The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-20
FINANCIAL.

Money is easy; demand fair.
Foreign Exchange-The market was
firm. The following are net Sa-
vannah quotations: Commercial demand,
sass; sixty days, A.7; ninety days,
81. S69s; francs. Paris and Havre, sixty
days, S5.1SB; Swiss, sixty days, S520s4;
marks, sixty days, 947s.
Domestic Exchange-The tone of the
market is steady. Banks are buying at
1-l6c discount; selling at, up to SIS. 10c;
Up to $50 15c; up to 800, zoe; up to 500.
Zoe; up to $500. "a per cent; $500 and over,
Securities-Market, quiet. but steady;
investment demand slackening, owing to
the war scare.
Stock and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia 3la per cent. bonds, of 1880, 1929 bid,
103 asked Georgia 3A per cents, due 1915,
102 bid, 1929 asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds, 1915. 115A bid. 116A asked; Georgia
Smiths; maturity, 1886, lO4 bid lOllA asked;
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 1O7 bid,
= asked; Augusta 41ks, 1895. 1O4IS bid, 1861
asked asked Augusta Augusta per cent cent H BID BID
asked; Macon per cent. 1854 bid.
n 1lgHY asked; Savannah 5 per cent. quar-
savannah per cent; quarterly Feb
ruary coupons 100 bid, 1891 asked;
Charleston As, 95 bid Sc asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
western railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent. interest coupons, lis bid, =
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897 1O4lz bid, =
asked; Central Railroad and Banking
Company, collateral gold, IS, 941A bid, 95I5
asked; Central of Georgia Railway con-
solidated 5s, 5O-year gold bonds, 931k bid,
20 asked; Central of Georgia Railway
issued; Central of Georgia Railway I'd
preferred incomes, 221a asked when is
sued, Central of Georgia Railway Sd pre-
ferred. incomes, Is asked when issued;
Georgia Railroad Is, 1910, 113 bid, us
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
first 5s, los bid, 100 asked; Charlotte, Co
IFl1h nd AtroT 10
Us bid. 1l6 asked; Georgia Southern and
FLORIDA new IS, = bid. SO asked; Georgia
S sollth and FLORIDA 6s, los bid, los
mortgage Is, 106 bid, - asked; South Geor-
gia and Florida second mortgage Is 1O5
bid, = asked Savannah and Western SIS,
trust certificates, Endorsed by Central
railroad, 64A bid, 65h asked; Savannah
Americus and Montgomery IS, AZ bid,
As asked; d. Ocean es Steamship 5 per cent.
and Knoxville railroad per cent. first
mortgage bonds, 121 bid, 122 asked: City
and Suburban railroad first mortgage Z
trio. Railway IS, due 1885. % bid, 25 asked;
Alabama Midland 5 per cent Endorsed,
ern As. 70 bid, Is, asked; South Bound
railroad IS, 76 bid, IS asked; Southern
Railway IS, 50 bid, 96 asked.
RAILROAD Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, 100 bid, asked; Central common.
bid. Is asked; Georgia common, Isl
bid, 1873 asked; Southwestern, 1864 bid,
l..
q bid, p asked; Atlanta and West
Point railroad stock 102 bid, 1O4 asked;
Atlanta and West Point per cent. GER
tificates, 1919 bid, 104 asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gaslight stock.
2214 bid, % asked; Electric Light and Pow
er Company. 20 bid, 70lA asked, ex-div.
ex BaRf STOCKS los bid os a BS96
Chatham Bank, ~ bid. 50 asked asked
ex-dividend Germania Bank, 1O9a4 bid
HOY asked; Merchants National Bank. 10i
National Of CO
vannah, 1872 bid, 1873 asked; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company, 100 bid iO1
asked; ex,div. Southern Bank Of State of
Bank and Trust Company, 1851 bid 1921
asked; Chatham Real Estate and Inn
prov,ement Company, a. a; % bid 5S3s asked;
tion Company, 79 bid, so asked Title
Guarantee and Loan Company, "a bid, =
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, IS.
1O3 bid, 1O4 asked; Sibley Factory SIS, 1O3
bid, 104 asked; Enterprise Factory SIS, 104
bid, 1O5 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manu-
featuring Company per cent. bonds, IS
bid, 90 asked.
tory, GA bid, % asked; Eagle and Phenix
Manufacturing Company. 25 bid, - asked;
Augusta Factory a bid, 70 asked; Gran
iteville Factory 160 bid, l62 asked; Lang
ley Factory, 107 bid l0S asked; Enterprise
Factory common, 100 bid. 101 asked: J. r.
King Manufacturing Company, lO6 bid, los
asked: Sibley Manufacturing Company,
so bid SO asked; savannah brewing Com
pany, stock, 81 bid. s. asked.
New York, Dec. 19.-Money on call was
at PAS per cent; the last loan was at
per cent, and at the close was onered at
3 per cent Prime mercantile paper 4lsGt
5ia per cent
Bar silver, 6GSsc.
Sterling exchange Is nrm, with actual
business in bankers bills at A.S7A d4SS
for sixty days, and $f.S9Q4s9h for de-
mand. Posted rates, 8Ssiz04s0 CONNER
ciaI bills. S4S7M4S7iz.
Government bonds were weaker; state
bonds were lower; railroad bonds were
active and weak.
silver al the board was quiet
New York, Dec 1.-THE treasury ball
ancea were as Follows. Coin, Ts.s5i,T9;
currency. tgs. s3ss3I
New York Dee. ~. noOn.-Erie, 1915;
Northwestern 1918 DO preferred. li9i Lake
shore. zee. Norfolk and Western, PREFER
~. 81 Western Union, sia southern Rail-
way, common. ~ southern hailn ~, pre-
ferFfd. -, American sugar, iW' hhlN-
moro and Ohio. tas Canada Southern. 3
81 Paul IA. Rock Island flih' Della ware