The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-17

FINANCIAL-Money is very stringent.
Domestic EgchGn0e-The market is firm.
Banks and bankers are buying at par aud sell
ing at 1s0M per cent premium.
rOreign E1chGnge-The market is weak
Sterling, co nmercial demand 81 81; sixty
days, 81 S2sl; ninety days 81 8094; francs,
Paris and Havre, sixty days, IS 23}4; SWISS,
SIXTY DAYS, s. IS; marks sixty days, 94l6c.
SECURTTIEs-Ths market is very inactive and
dull and quotations are almost nominal Cen
trail railroad stock is weak, under continued aud
free offerings
srocKs AND BoSDs-City Bonds-Atlanta
per cent long date. 10t bid, 1i3 asked; At
lanta z per cent, ITO bid, III asked; Au-
gHsta 2 per cent long date. loi bid, 10
lls asked; Columbus per cent, iolIx bid,
1855 asked; Macon per cent, l16 bid 1171@
asked; new savannah per cent quarterly
July coupons, 100 bid, 10a16 asked; new Savan-
nah per cent August coupons, 1Oi bid
i0t1f asked.
State Bonds-Georgia new "a per cent, liz
January and July, maturity 1895, lI41S bid, Ii6
asked.
Railroad Stocks Central common. 100
bid, ITO asked; Augusta and Savannah per
cent guaranteed, IS9 bid, 140 asked; Georgia
common 200 bid, 21i asked; Southwestern
per cent guaranteed. ll01s bid, 1901 asked; Cen
trai per cent certificates, 9334 bid, 9414 asked
Atlanta and West point railroad stock. 10s bid,
ITO ASKED Atlanta and West Point 8 per cent
certificates. 99IS bid, lo1h asked.
western Railroad Company. general mortgage
per cent, interest coupons October, 10s Did
1O1 asked; Atlantic aud Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per cent, coupons January and
July, maturity 1897. 10s bid, 1903 asked;
Central Railroad AMI Banking Company
collateral gold 5s, 90 bid. IS asked Central
January and July, maturity 1898, 1903 bid
i04 asked Savannah and Western railroad
per cent, Endorsed by Central railroad, Sl15 bid
sea asked; Savannah, Americas and Mont
anf Bad
gia railroad per cent 1897, 1051l11 bid, LOG
9llo asked; Georgia Southern and Florida
tlrsS mortgage o per cent, so asked;
cent, 20 bid, 80 asked; Montgomery and Eufaula
first mortgage G per cent, Endorsed by Central
railroad. 106 bid lO7 asked; Marietta and
0''n years. s0s r per cent first 6, mOr ssesS
Marietta and North Georgia railroad in
first mortgage per cent, So bid, SO
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
srst mortgage 1919 bid, lOS1b asked; Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta second mortgage
us bid. l16 asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and ,aS Augusta general mortgage, 8 per cent,
and Florida Endorsed, frsts iO6J5 bid,
iO'26 asked; South Georgia and Florida sec.
ond mortgage, 10: bid, 100 asked; Augusta
bid, l09 asked; Gainesville, Jefferson and
Southern, first mortgage, guaranteed, 1OS bid
lOs asked; Gainesville, jefferson and Southern
not guaranteed, los bid, 107 asked; Ocean
Steamship per cent bonds, guaranteed by
Central railroad, Q915 Did. lo1 asked; Ocean
Steamship per cent, due In 1890, 100 bid lC2
asked; Gainesville, jefferson aud Southern,
second mortgage, guaranteed. 105 bid, 100
asked; Columbus and Rome first mortgage
bonds, Endorsed by Central railroad, .0i5 bid
1885 asked; Columbus aud Western 6 per cent
guaranteed 1903 bid, !09 asked: City and sub
urban railway first mortgage per cent 101
bid, los asked; Brunswick and Western 4s
| hrsts Endorsed due 1898 - bid, IS asked
Bddk stocks, efc-Firm Southern Bank Of
The state OF Georgia, $50 bid, 800 asked; Msr-
chants National Bank, $50 bid 100 asked:
Savannah Bank and Trust Company IFS
bid, ll9 asked; National Bank of Savannah
1875 bid. 1876 asked Oglethorpe Savings and
| Trust Company, l22 bid, i24 asked: Citizens
Bank, 9ila bid, 9SbS aske Chatham Real Estate
and improvement, 80 bid 81 asked; Georgia
| Loan and Trust Company. % bid. 80 asked;
Hermanla Bank, ioiIf bid, l0}ls asked: Chatham
| Bank. SobS bid, o. asked; Macon and SavRn-
nah Construction Company, nominal; Savannah
Construction Company, 50 bid. % asked.
Gas hfOcss aya9nah Gas Light stocks
| ~ 90. - asked: Mutual Gas Light stocks
| % I'D Electric Light and Power company.
BACON Market steady; fair demand. The
1 Board of Trade quotations are As follows:
| Smoked clear rio sides, nc; shoulders 6lse;
Dry sailed clear r.b sides. 63Ae long clear Gs4c.
/ bellies, "a shoulders CSC. hams, ut6NT2e.
bAeeiag AaD TIEs-r as market Il nominal.
Jnts bsgging can. s44siSes 2n. 741Tlke.
! DAD, ef8ete according ~ brand and