The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-05
FINANCIAL.


same week last year. and Sl,5S95s2.7S for
the same week in 1895.
Foreign Exchange 49, The market is
weak. The following are net Savannah
quotations. Commercial, demand. $4S74;
| sixty days, $AS5s4; ninety days, $4S5Is;
| francs. Paris and Havre, sixty days
Sis; Swiss, sixty days, 5.197s; marks
| sixty days, % lilo.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
| buying at par and selling as follows: Up
| to SIS, Zoe premium; SIS TO $50 l5c premium
| $50 to $780, 20c premium; SEQ and up to
| $1,000 Il per cent. premium; $1,000 and
| over, 81 per $1,000.
Securites-Market is quiet and dull
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
Sla per cent. bonds of 1880, 1929 bid, 49,
asked; Georgia S1a per cent, due 1875 1914
| bid, asked; Georgia AZ per cent.
bonds, 1915, 11iA bid, 1864 asked; Georgia
per cent, due 1926 40 bid, Ill asked;
South Carolina 4las los bid, 100 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 104 bid.
! los asked; Augusta 4l2s 1925, lOS bid, 1Gi
asked; Augusta per cent, ll2 bid, 1l3
| asked; Augusta 8 per cent, Ill bid, 112
asked; Columbus 8 per cent, 1903 bid, 1N
asked; Macon per cent, ll5 bid, 1l6
| asked; Savannah per cent, quarterly
July coupons, 1854 bid. l0S94 asked; Sa-
vannah per cent, quarterly August cou-
| pons, los bid, 10S1s asked; Charleston, As
| "a bid, 50 asked
| Railroad Bonds.-Savannah Florida and
|
| Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
| 6 per cent interest coupons 1l2i9 bid -
| asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage
| consolidated Z per cent coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897, 1914 bid, 1929 ask
| ed: Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral gold 5s. 9Ola bid, 9lla asked;
| Central of Georgia railway first mortgage
| IS, 50-year gold bonds, Ill bid, ll2l5 asked;
! Central of Georgia railway first CONSOLE
| dated mortgage IS, 80 bid, 80 asked; Central
| Of al
| comes. 2715 bid, 2S15 asked; Central of
| Georgia railway, second preferred in
comes, ~ bid, So asked; Central of Geor-
| gia railway third preferred incomes ga bid,
AZ asked; Georgia railroad IS, 1910 10 bid,
| Ill asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Au-
! gusta first 5s 1919 bid. - asked; Charlotte.
| Columbia and Augusta second mortgage
| Is, 115 bid, 116 asked; Georgia Southern
and Florida. new 5s, 96la bid, 97ls asked !;
! South Georgia and Florida first mortgage
| Is, 1927 bid, 1882 asked; South Georgia and
| Florida second mortgage Is, 102 bid 1903
| asked; Ocean Steamship 5 per cent. bonds
| 1926, 102 bid; 49, asked; City and Suburban
| railroad first mortgage per cent bonds,
49, bid, 81 asked; Alabama Midland 5 per
cent. indcrsed, 50 bid, 80 asked; Brunswick
and Western as, 60 bid, 20 asked: South
Bound railroad 5s, 67is bid, 69ls asked;
| Southern railway 5s, IS bid, 50 asked !;
| Georgia and Alabama first preferred S.
1O3 bid, 104 asked; Georgia and Alabama
first COnSolS, so bid, 81 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, 92Ia bid, 93ia asked Georgia common,
1856 bid, 100 asked Southwestern, 9Ol5 bid,
| 9115 asked; Atlanta and West Point rail-
| road stock 9S bid, 100 asked; Atlanta and
| West Point per cent. certificates, 80
bid, 100 asked; Savannah Construction
Company. 60 bid, 20 asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock,
% bid, % asked; Electric Light and
| Power Company, Sc bid. 80 asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank 109Ib
| bid, 1101a asked; Chatham Bank, As bid 46
| asked; Germania Bank, 10S bid, 100 asked (;
| Merchants National Bank, S6l5 bid, Sly
asked; National Bank OF Savannah, 125 bid
- asked Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
! Company. 104 bid, 105 asked; Southern
| Bank of the State of Georgia, 155 bid, 1859
| asked; Savannah Bank and Trust Com
| pany, 1Ol bid, 1902 asked; Chatham Real Es-
! tate and Improvement Company, A, 55
bid, So asked; b, 53la bid, SAX asked; Peo-
! pies Savings and Loan Company, 91h bid
921a asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory 81, 1O1
bid, 102 asked; Enterprise Factory IS, 100
| bid, 101 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manu-
featuring Company. 6 per cent. bonds 40
bid, AZ asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany 6s, 101 bid, 102 asked.
Factory Stocks-Savannah Cotton Fac
| tory, - bid, 25 asked; Augusta Factory.
| 80 bid, SO asked; Graniteville Factory, 145
| biAs 10l dohthf l4diEtcg Factory H1 DID,
| 1854 asked Enterprise Factory, common
| SO bid, IS asked; j. r. King Manufacturing
| Company, l04 bid Jos asked; Sibley Man
ufacturing Company, 70 bid, rs asked: Sa-
vannah Brewing Company - bid, 8S ask
ed.
New York, June 4-Money on call at ~
per cent. the last call was at per cent. /;
| closed offered at per cent Prime mer-
! camille paper 315Gi4 per cent. Sterling ex-
change was easier with actual business in
bankers bills at $LS67sd46 for demand, and
at AS52l@4S6 for sixty days Posted
rates, $485lk0487h Commercial bills, 1885,
| Bar silver, Coo Government bonds were
strong; state bonds were dull; railroad
! bonds were strong.
New York. June 4-The Evening Posts
financial cablegram says Business is
| still slack i'm the stock markets here, but
| the tone everywhere is good. The only
feature is a demand for Canadian railway
securities, Grand Trunk stocks being in
! special request. The Paris bourse opened
firm and closed dun. The Berlin market
was steady to firm
New York, June 4.-There were some
room traders on tho Stock Exchange to-
day who manifested occasional timidity as
| to the scarcity of values at the improve
| ment which has been sustained now for
| the greater part of two weeks. This ele-
! ment took their profits from time to time
| during the day. and their selling had a
recessions in the more susceptible stocks
| But the offers to realize were absorbed
| without notable effect on the general mar
| ket. which remained strong and firm all
| day, and closed at practically the best
prices OF the day, net gains being the rule.
| which extended to noteworthy proportions
! IN some specialties. Chicago Gas, the
center of interest In the market displayed
a continuance of strength, which 1t has
enjoyed for quite heightened period. A
| determined drive was made against this
stock along toward the close OF the mar
ket, apparently with the purpose OF effect
| ing a decline in the general market by in
| ducing sales to realize as was done yes
| terday. The gas stock was, in fact, driven
down "a per cent, and some losses occur
red al the same time Ia the general list.
| But there was no such rush 10 realize as
marked down prices az the close yesterday
ana Chicago Gas more than recovered It's
loss. and the market generally rose TO
! the high point before the close.
| The newly awakened outside interest In
the market, made manifest by the COM