The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-29
FINANCIAL
homestead,

Foreign Exchange-The market was
firm. The following are net Sa-
yannah quotations: Commercial demand,
A.S24; sixty days, $4.S7; ninety days,
sassy; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
days, $5.11&; Swiss, sixty days, S519;
marks, sixty days, 50.
Domestic Exchange. Banks are
buying at Is per cent. discount and selling
as follows; For amounts to S25, 10c prem
Jun; to so, 10 cents premium; to 800, 20
cents premium to $500, 25 cents premium
for 500 or over at par.
Securities-The market is again inactive
and very dull.
Stocks and Bonds-state Bonds-Geor-
gia, 3ib per cent bonds Of 1890, 1O1 bid,
102 asked; Georgia 81 per cents. due 1915.
101A bid, 1914 asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds. 1915, 11S bid, ia asked: Georgia
per cent, due 1926, 1851 bid, 1897 asked
South Carolina AVS 104 bid, 105 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta z per cent, los bid
106 asked; Augusta AIS. 1925, 104 bid, 1917
asked; Augusta 2 per cent, l13 bid, ia
asked; Augusta per cent, 112 bid lis
asked; Columbus 5 per cent, 103 bid 104
asked; Macon 6 per cent, ia bid, lis
asked Savannah per cent, quarterly Oc-
tober coupons, 1884 bid, 1888 asked ;Savan-
nah per cent, quarterly August coupons
100 bid, 10915 asked; Charleston IS, "a bid
50 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent interest coupons, liz bid ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage.
consolidated per cent. coupons, January,
and July maturity, 1887. l01 bid, 1O1I9
asked; Central Railroad and Banking
Company, collateral gold IS, 50 bid
96 asked; Central of Georgia
railway first mortgage IS, 1915. bid,
112 asked; Central of Georgia railway,
consolidated IS, 50-year gold bonds, 81
bid, $50 asked; Central of Georgia railway
first preferred incomes, - bid. 26 asked
ferred incomes, : bid, z asked Cen
trail of Georgia railway third preferred in
comes, bid, 8 asked; Georgia Rail-
road 6s, 1910, 10 bid, 112 asked;
first 5s, 1929 bid, 1922 asked: Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta second mortgages
z, 10 bid, liz asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida new IS, SO bid, "a
asked; South Georgia and Florida, first
mortgage Is, 1O6 bid, = asked; South
Georgia and Florida, second mortgage rs.
los bid, asked; Savannah, Americas
and Montgomery IS, - bid, 69ls asked;
- bid, 9s asked; City and Suburban
railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds,
- bid, IS asked; Electric Railway 5s.
due 1885, - bid, 20 asked; Alabama Mid
ed; Brunswick and Western Is, = bid, rs
asked; South Bound railroad IS, bid,
IS asked; Southern railway IS, S115 bid,
S21a asked; Georgia and Alabama 5 con-
Railroad stocks-Augusta and savan-
nah 81 bid, So asked, ex-div.;
Georgia common, 100 bid, 167
asked; Southwestern, s. bid, Sc
asked. ex-div.; Atlanta and West Point
railroad stock, = bid, SO asked; Atlanta
and West Point 8 per cent. certificates, -
bid, IS asked; Savannah Construction
Company, - bid, 1874 asked.
Gas Stocks-SaVannah Gas Light stock,
20 bid, q asked. ex-div.; Electric Light
and Power Company, So bid, go asked, ex-
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank, Ill
Il Fxr. hot 11or,a DaV1
AZ hid AZ asked, ex-div.; Germania Bank,
10e bid. 1O7 asked, ex-div.; Merchants Ma
tional Bank, 80 bid, 81 asked; National
Bank of Savannah, 131 bid, 132 asked, eX-
div; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Com
many. i04 bid, 105 asked, ex-div.; South
ern Bank of State of Georgia. 1914 old,
1851 asked, ex-div.; Savannah Bank and
Trust Company, lO6 pa, IUl72 asked, ex-
ment Company, A, SO bid, 5S12 asked; y,
so bid. 5O1h asked, ev-div.; Peoples savings
and Loan Company, 9l12 bid, S212 asked;
Factory Bonds-Augusta FACTORY 6s' !Vz
bid 10S asked: Sibley Factory Is, 100 bid,
1O2 asked; Enterprise FACTORY 6s, lV5 pa pld'
10l asked: Eagle and PhentX Manufac-
turing Company, 6 per cent. bonds, - bid,
Factory Stoeks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, - bid, so asked; Augusta Factory,
n bid, 50 asked, ex-diy.; Graniteville Fac
tory, Jas bid, $50 asked; Langley Eactory S,
common, 80 bid 102 asked, eX-div.; j.. r.
King Manufacturing Company. 105 bid,
los asked; Sibley Manufacturing Compa-
nv, rs bid, Is asked; Savannah Brewing
Company, - bid, 70 asked.
London, July 2S.--Bar silver, 81 7-l6d ;
Consols. 113 5-16 for money and 11Sss for
the account Paris advices quote per
cent. rentes 101 francs; IS confines for the
New York. July 2S.-Money on call easy
at 11al21a per cent; the last loan at l12
per cent, and at the closing, was offered
at IL per cent. Prime mercantile paper,
51a016 per cent. Bar silver, 6S9lc; sterling
exchange steady, with actual business In
bankers bills. at S4.S71ad4.S72 for sixty
days, and s4.SS1s6ei .SS24 for demand. Post
ed rates 81 .SS@4S9. Commercial bills.
81. $685. dLS74 Government bonds were
weak; state bonds were dull; railroad
bonds were lower. Silver at the board
was steady.
ances to-day were as follows Coin, Slli-
ISL. 267; currency, $77, 6s5, 402
New York, July o. noon.--Erie, -;
Northwestern. "a; preferrsd JAS; Lake
Shore, 40: Norfolk amt Western pre-
ferred. 10; Westcrni TnioiI TO- southern
Railway common, "a; Southern Railway
preferred. 20; American Sugar 1924; Bal
timore and Ohio, Is; Canada Southern