The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-06
FINANCIAL.

Savannah, Dec. 5.-Money is steady.
Domestic Exchange-The tone of the
market is steady. Banks are buying at
Lie per cent. discount and selling at 1-16 to
Foreign Exchange-The market is
very firm. The following are net Savannah
quotations: Commercial demand, s4.s7;
sixty days, $A86; ninety days, ASj34;
francs, Paris and Harve, sixty days,
$5.1sls; Swiss, sixty days, S5.1sas; marks,
Securities~Active demand for South
western at advancing prices; offerings
State Bonds-Georgia, az per cent. 1915,
114l2 bid, lis asked; Georgia per cent. 1896,
1O494 bid, 1852 asked Georgia So per cent.
long dates, 9914 bid, 99s4 asked.
City Bonds-New Savannah per cent.
quarterly January coupons, 1851 bid 106h
asked; new savannah 5 per cent. Febru-
airy coupons, 1852 bid, 1864 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Central Railroad and
Banking Company collateral, gold IS, IS
bid, 50 asked; Central consolidated mort
July maturity, 1898. 1884, bid, asked; Sa-
vannah and Western railroad per cent.
trust certificates. bid, Sc asked; Sa-
vannah, Americas and Montgomery per
cent, As bid, 50 asked; Georgia railroad
per cent. 1910, 1881 bid, ITO asked; Georgia
Southern and Florida, first mortgage 6
per cent, Sc bid, IS asked Montgomery
and Eufaula first mortgage 6 per cent,
indorsed by Central railroad, 105 bid, JOG
asked; Augusta and Knoxville first mort
ocean steamship per cent, due 1920
s7iS bid 9S1a asked; Columbus and Rome
first mortgage bonds, Endorsed by Central
railroad, = bid, 43 asked: Columbus and
Western, per cent, guaranteed, ITO BID
asked; City and Suburban railway first
mortgage Z per cent; bid, IS asked
dorsed, = bid, 81 asked; Electric railway
first mortgage Is. - bid, so asked South
Georgia and Florida first mortgage per
cent, LOG bid, asked; South Georgia
and Florida second mortgage, los bid, =
asked Alabama Midland, 81 bid. 80
asked; Brunswick and Western As, guar
Railroad Stocks-CentraI common. Is bid
1714 asked; Augusta and Savannah per
cent. guaranteed Did bid, 50 ex-
1872 dbl, asked Southwestern
Z per cent: guaranteed, includ-
trail trail per cent. certificates, with order for
defaulted interest, = bid, 241s asked; At
lanta and West Point railroad stock. s.
per cent certificates, SO bid, "a asked
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Southern Bank of
the State of Georgia, l63 bid, 165 asked
asked; Savannah Bank and Trust Com
many. 1903 bid, - asked National Bank of
Savannah, 100 bid, 1S1 asked; Oglethorpe
Savings adn drqs ar company 1oI my i ~ oid %
Chatham Real Estate and Improvement
Company, 50 bid, 52}z asked; Germania
1917 bid, 1917 asked; Savannah Construction
Company, 1872 bid, rs asked; Title Guaran-
fee and Loan Company, Is bid, so asked.
London, Dec. 5.-Bar silver was quoted
New York. Dec. 5.-Money on call was
easy at 1611A per cent; the last loan was
at l per cent. and at the closing was OF
ferred at l per cent.
Prime mercantile paper BOA per cent.
Bar silver 60S4c.
Stirling exchange firm, with actual bus
mess in bankers bills at $4S7 for sixty
davs. and S4.SSh for demand.
Posted rates $4.612G4SS
Commercial bills $4.S6h04S6l9.
Government bonds were firm; state
bonds dull; railroad bonds higher.
Silver at the board was quoted at Gle
bid. M. .- -,
ances were as follows: Coin, $109, $40, 600;
currency. $6S, 5000.
New York. Dec. 5.-The following were
the opening quotations at the Stock Ex-
change: 80,
Chicago and Northwestern ............. 97A
Norfolk and Western, preferred ...... 20A
Richmond Terminal ..................... 1925
Western Union OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81
Southern Railway, common .......... 11A
Souther Railway, preferred ...:........ 81
New York, Dec. 5.-Over 10000 shares of
American Sugar were traded in at the
stock exchange to-day, in a total of 268. 6S6
shadowed the general market, and in fact
scarceIy anything was discussed through
oTt the session except this stock and it's
di,yidend changes. In view of the public
S,tterances of President Havemeyer. and
The unavoidable condition of the refining
industry it was thought that the direc-
tors, as matter of prudence would re-