked; Montgomery and lBufaula first
mortgage per cent, Endorsed by Central rail
road, Jos Bid, 1921 asked; Marietta and
North Georgia first mortgage, 50 years per
cent, 900 bid, 1904 and interest asked;
Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta first mort
gage, 100 bid, 40 asked Charlotte, Column
ba and Augusta second mortgage, 100 bid
100 asked; Western Alabama second mort
gage Endorsed per cent, 100 bid 10 asked :
South Georgia and Florida indorsed, 11s bid,
100 asked South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage, ia bid, 116 asked; Augusta and
Knoxville first mortgage per cent 10 bid
112 asked; Gainesville, Jefferson and South
ern first mortgage guaranteed, ia bid, 1l5
asked; Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern not
guaranteed, 40 bid, III asked; Ocean
steamship per cent bonds, guaranteed by
Central railroad, 1903 bid, l04 asked; Gaines
vile, jefferson and Southern second mortgage
guaranteed, 113 asked; Columbus and Rome
first mortgage bonds, Endorsed by Central rail
road, JOG bid, l07 asked Columbus and
Western 8 per cent guaranteed, los bid, 10
asked; City and Suburban railway first mort
gage per cent, 106 bid, los asked
Bank STRAIGHTFORWARD. Southern Bank of
the State of Georgia, 200 bid, 202 asked ;
Merchants National Bank, i62 bid, l65
asked savannah Bank and Trust Company
Sc bid, o. asked; National Bank of Savannah
10 bid, l22 asked; Ogethorpe Savings and
Trust Comany. LIP bid, ia asked; Citizens
Bank, 30 bid, 80 asked.
Gas StOcl;s-Sayannah Gas Light stock, ex-
dividend, so bid, 1915 asked; Mutual Gas Light
stock, 70 bid. 20 asked.