The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-27
FINANCIAL.
Mnnev-Steadv

Money-Steady.
Foreign Exchange.-The market was
yannah quotations.; Commercial demand
$A@; sixty days. A.S6; ninety days.
$StS51s; e francs gS Paris and Hayre sixty
marks, sixty days, "a Ills
Domestic Exehange.--The tone of the
market, is quiet. Banks are buying at
par and selling at lilo per cent. premium
for amounts TO 81, 900 and over.
Securities-The market was quiet and
steady, with fair demand all around.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, 31a per cent. bonds of 1880, 1917 bid,
l02A asked; Georgia 312 per cents, due 1915,
1O2 bid, 10215 asked; Georgia Az per cent.
Smiths, maturity. 1896, 1Ol bid, 10i1s asked !;
South Carolina AIS, 1917 bid, 1854 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 107 bid.
asked; Augusta per cent, ia bid, us
asked; Augusta per cent, liz bid. 1l3
asked; Columbus 5 per cent, 1O3 bid, 1o4
III asked; Savannah per cent. quarter
ly April coupons, 100 bid, - asked; Sa-
vannah per cent, quarterly May
As, 96 bid. 81 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah. Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent. interest coupons, ia bid, 115
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1887. 1O2 bid. 1OS asked !;
pay. collateral gold 5s. 80 bid
none offered; Central of Georgia
Tai Sd 10 I Tt GeOts o 5 5 si5
way consolidated 5s, 5Q-year gold bonds,
II bid, SO asked; Central of Georgia rail-
way. first preferred incomes. 80 bid. 50
way second preferred incomes:
Georgia Railway, third preferred in
road IS, 1910. iii bid, 1iS asked; Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta first 5s,
1041a bid, los asked; Charlotte, Columbia
ZIG asked; Georgia Southern and Florida
new 5s, "a bid, % asked; South Geor-
gia and Florida first mortgage Is, 105 bid,
ond mortgage Is, 1O4 bid, asked; Sa-
vannah, Amerlcus and Montgomery 5s,
IS bid. SO asked; Ocean Steamship 5 per
cent. bonds, 1920 100 bid, none offered; City
and Suburban railroad first mortgage
per cent. bonds, 761a bid 70 asked; Elec-
trio Railway 5s, due 1885, "a bid, 30 asked;
bid, 30 asked; Brunswick and Western As.
= bid, 70 asked; South Bound railroad 5s,
- bid, 761s asked; Southern Railway IS,
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, "a bid, 95 asked; Georgia COM
mon, 165 bid, 80 asked; Southwestern. "a
bid 941A asked; Atlanta and West
Point railroad stock. 100 bid. 1O2 asked;
Atlanta and West Point per cent. GER
uficates, 100 bid, 101 asked; Savannah Con-
struction Gomgsny % 6id aS asked
% bid, % asked; Electric Light and
Power Company, 81 bid, g asked.
i9H bid. 50 asked; Germania Bank,
i07 bid, 1O8 asked; Merchants National
Bank, 1O2 bid, 1O3 asked; National Bank of
thorpe Savings and Trust Company, i65
bid bid los asked; Southern Bank of State
Of Georgia and 10y T 1i O as5Sd 1 sy ian
i0715 asked Chatham Real Estate
and Improvement Company, A, 5S1A bid.
s aske Savings and Loan Compa 4SkeS 3;
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory IS.
IN315 bid, 1O4 asked; Sibley Factory IS, loo
bid 10i asked; Enterprise Factory IS, los
bid 1O6 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manu-
featuring Company, per cent. bonds, 80
Ot factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, so bid, 81 asked; Eagle and Phenix
Manufacturing Company, % bid, q asked;
Augusta factory, Is bid, 50 asked; Gran
iteyiiie FACTORY 1856 bid, 1853 asked; Lang
ley Factory. 107 bid, 108 asked; Enterprise
Factory, common, 102 bid, 1Os asked;
]. P. King Manufacturing Company, 1OS
hid ITO asked Sibley Manufacturing Com
parly, so bid, 81 asked; Savannah Brewing
Company 81 bid. Sc asked.
London Feb 26.-Bar silver, 81 7-16d
Consols, 1O9 9-16, for both money and the
account Paris advices quote per cent.
rentes, 102 francs, IS confines for the ac-
New York, Feb. 2S.-Money on call was
easy. at 3d4 per cent; the last loan was
AT per cent, and at the closing was Of
fered at per cent. Prime mercantile pa
per 66T7 per cent. Bar silver, 65ssc. Sterl-
ing exchange, steady, with actual bust
ness i'm bankers bills at $4S61aD4S6A for
sixty days and $4.S71a@4. S7sz for demand
Posted rates, $4.S7G4SSls. Commercial
bills 81 S53414. 86IR Government bonds,
steady; state bonds dull; railroad bonds
easier. Silver at the board was quiet.
New York, Feb. 26.-Treasury balances
were as follows: Coin, 1923, 76S, e85; curren-
cy, $Ss, 577. 149.
New York, Feb. 2s, noon.-Erie,, 167s;
Northwestern, 105: do preferred, las; Lake
Shore. 149; No. folk and Western pre-
ferred. 81: Western Union, S514 South
ern Railway, common, 1913; do preferred,
32aL American Sugar. 1854; Baltimore and
Ohio. 3Sla; Canada Southern, 5lA; ST.
Hudson 100; Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western, 1924; Manhattan 105; Michi-
gan Central, IS; New York Central, 9S5s.