The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-19
FINANCIAL.

Foreign EXchange-Market firm. The
following are net Savannah quotations:
SASSY; ninety days, 4s6%; continentals
steady; francs, Paris and Havre sixty
GAYS. SS;lS4' swiss. sixty days, $50:
Securities-The market is steady. but
quiet Some quotations are nominal
:, state Bonds-Georgia, az per cent, 1915
1896, lOi bid, l05 asked; Georgia 49, per
cent, long dates lO2 bid. 1O3 asked.
CITY Bonds-New savannah per cent
july coupons, 1862 bid, los asked; new
savannah, per cent May coupons 1864
bid 1914 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Central Railroad and
Banking Company collateral. gold S. 80
bid, 30 asked; Central consolidated mort
gage per cent coupons, January and
July maturity, IL bic, asked; Savan-
nan and western railroad per cent trust
certificates, 521z bid, 53l2 asked Savannah
Americas and Montgomery per cent. 81
bid, 52la asked Georgia railroad per cent
1910, bid. ITO asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida first mortgage 6 per cent. S5l6
bid, 1872 asked; Montgomery and Eufaula
first mortgage . per cent. Endorsed by
Central railroad, 100 bid, 102 asked Au-
gusta and Knoxville first mortgage Z per
cent. IS bid 10l asked Ocean STEAMSHIPS
per cent, due 1921 97ia bid 9SIh asked.
Columbus and Rome first mortgage bonds
Endorsed by Central railroad. - bid AZ
asked; Columbus and Western per cent,
guaranteed. III bid. 1l2 asked City and SUI
burban railway first mortgage per cent.
- bid Sc asked; Savannah and Atlantic :
per cent, Endorsed, 10 bid, % asked: Flee
trio railway first mortgage 6s. - bid -
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage Z per cent, lO9 bid, 10 asked;
South Georgia and Florida second mort
gage, los bid, l09 asked; Alabama Midland
- bid, 81 asked. Brunswick and Western
As, guaranteed, Y asked.
Railroad Stocks-Central common. H.
bid, 1919 asked; Augusta and Savannah
per cent, guaranteed, II bid, 81 asked
Georgia, common. Isl bid. 159 asked; South
western per cent. guaranteed. including
order for div, SO bid, 70 asked; Central 8
per cent. certificates. .yith order for de-
faulted interest, l6ls bid liz asked; Atlanta
and West Point railroad sock, 80 bid %
asked; Atlanta ami Vest Point per
cent. certificates, gag bid, 9512 asked
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizens Bank,
1913 BID. 1l0i asked; Chatham Bank.
1929 bid. 1882 asked; Merchants National
Bank, 9Sl5 bid, 100 asked; National Bank
OF Savannah, 1873 bid, asked ;
Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company
80 bid, 1Ol asked; Southern Bank OF the
State of Georgia, 1854 bid, l65 asked; Savan-
nah Bank and Trust Company, los bid, log
asked; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company, 52i5 bid, 53l5 asked Sa-
vannah Construction Company, 70 bid, n
asked; Title Guarantee and Loan Com
pany, 80 bid, 81 asked; Brush Electric
Light and Power Company, 81 bid, 60 ask
ed; Savannah Gas Light Co., ~ bid, y
asked.
New York. April 1s.-Money on call was
easy at llaq2l2 per cent; the last loan
was at per cent, and at the closing was
offered at 2 per cent Prime mercantiie
paper. 415Q5 per cent
Bar silver was quoted at &c.
Sterling exchange easier, with actual
business in bankers bills. at "a. SSl5 a go .
for sixty days and S4.891ad4. S9A for de-
m MAJ Posted ID, rates $4.S9q49oA CONNER
Government bonds firm state bonds
were dull; railroad bonds were buoyant
Silver at the board sold al SIC for 20,0OO
ounces.
New York April 1s.-The treasury bal
ances We're as follows: Coin, SS4 la, 900:
currency, S59,57O,0O0.
