The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17

Money IS steady, with fair demand.
Domestic Exchange-The tone of the
market is steady. Banks are buying at par
and selling at u per cent. premium from
s1OO to $1,000; for larger amounts, $1.5O per
$1,000.
Foreign Exehange-NIarket steady. The
following are net Savannah quotations:
Commercial demand, sass; sixty days,
As7A: ninety days, SS6s4; continentals,
steady; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
days, S5,lsl2: Swiss sixty days. $5lsA;
securities-The market is very quiet.
and dun.
114% bid 1852 asked; Georgia z per cent,
1896, 104Ih bid, 1852 asked; Georgia 49, per
cent, long dates. 10l1a bid, 1929 asked.
City Bonds-New savannah 5 per cent.
April coupons, 1854 bid, 1852 asked; new
Savannah 5 per cent. May coupons, 105&
bid, 1864 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Central Railroad and
Banking Company collateral, gold IS, 80
bid, IS asked; Central consolidated mort
gage Z per cent. coupons, January and
July maturity, 122 bid, asked; Savan-
nah and Western railroad per cent. trust
certificates. 50 bid, 81 asked Savannah,
Americas and Montgomery 6 per cent, AZ
bid, 40 asked; Georgia railroad per cent,
1910, 100 bid, ITO asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida first mortgage 6 per cent, IS
bid, Sc asked; Montgomery and Eutaula
first mortgage 6 per cent, Endorsed by
Central railroad 1902 bid, 10S asked; Au-
gusta and Knoxville first mortgage per
cent, SO bid, 100 asked; Ocean Steamship
S per cent, due 1920. 97ls bid 9S1s asked
Columbus and Rome first mortgage bonds,
Endorsed by Central railroad. bid. 43
asked; Columbus and Western 6 per cent.
guaranteed, no bid, liz asked; City and Su-
burban railway first mortgage q per cent,
- bid, So asked; Savannah and Atlantic 5
per cent, indorsed, u bid, % asked; Elec-
trio railway first mortgage 6s, = bid, -
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage per cent; icy bid, no asked ,rt
gage, los bid 100 asked; Alabama Midland,
= bid, 81 asked; Brunswick and Western
As guaranteed, ~ asked.
bid, 1872 asked; Augusta and Savannah
per cent, guaranteed, ~ bid, 81 asked
Georgia, common, 157 bid. 1859 asked; South
order for div, 90 bid, 70 asked; Central
per cent. certificates, with order for de-
faulted interest. Is bid, is asked; Atlanta
asked; Atlanta and West Point per
cent. certificates, 80 bid, "a asked.
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizens Bank,
1914 bid. 1921 asked; Chatham Bank,
As bid, 46 asked; Gsermania Bank
1924 bid. 103 asked; Merchants National
Bank, 81 bid, 80 asked. National Bank
Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Company,
! IS bid, 100 asked; Southern Bank of the
State of Georgia, 1854 bid. 165 asked; Savan-
nah Bank and Trust Company, Jos bid, l0t
asked; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
meat Company. 50 bid, 50 asked; Savan-
nah Construction Company 76l2 bid, q
aSkeQs llll6 Guarantee anu Loan 0OIu-
pany, n bid, 70, ex-dividend. asked.
New York. March 16.-Money on cal
nominally nc. Prime mercantile paper
4Ih6l5 per cent Sterling exchange is firm
with actual business in bankers bills
at Sass for sixty days, and S4,S9L for de
mand, posted rates. $f.SSlsu4.D. CONNER
cial bills, S4ST'a M4.S7is.
Bar silver 6lssc; Mexican dollars, 49i9c
Government bonds, firm; state bond:
have been dull; railroad bonds wer,
strong.
Silver at the board was quoted at &c.
New York March 1.-THE treasury bal
ances were: Coin Sg,S25. 600; currency, ST.
$50 600.
New York March 16-The weekly state
ment of the associated banks show tn,
| following changes; Reserve, decrease, So
| 1S9, $50. Loans, decrease, S325, 200. Specie
! Increase, $3f9, 900; legal tenders de
/ crease, 81, 907. 500; deposits, decrease. SO,
4 AIS. 400; circulation. increase, $4,000. Thu
/ banks now hold Si75sS.7T5 in excess of tn,
I requirements OF the % per cent. rule.
New York, March 16, noon.-Erie. ~
| Northeastern. $50; do preferred, lS7l2
Lake Shore, 1854; Norfolk and Western