The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-23
FINANCIAL.
Nonev-Steadv

vannah quotations: Commercial demand,
ss'sSs ssst; sixty days, $4-S7; ninety days.
days, $5.HA; Swiss, sixty DAYS S 19.
marks, sixty days, IS.
Domestic Exchange. Banks are
buying at Is per cent. discount and selling
as follows: For amounts to SIS. Toe nrem
ium; to $50, 10 cents premium; to SiOO 2D
cents premium; TO $500, % cents premium.
for 500 or over at par.
Securities-The market is again fnac+t,,,
and dull.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bopds-caor-
gia, S1a per cent. bonds OF 1880 l011S bjd
1O2 asked; Georgia 81 per cents, due le15
1O1h bid, 1O115 asked; Georgia AZ per cent
bonds, 1915, lib bid ia asked Georgia
4 per cent, due 1926. 109 bid 1881 asked :
South Carolina AIS, 104 bid, los asked
City Bonds-Atlanta z per cent 1OS bid.
1Os asked; Augusta 41zs. 1926. 1903 bid. 1891
asked; Augusta per cent, 114h BID. 11siL
asked; augusta s per cent, III bid. INF
| asked; Macon 6. per cent, 112Ik bid. 11SiL
| asked Savannah 5 per cent, quarterly Ocz
tober coupons, 10915 bid. 10 asked: Savan-
/ nah per cent, quarterly August couDons
100 bid, 1854 asked; Charleston Is, So bid
| "a asked.
Railroad Bonds-savannah. Florida and
| Western railroad general mortgage bonds
per cent. interest coupons. 11S hid ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage.
consolidated per cent coupons. JanuaTv.
and July maturity, 1887. IO1 bid lOlis
Company, collateral gold SIS, Sc bid
| 971z asked; Central of Georria
railway first mortgage IS. 1915. = bid,
consolidated IS, 50-year gold bonds. 81
bid, sS1k asked; Central of Georgia railway
| first preferred incomes, - bid, 275b asked.
Central of Georgia railway second pre-.
trail of Georgia railway third preferred in
comes, - bid, 8 asked; Georgia Rail-
road IS. 1910. ITO bid, Ill asked !;
frst IS, iOs bid, ios% asked Si cba IgDs5s
| Columbia and Augusta second mortgage
z, Ill bid, 1l2 asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida new IS, : bid. s4lk
mortgage Is, 1O6 bid, asked; South
Georgia and Florida, second mortgage 7s
1O5 bid, asked; Savannah, Americus
Ocean Steamship per cent. bonds, 1928
- bid, IS asked; City and Suburban
railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds,
= bid, IS asked; Electric Railway SIS.
due 1885, - bid, 20 asked; Alabama Mid
land 5 per cent. Endorsed, - bid, 93Ik ask
ed; Brunswick and Western As, - bid, rs
asked; South Bound railroad IS, bid
20 asked; Southern railway IS, Sc bid
81 asked; Georgia and Alabama con-
| soils, = bid, "A asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, bid, sl1z asked, ex-div ;
asked; southwestern, So bid. $50 SS%
asked, ex-div.; Atlanta and West Point
railroad stock, SO bid 100 asked Atlanta
and WespPoint s per cent. certificates, 81
bid, So asked; savannah Construction
Company, - bid, IS asked
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock
201s bid, 81 asked, ex-div.; Electric Light
and Power Company, - bid, 81 asked, ex-
div.
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Cltizens Bank, Ill
bid, 11115 asked, ex-div.; Chatham Bank
AZ bid, As asked, ex-div.; Germania Bank,
106 bid, 107 asked ex-diV.; Merchants Ma
tional Bank, 921I bid, "a asked; National
Bank of Savannah 131 bid, 1872 asked, ex-
div; Oglethorpe Savings and Trust Com
pany, 1O4 bid, 105 asked, ex-div.; South
ern Bank of State of Georgia. 1914 bid,
1854 asked, ex-div.; Savannah Bank and
Trust Company, 106 bid, 1917 asked. ex-
div. Cha than Real Estate and Improve
ment Company, A, 90 bid, 5312 asked; b,
so bid, 5015 asked, ev-div. Peoples Savings
and Loan Company, 9115 bid, 9212 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory IS, 1O2
bid. 1913 asked; Si6iey Eactory ss' 100 100 pa
104 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufac-
turing Company, per cent. bonds - Did,
Factory stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, - bid, so asked; Augusta Factory,
n bid so asked, ex-div.; Graniteville Fac
tory, las bid $50 asked; Langley Factory,
common, IS bid, 1o2 asked, ex-div.; j. P.
King Manufacturing Company, l05 bid,
los asked; Sibley. Manufacturing Compa-
ny 70 bid rs bi ssks g asfed Brewing
London, July 22-Bar silver, 3112d. Con-
soils, 113 TIC for money and 1874 for ac-
count. Paris advices quote per cent.
rentes 101 francs IS confines for the ac-
count.
New York, July 22-Money on call at
21k per cent The last loan was at ? per
cent, and at the closing was offered at
per cent Prime mercantile paper,
651gG66 per cent. Bar silver, 6S7sc. Sterling
exchange steady with actual business In
bankers bills at s4.SS for sixty days, and
S. Ss% for demand Posted rates, &.SSI20
4 al 81 Govern
ment bonds higher; state bonds quiet;
railroad bonds strong. Silver at the board
firm.
New York, July 22.-The treasury ball
ances were as follows Coin $1OS,64SSl6.
E Currency, S85, 019, 22D.
New York. July %, noon-Erie. 1SA
Northwestern, 9414; preferred, las 3D.
preferred, IL; Western Union 1874; South
ern Railway common, TX; Southern Rail
way preferred. 2O7s; American Sugar. l021s;
Baltimore and Ohio, 10y; Canada South
ern, A: st. Paul, 70A Rock Island, 55ls;
Delaware and Hudson, 117l2; Delaware
Lackawanna and Western. 146; Manhattan
94h; Michigan Central, 92lz; New York
Central. $3.50. Speculation firm.
New York, July 22.-The security mar
kets were characterized by a better rome,
and the efforts of belated bulls to check
the rising tendency. proved abort've. The
latter made a vicious raid on Jersey Cen
trail. in hopes of starting liquidation
afresh. and the stock was forced down
from 90A to ST34c. The general list refused
TO sympathize, and late in the day, when
the stock named got back to 80. the bears
were again buyers The strength of the
market resulted partly from the success
which has attended the bankers plan to
sustain the gold reserve, 100000 of god
having been deposited 1t the sub-treasury
up to o'clock, and partly from the an
nouncement that the foreign bankers were
willing to cooperate with local capital
lists. 1t viii he the work of the latter TO
check gold exports by supplying the ur-
gent needs of remitters until the crops be-
gin to move in about sixty days from now
That the street Is firmly convinced that
this can be accomplished. Is best attested
by the way the engagement of 50, 10000
gold, for export Tomorrow was received.
The heavy withdra walls caused scarcely
n ripple of excitement, and had not the
slightest effect on stock values. At the
opening. the market was also sustained
by purchases of 10000 shares Of stocks
for London account. Our securities ruled
fractionally higher there which was an