The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-22
FINANCIAL.


Money-Steady.
Foreign Exehange-The market was
nah quotations: Commercial demand.
$4SSSSA sixty days. S4.S7A; ninety days.
days, Sis; Swiss, sixty days. S5.ls5s;
marks, sixty days, 95 1-16.
Domestic exehange-The tone of the
market is quiet. Banks are buying at
par and selling at i-iO per cent. premium
for amounts of 81, 600 and over.
Securities-The market continues very
quiet and dull, with nominal quotations.
Stocks and Bonds-Stute Bonds-Geor-
gla, 312 per cent. bonds of 1880, lO2 bid
l02A asked; Georgia Sl9 per cents, due 1915.
maturity 1896, 10lR bid, 1921 asked; Georgia
az per cent; bonds, 1915, 11419 bid. lis asked;
South Carolina 4lRs, 1882 bid. 100 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent. 107 bid,
l0S asked; Augusta 41zs. 1925, l04 bid lO5
asked; Augusta per cent. ia bid 1l5la
asked; Augusta 6 per cent. ll2 hid. 1i5
asked; Columbus per cent, 1903 bid, zOI
asked; Macon per cent, 1l4h bid 1857
asked; savannah per cent, quarterly
July coupons, 1851 bid, 1O9 asked; Savar-
nah per cent, quarterly August coupons
1854 bid, 1OS& asked; Charlest As, IS bid.
81 asked.
Western railroad general mortgage bords
6 per cent. interest coupons ll2 hid iii
asked; Atlantic and Calf first mortgage
consolidated Z per cent coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897. 102I6 bid. I6s
asked; Central Railroad and BankinsS
Company, collateral gold IS. 95 bid,
railway first mortgage IS. 1915. III Gf0i sid
1I2 asked: Central of Georgia rail, no.
consolidated IS, O-year gold bonds, ST.
first preferred incomes. 29I5 bid SOlb asked.
Central of Georgia railway second nrs
ferred incomes. AZ bid. 1514 asked; Cen
comes, bid, 10 asked; Georgia railroad
6s 1910, " bid. 112IA asked,
Cha G 5S9 Re ana 5S5l AasSs5a
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage Is. IlS bid, ia asked; Georgia
southern and Florida news 5si s6i4 bid. M
Georgia and Florida, Second mor mort seu 7a
and Montgomery SIS, 20 bid, Il asked;
Ocean Steamship per cent. bonds. 1921
= bid. 10l asked; City and Suburban
railroad first mortgage per cent bonds.
76 bid; Is asked; Electric railway IS
due 1885, 10 bid, 20 asked; Alabama Mid
land per cent. indorsed, SO bid, 80 asked;
asked; South Bound railroad IS, : bid,
70 asked; Southern Railway IS, 911h bid
92h asked; Georgia and Alabama s con,
soils 73 bid, "A asked.
Railroad Stockg-Augusta and Savan-
nah, 911s bid, 921A asked; Georgia common
1859 bid, III asked; Southwestern. 90 bid
81 asked; Atlanta an; and West Point rail-
road stock, 101 bid l02 asked; Atlanta and
West Point per cent. certificates, lOl%
bid, 1o2 asked; savannah va 19i Construction
'i Gas staocccks23savannah Gas Light stool,
22lb bid % asked; Electric Light and Pow,
er Company, 621A bid. 6SA asked.
Rank Stocks, Eac.-Citizens Bank 11z
bid. ia asked; Chatham Bank, 1917 bid
90 asked; Germania Bank, 100 bid, no ask
ed; Merchants National Bank, 1Ol bid
102 ASKED ,5 Na. IIlad DIE 81 sayannah
and Trust Company, 1854 bid, 1O71s asked;
Southern Bank of State of Georgia 172 hid
173 asked; savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany 1854 bid, 1887 asked; Chatham Real
Estate and Improvement Company A "a
bid 541b asked; B, 81 bid, Sly asked; Peo-
pies Savings and Loan Company, 81 bid.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory IS. 1o2
bid, 1OS asked; Sibley Factory Is, 1O2 bid
los asked Eagle and Phenix Manufactur.
ing Company. per cent. bonds, Is bid, so
Factory Stocks-Savannan Cotton Fac-
tory, = bid, SO asked; Eagle and Phenix
Manufacturing Company, 5 bid, 13 asked:
Augusta Factory Is bid, IS asked; Gran
iteVille Factory, $50 bid, 1855 asked; Lang
lev Factory, 108 bid, 10 asked Enterprise
Factory, common, 100 bid los asked; J. p
King Manufacturing Company, los bid, no
asked Sibley Manufacturing Company rs
bid, rs asked; Savannah Brewing Company
London, May .21.-Bar silver, 81 1-1sd;
consols, 112 7-16 for money and 112 9-16 for
the account Paris adVices quote g per
cent rentes 102 francs and s. centum for
New York. May A.-AIoney on call was
easy at 2d215 per cent; the last loan was
at ~ per cent, and at the closing was Of
fered at 213c Prime mercantile paper, 50
So per cent. Bar silver, 675sc. Sterling ex-
change, very firm, with actual business in
bankers bills al $4871ad4.S734 for so days
and $4SS1hd4. $3.50 for demand. Posted rates
"a. SS04 S91a Commercial bills, S4S61aII4.S7A
Government bonds were firm. State bonds
were dull. Railroad bonds We're higher.
Silver at the board was dull.
New York May 21.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, s113, GA, SIS;
currency, $50, So, 229
New York May q, noon.-Erie. Az;
Northwestern, 1913 preferred, 1852 Lake
Shore, 1893; Norfolk and Western pre-
farred, 81; Western Union, s. Southern
Railway. common. 81; Southern Railway,