The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-22
FINANCIAL.

Money-Market steady
The bank clearings for the past week
were 1854 S45. &c. against 81, 646 1898 for the
same week last year and 81. S31, rs. O6 for
the same week in 1896.
Foreign Exchange The market is
firm. The following are net Savannah
quotations: Commercial demand $4S4%;
sixty days, SAs2; ninety days $4.S1: francs,
Paris and Havre, sixty days, 5.2S; Swiss
sixty days, 5.247s marks sixty days 94A
Domestic Exchange-Steady; banks are
buying at par and selling as fol-
lows: Up to $25, 10c, premium;
S25 to $50 15c premium; $50 to 800, zoe pre-
MUM; $500 to $780, Is per cent. premium;
$1,O0 and over, 81 per $1,000.
Securities-The market is dull and very
Inactive many quotations are nominal.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
Sla per cent. bonds of 1880, LOG bid, los
asked; Georgia. 312 per cent, due 1915, 1915
bid, 107 asked; Georgia Az per cent. bonds,
1915, 1l6 bid. III asked; Georgia per
cent, due 1926 10 bid, 112 asked; South
Carolina 412s. los bid, 109 asked.
City Bonds-Atanta per cent, 1903 bid,
104 asked; Augusta 41as 1925, 1892 bid, 1N
asked; Augusta Z per cent, 1906 bid 107
asked; Augusta per cent, 10T bid, 10S ask
ed; Columbus per cent, 103la bid, 1861
asked; Macon per cent, ia bid. 115 asked;
Macon 4l9s, 1926, 1o4 bid, l05 asked; Sa-
vannah ) per cent, quarterly April cou-
pons, 11Ol5 bid, Ill asked; Savannah per
cent quarterly February coupons, 1102
bid, 111A asked; Charleston As, SO bid %
asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent. interest coupons. III bid, 118
asked Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage, 5 per cent. gold bonds. due
1924, los bid, 100 asked; Augusta Southern
first 5s, 1924. - bid, SO asked; Central Rail
road and Banking Company collateral 5s,
91ls bid, 80 asked; Central of Georgia Rail-
way. first mortgage 5s, 50-year gold bonds,
us bid, 119 asked; Central of Georgia Rail
way first consolidated mortgage IS, 80 bid,
SO asked; Central of Georgia Railway first
preferred incomes. 43 bid. A asked; Cen
trail of Georgia Railway second preferred
incomes. IA bid, Is asked: Central of
Georgia Railway, third preferred incomes,
bid, asked; Georgia Railroad 6s 1910,
119 bid, 1141s asked; Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta first 5s, 10 bid Ill asked:
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta second
mortgage Is, lie bid. III asked; Georgia
Southern and Florida new 5s, 100 bid, 101
asked South Georgia and Florida first
mortgage Is, 1929 bid, 1882 asked; South
Georgia and Florida second mortgage Is,
1903 bid Jos asked Ocean Steamship ) per
cent. bonds. 1926, 1854 bid. - asked; City q
Suburban Railroad first mortgage per
cent bonds, 81 bid, asked; Alabama
Midland per cent. indorsed, 30 bid, 81
asked Brunswick and Western As Is bid,
III asked; South Bound Railway 5s. 70 bid,
rs asked; Georgia aud Alabama first pre-
ferred 5s, 1902 bid. 103 asked; Georgia and
Alabama cons 5s, so bid, 50 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savannah.
93is bid, 9lia asked; Georgia common, 175
bid $50 asked; Southwestern, 90 bid 1872
asked; Atlanta and West Point stock. 1914
bid 1902 asked; Atlanta and West Point 6
per cent certificates 1912 bid. 1929 asked;
Savannah Construction Company "A bid -
asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock.
q bid. asked, ex-div.; Electric Light
and Power Company, Il bid. rs asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Ciuzens Bank, 100
bid 10 asked; Chatham Bank, 4Si4 bid
4Sla asked ex-div.; Germania Bank, los
bid. 100 asked; National Bank OF Savan-
nah l24 bid, l26 asked Merchants National
Bank 81 bid SO asked; Oglethorpe Saw
ings and Trust Company, 104 bid. 1O5
asked; Southern Bank of the State of
Georgia, 1873 bid 40 asked ex-div; Sd
vannah Bank and Trust Company, 1914
bid, 1925 asked; Chatham Real Estate and
Improvement Company, A, 80 bid, SO