New York, April IS, noon-Erie. 1Oat
Northwestern 94ls: do preferred. 40; Lake
Shore, 1917; Norfolk and Western. pre-
ferred, 14A; Western Union, $3.50 Southern
Railway, common, l1Ss; Southern Rail
way. preferred, "a; American Sugar, 1864 F;
Baltimore and Ohio, So; Canada Southern
5212; St. Paul. $3.50; Rock Island, 65h; Del
aware and Hudson 1861 Delaware Lack
aWanna and Western, 1905: Manhattan
llil2; Michigan Central, 99% New York
Central, 9Si5.
New York, April lS.-The stock market
received its first impetus from London
the early cables reporting an advance
in American securities of = to p per cent.
This was hardly expected. in view of the
passing of the semi-annual dividend by
the Baltimore and Ohio Part of the
strength OF the market can be attributed
TO the rise in wheat and the more favor
able crop prospects. The important gains
We're: Pullman Palace. 45s to 16474 Lead.
ern, 11a to 214 do preferred, IA to Is;
Canadian Pacific, Ia to "A; Baltimore and
Ohio, lls to 54lz; Big -Four, IA to 4Olz;
preferred, So to SO; Pere Marquette, 1Ss
to 14l2; Kansas and Texas preferred. 1 to
80; Mobile and Ohio. to IS; Pacific Mail,
Us to 24A Rio Grande Western. to IL do
preferred, IA to 43; Omaha, IL to 347s;
Tennessee Coal and Iron, IA to z212;
Union Pacific. IA to 1874 Wabash pre-
ferred, to 15A. The Industrials and An
thracite Coalers all closed higher on the
day The market left off strong with the
bullish feeling in the ascendant. Net
changes show advances of a to 2ls per
cent. There was a further increase in
business in the bond department. The
sales of listed stock aggregated 231, 6s8
shares; unlisted, 9o,479 shares.
New York Stock disclosing Bids
Stocks and Bonds-American Cotton Oil,
2Sl do preferred, 74075; Sugar Refinery.
1868 do preferred, $50. American Tobacco,
s91k; do preferred, 10S: Atchison. T. and S.
F., 6; Baltimore and ono, 54l.: Canada Pa
c.fic, AL; Chesapeake and Ohio. 1874, Chi
cago and Alton, 147; Chicago b. and O..
1875 Chicago Gas, 7las; Delaware and
Cattle Feeders, 151s; Erie, 117s; do pre-
ferred. 21A; Edison General Electric, 80;
Illinois Central 90lz; Lake Erie and West
ern, q; do preferred. Is; Lake Shore, AK
Louisville and Nashville. say: Louis and
N. A. GlR, Manhattan, llS; Memphis and
Charleston. 10; Michigan Central. 99s4 Ms
souri, Pacific, 25lb; Mobile and Ohio. 1874;
Nash, Chattanooga and st. Louis. 20; U.
S. Cordage. So; do preferred. 9; n. J. Cen
trail 95i2: ". Y Central. 98% n. Y. and n.
f., 1884, Norfolk and Western, preferred,
15A: Northern Pacific, -; do preferred.
1917: Northwestern. $50: do preferred 40;
Pacific Mail. 232s; Reading. 49,: Rock Is
land, 65at St Paul 60h; do preferred l1S;
Silver Certificates. 67l4; Tennessee Coal
and Iron, 2l7s; do do preferred. 75fiS0.
Texas Pacific, 10ik: Union Pacific. 1874;
Wabash, ST. /. and p, ga ; DO do preferred,
15a4; Western Union. S87s Wheeling and l..
f. 1915: do do preferred. -; Southern Rail
way 81, So: Southern Railway common.
IFS: Southern Railway. preferred. 3i5s.
South Carolina as, l07.
State Bonds-Alabama =. l03: alabama
D. l0G: Alabama G. % BID. Louisiana
stamped a. 100; North Carolina Is. 100.
North Carolina 6s, iZ4; Tennessee, new
set 3's "a; Virginia SIS. preferred. 81; Viz
Pnia Trust Receipts. G; Virginia Funding
Debt 592t.
Government Bonds-rnited States A..
pons. ll2is United States rs. registered, 20.