The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-14

Money is steady with a fair demand
Domestic Exchange The tone of the
market is steady. Banks are buying a par
and selling at Is per cent premium up to
5000 over 5000 at Sl.O0 per sl.00O
Foreign EXchange-Marke firmer. The
following are net Savannah quotations:
Commercial demand, A%; sixty days,
1886; ninety days, 1856; continentals,
steady; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
days. S5;l9; Swiss sixty days S5.2o'2;
marks, sixty days, "a 1916.
Securities-The market is quiet with
hardening tendency.
State Bonds-Georgia. AZ per cent, 1915,
lis bid, 1l6 asked: Georgia, Z per cent,
1896, l05 bid, JOG asked; Georgia 3l5 per
cent. long dates. l02 bid. 1o3 asked.
City Bonds-New Savannah 5 per cent.
July coupons, 1864 bid, - asked; New Sa-
yannah per cent, August coupons. 1864
bid, 1863 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Central Railroad and
Banking Company collateral, gold 5s, 80
bid, 50 asked; Central consolidated mort
gage Z per cent. coupons, January ana
July maturity, 123 bid asked; Savan-
nah and Western railroad, per cent trust
certificates, "a bid, So asked; Savannah
Americas and Montgomery, per cent 571b'
bid, ssh asked Georgia railroad per cent,
1870 - bid, 10 asked Georgia Southern
and Florida FIRST mortgage 6 per cent 90Ih
bid, % asked: Montgomery and Eufaula
first mortgage 8 per cent, Endorsed by
Central railroad. 1872 bid, 103 asked: Au-
gusta and Knoxville first mortgage 7 per
cent, 95 bid, 100 asked; Ocean Steamship
per cent, due 1920, 97is bid, 9Sh asked;
AOiuNlDhS ana NOME lESA mortgage DOnQS.
Endorsed by Central railroad, bid AZ
asked: Columbus and Western 6 per cent.
guaranteed, 10 bid 1l2 asked; City and Su-
burban railway, first mortgage z per cent
II bid, - asked Savannah and Atlantic 3
per cent, indorsed. Is bid % asked: Flee
trio railway first mortgage 6s. 80 bid Al
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage Z per cent, lOG bid, 107 asked
South Georgia and Florida second mort
gage, lC5 bid. JOG asked. South Bound rail-
road 5s, Endorsed, "A bid, rs asked; Ala
Larf nd aelr q. ..
and Western As, guaranteed. Y asked
Railroad Stocks-Central common, Y
bid, 10 asked; Augusta and Savannah Z
per cent, guaranteed, " bid, 81 asked.
Georgia. common. l57 bid, 1853 asked:
Southwestern per cent, guaranteed in
Guiding order for div. 81 bid, 6S asked
Central per cent, certificates with order
for defaulted interest, 1Gl2 bid, 17lz asked;
Atlanta and West Point railroad stock
80 bid, "a asked: Atlanta and West Point
6 per cent. certificates, 95l5 bid, 96H asked
Bank Stocks, Executions Rank f03
bid. 104 asked: Chatham Bank, As bid 80
asked; Germania Bank, 1903 bid, 104 asked
asked; National Bank of Savannah, 132
bid, 1873 asked; Oglethorpe Savings ana
Trust Company, 100 bid, l0l asked; South
ern Bank of the State of Georgia 1854 bid.
165 asked; Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany, 105 bid, l06 asked, Chatham Real
Estate and Improvement Company, 52is
bid 5315 asked; Savannah Construction
Company, "a bid, 75i2 asked Title Guaran-
tee and Loan Company, 80 bid asked
Brush Electric Light and Power Com
panv. 81 bid 81 asked: Savannah Gas
Light Company ~ bid. q asked.
New York, May l3-Money on call was
easy. at ~ per cent; the last loan was at
~ per cent, and al the closing was Of
fered at 10 per cent Prime mercantile
paper. 3iAG4 per cent. Bar silver 671kc
Sterling exchange, barely steady, with ac-
tual business in bankers bills at s4S5% n
1914 for sixty days and I.S6s4 0J487M for
demand. Posted rates AS6izGt4. S715. Com
mercial bills, s4S5n485I4. Government
bonds, firm; state bonds steady; railroad
bonds were irregular, but active. Silver
a. the board was firm.
New York, May i3.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin. $50 279, 600;
currency, S57 459 go.
New York, May IS. noon.-Erie. ~
Northwestern, IS; Northweshtern preferF-
ed. IA: Lake Shore. 147j2 Western Union.
93il; Norfolk and Western preferred. 17ih:
Southern Railway common, l4l2, Southern
Railway preferred. Az American Sugar.
III: Baltimore and Ohio, 81; Canada South
ern. 5r5: St. Paul. 673a. Rock Island, 6l&
Delaware and Hudson, 1919. Delaware
Lackawanna and Western. 1G0l5: Manhat-
tan. il9. Michigan Central, l02; New York
New York, May 13.-The reports from
the west Of damage by frost to the crops
were evidently cabled to London yester-
day and naturally, at the opening of the
exchange here this morning there were
large orders from the other side to take
profits. Estimates place the foreign selling