The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-20
FINANCIAL.

Money-Easy.
Foreign Exchange-Market firm. Tho
following are net Savannah quotations:
Commercial, demand, $4853s; sixty davs
S4.S2la; ninety days, SASH; francs, Paris
and Havre, sixty days, 5.2l l5-l6; SWISS
sixty days, 5.2Sl4; marks, sixty DAYS. 94l6
Domestic Exchange-Steady Bank.
are buying at Is per cent. discount and
selling as follows: Up to $25. 1Oc prem
ium; $25 10 $780, 15c premium: $50 to 500. 2Oc
premium; 500 to 500. 25c premium; 500
and over at par.
Securities-The market is quiet with
fair investment demand.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor.
gia 31s per cent. bonds of $780, 1O2 bid. 103
asked; Georgia 31a per cent, due 1915. 1Ol
bid, 102 asked; Georgia Az per cent. bonds.
1915, 1131a bid, l151s asked; Georgia 4 Der
cent, due 1926, 10 bid, HOY asked; South
Carolina, AIS, 108 bid, 10 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, los bid.
106 asked; Augusta AIS, 1926, LOG bid, III
asked Augusta Z per cent, lib bid ia
asked; Augusta per cent, 112 bid lib ask
ed; Columbus per cent, 104 bid, 105 ask
ed; Macon per cent, 112 bid, ia asked:
Savannah per cent, quarterly
January coupons, 1854 bid, asked:
Savannah per cent, quarterly February
coupons. 1O71a bid, ,1OS asked; Charleston
As, "a bid. IS asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
western railroad general mortgage bonds
6 per cent. interest coupons. 1121k bid, ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity. 1897, 10119 bid - asked;
Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany. collateral gold IS, 81 bid. 80 asked;
Central of Georgia Railway first mortgage
IS, 50-year gold bonds, 40 bid, l12 asked;
Central of Georgia Railway first consoli-
dated mortgage IS 50 bid, 90 asked:
Central of Georgia Railway. first pre-
ferred incomes, 331a bid 341s asked;
Central of Georgia Railway, second
preferred incomes, 1872 bid, 141s asked; Gen.
trail of Georgia Railway third preferred
incomes, 61a bid, ~ asked Georgia rail-
road 6s, 1910. JOS bid ITO asked; Charlotte.
Columbia and Augusta first 5s, 1O9 bid, 10
asked; Charlotte Columbia and Au-
gusta second mortgage Is. 113 bid.
IA asked. Georgia Southern and
Florida new IS. SO bid, 9S asked; South
Georgia and Florida first mortgage Is,
1903 bid, 105 asked: South Georgia and
Florida second mortgage rs, 1O2 bid. i0i
asked; Ocean steamship per cent.
bonds, 1926. 1903 bid. 1872 asked; City and
Suburban Railroad first mortgage per
cent bonds. = bid, rs asked. Electric
Railway 5. due 1885. "a bid 10 asked; Ala
bama Midland per cent indorsed. IS bid.
IS asked: Brunswick and Western As,
bid. 20 asked; South Bound railroad s..
20 bid. % asked; Southern Railway bs, SSla
bid S9i5 asked; Georgia and Alabama first
preferred IS. 9Slk bid, 100 asked; Georgia
and Alabama first consols. so bid, 81
asked
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savannah,
95ls bid, 9Gis asked; Georgia common, 1854
bid 167 asked: Southwestern, 1924 bid 9S4
asked. ex-div.; Atlanta and West Point
railroad stock, i05 bid. 10 asked Atlanta
and West Point per cent. certificates, 1O2
hid asked; Savannah Construction
Company, 20 bid. a asked.
Gas StocKs-Savanna Gas Light stock.
22A bid. % asked; Electric Light and
Power Company Gs bid. 60 asked. ex-div.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank, 10S bid.
i09 asked ex-div. Chatham Bank, 46 bid,
Il asked. Germanfa Bank. i07 bid. 1913
asked Merchants National Bank. 20 bid,
asked: National Bank or Savannah.
i27 bid, 40 asked. ORIethorpe Savings and
Trust Company 100 bid, i0i ask