The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-24
FINANCIAL.
AIoney-Steadv

Money-Steady.
Foreign Exchange-The market was
firm The following are net Sa
- Sa1 imam quotations: Commercial demand,
S4.Sls4i sixty days, S4.S7; ninety days,
S4.S6S4; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
DAYS $o.lf34; Swiss, sixty days IS 10:
marks, sixty days. So
Domestic Exchange.-Steady. Banks are
buying at Is per cent discount and selling
as follows: For amounts to S25, Toe prem
ium; to so, 10 cents premium to 500 20
cents premium; to $500 25 cents premium:
for 800 or over at par
Securities-The market is again inactive
and dun.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-caor-
gia, So per cent. bonds Of 1890 1917 bid.
102 asked; Georgia 3la per cents, due 1915
101A bid, 10ll5 asked; Georgia AZ per cent
bonds, 1915, 1l3 bid, ia asked: Georgia
4 per cent, due 1926, 1O9 bid, 1897 asked:
South Carolina AIS, lO4 bid, 1O5 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent. 1G5 hid
LOG asked; Augusta AIS, 1925, 1903 bid. l0Si5
asked; Augusta z per cent, 114lk bid. ll5iS
asked, augusta . per cent, III bid, ul5
asked; Macon 6 per cent, 1922 bid. 11SH
asked Savannah per cent, quarterly Oc-
tober coupons, 1922 bid. 10 asked; Savan-
nah per cent, quarterly August coupons
1O9 bid. 1091A asked; Charleston As, 90 did
"a asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah. Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent. interest coupons, 112 bid, ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage.
consolidated per cent. coupons, January.
and July maturity, 1897. IOl bid. lOlib
Company, collateral gold SIS, SO bid.
97l2 asked; Central of GeorEia
railway first mortgage 5s, 1916, - bid
III asked; Central of Georgia railway.
consolidated IS, 50-year gold bonds. 81
bid, Ssl5 asked; Central of Georgia railway
first preferred incomes, - bid 26 asked.
Central of Georgia railway second pre-
terred incomes. bid, u asked; Cen
road IS, 1910, 10 bid, iii asked:
rst ST. ios 6 6a a sss and
Columbia and Augusta second mortgage
z. Ill bid. III asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida new SIS, bid 94l5
asked; South Georgia ana Florida firstt
Georgia and Florida, second mortgage rs,
lO5 bid, asked; Savannah, Americus
and Montgomery 5s, bid. 691k asked;
- bid, SO asked City and Suburban
railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds,
bid. IS asked; Electric Railway SIS,
due 1885, - bid, 20 asked; Alabama Mid
land per cent. Endorsed, - bid 93lb ask
ed; Brunswick and Western As, = bid, rs
asked; South Bound railroad 5s, bid,
IS asked; Southern railway IS, sc bid
81 asked; Georgia and Alabama con-
Railroad stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, 50 bid, 9O15 asked, ex-div;
Georgia, common, bid 1897
asked Southwestern, 81 bid. ssh
asked, ex-div.; ATLANTA and West Point
railroad stock, SO bid, 100 asked; Atlanta
and West Pointg6 per cent. certificates IS
bid, SO asked Savannah Construction
Company, - bid, IS asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock
20% bid, 21A asked, eX-div.; Electric Light
and Power Company, - bid, 60 asked ex-
div.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank. III
q nY-ni
AZ bid, As asked, ex-div.; Germania Bank,
LOG bid, 107 asked, eX-diV.; Merchants Ma
tional Bank, 921a bid, "a asked National
Bank of Savannah, 131 bid, 1872 asked, eX-
div; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Com
pany, 1O4 bid, 1O5 asked, ex-div.; South
ern Bank of State of Georgia. 1917 bid,
Trust Company, log bid 1914 asked. ex-
div; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company, A, 50 bid, 53l2 asked; B,
so bid, 5O15 asked. ev-div.; Peoples Savings
and Loan Company, 9l15 bid, 9212 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 6s, 102
bid, 1903 asked; Sbley Factory 6s, 100 bid,
102 asked; Enterprise Factory IS, 103 bid,
1O4 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufac-
turing Company, per cent. bonds, - bid,
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory. - bid, 50 asked; Augusta Factory,
u bid, so asked, ex-div.; Graniteville Fac
tory, 145 bid, $50 asked; Langley Factory,
1OS bid, 40 asked; Enterprise Factory,
common, IS bid. b2 asked, ex-div:; j.. T.
1OS asked; Sibley Manufacturing Compa-
ny, IS bid, rs asked; Savannah Brewing
Company. - bid. 70 asked.
London, July 23.-Bar silver, 3l12d. Con
soils, 113 7-16 for money and 1872 for the
account. Paris advices quote 3 per cent.
rentes, 101 francs tn confines for the &C
count.
easy at 116@21h per cent; the last loan was
at ~ per cent, and at the closing was
offered at II. per cent. Prime mercantile
paper, 512Q6 per cent. Bar silver. 6S1sc;
sterling exchange, dull, with actual bust
ness in banker bills at $4S7a&G 4.SS for six
ty days and &.SSlaG4S8% for demand.
Posted rates. ASSGD4.S9. Commercial bills,
81 S619G4.S7 Government bonds firm; state
bonds were dull; railroad bonds were
strong. Silver at the board was firm.
New York, July 23.-Treasury balances
were as follows: Coin, $ll0,515,2y7; cur
rency. $50, 237,012.
New York. July %, noon.-Erie, 1874
Northwestern, %; preferred, Jas bid; Lake
Shore, 143; Norfolk and western. prefer
red, 11%; Western Union. 1873; Southern
Railway, common z; Southern Railway
preferred, 2lSs; American Sugar, 1854; Bal /
tinore and Ohio. 16; Canada Southern
44sz st. Paul, M; Rock Island 5Gil Del
aware and Hudson, 120; Delaware, Lacka- /
wanna and Western, 1501a; Manhattan
S5ls; Michigan Central, "a; New York Cen
tral. SO. Speculation quiet. but firm
New York, July 23.-The stock market
to-day was influenced by the deposit Of
sbld dt the Suu-liEdHuIys the IGQutllOl III
gold export and to an extent by the adj
vices from St. Louis regarding the con-
vention of the pOpulists. At the opening |
and closing the market was rather weak /
but in the interior IL had considerab BILE {
strength. The opening was disappoint- |
ing. The early decline was equal to ! /
per cent in Sugar and about 4 to p in |
the general run Of active issues. In the |
afternoon trading every deposit of gold /
by the banks which resulted in the re- |,
storation Of sold reserve to the. ten mill /
ion mark and reports from St. Louis /
that the populsts would not indorse Bry- /
an after all started a lively buying on 1
the part Of the shorts and a rise of Ad5s |
per cent. followed. jersey Central the /
Changers and Industrials led the upward /
movement and the trading in these is /