The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-25
FINANCIAL.
Morey-Market steady:

Foreign Exchange-The market is
firm The fSowing are net sS
81 sos; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
days, 5.22A; Swiss, sixty days, 5.2419;
Domestic Exchange banks are
buying at * per cent, discount and sell
ing as follows: Up to $25, 1Oc premium
$25 to $50, loo permium; $50 to 500, zoe
premium; $500 and upwards at par.
Securities-The market is quiet and very
dull, excepting fair enquiry for Central
stocks and Bonds-state Bonds-Georgia
31a per cent. bonds of 1880, 1912 bid, JOG
asked; Georgia 31s per cent, due 1915, 1Q4
bid 105 asked; Georgia Az per cent, bonds
1915, III bid, 11S asked; Georgia per cent,
due 1926, li2 bid, 113 asked; South Caro-
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 10415
bid 1852 asked; Augusta 41as, 1925, 105
bid 106 asked; Augusta per cent, 1OS bid
40 asked; Columbus per cent, 1O5 bid
lO6 asked Macon pei. cent; 116 bid, ~
asked SAVANNAH Se1 re- per eg9 cent q1artery
January coupons, 110ls bid. III asked; Sa-
vannah per SEM NJ quarterly S February
S6upo oIs JIG dlo bid III asked; Charleston As
Railroad BondsTSavannah. Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
5 per, cent. interest coupons, ,113 bid, ia
asked; Savannah Florida and Western
first mortgage 5 per cent. gold bonds, due
1884 1O8 bid, 1O9 asked; Augusta Southern.
Railroad and Banking Company collate-
raj 5s, 80 bid, 9l1s asked; Central of Geor-
gia railway first mortgage mort 90. 5O-year gold
Georgia railway first consolidated mort
gage IS, 9115 bid, 92 asked; Central Of Geor-
gia railway first preferred incomes, SS!A
way, second preferred incomes, 1872 bid,
141& asked; Central of Georgia railway
third preferred incomes, bid asked
Georgia railroad 6s, 1870 11513 bid, III ask
ed Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta first
S. 100 bid, 40 asked; Charlotte, Column
bia and Augusta second mortgage Is, 116
bid. III asked; Georgia Southern and
Florida new IS, 81 bid 9S asked; South
Georgia and Florida first mortgage rs, 1929
bid 1031a asked South Georgia and Flor
ida second mortgage rs, 1903 bid, 105 asked;
Ocean Steamship per cent bonds, 1926
1O5 bid, 1o6 asked; City and Suburban, rail
bid - asked; Alabama Midland per cent.
indorsed So bid, So asked; Brunswick and
Hon6d pa f. q 3d. sSad s sSqth
ern Railway IS, 81 bid go asked Georgia
and Alabama first preferred IS, 101 bid,
102 asked; Georgia and Alabama first con-
So bid, s. asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah. 81 bid, 9411a asked; Georgia. common,
III bid 175 asked; Southwestern, "a bid,
81 asked; Atlanta and West Point stock
1O3 bid, 1O5 asked; Atlanta and West
Point per cent. certificates, 102 bid, 1031s
asked; Savannah Construction Company,
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light Stock.
q. bid, % asked; Electric Light and Pow
err Company, 81 bid, 90 asked.
Bank. Stocks, Etc-Citzens Bank. 10
bid, asked; Chatham Bank "A bid. as
asked; Germania Bank, 109 bid, 10 asked;
asked; National Bank of Savannah l26
bid - asked; Oglethorpe Savings and
Trust Company 104 bid, :. asked; South
ern Bank of the state Of Georgia, 1872 bid
1853 asked; Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany, 101 bid. - asked; Chatham Real
Estate and Improvement Company, A, IS
x acIxa
pies Savings and Loan Company, So bid,
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 6s. 101
bid. 1O2 asked; Enterprise Factory S. 100
bid, AZ asked: sibiey Manufacturing Com
pany 6s. 101 bid, 102 asked.
Factory Stocss-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, r bid, 10 asked; Augusta Factory
so bidl3 SO asked; Granitevilfe Factory las
bid. f61 asked; Langley Factory, 104 bid,
1851 asked Enterprise Factory, common,
SO bid, So asked; =; r. King Manufactur-
ing Company, 194 bid, 1O5 asked Sibley
Manufacturing Company, 20 bid. 76 asked;
savannah Brewing Company, S01a bid, SO
easy at 115q2 per cent; the last loan was
at 2 per, cent and closed at 1la02 per cent
Prime mercantile paper, Sl4g4A per cent
mess In bankers bills at $4s5s4 for de-
mand, and s4.s2%Q4.sS for sixty days. Post
ed rates. "a. SS1sa4. $50. Commercial bills
silver, 5Slhc Mexican dollars, 4S7sc. Gov
eminent bonds firm; state bonds dull;
railroad bonds firm.
New York, Nov. 24..To- dsy's market
transactions were confined, for the most
part, 10 the closing up of contracts i'm an
ticipation of to-morrow's holiday. The
course of prices indicated that few of these
contracts were for. short accounts. The
stocks that showed the greatest weakness
to-day went to indicate that there was
selling to realize. Even so firmly held
stock as Northern Pacific did not fully
escape this tendency. Metropolitan street
railway which has also advanced very
aggressively for several days past. reacted
points, ard rallied rather feebly There
were other points Of weakness 10 the list
including Jersey Central Sugar and Ma
tionai Lead. There was a time during the
,day when the market ruled above last
nights close, and counting from the high
point both Burlington and Omaha .declin- |
ed to the extent of a point. In fact 1t was
not until the late afternoon that the gen.
eral level of the market fell below last
nights close. 1t was at this time that
marked weakness DEVELOPED in Peoples
Gas resulting In net decline of points.
Susquehanna and Western preferred, also
80 paTnfus d.