The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05

Total. .........--...t.- lo%,oio 44o,cOI
Stock on hand and on shipboard
TODAY. .......--....... 1l,b2l lO9 130
Receipts same day last year. .... 115 1925
FINANcIAL-Money is in active demand, with
rates ranging from 1G1S per cent.
Domestic Exchange Banks and bank
ers are buying sight drafts at u per cent dis
count and selling at Il per cent discount to par.
foreign Erchonge-The market is
steady Commercial demand. 81 $50; sixty
days, 81 s015 ninety days, 81 7914; francs, Paris
and Havre, commercial, sixty days. S. %;
Swiss. S. 2719; marks, sixty days, 943s
SEcURITIEs-The market is inactive, with light
offerings.
STOCKS AND Bonds City Boads--Atlanta 6
per cent long date, ex-interest, 107
bid, 100 asked; Atlanta per cent,
us bid, l2l asked; augusta per
long date. 100 bid, Ill asked Columbus per
cent, % bid 1O1 asked Macon per cent.
10S bid, 10 asked; new Savannah per cent.
Savannah per cent, February coupons 1918
bid. 102 asked
State Bonds-Georgia new 6s, 1889, ex-cou-
pom, 1919 bid, 1929 asked; Georgia new 41ss.,
per cent gold, quarterly coupons, los bid, 100
asked Georgia per cent, coupons January
and July, maturity 1895, ex-coupon, III bid,
1l9 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Central common, 100 bid,
ia015 asked; Augusta and Savannah
per cent guaranteed, ex-dividend, 100 bid,
l82 asked; Georgia common, 200 bid. 2o5
asked Southwestern per cent gua datnaI
per cent certificates exinterest, 1894 bid, 1904
asked; Atlanta and West Point railroad stock,
III bid, liz asked: Atlanta and West Point 8
per cent certificates, ex-interest, 1O2 bid, lob
asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida aud
Western Railway Company general mortgage 6
per cent interest, coupons October,
i &aat9 and 0' cS Sif first 10 mortgage asaSG
consolidated Z per cent, coupons January and
July, maturity 1897, 10 bid, 1l2 asked;
Central consolidated mortgage per cent
coupons January and July, maturity 1893,
l0716 bid 1885 asked; Georgia railroad 6s, 1887,
l06 bid 10S asked; Mobile and Girard second
mortgage indorsed per cent. coupons January
and July, maturity 1899, 102 bid, 1O3 asked;
Montgomery and Eufaula first mortgage 6 per
cen, indorsed by Central railroad, lO6 bid,
lo7 asked; Marietta and North Georgia. first
mortgage, 80 years, per cent, VIZ bid, p916
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta first
mortgage, 1919 bid, l0Sl9 asked; Charlotte;
Columbia and Augusta second mortgage, lO9
bid, 1I015 asked; Western Alabama second
mortgage Endorsed 8 per cent, lN bid, 1OS
asked; South Georgia and Florida indorsed,
ll6 bid, III asked; South Georgia and Florida
second mortgage, ia bid, 1l6 asked; Augusta
and Knoxville first mortgage per cent lOoIY
old, lO9l2 asked; Gainesville, Jefferson ana
ll2 asked Gainesville. Jefferson and Southern
not guaranteed, 10 bid. Ill asked Ocean
Steamships per cent bonds, guaranteed by
Central railroad, 1902 id, l03 asked; Gaines
vile, Jefferson and southern second mortgage
guaranteed, 113 asked; Columbus and Rome
Hrst mortgage bonds, indorsed by Central rail-,
road, l0l bid 105 asked: Columbus, and
western 6 per cent guaranteed 1OI bid lJo
asked; City and Suburban railway first mort
gage per cent, los bid, 101 q ked.
Bonk tOcks-Nomnal. Southern Bank OF the
State of Georgia, 1870 bid: 1913 asked; Mer-
chants National Bank, 1850 bid. l6o1a asked )
Savannah Rank and TrIlst COMPANY, " bid,
100 asked; National Bank Of Savannah, 100 bid,
12l asked; OK ethor Savings and Trust Com
pany, III bio l13 asked
Gas Stocls-Savannah Gas Light stock ex-
dividend 1919 bid, 90 asked; Mutual Gas Light
stock. 70 bid, 20 asked.
BAcoN-Market firm and advancing; demand
good; smoked Gle rib sides Use; shou ders'
none; dry ed clear rib sides. olec; long clear
S3sc be lies CSC shoulders. none; Jams, loo
BAGGNG AMP TIEs-Market steady. We
quot: Bagging-2l1 lbs, s0H4c; ms, ESQ
Gee; ia bs 1@1Bc, accordin: to brand ard
quantity Iron ties--Arrow nd ot er brands
none; nominal, 81 2j uer bundle, according 70
brand and q autty. Baggin- and ties Ia retall
lots fra ton higher.
BUTTER Market steady; choice Goshen, 2ic;
gilt dg 26M2Sc; creamery, 30c;
CABBGAE-- Market bare; too high TO handie ;
nominally, Northern, 1l4l2c; imported, $50
l4c
CHEESE Market steady; fair demand We
quote, 11014c.
Fancy, PC; choice. 2lc; prime, 01sc; good' SoSi
fair, l91{c; ordinary, 1SlAc: common, ioc. ,>-
DRIED FRUIT-Apples, ev. porated, il1Sci
peeled, nc. Peaches, peeled @oc; unpeeied D
@l1c Currants. &c. C'itron, 2jc.
DRY Goops-Th4 market is very firm; STOCK
small; demand exceeds manufacture ana turthet
advances are loo ed for. We quote; fImIS,
Q6c; Georgia brown shirting, 81, 416c; 20 90,
ssec; a brown shesting 6&c; wnts go gp ~
et6D915c checks, 6l4Gi,sc; warns, SOC lor pest
tn9kass brown dri Inns. 6ls(1.flSc