The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-05
FINANCIAL.
NfoneY-Steadv.

q Foreign Exchange.-The market was
nPm; me me. following follow Gs are net sa-
$hSl9s; sixty days, &S63s; ninety days,
$4.S6; francs. Paris and Havre, sixty
days days, 500; Swiss sixty 8, days. $5AS;
Domestic Exchange.-The tone of the
market is quiet. Banks are buying. at
par and selling at lilo per cent. premium
for amounts to 81, 600 and over.
Securities-Market steady with contin-
ued demand for bank stocks and a hard
ening in Southwestern railroad stock. Of
ferings light at quotations.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, SlA per cent. bonds of 1880. 10ll5 bid.
102A asked; Georgia 31s per cents, due 1915,
1917 bid, 1O2ls asked; Georgia AZ per cent
bonds, 1876 11412 bid 115 asked; Georgia
smiths, maturity, 1886, lOl bid, l0i1s asked;
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 1O7 bid.
los asked; Augusta 41ks, 1925, los bid, los
asked; August per cent, Ill., bid, 112la
asked; Augusta per cent, III bid. lib
asked; Columbus per cent. lC3 bid, l04
asked; Macon per cent, 116 bid,
III asked; Savannah 5 per cent, quarter
vannah per cent, quarterly May
coupons, 100 bid, 1891 asked; Charleston
Is, SO bid, 81 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds.
6 per cent. interest coupons, ia bid, lis
asked Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1887, 1O2 bid, 1O3 asked;
Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany. collateral gold, 5s,s 100 bid.
railway first mortgage IS, 1916,
III bid, 112 asked; Central of Georgia rail-
way consolidated IS, 5O-year gold bonds,
way, first preferred incomes, 81 bid, 3S
asked; Central of Georgia rail
T s bid second as RFsferrea centr af0m9 81
Georgia Railway, third preferred in
road 6s.. 1910, 1l2 bid 1872 asked; Char
105 bid, 1O6 asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta second mortgage Is, lis bid,
116 asked; Georgia Southern and Florida
new IS, 9fls bid. SO asked; South Geor-
gia and Florida first mortgage Is, 105 bid.
= asked; South Georgia and Florida sec
ond mortgage Is. 1O4 bid, - asked; Sa-
Vannah, Americas and Montgomery 5s
So bid, 50 asked; Ocean Steamship 5 per
cent. bonds, 1920 100 bid, none offered; City
and Suburban railroad first mortgage z
per cent. bonds, 761s bid, 70 asked; Elec-
trio Railway 5s due 1885, "a bid, rs asked;
Alabama Midland per. cent Endorsed, -
bid, 80 asked; BrgnsWick ard Western As,
- bid, 761s asked; Southern Railway 5s,
go bid SO asked.
nah, 1872 bid, 9415 asked; Georgia, COM
mon, 1O5 bid, 40 asked Southwestern, 923l
bid 931a asked; Atlanta and West
Point railroad stock, 100 bid, 1O2 asked;
I1ficates. 100 bid 1O1 asked; Savannah Con
structfon Company, = bid, 76 asked.
Gas stocks-savannah GasIight. stock,
Power Company, 81 bid. g. asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens' Bank,
~ BID i 118 .I asked' Chatham Ban;
I07 bid, los asked; Merchants National
Bank. 1O2 bid. 103 asked; National Bank of
Savannah, 1921 bid. 1874 asked; Ogle-
bid bid los asked; Southern Bank Of State
nah Bank and Trust Company, 1oSlS bid.
Aa1
and Improvement Company, A, 5S1h bid,
q gu asked; B, 81 bid, 5lIs asked:
PeopIes Savings and Loan Company, =
Ot FactnrV Bonds-Augusta Factory es
,o91S bid 104 asked; Sibley Factory IS, 100
bid. 1O1 asked; Enterprise Factory IS, los
rid 1O6 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manu-
featuring Company, per cent. bonds, so
bid S215 asked.
Factory Stoeks-7Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, 60 bid, ga asked; Eagle and Phentx
Manufacturing Company, Is bid, q asked;
Augusta factory, Is bid, g asked; Gran
iteville Factory 155 BID, log asked; Lang
FACTORY, common, 102 bid, 10S asked;
T P King Manufacturing. Company, 108
bid, ito asked sibley Manufacturing Com
Company, - bid Sc asked
London, March 4-Consols, 100 GIG. for
money: 1O9lh for the account.
New York, March Mooney on call
was at 3lb per cent, and at the closing
was offered at 319 per cent. Prime mer-
camille paper, 51206 per cent; bar silver
6Slbc. Sterling exchange easier, with act
uaT business in bankers bills at $4s62t0
4.87 for sixty days, and $4S7s4q4.sS for de-
mand. Posted rates. S4.S71kG4S9. Com
mercial bills, $.s511d4. S6A. Government
bonds frmer; state bonds dull; railroad
bonds Strong Silver at the board was
u New York. March 1.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, $12S, 999 313;
New York. March 8, noon.-Erie. Is;
Northwestern. 1919; do preferred; 145 bid;
Lake shore lat; Norfolk and Western pre-
erred NJ Western Union, S4% Southern
Railway, common. 81 do preferred, 2o24;
ohio 10: Canada Southern, 80; st. Paul,
M; Rock Island 72ss; Delaware and Hud-,
son 127: Delaware, Lackawanna and West
err. 1s5; Manhattan, 1861 Michigan Cen
trail, %; New York Central gila- At noon
speculation was extremely dull.
New York. March 4.-Higher quotations
from London, accompanied by liberal pur-
chases Of ST. Paul and Louisville and
Nashville, the favorable statements of the
Rock Island and St. Paul for February
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