The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-21
FINANCIAL.
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Money-Steady.
Foreign Exchange-The market was
| very weak. The following are net Savan-
nah quotations: Commercial demand
! 81. S42z; sixty days, AS3A; ninety days
| 81 8SiL; francs, Paris and Havre sixty
days, $5.2Oss; Swiss, sixty days, $o.zz;
marks, sixty days, "a 11-16c.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: For
amounts to S25, 10c premium; TO S01, l9c
premium; to $lO0, zoe premium; 10 wv zoc
| premium; from $500 up to $1,000, Is per
cent premium; amounts over Sl,OOO, at
SecHrities|The market is quiet quota
lions irregular and nominal
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
| gfa. 80 per cent. bonds of 1890 lOl bid, 102
asked Georgia So per cents, due 1913 lOl
bid 1O2 asked; Georgia Az per cent. bonds
1915, Ill bid 112 asked; Georgia per cent,
due 1926 los bid 1892 asked; South Caro-
lima 41bs 100 bid, 101 asked.
CITY Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 1O412
bid, 1861 asked; Augusta 45s, 1925, 10212
bid, 1872 asked; Augusta per cent, ll212
bid, 1872 asked; Augusta per cent, ~
bid, 113 asked; Columbus per cent, l02
bid, 1882 asked; Macon 8 per cent, HE
bid. 114la asked; Savannah per cent,
quarterly October coupons, 1882 bid, lOyA
asked; Savannah percent, quarterly No
vember coupons, lO712 bid, lUS asked;
Charleston As, "a bid, 80 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent, interest coupons, = bid, ll294
/
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897, bid, 1917 ask
ed: Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany, collateral gold IS, - bid, SO asked;
Central of Georgia railway first mortgage
5s 1916 - bid Ill asked: Central of Geor-
gia railway, consolidated 5s, 5O-year gold
bonds - bid 81 asked; Central of Georgia
railway first pref. incomes, 241s bid, 2513
asked; Central of Georgia railway second
preferred incomes, 10 bid, II asked; Central
of Georgia railway third preferred incomes mes
- bid, asked; Georgia Railroad 6s, 1910,
- bid, 1l2 asked; Charlotte Columbia and
Augusta first IS. - bid, 10l15 asked; Char
lottle Columbia and Augusta second mort
gage Z, - bid, 112 asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida. new IS, - bid, 931s asked;
South Georgia and Florida first mortgage
Is bid, 1O6 asked; South Georgia
and Florida, second mortgage Is, - bid, lO5
asked: Savannah. Americas and Mont
gomery, 5s, - bid, 6S asked; Ocean Steam
ship per cent. bonds, 1926, - bid SO asked;
CITY and Suburban railroad first mortgage
Z per cent. bonds. TT bid, 7S asked Electric
Railway IS, due 1885, - bid. 20 asked; Ala
bama Midland per cent indorsed, - bid,
90 asked; Brunswick and Western, IS, -
hid 73 asked; South Bound railroad IS.
bid Is asked; Southern railway IS, 10 bid,
so asked; Georgia and Alabama con-
soils 49, bid, Y asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah s. bid. IS asked, ex-div. Georgia
common, 1855 bid, 161 asked; Southwestern,
"a bid. s. asked, ex-div.. Atlanta and
est Point railroad stock. bid 9S ask
ed. Atlanta and West Point per cent,
certificates. bid, 9S asked Savannah
Construction Company. 65 bid. 20 asked.
Gas Stocks-SaYannah Gas Light stock,
20 bid, = asked, eX-div.; Electric Light
ana Power Company 50 bid. 60 asked.
Bank stocks. Executions Bank. uO1a
bid 111l5 asked, ex-diy.; Chatham Bank
AZ bid 48 asked. ex-div.: Germania Bank