The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-31
FINANCIAL.

uenanui nrm; domestic, fair to extra, ga
5s+e; Japan, S94Q4c.
FINANCIAL.
Money-Steady
Foreign Exchange-The market was
hrm. The following are net Sa-
Sannah quotations; Commercial demand.
$4.ssA; sixty days, $4.S7A; ninety days.
| days, SISSY; Swiss, sixty days, $520ss:
marks, sixty days, 81 15-l6
Domestic Exchange-The tone of the
market is quiet. Banks are Duying at
par and selling at lilo per cent. premium
for amounts TO $1,000 and over.
Seeurities-The market continues very
quiet and rather weak for railroad issues
Stocks and BondS-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, 3l2 per cent. bonds of 1890, 1919 bid
l9214 asked Georgia 81 per cents, due 1915
lOl12 bid, 1929 asked; Georgia AZ per cent
bonds, 1915, n4A bid, 1l5A asked; Georgia
Smiths, maturity 1896, 1902 bid 1O11k asked
south Carolina AIS, los bid. 10s1z asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 1O7 bid
los asked; Augusta AIS, 1925. 1O5 bid, 1O6
asked; Augusta Z per cent, ia bid, 1854
asked; Augusta 6 per cent, 112 bid, liz
asked; Columbus per cent, 1O3 bid. lO4
asked; Macon per cent, 1l51a bid
| ll612 asked; Savannah per cent, quarter
| ~ April coupons 100 bid, asked; Sa-
Vannah per cent, quarterly May cou-
| pons, l09 bid, 1882 asked; Charleston As
96 bid. 81 asked.
Railroad Bonds Savannah, Florida and
| Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent. interest coupons, 1141a bid -
/ asked Atlantic and Gulf first nortgaee
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897, 102ja bid. lGs
asked; Central Railroad and Bankine
Company, collateral gold IS. 100 bid,
railway arst mOrtgage IS. 1915. Giif III bid
~ asked; Central of Georgia railway
SSo ;5 od lated So 5o-yearr gold bonds. So
first preferred incomes, 30 bid, 3i1E asked:
| Central of Georgia railway, second pre-.
teTreds incomes, + bid, 16 asked; Cen
comes, IL asked; Georgia railroad 6s. 1910.
1l2 bid, 11S asked; Charlotte, Columbia
! Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta secon1
mortgage IS, 115 bid, 116 asked; Georgia
Southern and Florida new IS. Sc bid, 81
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage Is, los bid, = asked: soufb
1o4 bid = asked; Savannah, Am asi US
| Ocean, STEAMSHIP 5 per cent bonds. 100
100 bid, none offered; City and Suburban
"a Taii bjd llrst hoGdtgage per GENT. bonds,
| due 1888, "a bid, 26 asked; Alabama NT;d,'
land per cent; indorsed. : bid. 50 asked
| asked; South Bound railroad IS 'bis
e asked; Southern Railway 5s' SO bid
Railroad Stocks-Augusta ana Co..
nah g bid, 9Slz asked; Georgia comma, on
163 bid, 165 asked; Southwestern OH III
s21a asked Atlanta and West Point Rail,
road stock, 100 bid, 1O2 asked; Atlanta t
| 100 bid 101 asked; Savannah ConstnSctioS1,
Company, 1872 bid, 745k asked ''o ioii
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Ij9bt s+oo,.
221A bid. % asked Electric Light and
Power Company, g bid. s. asked. ~ anu
Bank Stocks GII Etc.-Citizens Bank,
1914 bid, 50 asked; Germania Bank
| 10S bid, 109 asked; Merchants National
Bank, lOS bid, 1O4 asked; National Bank Bank
of Savannah, 1921 bid, 1874 asked; OgleN
thorpe Savings and Trust Companv ios
bid, : asked; Southern Bank of State
of GEORGIA, l3olE bid, 572h asked; savan-
= asked; Chatham Real Estate and I'm,
provement Company, a, 531a bid, "a asked;
b, 81 bid, 511s asked; Peoples Savings
and Loan Company, 9115 bid, 90 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory ss.
1912 bid, 1O6 asked; Sibley Factory 6s'
lO1l9 bid, 1881 asked; Enterprise Factory
IS. 105 bid. los asked; Eagle and Phenix
Manufacturing Company, per cent.
bonds, 80 bid, $50 asked.
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
| tory, 90 bid, 81 asked Eagle and Phenix
| Manufacturing Company, rs bid, q asked:
| Augusta Factory, rs bid, so asked; Gran
iteville Factory, 155 bid, 1853 asked Lang
ley Factory, los bid, 10 asked; Enterprise
Factory. common, 102 bid, los asked; J. r
| King Manufacturing Company los bid liz
asked; Sibley Manufacturing Company,
! rs bid, so asked; Savannah Brewing Com
pany, 50 bid, SO asked.
| London. March 2S.-Bar silver 31kd;
consols, 109 HIS for money and 1898 for
the account. 5 p. m.-Paris advices quote
3 per cent. rentes 101 francs 20 confines for
the account.
soils, 1895, for both money and the ac-
| count. Paris advices quote 3 per cent
rentes, 1O1 francs, 215 confines for the ac-
count.
| easy at 31s per cent; the last loan was at
8 per cent, and at the closing was Of
fered at per cent. Prime mercantile pa
Sterling exchange strong, with actual bus
mess in bankers bills at S4S724lQ4SS for
sixty days. and s4.ss%d4.s9 for demand.
Posted rates, S48Sl2q4; S9l2. Commercial
bills, $4s634 @4.s7h. Government bonds
steady; state bonds quiet; railroad bonds
higher. Silver at the board was firm;
New York, March 30.-The treasury bal
| ances were as follows: Coin, S128, S12, 1886;
New York March 80, Noon-Erie, 149s;
! Northwestern, 1929: do preferred, 14512;
| Lake Shore, 146; Norfolk and Western
preferred. 62s Western Union, S324; South
ern Railway, common, 81 Southern Rail-
Baltimore and Ohio. 1874; Canada South
ern, 49,; st. Paul, 7514; Rock Island, 70A
Delaware and Hudson, 1851; Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, 1915; Manhat-
tan l04; Michigan Central, 94i2: New York
Central 96ih; speculation quiet, but strong.
New York March 30.--As of late Amer
lean Tobacco was the special feature of
the stock market again to-day. the trans
actions amounting to nearly 10000 shares
! in a grand total of 196,O94 shares. The
stock after an early break of per cent
Ia $751; which was generally considered
a SCOOP advanced sharply TO 3d. and
| later got back to S914 GS9ls. The rise was
due TO the old report that the directors
on Wednesday next will resume dividend
| PAYMENTS The strength Of Tobacco
finally affected Sugar, and the stock
| moved up to 1853, the best figure for
| some days past. The improvement was
in "a large measure the result of efforts
to cover short contracts. Chicago Gas
was irregular, and in the main lower,
| while General Electric and Leather pre-
! ferred were firm. The decision Of the
Illinois supreme court in the case Of the
| old whisky trust had no effect on the
| stock. as the company has been reor-
| ganized The railway list was strong, es--
| peciaiiy for the Changers, Louisville and
| Nashville Baltimore and ohio, and
/ Southwesterns. The Improvement was
due principally to the fact that the ru-