The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-27
FINANCIAL.
Money-Stead,

FINANCIAL.
Money-Steady.
Foreign Exchange-The market was
firm. The following are net Sa
vannah quotations: Commercial demand.
81. S7A; sixty days, A.S614; ninety days,
days, S. 1875; Swiss, sixty days, 1921;
marks, sixty days, "a 1916.
Domestic Exchange-The tone of the
par and selling at lilo per cent. premium
Tor amounts to $1,000 and over.
Securities-The market is extremely dull
and inclined to be nominal.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Geor-
gia, 3ls per cent bonds of 1880, 1919 bid,
lo2A asked; Georgia Sls per cents, due 1915,
bonds, 1915, ll424 bid, l15l4 asked; Georgia
Smiths, maturity 1896, 10O12 bid, 10l15 asked;
South Carolina AIS, los bid, 1881 asked
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 107 bid,
los asked; Augusta 4las, 1925, los bid, 106
asked; Augusta per cent, ia bid, 115la
asked; Augusta 6 per cent, 1l2 bid, llS
asked; Columbus per cent, 10S bid, l0
asked; Macon per cent, 1l5l2 bid,
l161s asked; Savannah per cent, quarter
ly April coupons, 109 bid, asked; Sa-
vannah 5 per cent, quarterly May cou-
pons, 100 bid, 1922 asked; Charleston As
Sc bid. 81 asked
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
8 per cent. interest coupons, 11415 bid,
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated z per cent, coupons. January
asked: Central Railroad and Banking
Company, collateral gold IS, 100 bid.
railway arst mortgages IS. 1915. III ioi BID,
112 asked; Central Of Georgia railway
eeo9nIsoo o. 5s, 5O-year gold bonds, SO
first preferred incomes, SOA bid, BIZ asked;
Central of Georgia railway, second pre-
ferred incomes, l514 bid, 1872 asked; Cen
trail of Georgia railway third preferred in
comes, II asked; Georgia railroad 6s 1910
III bid, lib asked; Charlotte, Columbia
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage rs. 1l5 bid, ZIG asked; Georgia
Southern and Florida new IS, 951a bid, 961s
mortgage Is, 105 bid, asked South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage rs,
lo4 bid. asked; Savannah. Americus
Ocean STEAMSHIP per cent. bonds 1920
100 bid, none offered; City and Suburban
IS bid, asked; Electric Railway IS,
due 1885, "a bid, 26 asked; Alabama Mid,
land per cent; Endorsed, = bid. 80 asked;
asked; South Bound railroad IS, = bic
% asked; Southern Railway IS, 80 bid,
81 asked
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, S212 bid, 95R asked; Georgia common.
l65 DID, l65 asked; Southwestern, 9214 bid
S24 asked; Atlanta and West Point Rail-
road stock, 100 bid, 1O2 asked; Atlanta
and West Point 6 per cent. certificates,
100 bid, 101 asked; Savannah Construction
Company nI 2 oo, "a bid, ~ asked.
X,
221s bid, q asked; Electric Light and
:, Bank Stocks Etc.-Citizens Bank,
4sA bid, 50 asked; Germania Bank,
los bid. 1O9 asked; Merchants National
Bank, 10S bid, lO5 asked; National Bank
thorpe Savings and Trust Company, los
bid, = asked; Southern Bank of State
of Georgia. 17OA bid. 17211 asked; savan-
= asked; Chatham Real Estate and I'm
proyement Company, A, 5315 bid, 81 asked;
B. 81 bid. SLY asked; Peoples Savings
and Loan Company, 911a bid, SO asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory IS,
10415 bid, 106 asked; Sibley Factory IS.
1917 bid, 1031s asked; Enterprise Factory
6s, 1O5 bid, 106 asked; Eagle and Phenix
Manufacturing Company, per cent.
bonds, so bid. S3A asked.
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, 60 bid, GA asked; Eagle and Phenix
Manufacturing Company. 25 bid. q asked;
Augusta Factory, 76 bid, so asked; Gran
iteville Factory l55 bid, 1853 asked; Lang
lev Factory, 10S bid, no asked; Enterprise
Factory, common, 102 bid, los asked; ]. p.
King Manufacturing Company, 10S bid,110
asked; Sibley Manufacturing Company,
rs bid, so asked; Savannah Brewing Com
pany, so bid, Sc asked
London, March 26-Bar silver, 31Ad; con-
soils. losA for money and 1O9 1916 for the
rentes, 1O1 francs, 7212 for the centimes.
New York, March 26-Money on call was
at per cent, ana at the closing was
offered at 8 per cent Prime mercantile
paper. 51kq6 per cent. Bar silver, 6SHc.
Sterling exchange is firm, with actual
business in bankers bills, at $4.S71s for
sixty days and $4.S81s for demand. Posted
rates, $4.SS12Q4 S919 Commercial bills,
$4S6A d4S6%. Government bonds firm;
state bonds dull; railroad bonds firm. Sill
yer at the board was quiet.
New York, March 26.-The treasury bal
ances were as follows: Coin, S127, 716 424;
currency. $92, 692 407.
New York, March 26, noon.-Erie, Az;
Northwestern, 1021s; do preferred, 14515;
Lake Shore. 145l5; Norfolk and Western
preferred, SIS; Western Union SO; South
ern Railway, common, 8; do preferred,
29A American Sugar, lis; Baltimore and
Ohio, 171A; Canada Southern, 1917; ST. Paul
74s4; Rock Island, 695s; Delaware and Hud-
Western, 161; Manhattan 104; Michigan
Central SO; New York Central 965s. Spec
ulation quiet, but firm
New York March 26-Specula ton at the
stock exchange, while generally dull was
characterized by a firmer tone than on
any previous day of the week. The deal
ings as usual Of late were almost entire
ly professional but among spectators the
feeling was rather more bullish, owing
to the Improvement in railway traffic re-
turns of the western roads. The advance
in the posted rates of sterling exchange
to "a ssh and $8915 had very little infiu-
ence on the markets for securities. partly
for the reason that the price of gold bars
was advanced by the assay Office from
1-16 to 3-16 per cent This is calculated
to prevent gold Shipments al least until
the rates of exchange advances 3n4 cents
above the figures now ruling. The stock
market ADVANCED = e se at the start,
for London account having had good