The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-12


nah quotations: Commercial demand
SLSSl+; sixty days, SAoi4i ninety days,
S4.S63sc; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
days S51S; Swiss, sixty days. $685.
marks. sixty days, 80 l-16.
Domestic eXchange-The tone Of the
market is quiet Banks are buying AT
for amounts of 81 600 and over
Securites-The market continues very
quiet and inclined TO dizziness. 1t is diff
cult TO effect trades; quotations are almost
nominal
Stocks and Bonds-sta,e Bonds-Geor-
lOzA asked; Georgia 312 per cents, due 1915
lOl12 bid. lO2lA asked; Georgia Is Smiths
maturity 1896, 1919 bid 1929 asked; Georgia
az per cent. bonds, 1915, ll4is bid. 1l5 asked;
South Carolina AIS. los bid. 100 asked.
city Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, l0l BID,
los asked; Augusta AIS 1925, lOi bid, 1O5
asked Augusta z per cent, ia bid, 1l5Ja
asked; Augusta 6 per cent, ll2 bid, 1l3
asked Columbus per cent, 1903 bid, 1O4
asked; Macon per cent, 1l4l3 bid 1874
asked; savannah per cent, quarterly
July coupons, los bid, 1854 asked; savan-
nah per cent, quarterly August coupons
Jos as bid: lOsls asked Charleston As, 96 bid,
Railroad Bonds-savaI nah. Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds.
asked Atlantic and Cliff first mortgage,
consolidated per cent coupons, January
and July maturity, 1887 1921 bid 1G3
asked; Central Railroad and banking
s6ls asked; Central Of Georeia
railway first mortgage IS, 1876. III id,
consolidated S. 50-year gold bonds. S7Ib
bid, S91A asked; Central of Georgia railway
| first preferred incomes, 291a bid 30lh asked !,
Central Of Georgia raif@ay second pre-
ferred incomes, Az bid, 15lh asked; cen
trail of Georgia railway third preferred NJ
comes, 9 bid. 10 asked; Georgia railroad
Charlotte. Columbia l' and I'D A9 as5sa;
first IS, 100 bid. 1861 asked
mortgage IS, ll5 bid, JIG asked: Georgia
Southern and Florida news IS, 96Ib bid. g7I5
asked; South Georgia and Florida 6rsI
mortgage IS LOG bid, asked; South
| Georgia and Florida, second mortgage Isl
l05 bid, asked savannah Americus
and Montgomery IS, 70 bid, II asked.
ocean Steamship . per cent. bonds, 1920
- bid, 101 asked; City and Subiirban
railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds
76 bid. n asked Electric railway rs
due 1885, 1872 bid, 2liA asked Alabama MA,
Brunswick and Western, As = Iii p;
asked; South Bound railroad SIS. ~ Bic,
Is asked, Southern Railway 5s 91k bid,
92l2 asked; Georgia and Alabama s con,
soils q bid, "a asked
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, 90 bid. 92l2 asked; Georgia common
9l16 asked; Atlanta and West Point ran
road stock, 10l bid, l02 asked; Atlanta ana
West Point per cent certificates. 101iI
bid, 102 asked; savannah CONSTRUCTION
ton Company, 74lk bid, 75h asked
Gas Stocks--Savannah Gas Light stock.
221A bid, 3 asked; Electric Light and Pow
Bank Stocks, Eac.-Citizen's Bank. 113
bid, 1872 asked; Chatham Bank, 49X hid
| 50 asked; Germania Bank, 109 bid. I16 ask
ed; Merchants National Bank, 102 bid
103 asked; National Bank of Savanna h
1874 bid 1875 asked; OglethOrpe SAVINGS
and Trust Company, 1862 bid, 1071b asked :
Southern Bank of State Of Georgia. III bid
| 172 asked; Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany 1882 bid, lO91R asked; Chatham Real
Estate and Improvement COMPANY A 81
bid, 54l5 asked; j, 81 bid, 51Ja asked: Peo-
| pies Savings and Loan Company. 81 bid,
| 90 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory gs. 1O41h
| bid, LOG asked; Slbley Factory 6s, 1Olb bid.
/ 1892 asked; Enterprise Factory IS 105 bid
! JOG asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufactur-
asked.
Factory Stocks-Savaunan Cotton Fac
/ tory, bid, SO asked; Eagle and Phenix
/ Manufacturing company, bid, 10 asked /;
! Augusta Factory, IS bid, IS asked Gran
| iteVille Factory. $50 bid l55 asked; Lang
| ley Factory, Jos bid 10 asked; Enterprise
| Factory. common 100 bid l05 asked. T p
King Manufacturing Company los bid 40
/ asked; Sibley Manufacturing COMPANY rs
bid, 50 asked Savannah Brewing Company
London, May 11.-Bar silver. SD; con-
| soils, Ill 9-16 for money, and 115s for the
account. Paris advices quote per cent.
rentes. 102 francs 80 centimes for the ac-
New York, May 11-Money on call was
! at 212Q315 per cent; the last loan was 1t
3 per cent, and at the closing was offered
| at 3 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, .
| d515 per cent. Bar silver, 575sc. Sterling
! exchange dull, with actual business In
! bankers bills at $4S7aQ4.88 for sixty days,
| and 81 88@t d4S9 for demand, posted rates.
! 81. SSJAGD4 1912 Commercial bills 81 S3st N
| $4.S7i4. Government bonds, easier state
bonds, dull; railroad bonds, dull. Silver
| at the board was steady.
New York, May 1.-THE treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, S1l86l9.623;
| currency, $50 593, 557.
New York, May II, noon;-Erie, Az;
| Northwestern, 104; preferred, 148; Lake
Shore, 1872; Norfolk and Western pre-
ferred, IA; Western Union, 85A Southern
Railway common, 8; Southern Railway
preferred 29h; American Sugar. 1929
! Baltimore and Ohio, 172s; Canada South
ern. so; st. Paul 765s Rock Island 69Ih;
! Delaware and Hudson, 126. Delaware.
/ Lackawanna and Western, l612t Man
haitian, 107; Michigan Central. 94ss, New
York Central, o. Speculation dull and
weak
New York May 11.--London set the pace
/ for local operators this morning. The fear
that the Condemnation Of American citl-
zens who were on the Competitor might
| lead to serious complications between the
United States and Spain, weakened Amer
/ lean securities in London, and caused a
feeling Of hesitancy on the part of specu-
latOrs mere. The bears. of course, made
] the mostsRf the news and hammered