The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-10

STOCK on 0and ana on ShlpOOard
Receipts same day last year .... Gas 1880
FINANcIAL.-The market is easy.
Domestic Exchange. Banks and
bankers are buying sight drafts at Il per cent
discount and selling at Is per cent discount to
par.
Foreign, Erchange.-The market is steady.
Commercial demand, 81 S5 sixty days,
Havre commercial, sixty days, IS %; Swiss,
IS S713; marks, sixty days, 9414c.
SEcURITIEs-The market is sluggish, with
light buying and a tendency to lower figures for
stocks. Bonds of long date hold their own and
are scarce.
STOCKS AND BoNDs.-Cstg Bonds-Atlanta 4
Atlanta per cent, liz bid, I21 asked; Au'
gusta per cent long date, 10 bid, III
asked; Augusta per cent long date, lls bid,
~ asked asked, Columbus %In per cent iGa bid
asked; New Savannah per cent, January
coupons, 1001s bid, 101 asked; new Savannah
per cent, November coupons, lo1A bid, 102
State Bonds-Georgia 6 per cent, 1889, 1901
bid. 10116 asked; Georgia new ~ per cent, 107lS
bid, IOS4 asked; Georgia I per cent gold
Georgia per cent coupons. January and July.
maturity 1896 ll6 bid, III asked.
Railroad StockS-Central common, 1913 bid,
l25 asked; Augusta and Savannah per cent
guaranteed, 1873 bid, 1876 asked Georgia oom-
mon, 1877 bid 1879 asked: Southwestern per
cent guaranteed, 1877 bid, 12S asked; Central
6 per cent certificates. 1904 bid. l0l asked;
Atlanta and West Point railroad stock. LOG
bid, 1903 asked; Atlanta and West Point per
cent certificates, 1919 bid, 102 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
western Railway Company general mortgage
per cent interest, coupons October, 10 bid,
1l2 asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per cent, coupons January and
July, maturity 1897, ia bid, i15ls asked Cen
trail consolidated mortgage ! per cent, coupons
January and July, maturity 1898, ITO bid,
III asked; Georgia railroad 8 per cent, 1897,
10s0114 bid 109@116 asked; Mobile and
Grard second MORTGAGE Endorsed s per cent,
coupons January and July, maturity 1889, 101
bid, 102 asked; Montgomery and Eufaula first
mortgage per cent, Endorsed by Central rail
road, 10S bid, 40 asked; Marietta and North
Georgia first mortgage, so years, per cent,
100 bid, 101 and interest asked; Marietta
and North Georgia railroad first mortgage per
cent 106 bid, 10Y asked; Charlotte, Column
bia and Augusta first mortgage, 10 bid, Ill
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage. 10 bid, III asked; Western Ala
bama second mortgage Endorsed per cent,
l04 bid, 105 asked; South Georgia and Flor
ida Endorsed, III bid, 119 asked; South Geor-
ga and Florida second mortgage, liz bid,
gage per cent 10SI6 bid, 10 asked Gaines
ville Jefferson and Southern first mortgage
guaranteed, 115 bid, 116 asked; Gainesville,
Jefferson and Southern, not guaranteed, Ill
bid, l12 asked; Ocean Steamship 6 pei cent
bonds, guaranteed by Central railroad, 102
bid, 1903 Asked Gainesville, Jefferson and
Southern second mortgage guaranteed, ia
mortgage bonds Endorsed by Central railroad,
lO7 bid, 108 asked; Columbus and Western 8
per cent, guaranteed, 1903 bid, ITO asked; City
and Suburban railway first mortgage 7per cent,
los bid. 10sI1 asked.
Bank Stocks-NomInal. Southern Bank of
the State of Georgia, 200 bid, 2O2 asked; Mer-
chants National Bank, 16l bid, 102 asked;
Savannah Bank and Trust Company, 80 bid,
l0l asked; National Bank of Savannah. ia
nd, 125 asked; Ogletborpe Savings and Trust
Company l15 bid, 117 asked; Citizens Bank,
W bid, 81 asked
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light Stock, IN
20 asked
BACON - Market steady; stocks every
where light demand good; smoked clear
rib sides, 1i6c; shoulders, none dry salted clear
rb sides, l0l4c; long clear. l0ssc; bellies, lO1c
shoulders, none; hams. 14c.
r.. BAoGINa AND TIEs-The market Is steady
stocks are somewhat reduced and holders not &c
anxious to sell. The following are quotations or
actual offerings. We quote in small lots: Bag
glng, "a bs. l4A014Y4c; Ds 130l3l4c; ~
IDS, l214012l6c, according to brand and guam
wy. Iron ties-S1 1901 20 per bundle accord
ing TO brand and quantity Sea island baggng
i,oGl51sc. Bagging and ties in retail lots q
fraction higher.
BUTTER-Msrkets steady; fair demand; Goshen
CHEEsE-M Market steady; fair demand. We
quote, 90t12c.
CoFFEE-Market higher. We quote: Peaberry
sOAc; fancy, 1sl6c; choice, 1Sc; prime, 171fci
mon, 1434c
CABB1eE-Northern. io@iic.
DRIED FRurr-Appies, evaporated, olfc; com
mon, 1yzc. Peaches, peeled, i6c; unpeeled, ga
&C. CurTants, &c. Citron, 2oc.