The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-01
FINANCIAL.
Mnnev-steadv

Money-Steady.
Foreign Exchange.-The market was
vannah quotations: Commercial demand,
$4S79s;. sixty days, $4.S6b; ninety days,
$4.s6; francs. Paris and Havre, sixty
MARKS, six sixty days, q Ills 0A'S ''A%'
Domestic Exchange.-The tone OF the
market, is quiet Banks are buying at
for amounts TO $1,000 and over.
Securities-The market Is rather a wait
ing one, with buyers and sellers apart.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, 3ia per cent bonds of $780, 1914 bid,
1921 asked; Georgia 31s per cents, due 1915,
1O2 bid. .lO2ls asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
s%iths ma maturity 1885, Oi b StG io asEsd
South Carolina AS, 1914 bid, 10Sh asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta z per cent. 1O7 bid:
asked Augusta Z per cent. ia bid, lis
asked Augusta 6 per cent, l12 bid, 113
asked; Columbus per cent. 1853 bid. 104
III asked; Savannah 8 per cent. quarter
ly April coupons, 100 bid, asked; Sa-
vannah pei, cent quarterly May
As, Sc bid, 81 asked.
railroad Bonds-Savannah Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds.
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897, lO2 bid, 1903 asked:
Central Railrosd and goId Banking Con- d
none offered; Central of Georgia
railway first mortgage IS. 19455.
way consolidated 5s, 50-year gold bonds,
81 bid, % asked; Central of Georgia rail-
way, first preferred incomes, 80 bid, 33is
asked Central G OF Georgia rail
Georgia '0 Railway third preferred IN
f foaS Is sio ii Si S s ssod c Esl
lotte, Columbia and Augusta first SIS,
105 bid 106 asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta second mortgage Is, lis bid,
1i6 asked; Georgia Southern and Florida
new IS, 9ilA bid, 95i5 asked; South Geor-
gia and Florida first mortgage Is, 1O5 bid.
= asked; South Georgia and Florida Sec
ond mortgage Is. 104 bid, - asked; Sa-
vannah, Americus and Montgomery 5s,
SIS bid, 50 asked Ocean Steamship. 5 per
cent. bonds 1920, 100 bid, none offered: City
and Suburban railroad first mortgage z
per cent. bonds, 761s bid, 79 asked; Elec-
tric Railway SIS, due 1885, "a bid, 2S asked
bid, so asked; Brunswick and Western As,
= bid, rs asked; South Bound railroad 5s,
- bid, 76ia asked; Southern Railway IS,
railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, 9Sla bid, 9f5 asked; Georgia, COM
mon, 165 bid. 10 asked; Southwestern, 93I4
Point n railroad stock, loo bid, 1O2 asked
Atlanta and West Point per cent. GER
nficates. 100 bid, 1O1 asked; Savannah Con-
cas- Stocks-Savannah Gaslight stock.
22is bid, % asked; Electric Light and
Power Company. 81 bid, g asked.
11s bid. 1lS asked; Chatham Bank
49l bid, 50 asked; Germania Bank,
lO7 bid, 10S asked; Merchants National
savannah iSi 1872 bid, 1873 asked; ogl o.
thorpe Savings and Trust Company, los
bid bid los asked: Southern Bank Of State
nah M Bank nix and Trust Company, los BID 5i,i-
| 1909 asked Chatham Real Estate
and Improvement Company, A, 5Slh bid,
Peop aese Savings and Loan comnpa aSkes y
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory Is.
| bid, 1O1 asked; Enterprise Factory IS, los
| bid LOG asked; Eagle and Phenix Manu-
featuring Company, per cent. bonds, 50
Factory stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac.
| tory, 60 bid, 81 asked; Eagle and PheniS
Manufacturing Company, 25 bid, q asked
iteville Factory. 1855 bid 1888 asked; Lang
| ley Factory, 107 bid, los asked; Enterprise
Factory, common. 1O2 bid, los asked
bid, 10 asked: Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany, so bid, 81 asked; Savannah Brewing
Company. 81 bid. SIS asked.
London. Feb. 29.-Bar silver, 1S-l6d
consols, 100 11-16d for money, and 109 1866
London, Feb. 49, $50 p. m.-Paris advices
| quote per cent rentes, 102 francs, tn:
/ CGnllIlSS lpI tic dLSOulAls
New York, Feb. 29.-Money on call was
| at per cent; prime mercantile papers
6Q7 per cent. Sterling exchange steady
| with actual business in bankers bills al
s4 s61zd47 for sixty days, and S4.S7a4 "A Is
/ for demand. Posted rates. 81 S7114 SSlb
! Commercial bills, S4.S614 "a. s6la. Bar sit.
/ Yer, 6SAc. Government bonds steady,
state bonds dull; railroad bonds weak
New York. Feb. 29.-Treasury balances;
! Currency, $8S, $780, 47; coin, $I23, S22. 674
New York, Feb 29.-The weekly state
] he
! following changes:
reserve, decrease ..................$ 4,204, 9oC
Loans, increase ....,.............,. 4,726, 100