The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-12

Money is steady, with fair demand.
Domestic EXchange-The tone of the
market is steady. Banks are buying at par
and selling at 4 per cent. premium from
500 to $1,000; for larger amounts, Sl5O per
81, 900.
Foreign Exchange-Marlxet steady The
following are net Savannah quotations:
Commercial demand, Sass; sixty days,
A.S714; ninety days, A.S6%; continentals,
days, s5.1S19; Swiss, sixty days, S5.19&;
marks, sixty days, 50.
Secur4ties-The market is hardening for
State Bonds-Georgia, AZ per cent, 1915,
114Ia bid, 1852 asked; Georgia per cent,
1896, 1872 bid, 1851 asked; Georgia 312 per
cent, long dates, 1912 bid, 1927 asked.
City Bonds-New Savannah per cent
April coupons, 1864 bid. 1861 asked; new
Savannah 5 per cent. May coupons, 1O5A
Railroad Bonds-Central Railroad and
Banking Company collateral gold 5s, 90
bid SO asked; Central consolidated mort
gage per cent. coupons, January and
July maturity, 121 bid, asked; Savan-
nah and Western railroad per cent. trust
certificates, so bid, 50 asked; Savannah
Americas and Montgomery per cent, AZ
bid 49 asked; Georgia railroad per cent,
1910 109 bid, 40 asked; Georgia southern
and Florida first mortgage per cent, "a
bid, IS asked; Montgomery and Eufaula
first mortgage 6 per cent, indorsed by
Central railroad, 101 bid, 103 asked; Au-
gusta and Knoxville first mortgage per
cent, 100 bid. 1902 asked Ocean steamship
Columbus and Rome first mortgage bonds,
Endorsed by Central railroad. : bid. AZ
asked; Columbus and Western per cent.
guaranteed, 109 bid, III asked, City ana Su-
burban railway first mortgage per cent,
- bid, IS asked; savannah and Atlantic 3
per cent Endorsed, 10 bid, 20 asked; Elec-
trio railway first mortgage 6s, bid, =
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage per cent, 1903 bid, ITO asked
South Georgia and Florida second mort
gage, 10S bid, 100 asked; Alabama Midland,
= bid, 81 asked; Brunswick and Western
As, guaranteed " asked.
Railroad Stocks-Central, common. 10
bid, 151a asked Augusta and Savannah
per cent, guaranteed, 79 bid, 81 asked
Georgia, common, 157 bid, 159 asked; South
western Z per cent, guaranteed, Including
order for div, So bid 70 asked; Central
per cent. certificates, with order for de-
faulted interest, 16 bid, is asked; Atlanta
and West Point railroad stock, 81 bid, SO
cent. certificates, 90 bid, "a asked.
Bank Stocks, IEtc.-Citizens Bank,
1O116 bid. 1O21a asked; Chatham Bank
162l5 bid. 1903 asked; Merchants National
Bank, 81 bid, 80 asked National Bank
of Savannah, 1870 bid; asked 4;
9S bid 100 asked; Southern Bank of the
State of Georgia, 1854 bid, 165 asked; Savan-
nah Bank and Trust COMPANY, Io1 old, lo6
asked; Chatham Real Estate and improve
ment Company, 80 bid. SO asked; Savan-
nah Construction Company, 70 bid, Is
asked; Title Guarantee ard Loan Com
P'iL-a London, March 9.-Bar silver was
quoted at 279sd
quoted at 22sd.
New York March 1.-Money on call has
been firm, 2d3 per cent; the last loan was
at per cent, and at the CLOSING was Oh
| fered at 2 per cent. 49,
Prime mercantile paper, 1905 per cent
Bar silver, 60l2c.
Mexican dollars, 4Ss4c
Sterling exchange is steady, with actual
business in bankers bills at $46iA44 -
for sixty days, and ASS44.So14 1oF ue-
Posted rates. s4S81zG49O.
Commercial bills 81. S6%4 G(4.87l2.
Government bonds steady; state bonds
were dull; railroad bonds were firmer.
silver at the board was 6O9sc bid.
New York, March 1.-THE treasury ssl S,o BAL BAL
/ ances were as follows; CON- >oo'@fOVOV'
! currency, 7S,507, $50. ~, -,
/ New York March H. noon-Erie, 40;
| Northwestern, IS; do preferred, 1SS; Lake
! shore 1856; Norfolk and Western pre-
! ferred. 1917; Western Union, S7% Southern
| railway, common, 10; DO preferred, 5lis;
! American Sugar, 1O03s Baltimore and
| ohio, "a; Canada Southern. As; St. Paul
| 55iL: Rock Island, 621a; Delaware and Hud-
/ son 1874: Delaware, LackaWannd ana
| Western 1877: Manhattan, 1854; Michigan
! Central. 81: New York Central 94A.
/ New York, March 1l-American sugar
! still maintains the leading position in the
| stock market. To-day the stock was
traded in to the extent of $500 shares and
! the finale sale was a 1922. or within q or
! the best price attained. The bulls We're
/ active throughout the day and the some
! what liberal offerings of operators who ev-
| identity believed that the movement was
! merely campaign against the shorts,
/ were quickly absorbed. Sugar opened =
/ higher at 99Ih, rose to 1928, reccded TO 1854