The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-19
FINANCIAL.
SteadY.

mOney-SLeaQY.
Foreign Exchange-The market was
very weak. The following are net Savan-
nah quotations: Commercial demand,
SASSY; sixty days, $4.S4A; ninety days,
$4.S4ss; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
days, $500; Swiss, sixty days, $5.217s;
marks, sixty days, 94%c.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: For
amounts to $25, 10c premium; to $50, 15c
premium; to 500 zoe premium; to $500, 25c
premium; from 800 up to $1,000, Is per
cent. premium; amounts over $1,000, at
$l.0O per 1000.
Securlties-The market is quiet quota
tions irregular and nominal
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, 31a per cent. bonds of 1880. 101 bid, 102
asked; Georgia 31a per cents, due 1915, l0l
bid, 1O2 asked; Georgia ~ per cent. bonds,
1915, Ill bid, 1l2 asked; Georgia per cent,
due 1926 los bid, 1922 asked; South Caro-
lima 41as, 100 bid, 10l asked
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 1914
bid, 1857 asked; Augusta AS, 1925, 1922
bid, 1882 asked: Augusta per cent, 112R
bid, 1872 asked; Augusta per cent, 1l2
bid, 1l3 asked; Columbus per cent, 102
bid, 1854 asked; Macon. 6 per cent, 1121A
bid, 1l415 asked; Savannah 5 per cent,
quarterly October coupons. 1882 bid, 1924
asked; Savannah 5 percent, quarterly No
vember coupons, 10715 bid, 1O8 asked;
Charleston As "a bid IS asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent, interest coupons, - bid, 112&
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated Z per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897, - bid, 1917 ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany, collateral gold 5s, bid, So asked;
Central of Georgia railway first mortgage
5s, 1945, - bid, Ill asked; Central Of Geor-
gia railway, consolidated 5s, 50-year gold
bonds, - bid, 81 asked; Central of Georgia
railway first pref incomes, 24l5 bid, 25h
asked; Central of Georgia railway second
preferred incomes, 10 bid, II asked; Central
- bid, asked; Georgia Railroad IS, 1910
- bid, 1l2 asked; Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta first IS, - bid. 10l1a asked; Char
lottle, Columbia and Augusta second mort
gage Z, - bid, 112 asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida, new 5s, - bid 1872 asked;
South Georgia and Florida first mortgage
Is. - bid, 106 asked; South Georgia
and Florida, second mortgage Is, - bid, l05
asked; Savannah, Americas and Mont
gomery, 5s, - bid, 6S asked Ocean Steam
ship per cent. bonds, 1926, - bid, IS asked;
City and Suburban railroad first mortgage
per cent. bonds. - bid, Is asked; Electric
bama Midland per cent. indorsed, - bid
80 asked Brunswick and Western, As, -
bid, 70 asked; South Bound railroad IS, -
bid, rs asked; Southern railway IS, 70 bid
so asked; Georgia and Alabama con-
soils, - bid, Y asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah. IS bid, SO asked. e&-div.; Georgia
common, 155 bid, 161 asked; Southwestern,
est Point railroad stock, bid, IS ask
ed; Atlanta and West Point per cent,
certificates, bid 9S asked; Savannah
Construction Company, 65 bid, 20 asked
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock
20 bid, q asked, ex~div.; Electric Light
and Power Company, IS bid, 60 asked,
ex-div.
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizens Bank. 11O15
bid. 111Ib asked, ex-div; Chatham Bank
A bid, As asked, ex-div.; Germania Bank.
106 bid 107 asked, ex-div; Merchants
National Bank, 80 bid, 90 asked National
Bank of Savannah, 100 bid, 1872 asked, ex-
div; Oglethorpe Savings and trust Com
pany 1903 bid, 1912 asked, ex-div.; South
ern Bank of the State of Georgia, 1872 bid.
17O1a asked. ex-div.; Savannah Bank and
Trust Company, 1882 bid, 1912 asked,
ex-div.; Chatham Real Estate and I'm
provement Company, A, 5312 bid "a ask
ed. B. 5O1h bid, 81 asked, eX-div.; Peo-
pies Savings and Loan Company, 9lIz bid,
92ia asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory IS. l02
bid, 103 asked; Sibley Factory 6s, 100 bid,
1O2 asked; Enterprise Factory 6s 103 bid,
1O4 asked Eagle and PheniX Manufactur-
ing Company, 6 per cent. bonds, - bid, 80
asked.
tory, - bid, 50 asked; Augusta Factory,
n bid. so asked, ex-div.; Granite vile Fac
tory l45 bid, 80 asked; Langley Factory
los bid 10 asked; Enterprise Factory
common, 9s bid, 1O2 asked, ex-div.; J. =.
King Manufacturing Company, Jos bid, lO8
asked Sibley Manufacturing Company, %
bid. Is asked; Savannah Brewing Com
pany. 49, bid, a. asked.
New York, Aug. 1s-Money on cal was
quiet at GAS per cent, the last loan at a.
and closing offered at AZ; prime mercan-
tile paper. 81; bar silver, 6552c sterling
exchange was weak. with actual business
in bankers bills at sLS50485A for sixty
days and sLS6dAS6H for demand; posted
rates, 4S51aaAS7; commercial bills, $f.s49
4s4s<. Government bonds firm; state