The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-22
RICE.
FINANCIAL,
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MoneV-EasY.

Foreign Exchange-Market firm. Tho
following are net Savannah quotations:
Commercial, demand, $4.S5ss; sixty DAYS.
S4S21a; ninety days, $4S1A; francs, Paris
and Havre, sixty days, 5.21 15-16; Swiss.
sixty days, 52SA; marks, sixty days. 94Ib
Domestic Exchange-Steady Banl.s
are buying at Is per cent. discount and
selling as follows: Up to SIS. lOc pren,-
ium; $25 TO $50, 15c premium: $50 to 500 zoe
premium; 500 to $780, Csc premium; 500
and over at par.
Securties--The market is quiet with
fair investment demand.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor.
gia 31a per cent. bonds of 1880, 102 bid. 1oa
asked; Georgia S1s per cent, due 1915, 1Ol
bid, 102 asked; Georgia AZ per cent bonds
1915, 1872 bid, 1151a asked; Georgia 4 per
cent, due 1926, ITO bid, 11Ob asked; South
Carolina, 412s, los bid, 10 asked
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, los bid.
LOG asked; Augusta 415s, 1926 log bid, liz
asked; Augusta Z per cent, 113 bid, ia
asked; Augusta per cent, l12 bid, 113 ask
ed; Columbus per cent, 104 bid, los ask
ed; Macon 6 per cent, liz bid, ia asked;
Savannah 5 per cent, quarterly
January coupons, 1854 bid, = asked;
Savannah per cent. quarterly February
coupons, 107ls bid, 1OS asked; Charleston
As "a bid, 80 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
western railroad general mortgage bonds.
per cent. interest coupons. 11215 bid, ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage.
consolidated per cent. coupons. January
and July maturity, 1897, 1O2 bid, 1021a asked:
Central Railroad md Banking Com
pany, collateral gold IS, 81 bid 80 asked;
Central of Georgia Railway first mortgage
IS, 50-year gold bonds, ITO bid. 112 asked:
Central of Georgia Railway first CONSOLE
Central Of Georgia Railway. first pre-.
ferred incomes, 331A bid. S4l5 asked;
Central of Georgia hallway, second
preferred incomes, 1874 bid, 141a asked; Gen.
trail of Georgia Railway third preferred
incomes. 61a bid, ~ asked; Georgia. rail
road IS, 1910. los bid. 10 asked; Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta first 5s. 1O9 bid, 10
asked; Charlotte Columbia and Au-
! gusta second mortgage Is, 113 bid,
ia asked; Georgia Southern and
Florida new IS. SO bid, 9S asked South
Georgia and Florida first mortgage rs,
1903 bid, 105 asked; South Georgia and
Florida second mortgage Is, 102 bid, lOI
asked; Ocean steamship 5 per cent.
bonds, 1926, 10S bid, 1O3h asked; City and
Suburban Railroad first mortgage per
cent. bonds, bid, Is asked; Electric
Railway 5, due 1885. IA bid, 10 asked; Ala
bama Midland per cent indorsed, IS bid,
| sS asked; Brunswick and Western As,
- bid, 70 asked; South Bound railroad IS.
! 20 bid 70 asked Southern Railway IS, SS1I
bid, S9iA asked; Georgia and Alabama first
preferred IS, 9S1s bid 100 asked; Georgia
and Alabama first consols, 80 bid, 81
asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savannah,
95lh bid, 9G1s asked; Georgia common, 1854
bid, 1877 asked; Southwestern, 92A bid 1914
asked, ex-div.; Atlanta and West Point
railroad stock, 106 bid, 40 asked; Atlanta
and West Point per cent. certificates, lO2
bid. asked; Savannah Construction
Company, 20 bid, "a asked.
Gas StocKs-Savannah Gas Light stock.
22A bid. % asked; Electric Light and
Power Company, 6S bid. 50 asked, ex-div.
Bank Stocks, Etc.--Citzens Bank, 108 bid,
1903 asked: ex-dv. Chatham Bank, 46 bid,
AZ asked; Germanfa Bank, 107 bid, 1913
asked; Merchants National Bank, 80 bid,
asked; National Bank of Savannah,
127 bid, 100 asked: Oglethorpe Savings and
Trust Company 100 bid 10l ask
ed, ex-div.. Southern Bank of
the State of Georgia, 169 bid,
III asked: Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany, 80 bid, 100 asked ex-div.; Chatham
Real Estate and Improvement Company
A, "a bid, asked; h, 50iz bid 5l12 asked;
Peoples Saving and Loan Company "
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory IS, 100
bid. 102 asked; Sbley Factory 6s, 100 bid.
101 asked; Enterprise Factory 6s, l0l bid,
1902 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufactur-
rs Company. 6 per cent. bonds, 40 bid 20
asked.
Factory StocSs-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, bid. 80 asked; Augusta Factory. n
bid 50 asked, ex-dv.; Graniteville Fac
tory 145 bid, $50 asked; Langley Factory.
100 bid. 105 asked: Enterprise Factory.
common. IS bid. 100 asked; J. p. King
Manufacturing Company. l02 bid, 1O5 ask
ed. Sibley Manufacturing Company, IS bid,
n asked; Savannah Brewing Company 81
bid, 81 asked.
London, Dec. 2.-Bar silver. 295s. Con-
soils, ll0ss for money and il0s for the ac-
count
Paris. Dec. 2i.-Three per cent. rentes
l02 francs Is centimes for The account.
New York, Dec. 2l.--Money on call was
steady at li5a2 per cent; the last loan
was at 2 per cent. and at the closing was
offered al FER cent. Prime mercantile
paper 5iE6t4 per cent Bar silver, 65hc
Sterling exchange, steady, with actual
business Ia bankers bills at Si.S3A 81
for sixty days, and SiS7AG4.S7is for de-
maud; posted rates A6ii40 isS. CONNER
cla bills. sis2i4NAs3h. Government bonds
were nrmeri state bonds were puiet; rail-
road bonds were Irregular Silver a. he
H0lrl was duii
New York Doc e. noon.--lsr.e. 49,
Northwestern. i0liA; 10 preferred. 1864;
Lake shore, 1915 Norfolk aud Western pres
fcfsed. l54 Mcsiern Union S2i Southern