The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-10
FINANCIAL.

go 5000, 4Q44ci prime, 4i2c; choice,
head, 4Aq5c.
FINANCIAL.
Money is steady. with fair demand.
Domestic Exchange-The tone of the
market is steady. Banks are buying at par
and selling at = per cent premium.
Foreign Exehange-Market firm. The
following are net Savannah quotations:
SASSY; ninety days, $4s6IS; continentals'
steady; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
days. S5;lSA; Swiss. sixty days, $50;
marks, sixty days. 50 3-l6.
Securities-The market is steady. but
dull
1l4% bid 1852 asked; Georgia per cent.
1896, 104 bid, los asked; Georgia Sls per
cent, long dates. 1011a bid, 1O215 asked.
City Bonds-New Savannah per cent
July coupons, 1854 bid, 1851 asked new
bid. 1O7 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Central Railroad and
Banking Company collateral. gold 5s 30
bid, 95 asked; Central consolidated mort
gage Z per cent. coupons. January and
nah and Western railroad per cent trust
certificates, 81 bid, 50 asked; Savannah,
Americus and Montgomery per cent. AZ
bid, 40 asked; Georgia railroad 6 per cent
1910, bid. no asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida first mortgage per cent, SS15
bid, s9is asked; Montgomery and uEfaula
Central railroad, 100 bid. i0l asked; All
gusta and Knoxville first mortgage per
cent, - bid, 100 asked: Ocean Steamship
per cent, due 1920. 97la bid. 9SA asked;
Columbus and Rome first mortgage bonds
Endorsed by Central railroad. bid, 4S
asked; Columbus and Western per cent.
guaranteed, no bid, l12 asked; City and SUI
burban railway first mortgage Z per cent,
- bid, So asked; Savannah and Atlantic
per cent, Endorsed, is bid, 20 asked; Elec-
trio railway first mortgage 6s. - bid,
asked South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage z per cent, 109 bid, 10 asked;
South Georgia and Florida second mort
eli Cd lab
= bid, 81 asked; Brunswick and Western
As, guaranteed. q asked.
bid. 1215 asked; Augusta and Savannah 7
per cent, guaranteed, rs bid, so asked;
Georgia, common, 157 bid. l5s asked; South
western per cent. guaranteed. including
order for div, So bid, 20 asked Central
per cent. certificates. with order for dc
faulted interest, 16 bid, 171a asked; Atlanta
asked; Atlanta and West Point per
cent certificates. 90 bid, % asked.
Bank Stocks. Ete'-Citizens Bank,
as Is BID, l 4s ASKED; Germania Ba ank
1O21a bid, 1922 asked; Merchants National
Bank, 9S12 bid, 100 asked; National Bank
of Savannah 131 bid, asked;
OgIethorpe Savings and Trust Company,
IS bid, 100 asked; Southern Bank of the
State of Georgia, 164 bid, 165 asked; Savan-
nah Bank and Trust Company, l05 bid, LOG
asked; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company, 81 bid, 50 asked; Savan-
nah Construction Company, - bid, IS
and Loan Company, Y bid. 49, ex-dividend,
asked. Brush Electric Light and Power
Company, 50 bid, 81 asked; Savannah Gas
Light Co, 20 bid. q asked.
New York, April 9.-Money on call was
easy at 20215 per cent; the last loan was
at 215 per cent. and at the closing was Of
fered at 212 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 1905 per cent.
Bar silver, 66Bc.
Sterling. exchange inactive, with actual
business in bankers bills at $d;SSAq4SSA
Posted rates, $4S91k04 9O1a
Commercial bills, $4.S7A@4.SS.
Government bonds were steady; state
bonds We're strong; railroad bonds were
Silver at the Board was quoted at 66Ac
New York, April 9.-The treasury bal
ances to-day were as follows: Coin.
$S5,2i4,OOO; currency. S65OO6.OO.
Northwestern. S1s4; do preferred, iSS;
Lake Shore, 1874; Norfolk and Western,
preferred, 140; Western Union, 81; South
1927; Baltimore ana Ohio, S.; Canada
southern. 500; St. Paul IS; Rock Island,
ware, Lackawanna and Western, 1895;
Manhattan, Ill; Michigan Central, 931s;
New York Central, sSs.r, .,,- -,
miscellaneous stock market was quiet
to-day.At the opening the market was firm
London, the Improvement ranging from a
to per cent There was disposition to
take hopeful view of things the rains
at the west and the advances in wages, re-
ported by manufacturing concerns, crea-
ting more confident feeling as the future
of stock prices. The paucity of buying
orders, however, was taken advantage Ct
by those bearisfly inclined, to test the
market, and there were moderate sales
of the Changers, Atchison, Manhattan,
the Anthracite CoaIers and Distiling and
o. EQr1r
fell 1ss TO 715s, St Paul Is to 57A, Rock
Island 3, to 639s, Northwestern So to 9lia
Lackawanna q to 1855, Delaware and
Hudson 115 to 12512 Jersey Central Ia to
$685. Manhattan 11a to lO9A, Reading q
to 1215 DistiKhng Is to 143s and Atchison q
to 53ss. Burlington was still affected by
its poor annual report. Atchison ran off
on the announcement that the first in
stallrnent of the assessment VIII be 50
and will have to be paid on the deposit OF
the stock The official plan OF reorgdni-
cation will be published simultaneously at
home and abroad tomorrow. D.st-linS
sold down on the reported disruption of
the organization just formed to maintain
a uniform RATE for spirits. Taken all TO-
gether, the efforts Of the traders to dis
lodge long stock were not as success
full as they had hoped and IN the Enal
trading there were indications that some
of the bears were disposed 10 cover. Inc
surprising strength of the Nanderbllts
had much to do with this change of front.
Michigan Central was especially strong
and rose from 93la to 81 and closed at SO
bid and 80 asked New YORK central
advanced from 95% to 96s, Canada South
ern from SOS to 51q515s and Big Four
from 371s to 3Si5G373i. In the Industrials.
Sugar was in demand and advanced from
1Oljk to 1925 Chicago Gas opened weak
and later recovered; the dividend at the
rate of 5 per cent per annUm rs expected
tomorrow. United States Leather pre-
ferred sold uD rs to 702s and L.nseed OIL
IL to 23lk Certificates of Delaware and
Hudson stock in the name OF lie Grand y.
Cannon were delivered to-day. This ac-
counts for Yesterdays break in the stock.
In the final dealings the market was
steady TO firm. Net changes show losses
Of IL to ia per cent. Baltimore and Ohio
leading Sugar, General Electric and The
Vandcrbats gained anywhere from 4 10
ner cent the latter IN Michigan Cen
fraI The bond market was strong. The
sales to-day Of listed stocks aegregated