The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-08
FINANCIAL.


Money-Steady.
ForeignR, Exseh4ange;-The market was
yannah quotations: Commercial demand,
sLSlas; sixty days, s4.S67s; ninety days,
days. $500; Swiss sixty days. s5.21M;
marks, sixty days, "a 11-16.
Domestic Exchange.-The tone of the
market is quiet. Banks are buying at
par and selling at lilo per cent. premium
for amounts TO 81, 900 and over.
Securities-Market steady, with contin-
ued demand for bank stocks and a hard
ening in Southwestern railroad stock. A
quiet investment demand for state and
municipal issues. Railroads are dun at
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, 31a per cent. bonds of 1880, 1919 bid
lO2A asked; Georgia 3la per cents, due 1915,
bonds, 1915 114$4 bid, 115A asked; Georgia.
Smiths, maturity, 1886, l0l bid, 1914 asked;
South Carolina as, 10ll9 bid, 1854 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent. 1O7 bid,
los asked; Augusta 4zs, 1926, lO5 bid, los
asked; August per cent, 111h bid, 112lb
asked; Augusta 6 per cent, '1i2 bid, ii3
asked; Columbus 5 per cent. 1C3 BID. i09
asked; Macon per cent. 116 bid,
III asked; Savannah per cent, quarter
coupons, 100 bid 109Ib asked; Charleston
As, SO bid, 81 asked.
Western railroad general mortgage bonds.
6 per cent. interest coupons, 114Ia bid, 1854
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first MORTGAGE.
consolidated Z per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897, 102la bid lO3ib
asked; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany, collateral gold 5s,. 100 bid,
railway first mortgage 5s 1915.
III bid. 112 asked; Central of Georgia rail,
way consolidated 5s, 50-year gold bonds
sil% bid, 90 asked; Central of Georgia rail,
way, first preferred Incomes, 81 bid, SO
asked; Central of Georgia rail-
T S bid e'G 9a a5 RFsdGrred centr INCOMES 81
Georgia Railway third preferred in
comes, IL asked; Georgia rail-
iotte, Columbia and Augusta first IS
1O5 bid 106 asked; Charlotte Columbia
and Augusta second mortgage Is, lis bid.
116 asked; Georgia Southern and FLORIDA
new 5s IS bid, SO asked; South Geor-
gia and Florida first mortgage Is los bid
= asked; South Georgia and Florida sec
vannah, Americas and Montgomery IS.
| 5SIs bid 59lA asked; Ocean Steamship per
| cent bonds, 1920, 100 bid, none offered: Citv
| per cent. bonds, 16la bid, 79 asked; Elec-
| trio Railway 5s, due 1885, "A bid, Is asked
/ bid so asked; Brunswick and Western As.
/ = bid rs asked; South Bound railroad 5s
- bid, 76la asked; Southern Railway S.
railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan.
nah, 93lR bid, sag asked; Georgia, com
mon, 1914 bid, 40 asked; Southwestern.
Point railroad stock, 100 bid I02 askeS
| Atlanta and West Point per cent. Ger,
! LifiCaIeS 1U0 DlCl, 1Ul aSkeus savannah Con
| struction Company, - bid, 76 asked.
Gas 'Stocks-SaVannah Gaslight stool
| 22lb bid % asked; Electric Ligbt and
] Power Company, 81 bid, g. asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Cttizens' Bank
! 112 bid, 11S asked; Chatham Ban1;
a9ls bid. 50 asked; Germania Ranit
| i07ib bid, 1857 asked; Merchants Nationai
/ Bank. 1902 bid, l03 asked: National Banl, ~
4 Savannah, 1929 bid, 1874 asked. OIL
| thorpe Savings and Trust Companv i0E
! hid lO6 asked; Southern Bank Of StstS ~
| Of Georgia, 40 bid, III asked: SsVsp
| nah Bank and Trust Company. 10SiI Ma
/ 110iS asked; Chatham Real T,stat5,
| and Improvement Company A 53iL Ma
"a asked; b. 81 bid. 5Ja asked
| Peoples Savings and Loan Company -
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory Go
/ 1897 bid 10f asked; Sibley Factory Is J6i
1 bid. 1O1 asked; Enterprise FACTORY 6s' III
| bid JOG asked; Eagle and PheniX Manu-.
| featuring Company, per cent. bonds, 81
| bid, S21b asked.
Factory Stocks-Savaunah Cotton Far.
tory 90 bid, Ga asked; Eagle and Phenfx
| Manufacturing Company, Is bid q asked
Augusta factory, rs bid, 81 asked: Gran
| iteville Factory, LIS bid, 15S asked: Lang
| ley Factory, 107 bid, jos asked; EnterpriSe
| Factory, common, 102 bid, los asked
/ j. J.. King Manufacturing Company lQS
bid 10 asked Sibley Manufacturing COM
| pany, 50 bid, 81 asked; savannah Brewing
/ Company, - bid. Sc asked
London, March Bar silver. 5 I5-l6d;
eonsols 100, for money, and l09 1-16, for
| account
$50 p. m.-Paris adviees quote per