The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-21
RICE.
FINANCIAL.

Money-The market is easy; demand
good.
Foreign Exchange - The market is
steady. The following are net Savannah
Quotations. Commercial, demand. $4s71b;
sixty days, S4.S6, ninety days. S4.S5sI I.
SIS; Swiss, sixty days, 5.19s; marks
sixty days. IS lie.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: On
20 $25, 10c premium; $25 to $50. 15c premium
$50 to 500, zoe premium; $500 and up &c
$1,000 * per cent. premium; $1,000 and
over, 81 per $1,000.
Securities-Market Is quiet and dull.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
sI5 per cent. bonds of $780, 1O21z bid. 1OSIk
asked: Georgia 3h per cent, due 1915, 1OlI%
bid. 1924 asked; Georgia AZ per cent
bonds. 1915, 1l4ls bid, 115lk asked: Georgia
4 per cent, due 1926, 10 bid, Ill asked I;
South Carolina AS, 1OS bid. 100 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 104 bid
105 asked; Augusta 415s, 1925. 1903 bid, 104
asked; Augusta per cent, 112 bid 113
asked; Augusta per cent, Ill bid, 112
asked; Columbus per cent, 103 bid 1O4
asked; Macon per cent lis bid, ZIG
asked: Savannah per cent, quarterly
July coupons, 107A bid. 10S asked; sa-
vannah per cent. quarterly August cou-
pons, 1913 bid 1854 asked; Charleston Is.
"a bid. IS asked.
Railroad Bonds.-Savannah. Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds.
6 per cent. interest coupons, l1215 bid, =
asked: Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage
consolidated z per cent. coupons January
and July maturity, 1897 10fis bid. 102J5 ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking CON-
pany collateral gold 5s, 90l5 bid, 9i1A asked Z:
Central OF Georgia railway first mortgage
IS. 5O-year gold bonds, ll2 bid. l13 asked ;
Central OF Georgia railway first consoli-
dated mortgage IS, So bid, SO asked Central
OF Georgia railway first preferred in
comes 27ib bid. $ asked Central Of
Georgia railway, second preferred in,
comes, 10 bid. 1919 asked; Central OF Georgia
railaay third preferred incomes, AZ bid. 81
asked. Georaa railroad IS. 1910. 10 bid,
III asked: Charlotte, Columbia and Au-
gtista first S. 1914 bid. asked; Charlotte
Columbia and Augusta second mortgage
7s ia bid ii6 asked. Georgia Southern
and Florida, new IS, 1854 bid. 96ia asked !;
south Georgia and Florida first mortgage
7s lO2ik bid 1881 asked; South Georgia and
FLORIDA second mortgage a., 100 bid, 1903
asked: ocean steamship per cent. bonds,
1920 iO2 bid, asked: City and Suburban
railroad first mortgage per cent, bonds
- bid, 81 asked. Alabama Midland per
cent Endorsed, 30 bid. % asked: Brunswick
ana Western A., So bid. 40 asked; South
Bound railroad s., 67h bid. G9h asked
Southern railway IS, 81 bid, IS asked !.
Georgia and Alabama FIRST preferred -.
1O2ik bid, 1914 asked. Georgia and Alabama
hrst cOnsols. " bid, 81 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta ana Savan-
nah 90 bid. g3iA asked Georgia common,
i55 bid, 100 asked Southwestern, sik bid
9giA asked: Atlanta and West Point rail-
road stock. 9s bid. % asked; Atlanta and
West Point fNr cent certificates. %
bid. 100 asked; Savannah Construction
Company. Gs bid. 20 asked ex-dlv
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock
2iik bid 22ia asked. Electric Light and
Power Company. bid. O. asked
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizens Bank. 100
hid, 10 asked: Chatham Bank. q bid. rs
asked: Germania Bank, i0S bid. 40 asked
Mcrchants' Natiouli Bank, S6ih