The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-22
FINANCIAL.
Money-Market steady.


Foreign Exchanged steady. The
following are the Savannah quotations:
Commercial demand, $4Mia; sixty days,
AS0ss; ninety days, %.TIs; francs, Pars
and Havre. sixty days 5.259a; Swiss, sixty
days, 5.2S4; marks, sixty days, 90 9-16
ninety days, 90 l-l6.
Domestic Exchange-Steady; banks are
buying at Is per cent. discount and selling
as follows: Amounts up to s21. 10 cents;
SIS TO $50, Is cents; $50 TO $lC0, 20 cents; 500
20 $500, % cents; $500 and over, par.
Securities-We have a very sluggish
market, with nominal quotations.
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds--Georgia
s1a per cent bonds Of 1880, III bid, 1f2
asked; Georgia 35s per cent. do 1916 iO7
bid, 1909 asked; Georgia ~ per cent bonds
1916 l2l bid 100 asked South Carolina AS
121 bid, 122 asked
City Bonds-AtIanta ~ per cent, 1922. 112
bid, lib asked; Augusta per cent, 1927, 1906
bid, 107 asked; Augusta AS 1925 ll2 bid,
1i3 asked; Augusta per cent. 40 bid
1l2 asked; Augusta per cent, 1i2 bid,
118 asked; Columbus per cent, 107 bid
100 asked; Macon per cent 1ls bid, 119
asked; Macon 41ss 1926 1903 bid. 10 Asked
Savannah per cent. quarterly January
coupons, ia bid, 114h asked: Savannah
per cent quarterly February coupons
ia bid, 114l2 asked; Charleston as, 1O5 bid
JOG asked.
RIA lroad Bonds Savannah FIorida ana
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds,
6 per cent, interest coupons, - bid, i26ts
asked; Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage ) per cent. gold bonds due
1924, bid, ll6h asked; Savannah, Flor
ida and Western Railway Co.. ST. Johns
division first mortgage 4s. bid,
90 asked, and interest; Central Rail-
road and Banking Company col
trail Of Georgia Railway first mortgage 81,
50-yenr gold bonas 1l5 bid, III asked;
Central of Georgia consols per cent.
bonds, 50 bid, 81 asked; Central OF
Georgia Railway first preferred incomes
"a bid, 80 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
6s 1910, 1l5 bid, asked; Charlotte, Co
lumbla and Augusta first IS, bid, 100
asked: Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is, - bid, 119 asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida, bid
1854 asked: Ocean Steamship per cent
bonds 1926 - bid, 10s asked; City and SUI
burban Railroad FIRST mortgage Ier cent.
bonds, 1924 bid, 10 asked; Alabama Mid
land, per cent, Endorsed, - bid, 100 asked:
Brunswick and Western As. bid, SO ask
ed; South Bound Railway IS, bid, @
asked; Georgia sand Alabama first pre-
ferred SIS, bid, l04 asked; Georgia and
Alabama consolidated 5s - bid. 10l asked;
Eatonton Branch, bid 95 asked; Gem
trail of Georgia, Middle Georgia and At
lantic division IS, - bid, 81 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savannah
III bid. 112 asked; Southwestern 100 bid,
10 asked, ex-div.; Atlanta and West Point
stocks, bid, 127 asked; Atlanta and
West Point per cent. certificates, 105
bid log asked; Georgia common. 2T bid
208 asked; Georgia and Alabama stock,
- bid, 26 asked.
Light stock, 26h bid, Ni5 asked; Edison
Electric Illuminating Company per cent
bonds, - bid, 105 asked; Edison Electric
Illuminating Company stocks, bid, l05
asked.
Bank Stocks. Etc.-citizens Bank, 12O
bid - asked; Chatham Bank, 1861 bid 107
asked, ex-div.; Germania Bank, los bid
1913 asked; National Bank of Savannah. l40
bid. asked; Merchants National Bank
of Savannah. 10i bid. 1O5 asked; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company, 109 bid, ITO
asked; Southern Bank of the State OF
Georgia, $40 bid, asked; Savannah Bank
and Trust Company lis bid, ZIG asked;
Chatham Real Estate and improvement
Company, A, 81 bid S. asked; b. So bid, 81
asked; Peoples Savings and Loan Com
pany 81. bid, 100 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, 100
bid, 1902 asked: Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany Is, 102lz bid, 1884 asked; Eagle and
1O7 bid, asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, n
bid, 50 asked; Granitevllle Factory, 100 bid,
los asked; Langley Factory, lis bid,
asked: Enterprise Factory, common, SO
bid 80 asked; j. r. King Manufacturing
Company, 1854 bid, iO75k asked slbley
Manufacturing Company, "a bid. 81 asked;
Savannah Brewing Company, 95 bid, 100
asked.
New york. Dec. 2l.-iMoney on call
steady at SAT per cent. The last loan was
at per cent. ruling rate per cent Prime
mercantile paper, 5is@6 per cent. Sterling
exchange easier with actual business in
bankers bills at S4.S71kM4S7h for demand.
and at S4.8Os4MAS05s fer sixty days. posted
rates. s1s11zdA.S2 and A83G4.SSh Com
mercial bills, A.S01lQp4.SO34. Silver ce tlA-
Gates. 5Ss4N59izc. Silver, &c. Mexican
dollars, az. Government bonds were
strong. state bonds we're weak, and rail-
road bonds were weak.