The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-20

SUOck on ndnu anu On snpDOdTO
Receipts same day last year. $50 1914
FNANc1AI-Money is in active demand, but
stringent
Domestic ErcAdnge-Steady. Banks and
bankers are buying sight drafts at ID per cent
discount and selling at Is per cent discount to
par.
Commercial demand, 81 s634@14 s.: sixty days,
s. SEE; ninety days, s. s015; francs, Paris and
Havre, commercial, sixty days, S. 49, Swiss,
S. 2516; marks, sixty days, 945Sc.
SEcURITIEs-Securities are dull and quotations
mostly nominal owing to the continued strin-
gency in money.
STOCKS AND BoNDs-City Bonds-Atlanta 4
per cent long date, 10S bid, ia asked; At
lanta per cent, 11S bid, 12l asked; Augusta
per cent long date, 10 bid, 1l7 asked; Au.
gIsta per cent long date. lib bid, ia
asked; Columbus per cent, 102 bid. 104
asked; Macon per cent, 10 bid, 11116 asked;
new Savannah per cent. January coupons,
1925 bid 103 asked; new Savannah 5 per
cent, February coupons 1924 bid, 1929 asked.
state BondS-Georgia per cent 1889, 1O0lf
bid, 100 asked; Georgia per cent gold
quarterly coupons, 1O819 bid, 1919 asked; Geor-
gia per cent coupons, January and July, ma
turity 1896 11s bid, l19 asked.
Railroad StOchs-Csntral common, 1874
bid, 1914 asked; Augusta and ,sa-
yan9ah per cent guaranteed, ex-divi-
mon, 1917 bid. 1919 asked Southwestern Z
per cent guaranteed, ex-dividand, 1871 bid,
132 asked; Central per cent certificates,
ex-interest 90 bid, 1884 asked; Atlanta and
West Point railroad stock 10T bid. 1903
asked; Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent GER
tificates, 100 bid, 101 asked
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway Company general mortgage,
per cent interest coupons october, 115 bid,
116 asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per cent, coupons January and
July, maturity 1897 III bid. 11S asked; Cen
trail consolidated mortgage per cent coupons
January and July, maturity 1923, 1lO15 bid,
III asked; Georgia railroad per cent 1897,
10S1114 bid, 109G116 asked; Mobile and
Girard. second mortgage Endorsed, per cent,
coupons January and July, maturity 1892, i021s
bid, 1913 asked; Montgomery and Eufaula first
mortgage per cent, Endorsed by Central rail-
road. III bid, liz ASKED; Marietta and North
Georgia railway first mortgage, so years, per
cent, IS bid 100 and interest asked; Marietta and
North Georgia railroad first mortgage per
cent, 1O6 bid, 1os asked; Charlotte, Column,
bia and Augusta first mortgage, liz hid, 1l3
asked: Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage, III bid, liz asked; Western Ala
bama second mortgage Endorsed per cent.
105 bid, l06 asked; South Georgia and Flor
ida ipdorsei, III bid. 10 asked; South Geor-
gia aud Florida second mortgage, IA bid, 1l6
asked: Augusta aud Knoxville first mortgage
per cent, 11l15 bid, 1l2zs asked; Gainesville,
Jefferson and southern first mortcag3 guar
anteed, lis bid, 116 asked; Gainesville,
Jefferson and Southern, not guaranteed, Ill
bid, liz asked; Ocean Steamship Q per . cene :
bonds, guaranteed by Central railroad. 1021&
bid, 1924 asked; Gainesville, Jefferson and
Southern second mortgage guaranteed ia
bid, 116 asked; Columbus and Rome first
mortgage bonds, Endorsed by Central railroad,
los bid, 100 asked; Columbus and Western 6
per cent guaranteed, 100 bid, 10 asked;
City and Suburban railway first mortgage per
cent. 107 bid, 10S asked.
Bank Stocks-Nominal Southern Bank OF
the State of Georgia, 900 bid. 203 asked; Mer'
chants National Bank, 1853 Did. 1865 asted;
Savannah, Bank and Trust Company, 99I< bid,
1904 asked National Bank OF Savannah, 1876
bid, 126 asked; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
Company, III bid, 11S asked; Citizens Bank,
70 bid, 95 asked. -.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock, 10
bid, 20 asked: Mutual Gas Light stock is bid.
20 asked; Electric Light and Power Company,
% bid ~ asked