The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-09
FINANCIAL.


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FINANCIAL.
Money-Steady
Foreign Exchange-The market was
firm. The following are. net Sa-
vannah quotations: Commercial demand.
SISSY; sixty days, SlS75s; ninety days,
A.S72s; francs. Paris and Havre, sixty
| days, S5.lS15; Swiss, sixty days. S520ss;
marks, sixty days. 81 l5-l6.
Domestic Exchange-The tone of the
market is quiet. Banks are buying at
par and selling at LILO per cent. premium
for amounts TO $1,000 and over.
Securites-The market is quiet and
steady. with limited investment de-
mand.
Stocks and Bonds-state Bonds-Geor-
gia, S15 per cent. bonds of 1880, 1919 bid,
! 1929 asked: Georgia 312 per cents. due 1915,
1915 bid. 1922 asked: Georgia 4lh per cent.
Smiths, maturity 1896, 1O1 bid, 1O2 asked;
South Carolina 4las los bid. 1OSIa asked.
| City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 10I bid.
asked; Augusta per cent, ia bid, 115H
! asked; Augusta per cent, III bid, ll3
asked Columbus per cent. 1OS bid. l0i
1l6l% asked; Savannah 8 per cent, quarter
/ ly April coupons, 1894 bid, = asked; Sa-
vannah 5 per cent, quarterly May cou-
Sc bid. 81 asked.
Railroad Bonds Savannah, Florida and
| Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mort gage,
| consolidated per cent coupons, January
asked; Central Railroad and Banking
| Company, collateral gold 5s, 80 bid,
100 r.. asked; Central of Georgia
| liz asked; Central of Georgia railway
! consolidated 5s, 50-year gold bonds. IS
first preferred incomes, 30 bid, 3lls asked;
| Central Of Georgia railway, second pre-
| ferred incomes, Is bid, 1872 asked Cen
trail of Georgia railway third preferred in
! Georgia nan ks
/ 1910 112 bid, 113 asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta first 5s, los bid. LOG asked;
mortgage Is, 1l5 bid, lie asked; Georgia
| Southern and Florida new IS, 961R bid 97ib
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is,
104 bid, asked; Savannah, Americas
| and Montgomery 5s, II bid y asked:
Ocean Steamship per cent bonds, 1920
100 bid, none offered; City and Suburban
railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds,
due 1885, is bid, 81 asked Alabama MID,
land per cent, Endorsed. So bid. 80 asked;
Brunswick aud Western, As, : bid. IS
| Is asked; Southern Railway IS, sO1s bid,
Railroad stocks-Augusta and savan-
western sf5 81 Si34 b %.t ss& pG asked Al
road stock, 100 bid ioa asked; Atlanta ANITA
and West Point 6 per cent certificates.
100 bid, 1Ol asked Savannah Construction
Company, 7215 bid 70 asked, ex-div
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock
% bid, 2S1a asked; Electric Light and
Power Company 6 bid, s. asked.
~ bid bd 3 asked asked Ghaa2m B Bank
1888 bid, 1924 asked; Merchants National
Of "" Savannah lS4 bid, 1s5 asked fi o 61snN
thorpe Savings adm Trust COMPANY. i06&
bid. 1071k asked; Southern Bank of State
nah Bank and Trust Company. iOs5% bid.
= asked; Chatham Real Estate and I'm
provement Company, 4, 5S1h bid, "a asked;
and Loan Company, 9115 bid, SO asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory Gs
1914 bid, 1OS asked; Sibiey Factory IS.
6s. los bid, LOG asked; Eagle and Phenix
Manufac curing Company, 6 per cent.
bonds, 50 bid, 50 asked.
Factory Stocks-SaVannah Cotton Fac
tory, SIS bid, 60 asked; Eagle and Phenix
augusta factory IS bid. IS asked; Gran,
ley Factory. 1OS bid. 10 asked; Enterprise
Factory, common, 102 bid, 105 asked; ]. p
King Manufacturing Company, 1OS bid. no
asked; Sibley Manufacturing Company,
IS bid, so asked: Savannah Brewing Com
london. April 8.-Bar silver, 81 s-16d;
consols, 110A for bankers money and the
account. Paris advances quote per cent;
rentes 1O1f zoe for. account.
New York. April 6.-MOney on call was
steady at S1zQ4 per cent; the last loan
being offered at 3ls per cent, and at the
closing was offered at 3i5 per cent; prime
merchandise paper, 512d6 per cent. Bar sill
YER 6SAc Sterling exchange, firm, with
actual business in bankers bills at $3.50
4 SSH for sixty days, and AS94489A for
demand Posted rates, 89d490. CONNER
cial bills, $4.S71ad4.SS IS. Government bonds,
firm; state bonds dull. Silver at the board
was dull.
New York, April S.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, $12S, 100, 147;
currency, 800, Alb 553.
New York. April s.-Noon-Erie. 145s;
shore U1 re- la; Norfolk and Western. preferred,
81: Western Union, S354; Southern Rail-
way. common, 8; Southern Railway, pre-
ferred, 295s; American Sugar 119; Balti-
more and Ohio, 10; Canada Southern, 4Sst
ST Paul 76; Rock Island, III; Delaware
and Hudson, 1861; Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western, 1894 Manhattan, 1897;
| Michigan Central, SO; New York Central,
96ik Market dull and featureless.
New York, April S.-Specula tion a the
stock Exchange, as of late, was quiet and
| altogether professional. The dealings in
stocks were only 153,143 shares, of which
% S00 were Tobacco, 81, 500 Sugar, and TO-
market was strong, and prices moved up
| 165 per cent. Manhattan leading, with
sales I'D to 10. The stock was bought
on the revival Of the reports that that
| Vanderbilts. Other firm stocks were Cen
eraI Electric. the Changers, and Louis
| Vile and Nashville. Ge:1ral Electric sold
up to 383s. on report that the negotla-
were progressing favorably. Louisville
and Nashville moved up 10 50ls, on covering
of short contracts. Tobacco was fever
ish throughout, and after breaking from
half hour Of business the market devel-
oDed weakness on vague rumors from