The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-08
RICE.
FINANCIAL.


Money-Market steady.
Foreign Exchange-The market Is
weak The following are the net Savan-
S4.Sl7s; sixty days, i79ls; ninety days,
$4,779s; francs, Paris and Havre, sixty
days. 5.27, Swiss, sixty days. $500; marks,
sixty days, 80 GIG,
Domestic Exchanges Steady; banks are
buying at bar and selling as follows: Up
10 S25 Zoe premium; S25 10 $50 15o prem
ium; $50 10 500, Poe premium; 500 to 81 900.
IA per cent. premium; $1,000 and over, 81
per 81 1000.
securties-Our market Is inaminate. No
one seems inclined to operate. Quotations
are nominal
Stocks aud Bonds-State Bonds.--Geor-
eia 3is per cent, bonds Of 1880, l07 bid, -
asked; Georgia 3ia per cent due 1915 1876
bid. - asked; Georgia ~ per Gent bonds,
1915. 116 bid, l17la asked Georgia 4 per
cent due 1926. ll3 bid, asked; South
Carolina i4s. ll0 bid, ll2 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, 1903 bid,
asked; Augusta 4iAs 1926, los bid, lO6
asked Augusta per cent, 10 bid. III
asked Augusta 9 per cent, ll2 bid, 11S
asked; Columbus per cent, 103la bid, 104ia
asked Macon per cent, ia bid 1l6 ask
ed; Macon rs 1926. 1903 bid, 105 asked Sa-
vaupah 3 per cent, quarterly July cou-
pons. ITO BID, 110A asked; Savannah 5
per cent? iiltlttIl. May toui1HSt IVA DlO,
l10A asked Charleston As, 95 bid, 80 asked.
Railroad Ronds-Savananh, Florida. and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds
6 per cent interest coupons, ZIG bid III
asked Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds, due
1894. 1C6 bid. 1903 asked. Central
Railroad and Banking Company col
lateral IS, s. bid 50 asked; Central Of
Georgia Railroad first mortgage IS, So
year gold bonds, ia bid, ll6 asked; Central
Of Georgia Railway first consolidated
mortgage IS, So BID, 81 asked; Central Of
Georgia Railway first preferred incomes,
37la bid. 30 asked; Central OF Georgia
Railway second preferred incomes, 1874
bid. 1874 asked Central of Georgia Railway
third preferred incomes, bid, Z asked :;
Georgia Railroad Gs, 1910 ll2 bid, 1lasked /,
Charlotte. Columbia and Augsuta first SIS,
10G bid 107 asked; Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta second mortgage rs, i15 bid, ll6
asked; Georgia Southern ana Florida new
IS, 1919 bid l01is asked; South Georgia and
Florida first mortgage Is, l02Ia bid, 1884
asked South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage rs, 1903 bid 104 asked; Ocean
Steamship 8 per cent. bonds, 1926 104 bid.
1G5 asked; City and Suburban Railroad
first mortgage per cent. bonds, 100 bid, 1903
asked Alabama Midland per cent. in
dorsed, "a bid So asked; Brunswick and
Western As, Is bid, 77ia asked, South
Bound Railway So, 70 bid 70 asked; Geor-
ela and Alabama hrst preferred S., 101 bid,
l03 asked; Georgia and Alabama cons, 5s.
81 bid 80 asked; Eatonton Branch. s. bid,
S7A asked; Central Of Georgia Middle
Georgia and Atlantic division 5s, IS bid,
IS asked.
Railroad Stocks--Augusta and Savan-
nah, 81 bid, 921a asked; Georgia common.
TO bid. $50 asked; Southwestern. 80 bid.
91ia asked Atlanta and West Point stock,
f03 bid 1Cil4 asked, Atlanta and West
Point 9 per cent certificates 1913 bid, i04
asked Savannah Construction Company,
G. BID. &c asked.
Gas stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock,
20la bid, q asked Electric Light and Pow
er Company 7ils bid, 75A asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Ciuzens Bank. 100
bid, 10 asked; Chatham Bank. 43 bid, 49
asked: Germania Bank, 1903 bid, 40 asked;
National Bank Of Savannah, 1875 bid, i26
asked: Merchants National Bank, "a bid,
So asked Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
Company. 105 bid 106 asked Southern
Bank Of the State Of Georgia. bid i36
asked; Savannah Bank and Trust Compa-
ny, 1917 bid, 1O2Iz asked; Chatham Real
Estate and Improvement Company A,
50 bid. Sc asked; b, 54is bid, 50 asked
Peoples Savings and Loan Company IS
bid 81 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, 101
bid, 1902 asked Eagle and Phoenix Man
ufacturing Company. per cent. bonds. 80
bid, 40 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany, IS, 100 bid, 1O2 asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, IS
bid, 70 asked; Granitevllle Factory, 145
bid, 151 asked; Langley Factory, 10l bid,
14 asked; Enterprise Factory, common,
80 bid. 90 asked; J. r. King Manufacture
ing Company, l04 bid. l05 asked Sibley
Manufacturing Company. 20 bid, rs asked
Savannah Brewing Company, 80 bid, %
asked
New York, April Mooney on call was
steady at raj per cent. the last loan was al
per cent Prime mercantile paper sax
per cent. Sterling exchange steady, with
actual businss In bankers bills at 1884 q
4.e3ls for demand, and at S4.s0H for sixty
days. Posted rates. S4S0ka4.silk ana sLsiG
4.ak. Commercial bills, 1880 Silver GER
tihcates, 56057c. Bar silver, 55a.s. Mexl.
can dollars, 45c. Government bonds irreg-
ular; state bonds dull ;srairoad bonds dun
New York, April 1.-THE Evening Posts
London financial cablegram says: "The
stock markets here opened good to-day on
the better aspect of the Spanish-Amerlcan
question Business, however, was neg
lected. While, in view of all the circun.
stances. Americans were better they
were left alone, and, of course will not be
traded IN during the intervening holidaya
until Tuesday morning. Spanish fours.
which closed last night az Az, opened to-
day at J0A, and closed about 48lk. Amer
leans, after reaction at midday. closed
nearly at the best Details OF the gold
movement for the week show the sale OF
f124O09 in eagles, the shipment of 125000
sovereigns 10 New York, Of 10000 10
South America and OF $4,000 to Canada,
and the receipt OF f51,000 from Australia.
Trade returns for March show increased
imports OF e, 10000 nearly all due to in
creased receipts OF food stuffs, largely
from the United States Exports decreas-
ed 1900. 600"
New York. April 1.-THE conviction Is
evidently unaltered IN Wall street that the
delay in presenting the Presidents messag,