The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-09
FINANCIAL.
Money-Steady,

toreign EXchange-The market was
steady. The following are net Sa
vannah quotations: Commercial demand.
A612; sixty days, S4S6i5; ninety days
$4S61s; francs. Paris and Havre, sixty
days. *5lS; Swiss, sixty days. $5.197s;
marks, sixty days, 50 l-l6
Domestic Enthusiastically; banks are
buying at par and selling at 40 per cent.
premium for amounts from $500 to 81, 900.
Securities-The tone of the market is
tlrm for state bonds; other securities in
clined to dullness
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, 3lz per cent. bonds of 1880 1917 bid
lO2 asked; Georgia 49, per cents, due 1915,
1OlA bid, 10l5 asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds, 1915, liz BID, ia asked; Georgia
per cent, due 1926, 1O9 bid, 1924 asked;
South Carolina 41as, 104 bid, 105 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, los bid:
JOG asked; Augusta AIS. 1925, 1903 bid, 1881
asked; Augusta per cent, 114lz bid, 1l515
asked; Augusta per cent, Ill bid, 111h
asked; Columbus per cent, 1O3 bid, 1OI
asked; Macon per cent, l1212 bid, 1874
asked; Savannah per cent, quarterly
July coupons, 1882 bid, ITO asked; Savan-
109 bid, 1924 asked; Charleston As, SO bid,
"a asked.
Railroad Bonds-savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent. interest coupons, 112 bid, Iii
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated7 per cent coupons, January,
and July maturity, 1897, 1O1 bid. 1olls
asked; Central Railroad and Banking
Company, collateral bold IS, 81 bid,
9S asked; Central of Georgia
railway first mortgage IS. 1915, - bid
112 asked; Central of Georgia railway,
consolidated 5s, 5O-year gold bonds. sS1k
bid, S912 asked; Central Of Georgia railway
first preferred incomes - bid, % asked;
Central of Georgia railway second pre-
ferred incomes, = bid, IA asked; Cen
trail of Georgia railway third preferred in
comes, bid, asked; Georgia Rail-
road 6s, 1910, 10 bid, Ill asked;
Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta
first 5s, 103 bid, 1882 asked; Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta second mortgage
Z, Ill bid, III asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida new 5s, 9612 bid, 971s
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
Georgia and Florida, second mortgage rs,
105 bid, asked; Savannah Americas
and Montgomery IS, 6S1s bid, 69la asked;
Ocean Steamship per cent bonds. 1928,
railroad first mortgage Z per cent. bonds,
76 bid rs asked; Electric Railway So,
due 1885, = bid, 20 asked; Alabama Mid
land per cent. Endorsed, 921a bid, 1912 ask
ed; Brunswick and Western As, - bid, IS
asked; South Bound railroad 5s, bid,
Is asked; Southern railway 5s, SO bid,
80 asked; Georgia and Alabama con-
Railroad stocks-Augusta and savan-
nah, s11a bid 90 asked, ex-div.;
Georgia common, no bid, 172
asked; Southwestern, 81 bid, 9115
asked, ex-div; Atlanta and West Point
railroad stock, SO bid, 100 asked; Atlanta
and West Point per cent. certificates, 81
bid, 9S asked; Savannah Construction
Company, = bid, IS asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock,
2215 bid, 231a asked; Electric Light and
Power Company, 60 bid, 81 asked, ex-div.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank, Ill
bid 11115 asked ex-div.; Chatham Bank,
- bid, 40 asked, ex-div; Germania Bank.
106 bid, lot asked, ex-dv.; Merchants Ma
tional Bank, 921s bid IS asked; National
Bank of Savannah, 13l bid, 1872 asked, eX-
pany, 1O4 bid, 1912 asked, ex-div.; South
ern Bank of State of Georgia, 1912 bid,
1884, asked, ex-div.; Savannah Bank and
Trust Company, 1862 bid, 10712 asked, eX-
div; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company, A, 5S1a bid, "a asked. B,
so bid, 501a asked, ev-div.; Peoples Savings
and Loan Company, 9115 bid, 9215 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 6s 102
bid 1O3 asked; Sibley Factory 6s, 100 bid,
102 asked; Enterprise Factory Is, 103 bid,
104 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufac-
turing Company, 6 per cent. bonds, - bid,
Factory stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, - bid, so asked; Augusta Factory,
n bid, so asked ex-div.; Graniteville Fac
tory, las bid, $50 asked; Langley Factory,
1OS bid, ITO asked; Enterprise Factory,
common, 98 bid 1O2 asked, eX-div.; j. Z.
King Manufacturing Company 100 Dld,
1O8 asked Sibley Manufacturing Compa-
NY 70 bid rs asked Savannah Brewing
Company, - bid, 70 asked.
London, JulyS-Bar silver, 31l4d; consols
113% for money and 113 11-16d for the ac-
count. Paris advices quote per cent.
rentes, 101 francs S21s centimes for the ac-
count.
New York, July S-Money on call was
easy at III per cent; the last loan was at
2 per cent and at the closing was oftered
at 2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 40
51a per cent. Bar silver, 6Ssc. Sterling ex-
change, with actual business in bankers
bills at $4S7G4.S714 for sixty days and
$4.S7Ad4SS for demand. Posted rates,
S4S71kd4SSk Commercial bills, %.S6g
4.S615. Government bonds quiet. State bonds
dull Railroad bonds firm. Silver at the
board was higher.
New York, July S-The treasury bal |
ances were as follows: Coin, S1OS,sA257;
currency, $50, 642O12.
New York, July 8. noon.-Erie, l41s;
Northwestern, 9924c; preferred 14S; Lake
Shore, 147; Norfolk and Western. pre-
ferred. liza; Western Union, &1s' South-
ern Railway, common, 9; Southern Ran |
way, preferred. ISIS; American sugar, |
110ss Baltimore and Ohio Is; Canaoa |
Southern, 49, st. Paul, 75 Rock Isianu' |
62ss; Delaware and Hudson, 124; Delaware |
Lackawanna and Western, 100; Ma1HdI.-
tan, s6A; Michigan Central 81 New forA
Central, 95ll. Speculation, steady.
New York, July S.-Tne stock MARKET