The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-09
FINANCIAL.
Monev-Market steady.


Foreign EXchange-The market Is
steady The following are net Sa-
vannah quotations: Commercial demand
&.Al2; sixty days, @8n2; ninety days
$500 francs Paris and Havre, sixty
days, SPA; Swiss, sixty days, 5.2Ab;
marks, sixty days, 9i3s.
Domestic EXchange-SteadY, banks are
buying at Is per cent. discount and SELL
ing as follows: Up to $25, 10c premium;
$50 70 $50, 15e permum; $50 to 500, zoe
premium; $500 and upwards al par.
SecuTities-The market is quiet and very
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-CeoreIa
3la per cent. bonds of 1880, 1919 bid lOG
asked; Georgia 3lh per cent, due 1915. 1Ot
bid l05 asked; Georgia AZ per cent, bonds
1915, III bid, 1lS asked; Georgia per cent
due 1926, 112 bid lis asked; South Caro-
lima as los bid 109 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta z per cent, 1914
bid, LOSE asked Augusta 4hs, 1926. l05
bid 1O6 asked; Augusta per cent, 10S bid
jog asked; Augusta per cent, 108 bid
ll0 asked Columbus per cent. 1O5 bid
JOG asked; Macon 6 per cent, 1l6 bid. III
asked; Macon, AS, 1926, 1861 bid, 1O6i%
asked; Savannah . per cent quarterly
January coupons, III bid, 11lla asked: Sa-
Vannah 8 per cent, quarterly February
coupons, 11012 bid III asked; Charleston As
9iA bid, 95h asked.
Railroad Bonds Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds
8 per cent. interest coupons 113 bid ia
asked; Savannah, Florida and western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds due
1894, 108 bid, 100 asked; Augusta Southern
frsts 5s. 1924 bid, SO asked; Central
RallfOad ana banking Company cOllate-
raj 5s, 80 bid, 9liA asked; Central of Geor-
gia railway first mortgage S. 5O-year gold
bonds, HE bid ll5R asked; Central of
Georgia railway first consolidated mort
gage IS, 9l15 bid, 80 asked; Central Of Geor-
gla railway frst preferred incomes, 80
bid, 40 asked; Central OF Georgia rail-
way, second preferred incomes, IA bid
Is asked; Genial Of Georgia railway
third preferred incomes, bid. asked:
Georgia railroad IS. 1910, 1852 bid, III ask,
ed CHARLOTTE, Columbia and Augusta first
S. 1903 bid 40 asked Charlotte, Column
ba and Augusta second mortgage rs, 116
BID 2i, az asked; Georgia Southern and
Georgia and Florida first mortgage rs. 102ik
bid 1887 asked; South Georgia and Flor
ida second mortgage Is, 1903 bid, 1O5 asked:
Ocean steamship 5 per cent. bonds. 1926
105 bid, JOG asked; City and Suburban rail-
road first mortgage per cent. bonds, "a
indorsed % bid, - asked; Brunswick and
Western As Is bid, ne asked: South
ern Railway IS, 81 bid. 90 asked; GeorgIa
and Alabama first preferred 5s 101 bid
102 asked; Georgia and Alabama cons. ISL
Railroad stocks-Augusta and savan-
nah. 9l1s bid, 50 asked; Georgia, common
l72 bid, ,175 asked; Southwestern, 9i1s bid
lO2 bid. 104 asked Atlanta and west
Point per cent. certificates, 1917 bid, l0S
asked; savannah Construction Company
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light Stock
2lA bid, % asked; Electric Light and
POWER company, % bid, 90 asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank Ito
bid, asked; Chatham Bank "A bid. 46
asked; Germania Bank, 100 bid 10 asked.
Merchants National Bank, So bid I'd
asked; National Bank Of Savannah, 1926
bid, asked; Oglethorpe Savings and
Trust Company, 104 bid asked South
ern Bank of the state Of Georgia i5iJ5 bid
1853 asked Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany, lOl bid, asked; Chatham Real
Estate and Improvement Company A So
bid, 81 asked; p, So bid, 55h asked; PEG.
pies Savings and Loan COMPANY 81 hid
SO asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory Is. 1O1
bid, 102 asked; Enterprise Factory 6s' 100
bid, lOl asked; Eagle and PhCnix Manu-
featuring Company 5 per cent. bonds -
bid, 40 asked; Slbley Manufacturing Com
pany 6s, 101 bid, 102 asked
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
tory, - bid, Is asked; Augusta Factory
50 bid 81 asked; GraniteVille Factory 145
bid, 15l asked; Langley Factory 104 bid
1854 asked; Enterprise Factory, common
ing Company 10i bid, 105 asked Sibley
Manufacturing Company, 20 bid. &c asked:
savannah Brewing Company, S0lz bid, SO
asked.
New York, Dec. S-Money on cau was
easy at 1%d2 per cent; The last loan was
at per cent, and closed at 1%m2 per cent
Prime mercantile paper, 3M4 per cent
Sterling exchange. weak, with actual bus
mess In bankers bills at $751; al s385 for
demand, and at $4.S2Ik0Ii SZat for sixtv
days; posted rates, $AS31@M4.s4 and 81 g6ib
Q4.S7. Commercial bills, @S2A. Silver
certi1eates, 5s3sc. Bar silver, 59hc Mexi-
can dollars, 46#c. Government bonds
were firm; state bonds were dull
New York. Dec. S-The Evening Posts
London financial cabegram says: "The
markets to-day We're inactive bur cheer
ful, the features being the buoyancy Of