The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-16
RICE.


same week last year and 1.79S, 1871 for
the same week in 1886.
Foreign Exchange - The market is
weak The following are the net Savan-
nah quotations: Commercial demand,
SASH: sixty days, A.7S1a; ninety days,
ST: francs Paris and Havre, sixty
DAYS. 5.27; Swiss. sixty days, ? $500;
marks sixty days, 1872.
Domestic Exchange-Steady; banks are
buying at lie per cent discount and sell
ing as follows: Up to $25, l0c premium; S25
TO $50 15c premium; $50 to 500, zoe pre-
MUM; $500 30 81 1000. csc premium; $1,000
and over, lilo per cent. premium.
Securities-Our market is dun aud nom
inal.
gia SIh per cent. bonds of 1890 1O7 bid, -
asked; Georgia, 5l2 per cent, due 1916 1O5
bid - asked; Georgia AZ per cent bonds.
1915. 116 bid 11712 asked; Georgia per
cent, due 1926, 113 bid, asked; South
Carolina f2s. 40 bid, 1l2 asked
City Bonds-Atianta per cent. 1903 bid
- asked Augusta as, 1926, 1O5 bid, 1O6
asked; Augusta I per cent, lie bid, Ill
asked; Augusta 6 per cent, 112 bid. 113
asked; Columbus per cent, 1882 bid. 1917
askedi Macon per cent, ia bid, 116 ask
ed; Macon 416s 1926. 100 bid. 105 asked; Sa-
vannah ) per cent, quarterly July cou-
pons 10 bid, 1l0l4 asked; Savannah 5
per cent, quarterly May coupons, 10 bid.
lIOla asked; Charleston As, 81 bid 95 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds
6 per cent. interest coupons, ia bid. 116
asked; Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage 5 per cent gold bonds. due
1924, 105 bid, l07 asked; Central Railroad
and Banking Company collateral IS. a
bid Sc asked; Central of Georgia Rail-
road first mortgage IS. 50-year gold bonds.
ia bid, lie asked Central of Georgia Rail
way first consolidated mortgage IS. IS bid
81 asked; Central of Georgia Railway first
preferred incomes, 3S1a bid, 1872 asked Cen
trail of Georgia Railway second preferred
incomes, 10 bid, 1879 asked; Cen
trail of Georgia Railway third
preferred incomes, 6 bid, asked:
Georgia Railroad 6s, 1910, 112 bid. ia asked:
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta first IS.
l05 bid, 107 asked; Charlotte Columbia and
Augusta second mortgage Is 115 bid, 116
asked; Georgia Southern and Florida new
IS, 99i5 bid 1907 asked; South Georgia and
Florida first mortgage Is, 1O215 bid, 1882
asked; South Georgia and Florida second
mortgage Is 1903 bid, 104 asked; Ocean
Steamship per cent bonds, 1926, 1O4 bid
106 asked: City and Suburban Railroad
first mortgage per cent bonds, 100 bid, 1O3
asked; Alabama Midland 5 per cent in
dorsed, "a bid, IS asked; Brunswick and
NtSNSli 1cs - biQs ff12 dShtus oOikAu
Bound Railway IS, 20 bid, 20 asked; Geor-
sia and Alabama first preferred IS. 1O1 bid,
1913 asked; Georgia and Alabama cons. 5s,
81 bid, SO asked; Eatonton Branch, IS bid,
Giz asked; Central of Georgia. Middle
Georgia and Atlantic division IS, rs bid. rs
asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah, 81 bid, 9215 asked; Georgia common,
17O bid, 1870 asked: Southwestern. 9011 bid,
Slra efhclr
1882 bid, 1919 asked; Atlanta and West
Point 6 per cent. certificates 1903 bid, 104
asked; Savannah CONSTRUCTION Company.
81 bid, &C asked.
Gas Stocks-Savannah Gas Light stock,
2Ol5 bid 211a asked; Electric Light and
Power Company, 7412 bid, 75ls asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc-Citizens Bank, 1O9
bid, ITO asked: Chatham Bank As bid 40
asked: Germania Bank 109 bid, 10 asked
National Bank of Savannah, 1875 bid, 12G
asked; Merchants National Bank, "a bid,
IS asked Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
Company, 105 bid, 106 asked Southern
Bank of the State of Georgia, - bid 13S
asked; Savannah Bank and Trust Compa-
ny, 1011A bid, l02ls asked; Chatham Real
Estate and Improvement Company, A. IS
bid, So asked; b, 5415 bid, 50 asked; Peoples
Savings and Loan Company, 95 bid, 81 ask
ed.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, 101
bid, 102 asked; Eagle and Phoenix Manu-
featuring Company, per cent. bonds, IS
bid, 40 asked; Sbley Manufacturing Com
pany, 6s. 100 bid, 1O2 asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, IS
bid, 70 asked; Granteville Factory, las
bid, Isl asked; Langley Factory, 1O1 bid
104 asked; Enterprise Factory common
90 bid. 90 asked j. r. King Manufacture
ing Company, 1O4 bid, 105 asked: Sibley
Manufacturing Company, 20 bid, 76 asked
Savannah Brewing Company. 80 bid, 9.
asked.
New York, April Is, p. m.-Money on
call was easier at 2d31S per cent; the last
loan was at per cent; prime mercantile
paper, 51z66 per cent. Sterling exchange
steady, with actual business i'm bankers
bills, at S4.SSA@4sS1a for demand and $479si
d4.S0 for sixty days; posted rates, $4.SOlad
4.S1 and $4.S4d4.Si commercial bills
$i.79a4 79la. Silver certificates, 55sd a56Isc
bar silver, 557sc; Mexican dollars, 45l4
Government bonds irregular; state bonds
dull; railroad bonds firm.
New York, April 15.-Evening Post,
London financial cablegram says: "a gen
eral Improvement was apparent to-day anC
a more confident tone, both in the money
and the stock markets. Delay is believed
to be favorable for peace. Spanish As tn,
key note to the market. we've 44h, an,
although there is little initiative to bul
here. The close was quiet and dull. GolC
was in good demand for New York. Th,
tendency of the London money market i
easier, the current rate being 1916 pc
cent, with American bills on forward de
livery at S7sc."
New York, April 15-Professional trader
bought stocks this morning, causing an ad
vance in prices Of a point or over in tn
speculative favorites. but most Of thes
takings were sold again before the expira
ton of the days session, carrying price
back over their own course and leaving ne
changes in almost all cases in. significant
but with small gains predominating.
European bourses also showed a firm
tendency for Americans and Spanish A.
rallied from an early depression before tn
opening of trading here The cause of thi
strength was rumor that the powers ha,
interviewed between the United States an,
Spain and that the Cuban insurgents ha,
agreed 20 an armistce.
The midday period of intense dullnesi
and sagging prices gave way to a NOR
uetive selling movement in the final hou
on the belief that the Senate would TAX
action before adJourning.
Dealings were on a small scale and tn,