The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-25
FINANCIAL.
Money-NIarket steady.

hANNN0iALs
Money-NIarket steady.
Foreign Exchange-The market Is weak
The following are the net Savannah quo
tations: Commercial. demand, $4S31k:
sixty DAYS, S4S0la: ninety days, 81. 79ss ;
francs. Parts and Havre. sixty days
5.25; Swiss. sixty days 5.29; marks, six
ty days, 942i,
Domestic Exchange-steady: banks are
buving at par and selling as follows: IN
10 SIS. lOc premium; S25 to $50, 15c premium.
$50 to 500. 20c premium; $500 to $1,000 K
DER cent. premium; 81 600 and over. 81 per
$1,000
securities-Very inactive and dun. but
difficult 70 buy, as offerings are extreme
Ia light. Quotations are nominal. Hold
ers show apathy in selling.
Stocks and Bonds.-State Bonds-Geor-
gia Sib per cent. bonds Of 1880. lO5 bid =
asked; Georgia So per cent, due 1915. 1O5
bid. - asked; Georgia AZ per cent. bonds
1918 1861 bid 117Ia asked; Georgia per
cent. due 1926 113 bid asked; South
Carolina 4iAs, 10 bid liz asked
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent. 1903 bid
- asked; Augusta 415s. 1926. 105 bid, JOe
asked Augusta per cent. ITO bid. III
asked Augusta 6 per cent. 112 bid. 113
asked Columbus per cent, 103ls bid 1O4Iy
asked Macon per cent, ia bid, lie ask
ed Macon 4lss 1926. 1903 bid. 105 asked; Sa-
vannah 5 per cent. quarterly April cou-
pons, 1l0la bid, 11lA asked; Savannah per
cent. quarterly May coupons, 110h bid
ll0la asked; Charleston As, 95 bid, 96 asked
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds.
6 per cent interest coupons. 1l6 bid. III
asked; Savannah. Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds, due
1924, 106 bid 100 asked; Cen
trail Railroad and Banking Company col
lateral 5s, 81 Did, SO asked; Central of
Georgia Railroad first mortgage IS. 20
year gold bonds, 1l6 bid, III asked Central
of Georgia Railway first consolidated
mortgage 5s, 81 bid, so asked; Central Of
Georgia Railway first preferred incomes,
81 bid, IS asked; Central of Georgia
Railway second preferred incomes, 1914
bid, 1871 asked; Central of Georgia Railway
third preferred incomes bid, asked;
Georgia Railroad IS, 1910, 1i3 bid ia asked;
Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta first Is,
107 bid los asked; Charlotte. Columbia and
Augusta second mortgage Is III bid, 11sR
asked; Georgia Southern and Florida new
5s 100 bid, lOlh asked South Georgia and
Florida first mortgage Is, 1924 bid, 1891
asked; South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage Is, 1903 bid, 1906 asked; Ocean
steamship per cent. bonds, 1926, 1914 bid
LOG asked; City and Suburban Railroad
first mortgage per cent bonds, 100 bid, 1903
asked Alabama Midland per cent. in
dorsed 81 bid, IS asked; Brunswick and
Western IS, Is bid, tn asked: South
Bound Railway 5s. - bid rs asked; Geor-
gla and Alabama first preferred IS, 1902 bid,
l03 asked; Georgia and Alabama cons. 49,
81 bid, SO asked; Eatonton Branch, So bid
STA asked; Central of Georgia, Middle
Georgia and Atlantic division SIS, rs bid
80 asked
Railroad Stocks Augusta and Savannah.
92 bid, 80 asked; Georgia common. ITS
bid 1870 asked Southwestern, Oh bid, 90
asked Atlanta ana West Point stock
1903 bid, 1914 asked Atlanta and West
Point per cent. certificates. 1903 bid, lN
asked Savannah Construction Company.
65 bid, 10 asked. u
Gas Stock-Savannah Gas Light stock
21 bid. % asked Electric Light and Power
Company, a bid, 75ls asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Cltlzens Bank, 100
bid, 40 asked Chatham Bank, 4s
bid, 40 asked; Germanla Bank, 1e9
bid, 110 asked National Bank of Savan-
nah, 1876 bid, 1926 asked; Merchants National
Bank, "a bid. IS asked, Oglethorpe Saw
ings and Trust Company, 105 bid. JOG
asked; Southern Bank of the State Of
Georgia, bid, 1873 asked: savanpaL
Bank and Trust Company, 1914 bid, 1924
asked; Chatham Real Estate and In
provement Company A, So bid, Sc asked,
3, 541a bid, So asked; Peoples Savings and
Loan Company, 90 bid, 81 asked.
Factory Bonds.-Augusta Factory, 1Gi
bid, 102 asked Eagle and Phenlx Manu-
featuring Company 5 per cent. bonds, "
bid, 40 asked; sibley Manufacturing Com.
pany, 6s. 100 bid. 1o2 asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, g.
bid, 70 asked; Graniteville Factory, 145 bid
ISL asked: Langley Factory, lOl bid. 104
To-
bid, 96 asked; ]. r. King Manufacturing
Company, 104 ibid 105 asked; Sibley Manu-
featuring Company. 10 bid, rs asked; Sa-
vannah Brewing Company, 30 bid, 80 asked
New York March 2l-Money on call was
easy at 1lkG1% per cent; the last loan
was at IL per cent. Prime mercantile pa
per- 4hn5h per cent Sterling exchange
Irregular at A.sS% d4s4' for demand. and
at S4S07sGI4S1 for 60 days. Posted rates,
$4S21s and A.S5lz Commercial bills, &.so1z
Gl.S03i. Silver certificates, 559sc. Bar sill
YER, Sc. Mexican dollars, 45c Govern
ment bonds were weak; state bonds were
dull; railroad bonds were heavy.
New York, March A-The Evening
Posts London financial cablegram says
1.-THE stock markets here remained duh TO-
day with increased difficulty in effecting
sales Of all but the best stocks. In Amer
leans dealers frequently declined to make
prices. Spanish AZ were sold heavily from
Paris. Az one time they fell to 52lz, but
they closed at 53A on a general recovery
OF Paris speciaties. due to unconfrmed
market reports that Spain was seeking the
aid of Great Britain as an Intermediary
in the Cuban matter. Americans, after
improving on the New York support
closed fiat IN the street. OF the 5000, 600
of the China loan offered in this country
only f2OOO, coo was applied for This is an
additional cause for the depression in
speculation, enormous blocks being left on
the underwriters hands. japanese yen to
arrive next week have been bought up for
New York at 76s. SGD. Details of the
gold movement for the week show the re-
ceipts Of IA. 900 from Australia, and of $780,
coo from Austria and the export OF 100000
10 Java and OF n2,O00 to South America"
New York, March 24-The stock market
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