The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-09

ana Havre, sixty days, 5. 22il; Swiss, sixty
days, 5.2SA; marks, sixty days, 944
Domestic Exohange-Steady Banks,
are buying at Is per cent. discount ana
selling as follows: Up to SIS. lOc prem
ium; S25 to $50, 15c Premium: $50 to SlOO zoe
premium; 500 to $500, Csc premium; $500
and over at par.
Securities-The market is quiet with
! fair offerings.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, 315 per cent bonds of 1880, 101ls bid, 1924
| asked; Georgia Sl2 per cent, due 1915. 1Oi
bid, 102 asked; Georgia Az per cent bonds
1915. 11S bid, ia asked; Georgia per
cent, due 1926, l091a bid. 1l01s asked: South
Carolina, AS. 1859 bid, 1861 asked
City Bonds-Atanta per cent 105 bid.
log asked; Augusta ilhs, 1926 LOG bid, lU7
| asked; Augusta Z per cent, 11S bid ia
asked; Augusta per cent. 1l2 bid, 1lS ask
| ed; Columbus per cent, 104 bid 105 ask
ed; Macon per cent, III bid. ia asked;
January coupons, 1854 bid, - asked;
! Savannah 5 per cent, quarterly February
| coupons. 10S bid, 1854 asked; Charleston
As, "a bid, 90 asked.
| Railroad Bonds--Savannah Florida and
western railroad general mortgage bonds
per cent interest coupons. 1l2h bid, III
| asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage.
| consolidated Z per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897, 1917 bid - asked;
| Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany, collateral gold 5s, 81 bid, 90 asked;
! Central of Georgia Railway first mortgage
| 5s, 5O-year gold bonds, 40 bid, 1l2 asked;
! Central of Georgia Railway first conson-
| dated mortgage 5s SO bid, 30 asked,
Central of Georgia Railway. first pre-
! ferred incomes, 81 bid, 35 asked:
Central of Georgia halfway, second
/ preferred incomes, IA bid, Is asked; Cen
trail OF Georgia Railway third preferred
incomes, 6h bid, So asked; Georgia rail-
road 6s, 1910 los bid 10 asked; Charlotte.
! Columbia and Augusta first 5s, 100 bid, 10
| asked Charlotte Columbia and Au-
gusta second mortgage Is, 11S bid.
! ia asked; Georgia Southern and
! Florida new IS, SO bid. 9S asked; South
! Georgia and Florida first mortgage Is,
! 1903 bid, 105 asked; South Georgia and
! Florida second mortgage Is, 1902 bid. l0i
| asked; Ocean steamship per cent.
| bonds, 1926, 1929 bid, 1913 asked City and
Suburban Railroad first mortgage Z per
cent bonds, bid, rs asked; Electric
Railway 5, due 1885, IA bid, 10 asked; Ala
| bama Midland per cent. indorsed, IS bid.
| IS asked; Brunswick and Western As,
- bid, 10 asked; South Bound railroad IS.
| 20 bid, 70 asked; Southern Railway 5s, 30
| bid, 81 asked; Georgia and Alabama frst
preferred 5s 9SA bid, 100 asked; Georgia
and Alabama first consols, 80 bid, 81
asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
/ nah So bid 90 asked; Georgia common,
| 164 bid. 1877 asked; Southwestern, 9i1s bid,
! 95h asked; Atlanta and West Point rail-
road stock, 10l bid, ~ asked; Atlanta and
| West Point per cent certificates, l02
bid asked; Savannah Construction
| Company, 20 bid, u asked.
| Gas StocKs-Savannah Gas Light stock.
% bid, % asked Electric Light and
| Power Company, IS bid, 20 asked
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank, 1924
bid, 1lO1k asked Chatham Bank, 46 bid.
| Al asked; Germania Bank, 1O7 bid, 1JS
| asked; Merchants National Bank, 80 bid,
- asked; National Bank of Savannah,
127 bid, 1870 asked: Oglethorpe Savings and
| Trust Company 1O2 bid, 104 asked; South
| ern Bank of the State of Georgia, 1863 bid
| III asked; Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany, 101 bid, l02ls asked; Chatham Real
| Estate and Improvement Company A, "a
bid, - asked; B, 5Ola bid, 5l15 asked; Peo-
pies Savings and Loan Company, 81 bid,
SO asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 6s, 100
| btu. l02 asked Sibley Factory 6s 100 bid
| 10f asked; Enterprise Factory 6s, 10l bid
1O2 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufacture
ing Company, per cent. bonds, 40 bid, so
asked.
Factory Stocks-savannah Cotton Fac
| tory, - bid. 50 asked; Augusta Factory. n
bid, 80 asked, ex-div.; Graniteville Fac
| tory, las bid, $50 asked; Langley Factory
100 bid, 105 asked: Enterprise Factory
| common IS bid, 100 asked; j. r. King
/ ddHuldHluIlHS Company lVA DAls luO ASK
ed, Sibley Manufacturing Company, rs bid.
| a asked; Savannah Brewing Company "a
bid, 81 asked.
London, Dec S.-Bar silver. 297sd. Con-
soils, 1111A for money, and 111A for the ac-
count.
Paris, Dec. S.-Three per cent. rentes
| 1O2 francs 80 confines for the account
New York. Dec. 8.--Money on call was
easy at 115d2 per cent. the last loan was
! at IL per cent, and at the closing was
| offered at ~ per cent. Prime mercantile
paper S1204 per cent. Bar silver. 65lsc.
! Sterling exchange lower, with actual busl-
| ness in bankers bills. at "a S3hGI4 S3ib for
sixty days, and $i.S6ll4 .S6A for demand
| Posted rates, &.8id4.a. Commercial bills,
| $4.S2q4.S3. Government bonds firm; state
| bonds steady; railroad bonds weak Sill
yer at the board was neglected
New York, Dec. S.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, s121, 5s3, O74;
currency Sl4,9S5,2O9.
New York, Dec. S.-noon Erie, 10:
Northwestern, 1854; preferred, 149; Lake
| Shore, 154; Norfolk and Western preferred,
1874; Western Union, s6h Southern Rail-
| way, common, l0A; Southern Railway,
! preferred, 2974 American Sugar, 115h; Bal
timore and Ohio, Is; Canada Southern,
| 4Slb; st. Paul, 745s; Rock Island 6S1h; Del
aware and Hudson, 127; Delaware, Lack
| awanna and Western, 159; Manhattan 90;
Michigan Central. 80. New York Central,
95h. Speculation dull and featureless
New York, Dec. S.-Speculation at the
| Stock Exchange was tame and uninter-
esting from the opening to the closing Of
the session. Only three stocks-Sugar, ST.
Paul, and Burlington and Quincy-hgured
for as much as 1900 shares, and the total
| transactions for the day we're but 126, 191
shares. Leading operators appear to be
in a waiting mood, and fhe market is In
the hands of the room traders, who are
| satisfied with merely fractional turns The
| fear that resolutions of a disturbing char
aeter may be introduced in congress any
day has a tendency to keep business with
| in restricted limits. The fluctuations in
| prices were itful and irregular. yet with
one or two exceptions they were confined
within range OF A6i per cent. At the
opening, under the leadership of Sugar
| there was an advance Of AM% per cent,
but a decline Of Ani per cent soon fol-
| lowed, Chicago Gas scoring the greatest
loss. with sales as low as 75h. The Gran
gers. particularly Burlington and quincy
| yielded under slight pressure. owing to the
| probability OF continued light earnings
during the current month, but neverthe-
/ less they closed with merely fractional net