The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-03

FINANCIAL.

Money-The market is easy; demand
good.
Foreign Exchange - Market barely
steady The following are net Savannah
quotations.: Commercial demand, $4S624 {;
sixty days, %.S424, ninety days, $4.S4
francs, Paris and Havre, sixty days, 5.1915
Swiss, sixty days, 5.211s; marks, sixty
days, 9ls4.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows: Up
to SIS, 1Oc premium; $25 to $50 15c premium /;
$50 to $780, zoe premium; $780, and up to
$1,000, - per cent. premium; $1,000 and
over. 81 per $1,000.
Securities-The market is quiet and dull
Stock and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
3is per cent bonds of 1880, 1O2 bid, -
asked; Georgia 31a per cent, due 1915, 1919
bid, 1924 asked Georgia AZ per cent
per cent, due 1926 10 bid, III asked; South
Carolina AIS, 103 bid, 104 asked
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 104 bid
105 asked; Augusta 41as, 1925, 103 bid 104
asked; Augusta Z per cent, 112 bid, lis
asked; Augusta 6 per cent, 40 bid, III
asked Columbus per cent, 102 bid 1903
asked; Macon per cent, 11415 bid, lis
asked Savannah 3 per cent, quarterly
April coupons, 10S bid, 1OSis asked; Savan-
nah . per cent. quarterly May coupons,
los bid, 1851 asked; Charleston As, 80 bid,
"a asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent interest coupons 112Ia bid, ia
asked Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897 1904 bid 101 ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral gold IS, IS bid, 81 asked;
Central of Georgia Railway first mortgage
5s 5O-year gold bonds. 1929 bid, 1917 ask
ed; Central of Georgia railway first con-
solidate mortgage 5s, 91ls bid, 92ia asked:
Central of Georgia Railway first preferred
inomes, 27la bid 1872 asked Central OF
Georgia Railway second preferred in
comes, 10 bid. II asked; Central of
Georgia Railway third preferred incomes,
bid So asked Georgia railroad, 6s, 1910,
10 bid 1l2 asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta first SIS, 106 bid, l07 asked;
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage Is, 114i5 bid 1854 asked; Georgia
Southern and Florida, new IS, 90 bid, g3h
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage Is, 104 bid, 1919 asked; South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is,
lO2 bid 10S asked; Ocean Steamship per
cent bonds 1926 10l bid. lO2 asked; City
and Suburban railroad first mortgage Z
per cent. bonds, 80 bid, IS asked, Ala
bama Midland 5 per cent Endorsed. 80 bid,
So asked; Brunswick and Western As, 65
bid, 20 asked; South Bound railroad IS, 60
bid. Il asked, Southern railway 5s, ssh
bid. s9ik asked: Georgia and Alabama first
preferred IS. 100 bid. 102 asked; Georgia
and Alabama first consols. 80 bid. 81 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah 93Is bid. 9ila asked, ex-div.; Georgia
common 159 bid, 16l asked Southwestern.
90 bid. "a asked ex-dv. Atlanta and
West Point railroad stock. 80 bid, 100 ask
ed; Atlanta and West Point 6 per cent.
certificates, 0TiA bid % asked; Savannah
Construction Company. 20 bid, p asked.
Gas Stocks--Savannah Gas Light stock,
22ih bid 23lh asked. cx-div.; Electric Light
and Power Company, Sc bid, 68 asked, ex-
div.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Ciiizens Bank i0s
bid. 100 asked. ex-div.; Chatham Bank,
ASA bid. 1914 asked, ex-divs Germanla
Bank, 1OTN bid. 1885, asked, ex-div.; Mer-
chants National Bank. ~ bid 92ia tsk-
cd. ex-div. National Bank of Savannah,
126 bid, rs asked, ex-div.; Ogiethorpe Saw
ings and Trust Company. ,02 bid, 1O3
asked. sx-div,: Southern Bank OF the State
Of Georgia, 100 bid, 1855 asked, ex-div.;