The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-08
FINANCIAL.


Money-Steady.
Foreign Exchange-The market was
vannah quotations: Commercial demand.
s4.S85s; sixty days, S4.S75s; ninety days,
S4.s72s; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
marks, sixty days, 81 1916.
Domestic Exchange-The tone of the
market is quiet. Banks are Duying at
par and selling at lilo per cent. premium
for amounts to 81 900 and over.
Securities-The market was quiet and
Stocks and Bonds-state Bonds-Geor-
gia, 31s per cent. bonds Of 1890. 1914 bid,
1924 asked; Georgia 315 per cents. due 1915,
1O1l9 bid, 1921 asked: Georgia Az per cent.
Smiths, maturity 1896, 1907 bid, 1Oilk asked;
South Carolina 41ss, los bid. 1854 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 107 bid.
as ed; Augusta Z per cent, ia bid, 115lh
asked; Augusta per cent, liz bid, 1ls
" April coupons, 1924 Bid. = asked; sa-
pons. los bid. 1os5s asEed 'e cRariesfon eo As
So bid, 81 asked.
Railroad Bonds Savannah, Florida and
6 per cent. interest coupons, 1l2 bid. -
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated z per cent. coupons, January
asked; Central Railroad and Banking
Go Company, collateral gold IS, SO bid,
railway first mortgage &c 5s is45 iiff0f bid
liz asked; Central of Georgia railway
consolidated IS, 50-year gold bonds, IS
first preferred incomes, 81 bid, 80 asked;
ferred incomes, AZ bid I5is asked; Cen
comes, bid, 10 asked; Georgia railroad S.
1910, liz bid, ll3 asked; Charlotte, Columbia
ard and Augusta first 5s. los bid. 1O6 asked;
mortgage Is, lis bid, 116 asked; Georgia
Southern and Florida new 5s 961s bid 97I6
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage IS 105 bid. asked; South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage rs,
1O4 bid; asked; Savannah, Americas
Ocean Steamship per cent. bonds, 1920,
100 bid. none offered; City and Suburban
railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds,
due 1885, IS bid q asked; Alabama fbaaimdy MID,
BRUNSWICK and Western As. : bid, Is
Is asked; Southern Railway IS, 9O1k bid,
Railroad stocks,Augusta and savan-
western. Si3s BID q. aa& asked 0u Al
road stock, 100 bid, 162 aske 9n AtI Raii,
and West Point per cent. certifcates
100 bid. 1O1 asked: Savannah CONSTRUCTION
Company, l21a bid, q asked, ex-div.
% bid, 2s1a asked; Electric Light and
Power ceem 9aRr71a s. bid, s. asked.
49, bid DID, II i ASKED ASKED Ghasa% R Rsnf
lOSAi bid. 1924 asked; Merchants National
Of Savannah 1SI bid, is5 asked iUHii 6 6ahN
thorpe Savings adm Trust Company ms
bid, 1O71a asked; Southern Bank Of State
nah Bank and Trust Company. ios ~ bid sd
- asked; Chatham Real Estate and I'm.
provement Company. 4. $50 bid. 81 asked;
and Loan Company. sih bid % as Ha9SineS
Factory Bonds-.Augusta Factory 6s,
1912 bid, 106 asked; Sibley Factory IS.
Is, los bid, 10e asked; Eagle and Phenix
Manufacturing Company, per cent
bonds, 80 bid. S3A asked.
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, So bid, 90 asked; Eagle and Phenix
Augusta Factory. Is BID So asked Gran Gran
ley Factory, 10S bid. 40 asked; Enterprise
Factory, common, 102 bid. Jos asked; ]. P.
King Manufacturing Company, 10S Did, ITO
rs bid, 80 asked: Savannah Brewing Com
pany, =, so asked.
London. April Bar silver. S11sd; con-
soils, 10 for money and account. Paris adj
vices quote 8 per cent. rentes 101 francs
1872 centimes for the account.
New York, April Mooney on call was
easy at 3G3B per cent; the last loan was
at 8 per cent, and at the closing was Of
fered at per cent. Prime merchantable
paper 512d6 per cent. Bar silver, 681sc.
Mexican dollars. SAC. Sterling exchange
firm, with actual business in bankers
bills at s4.SSd4.SS4 for sixty days, and
81 S914 for demand Posted rates, $500
AGO Commercial bills, $4S7d4S7s4. Gov
eminent bonds firm; state bonds quiet and
steady; railroad bonds firm. Silver at the
board dull.
New York, April THE treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, S127. S97, 779;
currency $50, S65 966.
New York, April Z, Noon.-Erie. 14l6;
Northwestern 1888; do preferred, 146; Lake
Shore, 147: Norfolk and Western pre-
ferred, 5l2; Western Union, S3l5; Southern
Railway common, 91s; Southern Railway
preferred 29A AMERICAN I69ai sugar sugar ngA;
ern, 1914 St. Paul 755s; Rock Island. 7l7s;
Delaware and Hudson, 126; Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, 1891; Mammal
tan, l09; Michigan Central. SO; New YORK.
Central, sc; market firm.
New York, April Tobacco doomed into
prominence again to-day the dealing in
the stock footing NJ $500 shares, in a
grand total of 1883 shares. Al the open
inc the shares ruled firm sIt6iksi4 but