The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-23
Fun ANCIAL.
Money-Stead

Foreign EXchange-The market was
steady The following are net Sa5
vannah quotations: Commercial demand
SASS; sixty days, $4S7; ninety days.
s4S694; francs, Paris and Havre. sixty
days, S5lS; Swiss. sixty days, $685.
Domestic Exchange-The tone of the
market is quiet. Banks are buying at
for amounts TO 81 200 and over.
Securiues-The market is quiet and
sluggish; no decided pressure to sell, and
difficult market to trade on.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
giaas, 81 per cent; bonds of 1890, lO2 bid.
1O11a bid. 10211 asked: Georgia AZ per cent
Smiths, maturity 1896, 10I bid, 102 asked;
bonds. 1915, .114lz bid. l15 asked; Georgia
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 107 bid.
108 asked; Augusta AVS, 1926 l05 bid, LOG
asked; Augusta per cent, liz bid ii3
asked; Columbus 8 per cent, 103 bid, 104
asked; Macon per cent. 114l5 bid,
ly July coupons, los bid, 1881 asked; Sa-
vannah per cent, quarterly May cou-
pons., 109 bid. lO9A asked; Charleston As.
Railroad Bonds Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
asked: Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage.
consolidated per cent coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897. iO2l4 bid. lOs
Company, collateral gold IS, 9Sik bid,
991z asked, Central of Georgia
railway trst m.ortIgage IS. 1915. III bid.
consolidated. 5s, 50-year gold bonds, 50
bid, 81 asked; Central of Georgia railway
first preferred incomes 80 bid, 81 asked;
ferred incomes is bid, i6 asked; Cen
trail of Georgia railway thru preferred in
1910, 112 bid, 113 asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta first 5s, 104 bid, los asked;
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
Southern and Florida new IS, Sc bid. 81
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is.
105 bid, asked; Savannah, Americus
and Montgomery, 5s, 20 bid. Il asked;
100 bid, 1O1 asked: City and Suburban
railroad first mortgage Z per cent bonds
q bid, 80 asked Electric Railway IS,
land per cent: Endorsed. SO bid, so asked:
Brunswick and Western As, bid, rs
IS asked; Southern Railway IS, BIZ bid. st Sil
asked; Georgia and Alabama consols, Is
Railroad stteocks;.Augusta and savan-
" Western. s1H e. g s'1S asked South 8sa
road t stock. 100 bid. iO2 asked: Atlanta anti.
ioi1a bid, 1o2 asked; savannah eClsa1ss,
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock.
% bid. 231a asked; Electric Light and
PG S.eE cG sfdeKs sR bid s. asked
49, O Bid, 50 asked; Ger 4aanm B Bank
BsnR i log bid, io asked Naion Mft Bank
of Savannah, 1S414 bid, 1876 asked; Ogle-
thorpe Savings and Trust Company, 1861
bid, 10715 asked; Southern Bank of State
of Georgia, I'll bid, 172 asked; Savan-
nah Bank and Trust Company 100 bid
10 asked; Chatham Real Estate and Inn
and Loan Company. siik bid. 50 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 6s,
@ bd 1854 s asked EDteyprse Payoto S
Manufactqring % Company. 6 per cent.
Factory Stocks-Savanpah Cotton Fac
tory, = bid, 90 asked; Eagle and Phenix
MISUNDERSTANDING Company q bid 70 asked;
iteville Factory, $50 bid. 155 asked; Lang
ley Factory, 108 bid, 10 asked; Enterprise
Factory, common, 100 bid, 1O5 asked; j. p
King Manufacturing Company, IOS bid 10
asked Sibley Manufacturing Company,
IS bid. 80 asked: Savannah Brewing Com
London, April 22.-Bar silver, Sid; consols
1125s for both money and the account. Pa
ris advices quote 3 per cent. rentes at 102;
francs 70 centums for account.
New York, April 22.-Money on call was
easy at 2laG3 per cent, the last loan was
at 3 per cent, and at the close was offered
d D
IS per cent. Bar silver, 67%. Sterling ex-
change steady, with actual business in
bankers bills at $4.S71kQ4.S7% for 60 days
and "a. SS14 @4.SS12 for demand; posted rates
81. SSd4.S9; commercial bills, 81. S61a04 S71s
Government bonds were firm; state bonds
were dull; railroad bonds were higher;
silver at the board was steady.
New York, April 22.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin $l26, 667, 019;
currency $50, 443 100.
New York, April p, noon.-Erie, 1914;
Northwestern, 1855; preferred, 147; Lake
Shore 1895; Norfolk and Western pre-
ferred, 81; Western Union, S75s; Southern
Railway, common, los; Southern Railway,
preferred, 32A: American Sugar, 1851
Baltimore and Ohio, 1914; Canada South
ern, 81; ST. Paul, 49, Rock Island, 727s;
Delaware and Hudson, 127; Delaware
Lacfawanna and Western, 159; Manhat-
tan. l092 Michigan Central, 50: New York
Central, 977s. Speculation firm.
New York, April 22.-At the stock ex-
change to-day there was further expan-
sion in the volume of business, the sales
aggregat!ng $50. $40 shares. The temper Of
speculation was bullish, although at the
start the bears hammered the market on
the strength of the lower quotations from
London and the receipt Of selling orders
from that center. The greatest decline was
In Manhattan, which fell X to 100. on the
passage by the assembly of the three
cent fare bill" For the same reason Metro
politan Traction declined ] 20 1876. In the
remainder OF the list the losses varied
from 4 10 = per cent, the latter IN SUI