The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-06
FINANCIAL.


Money-Steady.
Foreign ExeGange.-The market was
vannah quotations.: Commercial demand,
$4.S6; francs. Paris and Havre, sixty
marks, sixty days, "a ills.
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
Securities-Market steady, with contin-
ued demand for bank stocks and hard
ening in Southwestern railroad stock A
quiet investment demand for state and
municipal issues. Railroads are dull al
quotations.
gia, S1a per cent. bonds of 1880, 1917 bid,
l02A asked; Georgia 315 per cents, due 1915
1919 bid, 1929 asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds, 1915, 114A bid, 1154 asked; Georgia
Smiths, maturity, 1896, 101 bid, 10l1k asked;
South Carolina AIS. 1071A bid, 1851 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 1O7 bid,
1OS asked; Augusta AVS, 1925. 105 bid, 1Ot
asked; August z per cent, lily bid, 1121.
asked; Augusta per cent, III bid, rs
asked; Columbus 5 per cent, 103 bid, 10l
asked; Macon per cent. 116 bid.
ly April coupons. 1O9 bid. = asked; Sa-
vannah 5 per cent, quarterly May
coupons, 100 bid, lO91s asked; Charleston
Railroad Bonds-Savannah. Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds.
6 per cent. interest coupons, ia bid, lis
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897 1927 bid 1881
asked; Central Railroad and Banking Com
none offered; Central Of Georgia
railway first mortgage 5s, 1916.
Ill bid, 112 asked; Central of Georgia rail.
911b bid SO asked; Central of Georgia rail-
way, first preferred incomes, 81 bid, 80
asked; Central of Georgia rail-
T 1S bid de'9Ra a a5 RFserred centra 81
Georgia Railway, third preferred in
road 6s,. 1910, 1l2 bid 1872 asked; Char
1O5 bid, LOG asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta second mortgage Is, lis bid
116 asked; Georgia Southern and Florida
new 5s, 941a bid, sc asked; South Geor-
gia and Florida first mortgage Is, 1O5 bid,
= asked; South Georgia and Florida Sec
ond mortgage Is, 1O4 bid. =. asked; sa-
$50 bid 591h asked; Ocean Steamship 5 per
cent bonds, 1920, 100 bid, none offered; City
and Suburban railroad first mortgage Z
trio Railway 5s, due 1885, "a bid, IS asked :.
Alabama Midland 5 per cent indorsed, =
bid, 80 asked; Brunswick and Western As,
= bid, rs asked; South Bound railroad S.
go bid, SO asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and savan-
mon mon i65 bid, 17O asked; Southwestern. s94
hid. 931a asked; Atlanta and West
Point railroad stock, 100 bid 1O2 asked:
Atlanta end n, MeS o P asad per cent
struction Company, = bid, rs asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gaslight stock
221I bid. % asked; Electric Light and
112 bid, 1lS asked; Chatham Bank
AZ bid, 90 asked asked; Gerrmania Bank.
Rank. 102 bid, 1OS asked; National Bank Of
Savannah, 1929 bid, 1874 asked; Ogle-
thorpe Savings end 6,1.s Trust Company, los
If Georgia, 10 bid, III asked; Savan-
nah Bank and Trust Company, 1882 bid.
iii0il asked; Chatham Real Estate
and Improvement pr IoI bid a. a. SSa BID:
Peoples Savings and Loan Company, -
Oi Factory cflI Bonds-Augusta Factory Ga
to91S hid 104 asked; Sibley Factory IS. i'd
bid 101 asked; Enterprise Factory 6s' los
hid los asked; Eagle and Phenix Manu-
featuring Company, per cent. bonds, so
Oi Factory ct Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, so bid, GA asked; Eagle and Phenix
Misunderstanding company g any q e BID z asked
iteyille Factory, 155 bid, 1853 asked; Lang
lev Factory, 17 bid, Jos asked; Enterprise
Factory, common IS Did' los asked;
hid. ITO asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
Danv SO bid 81 asked; Savannah Brewing
Company, = bid, Sc asked.
20 n N
consols, log SIG, for both money and the
account. Paris advices quote per cent.
rentes, 102 francs, IS centimes account.
New York, March 5.-Money on call was
easy at Sq4 per cent; the last loan was
AT & Der cent and at the closing was Of
fered at 3 per cent. Prime mercantile
paper, 51zqS per cent sI, Bar silver, Ss9sc.
ness in bankers bills, at $4S6$4G4.S7 for
sixty days; $4;s7s4q4. IS for demand. Posted
"a tes $4S71b6S9. Commercial bills 81. 1914
al. S6ib. Government bonds firm; state
bonds quiet; railroad bonds strong. Sill
New York, March 5.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, S124,031, 1886;
New York, March 5, Noon. - Erie 1914;
Northwestern. 1O4A do preferred. AS;
Lake Shore, las; Norfolk and Western,
nreferred ~; Western Union, S4ss South
ern Railway, common. 10ls; do preferred,
ala American Sugar, 1174 Baltimore and
Ohio. 1895: Canada Southern, 50lz; St.
Paul, 7s14; Rock Island, by; Delaware
and Hudson, 1914; Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western, 1921; Manhattan, 1861; Mich
igan Central. IS; New York Central, 81.