The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-10

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5000 g432
Rough. 6Oc to 81 per bushel .
+, FINANCIAL.
Money-The market is easy
Foreign EXchange-Market easy The
following are net Savannah quotations:
commercial demand, 4.So12; sixty days,
$4.S312; ninety. days &S21a francs. Paris
days, 5.227s; marks, sixty days "a 1l-16.
Domestic Exchange-Steady. Banks are
buying at par and selling as follows Up
$50 to 800, zoe premium; 5000, and up to
$1,000. - per cent. premium $1,000 and
Securities-The market is quiet and mac
tive excepting southwestern, which is
gradually hardening.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
31a per cent. bonds of 1880, 102 bid, 10215
asked; Georgia 31s per cent. due 1916, 1919
bid, 102A asked; Georgia AZ per cent
per cent, due 1926, ITO bid, Ill asked; South
Carolina 4l5s, 1903 bid, 104 asked
City, Bonds-Atlanta Z per cent, 104 bid;
Jos asked; Augusta 41as. 1925, 1903 bid, lO4
asked; Augusta z per cent, liz bid, liz
asked; Augusta 6 per cent, ITO bid, Ill
asked; Columbus per cent, 1o2 bid. lO9
asked; Macon 6 per cent, 114Is bid, lis
asked; Savannah per cent, quarterly
April coupons, 1903 bid, 1882 asked: Savnn-
nah 5 per cent. quarterly May coupons
JOS bid, l0SB asked; Charleston As, 81 bid,
81 asked
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
western railroad general mortgage bonds,
8 per cent. interest coupons, 1121a bid ia
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage,
consolidated per cent. coupons, January
and July maturity, 1897. 1904 bid, 1O1 ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral gold IS, 95 bid, 81 asked
Central of Georgia Railway first mortgage
5s, @-year gold bonds, l12 bid, ia asked
dated mortgage SIS, 81 bid, 90 asked:
Central of Georgia Railway first preferred
incomes, % bid, 80 asked; Central Of
Georgia Railway second preferred in
comes, liz bid, 1914 asked; Central of
Georgia Railway third preferred incomes
bid, asked; Georgia railroad IS, 1910,
lO612 bid, l0712 asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta first SIS, 106 bid, 107 asked;
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
Southern and Florida, new 5s 941b bid, 49,
asked; South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage rs, 104 bid, 1912 asked; South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is
1O2 bid, JOB asked Ocean Steamship ) per
cent. bonds, 1926, 101 bid, 102 asked; City
and Suburban railroad first mortgage
bama Midland per cent. Endorsed, 80 bid,
20 asked; Brunswick and Western As,
bid, 20 asked; South Bound railroad IS, 6S
bid 70 asked; Southern Railway 5s 1872
bid, yO13 asked; Georgia and Alabama first
preferred 5s, 9S12 bid, 100 asked; Georgia
and Alabama first consols, so bid, 81 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, 931s bid, 941s asked, ex-div.; Georgia
common, 1853 bid, 100 asked; Southwestern,
" bid, "a asked, eX-diV.; Atlanta and
West Point railroad stock, 80 bid, 100 ask
ed; Atlanta and West Point per cent
certificates, 80 bid, SO asked; Savannah
Constrgetion Company; 20 bid, z asked.
q bid, 2l12 asked, ev-div.; Electric Light
and Power Company, 60 bid, IS asked, ex-
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizen's Bank. 1903
bid: lOS1a asked, ex-div.; Chatham Bank,
IS bid, 46A asked. x-div.; Germania
6anK ~ Pid lOg asked a9a e6 Sid a;, Mer-
ed, ex-div.; National Bank of Savannah,
l25 bid, l261a asked, ex-div; Oglethorpe Saw
asked, ex-div.; Southern Bank Of the State
Of Georgia. = bid. 16S asked, ex-div.:
Savannah Bank and Trust Company, 100
tate and Improvement Company A. 5SA
bid, 81 asked; b, 51l5 bid. 50 asked ex-
div; Peoples Sayings and Loan Com
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, 6s, 100
bid, 102 asked; Sibley Factory IS, 100 bid.
101 asked; Enterprise Factory 6s. 101 bid,
l02 asked; Eagle and Phenix Manufactur-
ing Company, per cent. bonds. 40 bid.
50 asked.
Factory stocks-savannah Cotton Fac
bid, 81 asked, ex-div; Graniteville Fac
tory 145 bid, ISL asked; Langley Factory.
1903 bid, l0i asked; Enterprise Factory
common. SO bid. SO asked; J. r. KAG
Manufacturing Company, 10S bid, 1O4 ask
ed; Sibley Manufacturing Company, Is
bid. Is asked; Savannah Brewing Com
London, Feb 9.-Bar silver. 292td. Con-
soils, III 9-16 for money and III 1l-l6 for
the account.
Paris. Feb. 9.-Three per cent. rentes,
102 francs. 50 confines for the account
New York, Feb. 9.-Money on call was
easy al 11ad2 per cent; the last loan was at
III per cent. ana at the closing was Of
fered at 49, per cent. Prime mercantile pa
per 3 per cent. Bar silver, 6lMc. Sterling
exchange steady with a; actual business IN
bankers bills. at Si&%@4.S5 for sixty
days and "a S61aGl4 S5A for demand. Posted
rates, 81 .SJAM4.S1ie; commercial bills.
81 S3lLI4 81. Government bonds steady;
state bonds dun; railroad bonds firm. Sill
yer al the board was neglected.
New York, Feb. 9--The treasury balances
were as follows: Coin. $2S, 290,2li curren-
cy. SIS 592. 49,
tive market was firm, at the following
quotations:
Erie ...,...,..... 1iail Bait. & Ohio ... 15h
Northwestern ..10ii Can Southern. A.
Lake Erie 900. .152i Rock Island .... g.
~ & w. pref .lli4 Del. & Hudsonl0s
West Union ... s. Del. l.. & W....l52la
So. Ry. conc. , Manhat tan .... g0b
Am. Sugar ......li2& n Y. Central -. % s.
New York. Feb. 9.-Speeulation was ex-
tremely dull to-day, with the sole eXcep-
tlon of the lndustrials group, In which
there was free selling for short account,
and, moreover less liquidation by hold
! ers. in consequence Of the probing into the
affairs of the trusts by the state Senate
! Investigation committee. The sharp rise
! IN Sugar Just previous to the close yes
terday which proved TO have been moth
/ Ing more than an effort on the part Of
/ certain interests 20 get out additional
! declined from ii3ia % ili2s and closed at
the lowest price OF fhe day. Tobacco
/ made an euuallS Hharp decline opening
at Tx aud later selling at 699t. Leather