The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-19
FINANCIAL.


Foreign Excnange-The market was
steady. The following are net Sa-
vannah quotations: Commercial demand,
A.8lA; sixty days, SASSY; ninety days,
%.So; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
days, $5:l9ls; Swiss, sixty days. IS. p;
marks, sixty days, 81 1916
Domestic Exchange-The tone of the
market is quiet. Banks are buying at
par and selling at 1-1O per cent. premium
for amounts TO $1,000 and over
Securities-The market is extremely dull
ana inclined to be nominal.
STOCKS and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gla, 315 per cent. bonds of 1890 1OlIb bid
IVA asked Georgia Sh per cents, due 1915,
lOl1s BID, l02l2 asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds, 1915, ll4s4 bid, 115A asked; Georgia
smiths, maturity 1896, l0l bid, 1917 asked;
south Carolina 4l9s, 10TH bid, 1854 asked.
los asked; Augusta AIS, 1925, lO5 bid, los
ASKED Augusta z per cent, liz bid ISL
as asked; augusta per cent. l1115 bid. 1I2i5
asked; Macon per cent, Ii6 bid,
y April coupons ioS BID. ASKED SS;' t sa-
coupons, iOss bid iosis asked adr'e Cbare NAY
As, So bid, 81 asked. ''''
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
per cent. interest coupons ll41b bid, -
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
asked; Central Railroad and BANKING
company collateral gold IS, 100 bid
I rai, asked; Central Of Georgia
1l2 asked; Central of Georgia railway t
consolidated 5s, 5O-year gold bonds 81 bid
" asked; Central of Georgia railway
Central of Georgia railway second pre-,
1erred incomes, 16 bid, II asked Central
OF Georgia railway third preferred in
comes, ID asked; Georgia railroad IS. 1910
III bid, ia asked; Charlotte, Column bia
and Augusta first IS, 1O5 bid JOG asked:
charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
q crG VG
Southern and Florida new S. IS bid. g6
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage IS, Jos bid, asked; South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is,
lO4 bid, asked; Savannah, Americas
and Montgomery 5s, IS bid, 66 asked;
Ocean Steamship per cent. bonds. 1920,
100 bid, none offered City and Suburban
railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds,
76ls bid, 78la asked; Electric Railway 5s
due 1880, "A bid, Is asked; Alabama Mid
land 5 per cent. Endorsed, - bid 80 asked.
Brunswick and Western as, - bid, rs
asked; South Bound railroad IS, = bid,
76ls asked; Southern Railway IS, 80 bid,
Railroad Stooks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, 9312 bid, 9412 asked; Georgia common,
100 bid, 165 asked Southwestern, SO bid,
"a asked; Atlanta and West Point rail-
road stock, 100 bid, 1O2 asked; Atlanta
and West Point per cent. certificates,
100 bid, 101 asked; Savannah Construction
Company, IA bid. rs asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock
221s bid, % asked Electric Light and
Power Company 81 bid, IS asked.
,, Bank X Stocks T,5 . Etc.-Citizens Bank,
49l4 bid, 50 asked; Germania Bank
Jos bid, 100 asked; Merchants National
Bank, 1O2 bid, - asked; National Bank of
thorpe Savings and Trust Company, i65lk
Of Georgia, 10 bid, : j.. asked; savan-
= askedE Chatham Real Estate
and Improvement Company, A, 5315 bid ;
"a asked; B, 81 bid, Sly asked
Peoples Savings and Loan Company, 80
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 6s
1882 bid, 1881 asked; Sibley Factory IS,
100 bid, 1882 asked; Enterprise Factory 6s
1O5 bid, 1O6 asked; Eagle and Phenix Man
| ufacturing Company, per cent. bonds,
50 bid, S314 asked.
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, so bid, Ga asked; Eagle and Phenix
Manufacturing Company, % bid, "a asked; :
Augusta Factory, Is bid, so asked; Gran
ley Factory, l07 bid, los asked; Enterprise
Factory, common, 102 bid, los asked;
]. p. King Manufacturing Company, 10S
| bid, 10 asked Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany, 70 bid, 50 asked; Savannah Brewing
| Company, = bid. Sc asked.
London, March 1S.-Bar silver 312d; con-
soils, 100 5-16, for money, and 1895 for the
account. Paris advices quote per cent.
rentes 101 francs 80 cents for the ac-
count
New York, March 1s.-Money on call was
| at per cent, and at the closing was Of
| fered al per cent. Prime mercantile pa
per. 51b6I6 per cent Bar silver, 6S15c; Ster-
| ling exchange easy, with actual business
| in bankers bills at 81. S612d4. 1864 for sixty
! days, and $4S71ad4.S7s4 for demand Posted
| rates. S4 S764 $50; commercial bills, 81. S51h
| G4S6ih Government bonds steady; state
| bonds dull; railroad bonds lower. Silver
| at the board was easier.
| New York, March 1S.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, 1921 AIS, 142;
currency. sS9,S47 ,604.
| New York March IS. noon.-Erie, 151s;
| Northwes tern, 1851; do preferred. 144: Lake
shore l47; Norfolk and Western preferred,
| ~: Western Union, S5i2; Southern Rail-
way. common "a; do preferred 30A; Amer
! lean Sugar. 116s4, Baltimore and Ohio, 1873;
/ Canada Southern, 1912; st. Paul. IN;
| Rock Island n. Delaware and Hudson,
| 1857; Delaware, Lackawanna and West
| ern 49,: Manhattan 1035s; Michigan Cen
| tral, IS; New York Central, 97l5. Specula-
New York, March 1s.-The tendency of
| the stock market to-day was downward.
| The decline was started by sales for for
eicu account. Private cable advices We're
| TO the effect that the objections made by
| France to the proposed British expedition
! to Dongola had disturbed confidence to
some extent, and the early selling of the
/ Americans there and the decline IN con-
| soils and French zen es was ascribed TO
! this. At hon1e. the mercantile failures
announced daily are .exerting an unfavor-