The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-06

Stock on hand and on shipboard
today ,,st r:or lo'5e@ 'S5 5Sa
FrxANcIAL-Money in good demand; the banks
supplying customers.
domestic Erchdaqe-Steady. Banks and
bqnkers are buying sight drafts at u per cent
discount and selling at II per cent discount to
FOREIGN Erchdnqe-The market is steady
Commercial demand, 81 IS; sixty days,
s! S3}a; ninety days IS 8s4; FRANCS Paris an
Hlvre, commercial, sixty days, IS 24l3 Swiss,
s. Is; marks. sixty days, 9ib6c.
SECURITIES market continues dull. Some
little inquiry exists for STATE bonds and Central
railroad joint mortgages. Stocks are weak AMI
srocKs AND BoSDs-CHv Bonds-Atlanta 4
per cent long date, 1903 bid, ia asked;
glsta per cont long date, 10 bid, liz
8sIed Augusta per cent long date, 1l3 bid,
ia asked; Columbus per cent, 1O2 bid, 1O4
asked Macon s per cent, ll2 bid, lib asked;
new savannah ) per cent. October coupons,
1904 bid, l0l4 asked; new Savannah per cent,
November coupons 100 bid, !0i asked.
state Bonds-Georgia per cent, 1880, 100ll
bid, 1Ol1s asked Georgia new Az per cent, JO5
bid, 1855 asked Georgia per cent gold
quarterly coupons, 1Ol bid, los asked, Geor
gia per mt. coupons January and July. ma
turity 1895, 1ij bid 11719 asked.
Railroad StOcks-Central common, 1l5 bid,
l16 asked Augusta and Savannah per cent
guaranteed, 1870 bid 1872 asked; Georgia com
cent guaranteed, 100 bid, 12 asked; Central
6 per cent certificates, 100 bid, 100l6 asked;
Atlanta and West Point railroad stock. 1Q4
bid, 1916 asked; Atlanta and West Point per
cent certificates, 10l11 bid, 102 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway Company general mortgage
6per cent interest, coupons October, 40 bid,
III asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage
consolidated per cent, coupons January and
July maturity 1897, ia bid, 11J11 asked; Cen
January and July, maturity 1893, 100 bid,
40 asked; Georgia railroad per cent, 1897,
l0Slt114 bid, 1090116 asked; Mobile and
Rss
bid, l0l asked; Montgomery and Eufaula first
mortgage per cent, indorsed by Central rail
road. !O6 bid, lo7 asked; Marietta and North
Georgia first mortgage 80 wears, Q per cent.
I0s bid, 106 and interest asked Marietta and
North Georgia railroad first mortgage per
cent, l03 bid, 105 asked Charlotte, Colum
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage, 113 bid, ia asked; Western Ala
bama second mortgage Endorsed per cent
l07 Did. 10S asked; south Georgia and Flor
ida indorsed, l16 bid, lie asked; South Geor-
gia and Florida second mortgage. 116 bid
lis asked; Augusta and Knoxville first mort
gage per cent. 10 bid, III asked; Gaines
Vile Jefferson and Southern first mortgage
guaranteed, 1i3ls bid, 11d11 asked; Gainesville,
Jefferson and southern, not guaranteed, ITO
bid, liz asked; Ocean Steamship per cent
bonds, guaranteed by Central railroad, 10l
bid, 1OiR asked; Gainesville, Jefferson and
Southern second mortgage guaranteed, 1l2
bid, ia asked; Columbus and Rome first
mortgage bonds. Endorsed by Central railroad,
los bid, LOG asked; Columbus and Weste . s
per cent guaranteed, LOG bid, 1903 asked City
and Suburban railway first mortgage, per &C II,
Bank Stocks-Nomnal Southern Bank %
the State Of Georgia, 200 bid, 20. asked; Mer
chants National Bank, 1871 bid, 1872 asked;
Savannah Bank and Trust Company, 80 bid
100 asked; National Bank of Savannah, 1873
6id, 1874 asked Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
Company, ll5 bid, III asked; Citizens Bank,
IS bid, 92 asked.
Gas Stoa.s-Savannah Gas Light stock 17Is
bid, 1874 asked; Mutual Gas Light stock, 10 bid,
20 asked.
BAcoH-Market firm and advancing; demand
good; smoked clear rib sides, lO11c; shoulders,
sc; dry sated clear rib Sides sac; long
clear, 95sc; bellies, e5sc; shoulders, SIG; hams
l4c.
BAsGINa AND TIEs-The market is very firm,
WIN an upward tendency. The following are
quotations on actual offerings. We quote In
small lots: Dagginy. 24 bs. 1870 +Ac; lbs,
bFl35tciH bs, i211Cp i211c. according 70 brani
AMI quantity. Iron ties-.Sl 15II 20 per bundle.
according to brand and quantity. Sea island
,nasglig, l3Qi51sc. Begging and ties in retail
lois fraction higher
UTTER Market steady; fair demand; Goshen,
~, GUT edge, 23c; creamery. 2bc -
CHEESE Market steady: fair demand We
quote, 90i2c.
,.[CorFNE- Market higher. We quote: Fancy,
L1ec; choice, 1880; prime, lbl4c; fair, 1o34ci
peaberry. l9l6c; ordinary, 14ltc; common, l4c.
tAbBAGE-Northern, l0m1lc.
OHED FRuIr-Apples, evnporated, OL2c; com
mon, 1s4c. Peaches, peeled, nc; unpeeled 90
&c Currants, 7c. Citron. BIC.
DRY GooDs-The market is firm, stock full;
G1emaud good. We quote: Prints, YSGDGlac;
Seorgia brown shifting, "a, SIC; rs do, 6l5c;
brown shectng, Bl6c; white osnaburgs, SIC;
Snecks, SEQ b.: yarns. Soc for the best makes;
brown drillings, &c.
prices. We quote full weights: Mackerel--No.
$4,000; No. 3. half barrels, nominal, 81 00V
nn,o; No. 2, IS %. Herring--No. ], 22c; scaled,
Soc Cod, odSc. Mullet, half barrels. - IS.
FRUIT -Lefnons-Demnnd good. We quote;
Nho1ce, 50 2jGDg so; fair SO 1903 90.
,FL3rh-- Market very firm and advancing; de-
tmand moderate. wequote. Extra. 81 5000 80;
,,eney s. 1905 50 choice patent, s. 6O96 90;
family. ets5R50O
sRi Observation-Disclosures steady: demand light