The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-11
FINANCIAL.
Monev-Steadv.

MOu6y-SLedQy.
Foreign Exchange-The market was
very weak. The following are net Sa-
vannah quotations; Commercial demand,
$4.87; sixty days, $4.S6A ninety days,
4.S6; francs, Paris and Havre. sixty days,
$5.17%;- Swiss, sixty days, $5.1s; marks,
sixty days, 50.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: For
amounts to $25 10c premium; to $50, 15c
premium; to 800, zoe premium; to $780, Csc
premium; from 500 up to $1,000, Is per cent.
premium; amounts over $1,000, at $100 per
$1,000.
Securities-The market is quiet; quota
tons irregular and nominal.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia. S1a per cent. bonds of 1890, 101 bid,
102 asked; Georgia S12 per cents, due 1915,
1Ol bid, 102 asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds, 1915, 11215 bid, 1872 asked; Georgia
4 per cent, due 1926, 1882 bid, 1872 asked;
South Carolina, 41as, 104 bid 105 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, los bid,
106 asked; Augusta AS, 1926 105 bid, 1O4
asked; Augusta per cent, lib bid, ia
asked; Augusta per cent, III bid, 113
asked; Columbus per cent, 103 bid, 104
asked; Macon 6 per cent, ia bid, lis ask
ed; Savannah per cent, quarterly Octo-
Der coupons, 100 bid, 1924 asked; Savannah
per cent, quarterly November coupons,
1OS bid, 1882 asked; Charleston As, 81 bid, %
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, 1897, 101 bid 10l1a ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany, collateral gold IS, 50 bid, SO asked;
Central of Georgia railway first mortgage
IS, 1915, - bid 112 asked; Central of Geor-
gia railway, consolidated IS, 5O-year gold
bonds IS bid 81 asked; Central of Georgia
railway first preferred incomes, % bid, 2412
asked; Central of Georgia railway second
preferred incomes, - bid. II asked; Central
of Georgia railway third preferred incomes,
- bid, asked; Georgia Railroad 6s, 1910,
10 bid, 112 asked; Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta first S. = bid, 1919 asked; Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta second mort
gage z, - bid, 112 asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida, new IS, - bid, 1872 asked;
South Georgia and Florida first mortgage
Is, bid, 106 asked South Georgia and
Florida, second mortgage Is, - bid, lOo
asked; Savannah, Americas and Mont
gomery, IS, - bid, IS asked; Ocean Steam
ship per cent bonds, 1926, - bid, SO asked;
City and Suburban railroad first mortgage
7 per cent. bonds, - bid, rs asked; Electric
Railway IS due 1885 - bid 20 asked; Ala
bama Midland per cent. Endorsed, - bid,
80 asked; Brunswick and Western, As, -
bid, 70 asked; South Bound railroad 5s, -
bid, rs asked; Southern railway 5s S0l2 bid,
S11A asked; Georgia and Alabama 8 con-
Railroad Stocks.-Augusta and savan-
nah, S6 bid SO asked ex-div.,
Georgia common, 160 bid, 1912 asked;
Southwestern, 842z bid, S51a asked, ex-div.,
Atlanta and West Point railroad stock,
90 bid, 80 asked; Atlanta and West Point
6 per cent. certificates, So bid, IS asked;
Savannah Construction Company, SO bid,
Il asked.
Gas stocks-savannah Gas Light stock,
20 bid. q asked, ex-div.; Electric Light and
Power Company, IS bid, 60 asked, ex-div.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank, III bid,
ILL., asked, ex-div.; Chatham Bank. AZ
bid, As asked, ex-div.; Germania Bank,
1857 bid, 1O8 asked. ex-div.; Merchants Ma
tional Bank. 90 bid, % asked; National
tional Bank of Savannah, 100 bid, lS2 ask
ed, ex-div.; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
Company, 1885, bid, 1OlH asked, ex-div.;
Southern Bank of State of Georgia, 16s
bid, 1863 asked, eX-div. Savannah Bank and
Trust Company, 104 bid, los asked. ex-div.;
Chatham Real Estate and Improvement
Company. A, $50 bid 81 asked; z, 50i2 bid,
81 asked, ex-div.; Peoples Savings and
Loan Company, 911a bid, 1919 asked.
Factory Bonds--Augusta Factory IS, 102
bid, 10S asked; Sibley Factory 6s, 100 bid,
102 asked: Enterprise Factory IS. 103 bid,
104 asked; Eagle and PheniX Manufacture
ing Company, 6 per cent bonds. - bid. 60
asked