The morning news., 1899-12-21
AUSTIN r. MYRES.
60 Broadway, New York City.
STOGkS-BOND
Member ~ Y. Consol. Stock Exchange.
FINANCIAL.

Money-Market steady.
Foreign Exchange Market steady. The
following are the Savannah quotations:
Commercial demand, 81 Slia; sixty days.
siSOas; ninety days, $A777S; francs, Pars
and HaVre, sixty days 5.25&; Swiss, sixty
days, 52SA; marks, sixty days, SO 9-i6:
ninety days. 80 1-l6.
Domestic Exchanges teady; banks are
buying al Il per cent. discount and selling
as follows: Amounts up TO S25. 10 cents;
s25 to $50, Is cents; $50 to $100, 20 cents; $l0l
TO $500 % cents. $500 and over, par
Securities--The big decline on New York
Stock Exchange to-day, has tendency to
limit trading here. Quotations are MONT
nal.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bouds-Georgia
Sis per cent bonds of 1880, Ill bid. 112
asked; Georgia 3ls per cent, do 1915 107
bid, l09 asked; Georgia 4ia per cent bonds
1916 l2l bid l22 asked South Caiolina 4i5s,
12l bid, 122 asked
City Bonds-Atlanta "a per cent, 1929. 1l2
bid, ll3 asked. Augusta per cent. 1927, 105
bid, 107 asked, Augusta 4las 1926, liz bid,
113 asked; Augusta per cent. 10 bid,
112 asked; Augusta per cent, 112 bid
1l3 asked; Columbus per cent, 107 bid
109 asked: Macon per cent 11s bid. 1i9
asked; Macon 4Iss, 1926, 10s bid, ITO asked;
Savannah per cent. quarterly January
coupons, ia bid, 1l4ls asked; Savannah
per cent quarterly February coupons,
ia bid. 11ila asked; Charleston As, 105 bid,
106 asked.
Ra lroad Bonds Savannah, FLORIDA ana
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent, interest coupons, bid, 1851
asked; Savannah Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds due
1924, bid. l16lA asked; Savannah, Flor
Ida and Western Railway Co, 81. Johns
division, first mortgage As, bid,
36 asked, and interest; Central Rail-
road and Banking Company col
lateral 5s bid, 81 asked; Cen
tral of Georgia Railway first mortgage 81.
b0-year gold bonds, 1l5 bid III asked; +;
Central of Georgia consos per cent.
bonds, 80 BID. 81 asked; Central OF
Georgia Railway first preferred incomes,
81 bid 35 asked; Central of Geor-
gia Railway second preferred in
comes, bid, 10 asked; Central
OF Georgia Railway third preferred in
comes, bid, asked Georgia Railroad
SIS, 1910, 1l5 bid, asked; Charlotte, Co
lumbia and Augusta first SIS, bid. 100
asked; Charlotte Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage is, bid 1l9 asked; /;
Georgia Southern and Florida, bid
1854 asked; Ocean Steamship 8 per cent.
bonds, 1926, - bid, l0S asked; City and Su-
burban Railroad first mortgage 7 rer cent.
bonds, 109l2 bid, 10 asked; Alabama Mid
land, per cent, indorsed, - bid, 100 asked;
Brunswick and Western 4s = bid, SO ask
ed; South Bound Railway 5s, bid, IS
asked Georgia and Alabama first pre-
ferred S., bid f0i asked; Georgia and
Alabama consolidated 5s, = bid. lOl asked;
Eatonton Branch, -- bid g5 asked; Gem
tral of Georgia, Middle Georgia and At
lantic division IS, - bid. 80 asked.
Railroad stocks-Augusta and Savannah
III bid, liz asked; Southwestern, 1O9 bid
40 asked, ex-div.; Atlanta and West Point
stocks, bid, 127 asked; Atlanta and
West Point per cent. certificates, 1876
bid. 1O6 asked Georgia common, 207 bid,
2O9 asked; Georgia and Alabama
stock - bid, 26 asked.
Gas Stocks and Bonds-Savanuah Gas
Light stock, 26h bid, Nta asked; Edison
Electric Illuminating Company 6 per cent.
bonds. bid, 105 asked; Edison Electric
Illuminating Company stocks, bid, 105
asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank. 100
bid, - asked; Chatham Bank, 1851 bid, 107
asked, ex-div. Germania Bank, 125 bid,
12S asked; National Bank OF Savannah, 140
bid. asked; Merchants National Bank
OF Savannah, 104 bid, 105 asked; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company 109 bid, 40
asked; Southern Bank of the State OF
Georgia. 140 bid, asked; Savannah Bank
and Trust Company, 115 bid, 1l6 asked; ;
Chatham Real Estate and Improyeme
Company, A, 81 bid, IS asked; B. Sc bid, 81
asked; Peoples Savings and Loan Com
pany, 80 bid, 100 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, 100
bid 1O2 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany 6s, 1924 bid, 103h asked; Eagle and
Phoenix Mills per cent. bonds, due 1923,
107 bid, asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory. n
bid, 50 asked; Graniteyille Factory, 160 bid
1G5 asked; Langley Factory, 115 bid, -
asked; Enterprise Factory, common, 98
bid, 80 asked; j. r. King Manufacturing
Company, 1854 bid, 1071s asked; SibIey
Manufacturing Company, "a bid, 81 asked; ;
Savannah Brewing Company, 95 bid, 100
asked. =
New York, Dec. 2O--Money on call steady
at 209 per cent, last loan, per cent. !;
prime mercantile paper. 5A66 per cent.
Sterling exchange steady, with actual bus
mess in bankers bills, at MsA for de-
mand and at $4s1 for sixty days; posted
rates, @.S2A and s4.SSla; commercial bills,
&.8O&04s. Silver certificates, 59hc; bar
silver, soc; Mexican dollars 47t5c. Govern
ment bonds strong: slate bonds inactive;
railroad bonds irregular.