The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-24

Receipts same day last year. 531 26t3
FINANCIAL-Money Is very stringent.
Domestic Exchange Weak and nominal
Banks and bankers buying sight drafts at Il
per cent, discount and selling at par0A per
cent. premium.
Foreign Erchan0e-The market is steady.
Commercial demand s. $50; sixty days, 81 s11l (;
ninety days. 81 1884: francs Paris and Uavre
commercial, sixty days, So 2514; Swiss, s. 2614
marks, sixty days, 94c
SECURITIEs-rhe market continues inactive
Neither investors nor spectators are giving
any attention to securities, except in retail
way. Holders, however, are drm and not press
ing sales.
SrooKs AND BoNps-city Bonds-Atlanta 6
per cent long date, 100 bid, ia asked At
lanta per cent, lie bid, 118 asked; Au-
gusta per cent long date. los bid, 11216
asked; Augusta per cent long date, 104 bid
l07 asked; Columbus per cent: lo4 bid,
asked: new Savannah per cent quarterly
October coupons, 10i bid, l05 asked new
Savannah per cent November coupons, 1034
State Bonds-Georgia new AZ per cent, III
bid, 11S asked; Georgia per cent coupons
January aud July, maturity 1896, ia bid, lis
asked
Railroad Stocks-Central common, 100 bid
121 asked; Augusta and Savannah per cent
guaranteed, 40 bid, l42 asked; Georgia com
mon 200 bid 202 asked; Southwestern per cent
cent certificates 97Ib bid, 9S asked; Atlanta
and West Point railroad STOCK l09 bid. Ill
asked; Atlanta ana West Point per cent Ger
t!hcates. 99 bid. 100 asked
Railroad BOnds-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad Company general mortgage,
9 per cent interest coupons October, 10 bid,
| liz asked Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated Z per cent coupons January and
| July, maturity 1897, 1101S bid, 1l11s ASKED;
| Central Railroad and Banking Company
| trail consolidated mortgage per cent, coupons
January and July, maturity 1898 lO4 bid
1o5 asked; Savannah and Western railroad {
per cent, indorsed by Central railroad, 9sib bid
"a asked Savannah, Americus and Mont
gomery per cent, 95l6 bid, 90 asked;
| Georgia railroad per cent. 1897, 105Ql1l bid,
| l060116 asked; Georgia Southern and Florida
| first mortgage per cent, 81 bid, & asked;
| Covington and Macon first mortgage per cent
| $3.50 bid, S914 asked; Montgomery and Eufaula
first mortgage per cent, Endorsed by Central
Georgia railway first mortgage. 80 years, 6 per
cent, SO bid, 95 asked; Marietta and North Geor-
| gia railroad first mortgage 6 per cent, 1903 bid,
first mortgage, l07 bid, los asked; Charlotte,
| Columbia and Augusta second mortga ge,
lis bid, III asked; Charlotte, Columbia and
A Az general mortgags,. 8 per cent, los
mortgage. indorsed per cent. l02 bid, 1903
| asked; South Georgia and Florida, indorsed
| 1l3 bid, liz asked; South Georgia and Florida
| second mortgage, 40 bid, Ill, asked; Au-
gusta and Knoxville first mortgage, Z per cent,
| 10s bid, 10S,. asked; Gainesville Jefferson and
Southern, first mortgage, guaranteed, ia bid,
40 dSkeus tr2lutoSNlllS JelIerSOn ana southern,
not guaranteed, LOG bid, los asked Ocean
Steamship per cent bonds, guaranteed by
| Central railroad, 10l bid 10e asked; Gaines
| Vile, jefferson and Southern second mortgage
| guaranteed, Ill bid, l13 asked; Columbus
| and Rome, first mortgage bonds, Endorsed by
| Central railroad, LOG bid, l0s asked; Colum
bus and Western per cent guaranteed, 10?
bid, 10S asked; City and Suburban railway
first mortgage per cent, 10 bid, liz asked.
Bdnt Stocks - Firm. Southern Bank oil
the state of Georgia, 800 bid, 800 asked Mer
oh 0FNfz al nnv,l ,.I-s
| Savannah Bank and Trust Company, 30 bid
| 1915 asked; National Bank of Savannah, 1874
bid 1856 asked; Oglethorpe Savings aud Trust
1902 bid. 1o4 asked; Chatham Real Estate and
| Improvement, s21b bid. t3 asked.
| Gas StOckS-Savannah Gas Light stocks
bld, 20 asked; Mutual Gas Light stock
bid; Electric Light and Power Company
S9le bid, So asked.
BAcoS-Market firm; fair demand. Tn,
| Board Of Trade quotations are as follows
63sc; dry sailed clear rib sides, s]4c, long clear
| 6lsc; bellies, 6l4c. shoulders, &c; hams, l21ac.
| BAGGGNG AND rIEs--The market is firm and de
mand moderate Jute baggng, 2l4 lbs, $40 sac
| 9 lbs. 7I4ds7,e; ia lbs. 6la16Nc, according &c
| brand and quantity sea island bagging at l314d
| 1874; cotton oaggng none; prices nominal
pine straw, "a Ms, lolsc. Iron Ties-Sl 25Gl 81
per bundle according. TO quantity. Baggine
| and ties In retail lots fraction higher.
BUTTER Market steady; fair demand; Goshen
l7c' gilt edge. l9Q9)c creamery, 2lQD2Sc.
| CABBAGE Northern, i0Ollc.
CHEEsE-Market steady; fair demand; lid
| l3c.
CoFFEE-Market higher. Peaberry. 23g6c
fancy, 23c; choice. 22l6c; prime. pc; good
| 2ltsc; fair, 2ic; Ordinary. 2Jc; common. Bike
| DRIED FauIr-Apples, eyaporat.d. u "; com
| mon, 0lfttic. Peaches. peeled, i5c; unpeeled
| 5Qt7o. Currants 7lac. Cltron, 20.
| Day 9ooDs- The market Is nrm, good de-
mand. Prints at6iec Georgia brown shlrting
| "a, gbac, 2 \ DO, $40. "a brown snesting 654c:
white osnaburgA, eb4ltsNe. checks. 5A5fc,
yarus SOC for the best makes brown eriihBg
| 6tp f61c,
] FisH Market aulel aud lower. We aGlOto fall