The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-06
FINANCIAL.


Foreign Exchange--The market was
firm. The following are net Sa-
vannah quotations: Commercial demand,
&.SS; sixty days, AS7l4; ninetydays,
days, $5.17% Swiss. sixty days, $5.1S;
marks, sixty days, 50.
Domestic Exchange-Steady Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: For
amounts to SIS, 10c premium; to $50, 15c
premium; to 500, zoe premium; to 500, 25c
premium; from $500 up to 81 600 b per cent.
premium; amounts over $1,000, at $l00 per
$1,000.
securities-The market is quiet quota
Stocks and Bonds-state Bonds-Geor-
gia 31b per cent. bonds of 1880, 101 bid
lO2 asked: Georgia S1k per cents, due 1915,
101A bid, 1919 asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds, 1915, 112Is bid, 1872 asked; Georgia
per cent, due 1926, 10S1a bid, 1921 asked;
South Carolina AVS. 104 bid, 105 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, los bid;
log asked; Augusta 41as. 1925, 1O4 bid, 1O41s
asked; Augusta Z per cent, 113 bid, ia
asked; Augusta per cent, 112 bid, 113
asked; Columbus per cent l03 bid, 104
asked; Macon 6 per cent, ia bid, lis
asked Savannah per cent, quarterly Oc-
tober coupons, 1891 bid 1898 asked ;Savan-
nah per cent, quarterly August coupons,
1O9 bid, 1891 asked; Charleston As, "a bid,
Railroad Bonds-Savannah Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent. interest coupons. liz bid, III
consolidated per cent coupons, January,
and July maturity 1897. l0l bid, 1919
asked; Central Railroad and Banking
Company, collateral gold IS, IS bid.
SO asked; Central of Georgia
railway first mortgage 5s, 1915. bid.
112 asked; Central of Georgia railway,
consolidated IS, 5O-year gold bonds, 81
bid, SS1a asked; Central of Georgia railway
first preferred incomes, "a bid, 2512 asked;
Central of Georgia railway second pre-
ferred incomes, bid, Z asked; Cen
trail of Georgia railway third preferred in
comes, = bid, asked; Georgia Rail
road Is, 1910 10 bid, liz asked;
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
first IS, - bid, 1882 asked; Charlotte,
Z, = bid, 112 asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida new 5s, bid, 81
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage Is, LOG bid, asked; South
105 bid, asked; Savannah. Americas
and Montgomery 5s bid 6S asked;
Ocean Steamship 5 per cent. bonds 1928,
- bid, IS asked City and Suburban
bid, IS asked; Electric Railway IS.
due 1885, - bid, 20 asked; Alabama Mid
land 5 per cent. indorsed, - bid, 80 ask
ed; Brunswick and Western As, = bid, rs
asked; South Bound railroad 5s, bid
as asked; Southern railway 5s, sou bid,
S11a asked; Georgia and Alabama 8 con-
soils, - bid, Y asked:
nah, 81 bid. SO asked. ex-div,;
S asfe5; southwestern, s4@ bid, s. asked s
r raiiroad stock, IS bid, 90 asked; Atlanta
and West Point 6 per cent. certificates. 95
bid. IS asked; Savannah Construction
Company, - bid, 1872 asked.
Gas Stocks-SaVannah Gas Light stock
20 bid, q asked, ex-div.; Electric Light
and Power Company, IS bid, 60 asked ex-
Rank stocks. Etc.-Citizens Rank III
diVy
AZ bid. As asked. eX-div. Germania Bank
1851 hid 10S asked, eX-diV; Merchants Ma
tional Bank, 80 bid, SO asked; National
Rank of Savannah, 100 bid, 1872 asked, ex-
div: Oglcthorpe Savings and Trust Com
panv. 1887 bid, 1914 asked, ex-div; South
ern Bank of State of Georgia, I6S bid
1853 asked ex-div; Savannah Bank and
Trust Company, 1O4 bid, 105 asked, ex-
div Chatham Real Estate and Improve
nent Company, A, 5315 bid 81 asked B.
5O1b bid, 81 asked, ex-div.; Peoples Savings
and Loan Company, sl1z BID, 921s asked.
FACTORY Bonds-Augusta Factory 6s, 102
hid 103 asked; Sibley Factory IS, 100 bid
1O2 asked; Enterprise Factory Is, 103 bid
i04 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufac-
turing Company per cent. bonds. - bid,
a.. Factory stocks-savannah Cotton Fac
tory, - bid, so asked; Augusta Factory,
n bid. 50 asked ex1dly.; Granllteville Fac
i0S bid, 10 asked; Enterprise Factory,
common IS bid. 102 asked, ex-div.; J. P.
King Manufacturing Company, 100 bid
1903 asked; Sibley. Manufacturing Compa-
nv. rs bid. Is asked; Savannah Brewing
Company - bid, 78 asked.
London, Aug. 5.-Bar silver quiet 313sd.
Paris per cent. rentes, 100 francs 30 cen
times for the account.
New York, Aug. 5-Money on call was
steady at 11a6D215 per cent; the last loan
was at 2 per cent. and at the closing was
offered at per cent. Prime mercantile
paper 81 per cent. Bar silver. 63l5c. Ster-
ling exchange dun, but firm, with actual
business in bankers bills at $4.S8d4.3SN
for sixty days, and sAS9A for demand.
bills steady. Government bonds were cas-
Ter. State bonds were dull; railroad bonds
were lower. Silver at the board was neg
lected.