The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-19


Receipts same day last year 621 2,6sS
FINANc1AL-Money is in active demand, but
stringent.
Domestic Erchange--Steady Banks and
bankers are buying sight drafts at "a per cent
discount and selling at Is per cent discount to
par.
Commercial demand, 81 6634@04 s.: sixty days,
81 s2ls; ninety days, 81 sou; francs Paris and
Hayre commercial, sixty days, s. 25; Swiss
SIS 251s; marks, sixty days, 949sc.
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 bids ia asked; At
ianta per cent, 1l8 bid, 121 asked; Augusta
z per cent long date, 10 bid, III asked; Au-
gusta per cent long date, 113 bid, ia
asked Columbus per cent, 1O2 bid, 104
asked; Macon 6 per cent, ITO bid Ills asked;
new Savannah per cent. January coupons.
1925 bid, 103 asked; new Savannah per
cent, February coupons, 1924 bid, 1929 asked.
state Bonds1Georgia per cent 1889. 1O0ts
bid, 1011S asked; Georgia new ~ per cent, 10S
bid. l09 asked; Georgia z per cent gold
quarterly coupons, 1031s bid, 1o416 asked; Geor-
gia 2 Per cent coupons, January and July, ma
turity 1895. 11s bid, 119 asked.
Railroad Stocts-Central common, 1874
bid, ,1241S asked; Augusta and ,sa-
dend, 1870 bid, 1872 asked: Georgia com.
mon, 1917 bid, 1879 asked; Southwestern Z
per cent guaranteed. exdvidend, 131 bid,
lac asked; Central s per cent certificates,
ex interest, 80 bid, 994 asked: Atlanta and
West, Point railroad stock, 10? bid. 1903
asked; Atlanta and West Point per cent GER
tificates, 100 bid, l01 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah. Florida and
Western Railway Company general mortgage,
lie 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
Ian md ink "
Ill asked; Georgia railroad per cent. 1897
10s0114 bid, 1090116 asked; Mobile and
Girard, second mortgage indorsed per cent
coupons January and July, maturity 1892, 1924
bid, 1903 asked; Montgomery and Eufaula first
mortgage per cent, Endorsed by Central rail
road, III bid, 112 asked; Marietta and North
Georgia railway first mortgage, so years, per
cent, 9S bid, 100 and interest asked; Marietta and
North Georgia railroad first mortgage per
cent, 1O6 bid 1903 asked; Charlotte, Column
bia and Augusta first mortgage. 112 bid, 113
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage, Ill bid, 112 asked; Western Ala
hama second mortgage Endorsed per cent.
Jos bid, lO6 asked; South Georgia and Flor
ida Endorsed, III bid, 10 asked; South Geor:
gia and Florida second mortgage. ia bid, 116
asked; Augusta and Knoxville first mortgage
z per Cent, 11111 bid 11214 asked; Gainesville
Jefferson and southern first mortgage guar
anteed, 1l5 bid, 116 asked; Gainesville,
jefferson and Southern, not guaranteed, III
bid, l!2 asked: Ocean Steamship per cent
bonds, guaranteed by Central railroad. 102f
bld, lU3H aSkedi Oalnesvlle, JEFFERSON ana
Southern second mortgage guaranteed ia
bid, 116 asked; Columbus and Rome first
mortgage bonds, indorSed by Central railroad
1903 bid, 1903 asked; Columbus and Western s
per cent guaranteed, 100 bid, 40 asked
City and Suburban railway first mortgage per
cent. 107 bid, 10s asked.
Bank Stocks-Nominal. Southern Bank of
the State of Georgia, 200 bid, 203 asked; Mer-
chants National Bank, 1863 bid 1876 asked;
Savannah, Bank and Trust Company, 9slf bid.
1904 asked; National Bank Of Savannah, 1875
bid, 126 asked; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
Company, III bid, 11S asked; Citizens Bank
% 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,
"a bid, T asked