The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-22

2a4c; good, 3AqSs4c; prime, 4q4Ac; fancy,
RoughEUpland. per bushel. 10000; tide
water, 50qS0c.
FIN ANCIAL.
Money-Steady.
Foreign Exchange-The market was
weak. The following are net Sa-
vannah quotations: Commercial demand.
Sass; sixty days, $.d; ninety days
SASSY; francs, Paris and Havre sixty
days, Sis; Swiss, sixty days, $519k;
marks, sixty days, IS.
Domestic Exchange-The tone of the
par and selling at l-lO per cent. premium
for amounts to 81 900 and over.
Securities-The market is quiet and
sluggish; no decided pressure to SELL and
yet no particular demand.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, 49, per cent. bonds. of 1880. 1O2 bid,
1928 asked; Georgia 312 per cents, due 1915,
1914 bid, 1O215 asked: Georgia AZ per cent.
Smiths, maturity 1896, 10l bid, 102 asked;
bonds lS5 NE bid oi ~ a ask 96si Georgia
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 107 bid.
10S asked; Augusta AIS, 1925, l05 bid, l06
asked: Augusta Z per cent, ia bid, n5h
asked; Columbus s per cent, 10S bid. 104
asked; Macon per cent. l14lA bid,
ly July coupons, 1OS bid. 1882 asked; Sa-
vannah per cent, quarterly May cou-
pons,. 1924 bid. 1O91s asked; Charleston As,
Railroad Bonds--Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
Per cent interest eSd eeuR s rst ys pa
and July maturity, 1887, iO2lz bid. .iOs
| Company, collateral gold IS, 9Sll bid,
railway frst mortgage s. 1916. iii bid.
| consolidated IS, 50-year gold bonds, 50
| bid. 81 asked; Central of Georgia railway
| first preferred incomes. 30 bid, 81 asked;
/ nf
| ferred incomes, Is bid, 10 asked; Cen
trail of Georgia railway third preferred in
1910, 112 bid, 11S asked; Charlotte. Columbia
and Augusta first 5s, 104 bid, los asked;
Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta second
| Southern and Florida new 5s, Sc bid, 81
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
as los bid asked South
! Jos bid. asked; Savannah, Americus
and Montgomery IS, 20 bid, Il asked;
100 Sid, ioi asked; City and Suburban Ban
70 bid 50 asked; Electric Railway IS,
| land per cent. Endorsed, So bid, 80 asked:
| Brunswick and Western As, = bid rs
| rs asked; Southern Railway IS. 81 bid %
asked; Georgia and Alabama consols, 73
bid. a asked;
nah % bid, % asked; Georgia common.
western. 81 R@Ia d.t 81 p asked; Xs-
road rSoald stock, 100 bid. 1O2 asked: Atlanta ANITA
and West Point per cent. certificates,
1919 bid. 1O2 asked x sayyan1ah construc-
Gas stocks savannah Gas Light stock,
q bid. 28lh asked; Electric Light and
BANK BANK 0 stocks z Etccitia asRsd Bank
- OiS u asked ASKED Gna6sa% Bank Bank
1O9 bid, 10 asked; Merchants National
Bank, iOsla bid, lO4la asked; National Bank
of Savannah, 1S41a bid 1876 asked; Ogle-
thorpe Savings and Trust Company, 1861
of Georgia, 17111 bid, 1721z asked; Savan-
nah Bank and Trust Company, 100 bid
10 asked; Chatham Real Estate and I'M
B. 81 bid, 511s asked; Peoples Savings
,o E&o tor o RO ssked gStsv Eaet0Ty g.
1OiH bid 1881 asked; Enterprise FACTORY
IS, los bid, lO6 asked; Eagle and Phenix
Manufacturlng Company. per cent
Factory stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, bid, So asked; Eagle and Phenlx
Augusta factory, IS bid, rs asked; Gran,
iteville Factory, $50 bid, 155 asked; Lang
ley Factory, 10S bid, 10 asked; Enterprise
King Manufacturing Company, 10S bid, ITO
asked; Sibley Manufacturing Company,
IS bid. 80 asked; Savannah Brewing Com
London, April M.-Bar silver, s1d; con-
soils, 1880 for both money and account
Paris advices quote per cent rentes, 1O1
francs; soc for the account
New York, April A.-Money on call was
steady at 212Q3 per cent; last loan at
212 per cent. and at the closing was Of
fered at 2h per cent Prime mercantile
paper, 51ad6 per cent. Bar silver, 673fc
Sterling exchange weak, with actual bust
ness in bankers bills at $4.S71sGD4 S73L for
60 days, and S4SSA for demand Posted
rates, 81. SSd4. So Commercial bills, S4 S61b
@4.S7. Government bonds dull; state
bonds firm; railroad bonds dull. Silver at
the board dull.
ances were as follows: Coin, S126, 1856, 176;
currency, $87, 1S1, 654.
New York, April q. noon-Erie, 15ss:
Northwestern, l05ls; preferred, 146; Lake
ferred, 81 Western Union, So; Southern
Railway, common, 10; do, preferred, 32lk:
American Sugar, 1851; Baltimore and
Ohio. 1794; Canada Southern, 81; st. Paul.
1885; Rock Island, 72l2; Delaware and Hud-
son, 127; Delaware, Lackawanna and Wes-
tern, 159; Manhattan, III: Michigan Cen
trail 95l2; New York Central 97la Specu-
la tion quiet and about steady.
New York, April H.-Stocks opened firm
and generally higher on commission house
buying. The seasonable weather and the
weakness of the sterling exchange mar
ket, the result of offerings of security
and loan bills, were the principal factors
at work. The advance, which was equal
TO AMlA per cent, was most pronounced
in the Changers, the Southwestern,
Wheeling, Lake Erie preferred. and the
Northern Pacific. The last named was
taken on the general belief that the reor-
ganization will be carried through sue
cessfully. The advance lead 10 realza-
ton all along the line and Sugar suffer
ed the greatest loss. The stock fell from
1895 10 l247s and closed at i25. a net loss
Of ~ per cent. for the day. Cotton Oh
but later dropped to 56iA II was stated
semlofhcially that the dividend on the