The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-05
FINANCIAL.
Money-Steady.

Foreign EXchange-The market was
firm: The following are net sa-
Sass; sixty days, $4S7A; ninetydays
$4S; francs Paris and Havre, sixty
days, $5.17A; Swiss, sixty days, s5.iS,
marks, sixty days. 95
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: For
amounts to $25, 10c premium; to $50. 15c
premium; to 500, zoe premium; to 500, 25c
premium; from $500 up to 81, 900, Is per cent.
premium; amounts over $1,000, at S1.00 per
$1,000.
Securities-The market is quiet quota
tons irregular.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, 31k per cent bonds Of 1880, 101 bid,
1902 asked: Georgia 3h per cents, due 1915,
| 101A bid, 1914 asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds, 1915, 11212 bid, 1872 asked; Georgia
| 4 per cent, due 1926, 1854 bid, 1922 asked
South Carolina 415s 1OI bid, 105 asked
City Bonds-Atlanta z per cent, 105 bid
| LOG asked; Augusta 41Rs. 1925, 104 bid, 10415
| asked; Augusta z per cent, 113 bid, ia
asked; Augusta 6 per cent, III bid, 11S
asked; Columbus per cent, l03 BID, 100
asked; Macon 6 per cent, ia bid, It's
| asked Savannah 5 per cent, quarterly Oc-
tober coupons, 1894 bid, 1924 asked ;Savan-
nah per cent, quarterly August coupons,
1909 bid, 1922 asked; Charleston As, "a bid,
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
| Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
| 6 per cent. interest coupons, 112 bid, ia
| asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage.
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1887. Iol bid. lolla
Company, collateral gold 5s, IS bid
IS asked; Central of Georgia
railway first mortgage 5s, 1915, bid,
ll2 asked; Central of Georgia railway
bid, SS1k asked; Central of Georgia railway
first preferred incomes, "A bid, 2512 asked
Central of Georgia railway second pre-
ferred incomes, bid, II asked; Cen
trail of Georgia railway third preferred in
comes, bid, asked; Georgia Rail
road 6s, 1910, 10 bid, 112 asked
Charlotte, COLUMBIA Inaia and Augusta
Columbia and Augusta second mortgage
Z, bid, 112 asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida new 5s, bid, 81
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
Georgia and Florida, second mortgage Is,
los bid, asked; Savannah, Americas
and Montgomery IS, - bid, 6S asked;
- bid, 9S asked; City and Suburban
railroad first mortgage per cent bonds.
- bid, rs asked; Electric Railway 5s.
due 1888, - bid, 20 asked; Alabama Mid
ed; Brunswick and Western As, - bid, IS
asked: South Bound railroad IS, bid
rs asked; Southern railway IS, S015 bid
slh asked; Georgia and Alabama 5 con-
Railroad stocks-Augusta and savan-
nah, 81 bid, 50 asked, ex-div.;
Georgia common, 16O bid, 1912
asked; Southwestern, S4A bid. Sc asked
railroad stock, IS bid, SO asked; Atlanta
and West Point per cent certificates, IS
bid, IS asked; Savannah Construction
Company, - bid, 1917 asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock
20 bid, q asked, eX-div.; Electric Light
and Power Company, So bid, 60 asked, ex-
div.
hid. Ill., asked, ex-div.; Chatham Bank
~ hid. is asked. ex-div.; Germania Bank
1861 bid, 10S asked, eX-div; Merchants Ma
tional Bank, 80 bid, 50 asked; National
Bank of Savannah, 100 bid, 1872 asked, ex-
div: Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Com
nanv. 1885, bid, 1914 asked, ex-div; South
ern Bank of State of Georgia, 16S bid,
1859 asked, ex-div; Savannah Bank and
Trust Company, 1O4 bid. 105 asked ex-
div: Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company A, 5312 bid, 81 asked; B,
50ib bid 81 asked, eX-div.; Peoples Savings
and Loan Company 91K bid, 9ZjR asked
FACTORY Bonds-Augus ia Factory 6s, 102
bid. 103 Asked Sibley FACTORY 6s, 100 bid,
1O2 asked; Enterprise FACTORY Is, 103 bid,
1O4 asked; Eagle and PheniX Manufac-
turing Company, 6 per cent bonds, - bid,
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, = bid, 30 asked; Augusta Factory,
n bid, so asked, eX-div.; Granitevile Fac
tory, 145 bid, $50 asked; Langley Factory,
1OS bid Ito asked Enterprise Factory,
common 9S bid 102 asked, ex-div.; j. p.
King Manufacturing Company IUO Blus
lOS asked; Sibley Manufacturing Compa-
ny. rs bid. IS asked Savannah Brewing
Company, - bid, IS asked.
New York, Aug. 4.--Money on call, firm
at 2G21A per cent; the last loan was at 2
per cent, and at the closing was offered at
2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper. 655.
Bar silver, 6s5sc. Sterling exchange very
firm, with actual business in bankers bills
at S4SS@4.S8A for sixty days, and si.S94
4S9l4 for demand. Posted rates, Sl851a0
f. So Commercial bills. S4a. Government
bonds were steady. State bonds were neg
lected Railroad bonds We're irregular. Sill
yer at the board was firm.
New York, Aug. 4.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, sll6,0 ,15i;
currency, SIS, 263072.
New York, Aug. (. uoon.-Erie, 1874;
Northwestern, 93i4; preferred, rs; Lake
Shore, 1l0 Norfolk ana Western. preferred,
10; Western Union. IS: Southern Railway,
common, ~; Southern Railway preferred
goa; American Sugar. 1902; Baltimore and
Ohio, 15Sl; Canada Southern, 45l4; st. Paul