The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-14
FINANCIAL.
Money-Stea

The elearances for the week were
a,7S0OO2.9, against SLIP, Sl5.95 for the
same week last year.
firm. The following are net Sa-
vannah quotations: Commercial demand.
ASlA; sixty days, %.s612; ninety days,
days. $5.199s; Swiss Sixty days. s5.2iI;
marks. sixty days, 81 1876.
Domestic Exchange.-The tone or the
market is quiet. Banks are buying at
par and selling at 1-lO per cent. premium
FOR amounts to 81 900 and over.
Securities-The market is quiet and
steady at quotations, and but very little
doing. Some weakness exhibited in Geor-
gia railroad stock, owing to uncertainty
of continuance of the lease.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, 31s per cent bonds of 1880, 101h bid
l02A asked; Georgia 31a per cents, due 1916
1919 bid, 1929 asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds, 1915. 1l4A bid, 1l5h asked; Georgia
South Carolina AIS, 10zls biz, 1851 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 107 bid,
1OS asked; Augusta 4l2s 1925, los bid, log
asked; Augusta y per cent, III bid, 113
asked Columbus 3 per cent, l03 bid, loi
asked Macon per cent; ZIG bid.
ly April coupons. 100 bid. asked; Sa-
vannah per cent emf quarterly May
coupons, log bid, 1924 asked; Charleston
Railroad Bonds-Savannah. Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds.
Is per cent. interest coupons. ll4lb bid. g.
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated Z per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897 l021A bid, 1885,
asked; Central Railroad and Banking Com
iOl asked; Central Of Georgia
railway first mortgage IS, 1876,
Ill bid. 112 asked; Central of Georgia rail.
way consolidated IS, 50-year gold bonds.
91lh bid, SO asked; Central of Georgia rail.
way, first preferred incomes, 81 bid, SO
asked; Central OF Georgia rail-
T isas bid de0I i7S ASKED; Central iai0me 81
Georgia Railway third preferred in
comes i y a; asked red ,,o, Georgia rail
lotte, Columbia and Augusta first IS.
lO5 bid, JOG asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta second mortgage rs. lis bid
ZIG asked; Georgia Southern and FLORIDA
new IS, 50 bid, SO asked; South Geor-
gia and Florida first mortgage as. 1O5 bid
= asked; South Georgia and Florida sec.
ond mortgage Is. 104 bid, asked; Sa.
vannah, Americus and Montgomery 5s
65 hid. e6 asked; Ocean Steamship 8 per
cent. bonds, 1920, 100 bid, none offered; City
per cent. bonds, 7e1s bid. 79 asked: Flee.
trio Railway IS, due 1885, "A bid, IS asked
Alabama Midland per cent. Endorsed, :
hid. 90 asked; Brunswick and Western IS
hid. IS asked; South Bound railroad Ks
- bid. 761a asked; Southern Railway 5s
30 bid, 81 asked. ~
nah 9S1h bid, 9414 asked; Georgia com.
mon. = bid 164 asked; Southwestern
% bid, sSla asked; Atlanta and West
Point railroad stock, 100 bid, I02 asked
Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent" Ger.
1ificates. 100 bid, 101 asked; Savannah Con-.
struction Company. = bid, rs asked.
ooSL hid % asked: Electric Light am
Power Company, 81 bid. s. asked.
Bank stocks, Ete.-Gitizens' Bank
i az bi Ha 50 10 asked; Germaniah B Bank
i0S hid. 100 asked; Merchants Nationa
Bank, io2 bid, JOB asked; National Bank OF
I6orne Savings and Trust Companv' N;
MD 10s asked; Southern Bank Of Stat
! of Georgia, 170 bid, III asked; Savan
nah Bank and Trust Company, l0si% bid
| iiI0ih asked; Chatham Real icstaf,
and Improvement Company, A, 53ls bid
"a asked; b, 81 bid. 5l1a asked
Peoples Savings and Loan Company, q
Ol Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory Ga
1897 bid, 1Oi asked; Sibley Factory IS, 10
| hid. 101 asked; Enterprise Factory 6s' l0
| hid los asked; Eagle and Phenix Manu-
featuring Company per cent. bonds, u
bid, SPY asked.
tory, so bid, 81 asked: Eagle and Pheni,
Aagusia factery Is Asked ask a GTsa
lev Factory. i67 bid. 10S asked; Enterpris,
! Factory, common, 102 bid, los asked
J. P. King Manufacturing Company, 10
| bid, ITO asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany, 50 bid, 81 asked; Savannah Brewing
| Company, = bid. Sc asked
London, March l3.-Bar silver, 81 9-16d
consols, 1O9% for money and 100 1916 fo
the account.
London, March 13.-Paris advices quot,
3 per cent. rentes 1O2 francs, S71z Genuine;
for the account
New York. March 13.-Money on call wa,
easy at 3dSia per cent; the last loan wa.
at per cent, and at the closing was OF
fered at 8 per cent. Prime mercantile pa
per, 505l5 per cent.
Bar silver 687sc.
Sterling exchange, easier, with actua
business in bankers bills az 81. S6sz IA. s
for sixty days, and 81 STU "a .SS for demand
posted rates. s4.S719a4. $50 Commercial
bills, 81. sal. 86lz,
Government bonds were steady; stat
bonds were firm; railroad bonds were easy
Silver at the board steady
New York, March 13-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin. s125 633, S94
currency, $S9, 294. 1850.
New York, March 10, noon.-Erie. 15h
Northwestern, 1898; do preferred, 1857
Lake Shore, 146; Norfolk and Western pre-
ferred, n; Western Union. 50: Southerr
Railway, common. 81 do preferred. 302
American Sugar. 1l6lz: Baltimore and Ohio
15s4 Canada southern. 1874; st. Paul. M
Rock Island, 71h; Delaware and Hudson
1854; Delaware. LackaWanna and West