The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-18
FINANCIAL.

Money-The market is easy.
Foreign EXchange-Market steady. The
following are net Savannah quotations.
Commercial demand, A.S6A; sixty days,
81. $40 ninety days, &.S31s francs, Paris,
and HaVre, sixty days, 80; Swiss, sixty
days, 5.2l7s; marks, sixty days, 94%.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: Up
to $25, 10c premium; S25 to $50, 15c premium;
$50 10 800, 20c premium; 5000, and up to
ST. 600 4 per cent. premium; 1000 and
Securities-The market is very dun.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
asked; Georgia $14 per cent, due 1915. 1Oljs
bid, 1924 asked; Georgia AZ per cent
bonds srf lS5 ne 1925 9d 1 ia aSfea kG5eosg GSt
Carolina 415s, 1903 bid, 1O4 asked.
City. Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 104 bid;
asked Rasas5a per cent? liz liz B Bid i
asked; Augusta per cent, 10 bid Iii
asked; Columbus per cent. 1O2 bid, 1O3
asked; Macon 6 per cent, 11415 bid lis
asked; Savannah per cent, quarterly
April coupons, 10S bid. 10S15 asked SaVan-
nah 5 per cent. quarterly May coupons,
1OS bid, 1851 asked; Charleston As, 90 bid,
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent. interest coupons, 1l212 bid, ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated Z per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897, lOOA bid, lOl ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral gold 5s, 50 bid, 81 asked
Central of Georgia Railway first mortgage
S. 50-year gold bonds, 112 bid, ia asked
dated mortgage 5s, 81 bid, 80 asked
Central of Georgia Railway first preferred
incomes, Is bid, 80 asked; Central of
Georgia Railway second preferred in
comes, liz bid, 12A asked Central of
Georgia Railway third preferred incomes
1862 bid, 1919 asked; Charlotte. Columbia
and Augusta first SIS, 106 bid, 107 asked;
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
TOGO 7C nrcrfo
Southern and Florida, new IS. 9412 bid, 95I5
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage Is, 14 bid, 104R asked; South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is
1902 bid, 103 asked; Ocean Steamship ) per
cent. bonds, 1926, 101 bid, 102 asked: City
and Suburban railroad first mortgage z
per cent bonds, so bid, IS asked; Ala
hama Midland per cent. Endorsed, 80 bid
50 asked: Brunswick and Western As, -
bid, 20 asked; Southern Railway S. S9l2
bid, 9015 asked; Georgia and Alabama first
preferred IS, 100 bid, 102 asked; Georgia
and Alabama first consols, so bid 81 asked
Railroad Stoclks-Augusta and Savan-
common, 1853 bid, 100 asked; Southwestern
80 bid, "a asked, ex-div.; Atlanta and
West Point railroad stock, 991a bid,1O0 ask
ed; Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent
certificates, 9S bid, 80 asked; Savannah
Construction Company, 40 bid, Y asked
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock,
221s bid, 2S1a asked, eX-div.; Electric Light
and Power Company, So bid 6S asked, ex-
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizen's Bank 1851
bid 100 asked, ex-div.; Chatham Bank
Bank IO7 bid, los asked, ex-div; Mer-
chants National Bank % bid, SO ask
ed, ex-div.; National Bank of Savannah,
126 bid, 1913 asked, ex-div; Oglethorpe Saw
ings and Trust Company, 1919 bid, 1924
asked, ex-div.; southern Bank of the State
bid, 101 asked, ex-div.; Chatham Real Es-
tate and improvement Company, A, 5SA
bid 81 asked; b, 51l2 bid, 50 asked, ex-
div; Peoples Savings and Loan Com
pany, 80 bid, SO asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, IS, 100
tory = bid, 102 asked; Augusta factory, 80
101 asked; Enterprise Factory 6s. 10l bid,
1902 asked Eagle and Phenix Manufacture
ing Company, per cent. bonds, 40 bid,
Factory stocks-savannah Cotton Fac
tory, = bid. 40 asked; Augusta factory, so
bid, 81 asked, ex-div,; Granteville Fac
tory, 145 bid, l5l asked; Langley Factory,
1913 bid, 104 asked; Enterprise Factory
common SO bid, SO asked; ]. r. King
Manufacturing Company, 1903 bid 104 ask
bid, Is asked: Savannah Brewing Com
pany, 80 bid 90 asked
London. Feb 17-Bar silver, 20 11-1ed
Consols, III 1-l6 for money and 112h for
Paris, FEB. 17.-s per cent rentes, 1O2
francs 4215 confines for the account.
New York, Feb. 1IMoney on call was
quiet. 112d1% per cent; the last loan was
at " and at the closing was offered at
lt2 per cent. ITlIne paper,
per cent. Bar silver. 645sc. Sterling ex-
change duh, with actual business in bank
ers bills at A.S5G4S5h for sixty days and
S4.SM4S7h for demand. Posted rates,
$4.S51a@4SS Commercial bills, Si.S31kG4 S4ib
Government bonds were steady; state
bonds were quiet; railroad bonds were
generally firm. Silver at the board was
New York, Feb. l7.-The treasury bal
ances We're as follows: Coin, $i24,SOi,S6S;
New York. Feb. H. noon.-The specula-
tive market was weak, at the following
quotations:
Erie ..............14lalB Bait. & Ohio .... 15ik
Northwestern ..l0iMCan. Southern ...Hi5I
do pref ........15l st. Paul .......... 1854
Lake Shore .....l544 Rock Island 500. 66aa
N. & w. pref 49,. u Del. e. Hudson. 1881
Western Union Sl9slManhattan ...... S6A
do pref ....... 2SA lMich. Central . 80
Am Sugar ......1i3A N. Y. Central M a3
New y ork, Feb. H.-There was a falling
off In the trading at the stock exchange
shares against 10000 shares yesterday
In to-day's total, Sugar figured for 1900
shares Tobacco for 1920 and Leather pre-
ferred for 1900 These were the three
chief characteristic Of speculation at the
opening, but subsequently, the market
showed a tendency 10 improve, the result
of a sharp rise IN Tobacco. This stock
jumped 3la per cent. to 12iR. and the adj
vance was credited 10 manipulation. Sugar
was cratic and closed Is per cent lower
Ia the day. The reports of fresh compe-
ttion and realizations by small pool ac-
Northern Pacific and the CHANGERS were
firm. while Hooking Valley aud the An
thracltes ruled weaker. The first mem
toned were bought by foreign houses.
about 5000 shares peing taken. Hooking
Valley stock fell Is per cent, ANA ihe
bonds 0lausH per cent on the revival of