The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-26
FINANCIAL.

FINANCIAL.
Money is steady. with fair demand
DIneStlc ENchange-The tone of the
marker MAJ IS steady Banks are buying at par
ana selling at Is per cent premium up 10
Foreign Exchange-Market firm. The
lr1LoNlng are net Savannah quotations.
&S1%4; ninety days, 1885,: continentals
SSteady; f fra, Paris and Havre, sixty
marks, sixty days, IS S-l6
oecuritles-The market IS steady and
rather dull and lifeless.
state Bonds-Georgia, AZ per cent. 1915
lItet pld, ll5l2 asked; Georgia per cent,
1876, l04 bid Jos asked; Georgia Sis per
cent, long dates, l02 bid, los asked
MN MY co 6onGs-T 1oe savannah per cent
/ bid, asked.
Railroad Bonds-Central Railroad and
! BANKING Company collateral. gold IS 30
/ bld, % asked: Central consolidated mort
gage Z per cent coupons, January and
! July maturity, l22 bid, asked; Savan-
nan and Western railroad per cent trust
/ certificates, 521s bid. 53la asked; Savannah
/ Americas and Montgomery 6 per cent, SPY
/ bid, 5312 asked Georgia railroad 6 per cent.
1910, bid 10 asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida first mortgage 6 per cent. "a
/ BID, Sc asked; Montgomery and Eufaula
first mortgage 6 per cent. indorsed by
Central railroad, l01i5 bid, 103 asked; Au-
gusta and Knoxville first mortgage per
cent, IS bid 101 asked Ocean Steamship
per cent due 1920, 97ih bid, 9S15 asked;
Columbus and Rome first mortgage bonds
Endorsed by Central railroad, bid, 10
asked, Columbus and Western per cent,
guaranteed, Ill bid, 1l2 asked; City and Su-
burban railway first mortgage Z per cent,
- bid, 81 asked. Savannah and Atlantic
per cent, Endorsed, 10 bid. % asked: Elec-
trio railway first mortgage 6s, 4S bid, 30
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage per cent. 1903 bid 10 asked;
/ South Georgia and Florida second mort
~ 0a- N=..Ia A1sal. md
- bid, 81 asked: Brunswick and Western
As, guaranteed. Y asked.
Railroad Stocks-Central common ll12
bid, 1913 asked; Augusta and savannah Z
per cent, guaranteed II bid, 81 asked;
/ Georgia, common, 157 bid, 159 asked; South
western per cent, guaranteed, including
order for div. 69A bid, 70h asked; Central
per cent. certificates. with order for de-
faulted interest 1872 bid, liz asked; Atlanta
and West Point railroad stock, SO bid, 81
asked; Atlanta and West Point per cent.
certificates, 9415 bid, 95ls asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc-Citizens Bank, 103
bid, 10i asked; Chatham Bank, 46l5 bid, a
asked: Merchants National Bank 9S1e bid
100 asked; National Bank of Savannah, 1873
bid - asked, Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
Company, % bid, 1O1 asked; Southern Bank
of the State of Georgia, l6i bid, los asked;
Savannah Bank and Trust Company, 100
bid, l06 asked Chatham Real Estate and
Improvement Company 52l2 bid, 531e asked
Savannah Construction Company, 20 bid,
rs asked; Title Guarantee and Loan Com
pany, so bid, asked Brush Electric
Light and Power Company, 5512 bid, 56l5
asked; Savannah Gas Light Co, 20 bid, q
asked
easy at 1lbd2 per cent. The last loan
was a ~ per cent, and at the closing
was offered at ". Prime mercantile pa
per 4AM5 per cent
Bar silver was quoted at &C.
Sterling exchange, steady, with actllal
business in bankers bills at A.SSi SSl2
for sixty days and s4:S9l4@4 Ssl9 for de-
mand. Posted rates, S4.S9Q4. 90l2. CONNER
cial bills, &.S71504SS.
Government bonds. higher. State bonds
were firm. Railroad bonds were active
Silver at the board was without sale.
New York April 25.-Treasury balances
were as follows Coin. $s3,5SS.0Oo; cur
New York, April 25.-Noon-The follow
ing were the opening quotations at the
Stock Exchange; Erie, ia Northwest
1f$4 Norfolk and Western preferred, II;
Western Union, $3.50; Southern Railway
common 1917 Southern RailW yoa pd pre-
more and Ohio, So; Canada Southern, 5212;
ST Paul, 81; Rock Island, 66S4; Delaware
and Hudson, 1273s; Delaware, Lackawanna
gan Central, 100; New York Central, SO.
New York April 25-Irregularity mark
ed the course of prices at the opening OF
the stock exchange to-day, because of
sharp break in the Anthracite Coal stocks.
due to the refusal of the New YORK coal
companies to accede to the demands of
the Reading for p per cent of the coal
tonnage. Delaware and Hudson broke :
TO 1875 while Jersey Central, LackaWanna
and Reading fell Il to per cent. the re-
action in the general list, however. was
uninportant and the market soon cut
away from the Coalers and moved up
briskly under the leadership of American
Sugar which crossed 108 on good buying
and talk of a further advance in refined.
London was in the market again for
Southern railway. st. Paul, Louisville ana
Nashville Denver and Rio Grande, North
ern Pacific, preferred and Kansas am
Texas II was announced that big block
of Southern railway stock had been placed
abroad A feature of the afternoon trad
ing was the inquiry for the lndustrials.
1873; do preferred, pa to s1t5: Chicago Gas,
IL to 1871; Distillers, IL to 171S; Lead IL 70
34ik Cotton OIL preferred. to ~ and Ma
tional Starch, second preferred, 10 ~.
Distilers was strengthened by the favora-
Bile report of the receiver filed to-day In
the last hour Jersey Central broke to 93h
on the revival of the unfavorable rumors
current recently about the coal trade, but
the decline had no effect on the general
market which closed strong. Net
changes show advances of 1sQlL per cent.
American Sugar leading. The Anthracite
Coslers. however, lost p to y per cent.
Railway mortgages were again in brisk
request and further material gains were
The sales Of listed stocks aggregated
81 900 shares, unlisted, $4,000 shares.
New York Stock List-Closng Bids
stocks and Bonds-American Cotton OH.
27at do preferred, IS; Sugar Refinery, 106
do preferred. 9sk; American Tobacco. l0i
do preferred. 10: Atchson. T. end 8. r.,
6: Baltimore md Ohio IS: Canada Pacific.
49,: chcsapeake and Ohio. ~; chicago and
Alton i89; Chicago. p. and O.. l4s4 Chi
cago Gas. 727s; Del. Lack. ana Western
1854 Dis Get Feed 1914. Erie, i2ia DO
preferred. 25 Edison General Electric 1885,
Illinois Central SID: Lake Erie and West /
ern, 1l'si DO prefeffel IA Lake shore.