The morning news., 1899-12-20

FINANCIAL.


Money--Market steady.
Foreign Exchange--MarlHets steady. The,
following are the Savannah quotations:
Commercial demand, A.Sia; sixty days,
$S0M; ninety days, si.U7s francs, Pars
and Havre. sixty days, 5.25%; Swiss, sixty
days, 52S14; marks. sixty days, 80 9-16;
ninety days 90 1-16.
Domestic Exchange-Seady: banks are
buying at u per cent. discount and selling
as follows Amounts up 10 $25. 10 cents;
$25 to $50, 10 cents; $50 TO 500, 20 cents; 800
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 noml-
nal.
Stocks and Bonds--State Bonds-Georgia
3ls per cent. bonds OF 1880, Ill bid, 112
asked; Georgia 31s per cent. do 1915, lN
bid, 100 asked; Georgia AZ per cent. bonds
1916, 1A bid. 122 asked; South Carolina as
12l bid, 122 asked
city Bonds-Atlanta IA per cent, 1922, 112
bid, 113 asked; Augusta per cent, 1877, 106
bid, 1M asked; Augusta 4l5s 1925, 112 bid
113 asked; Augusta per cent. 1i0 bid.
112 asked; Augusta per cent, 112 bid
113 asked; Columbus 5 per cent. 1N bid
100 asked. Macon per cent. 11S bid, 119
asked; Macon AVS. 1926 1Os bid. 40 asked;
Savannah per cent quarterly January
coupons, ia bid, 114h asked; Savannah
per cent. quarterly February coupons
ia bid 11415 asked; Charleston As, 105 bid,
JOG asked
Railroad Bonds-S Savannah. FLORIDA and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds,
per cent, interest coupons, bid, 1854
asked Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent. gold bonds due
1924, bid. 116h asked Savannah Flor
Ida and Western Railway Co, ST. Johns
division, first mortgage As, bid,
36 asked, and interest; Central Rail-
road and Banking Company co..
lateral IS. bid, "a asked Cen
tral of Georgia Railway first mortgage IS,
50-year gold bonds, 115 bid, III asked;
Central OF Georgia consols per cent.
bonds, 50 bid. 81 asked; Central of
Georgia Railway first preferred incomes,
81 bid. 35 asked; Central of Geor-
gIa Railway second preferred in
comes, 9 bid 10 asked Central
Of Georgia Railway third preferred in
comes, bid, asked Georgia Railroad
IS, 1910, lis bid. asked Charlotte. Co
lumbia and Augusta first 5s, bid. 109
asked Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage rs, bid, 1l9 asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida, bid,
1854 asked: Ocean Steamship per cent.
bonds, 1926, - bid, 108 asked; city and Su-
burban Railroad first mortgage rer cent.
bonds, 1904 bid, 40 asked; Alabama Mid
land, per cent, indorsed, - bid, 100 asked !;
Brunswick and Western 4s, - bid. SO ask
ed; South Bound Railway 5s, bid, s5
asked; Georgia and Alabama first pre-
ferred S. - bid, iO4 asked; Georgia and
Alabama consolidated IS, bid. 10i asked;
Eatonton Branch, bid, 95 asked; Cen
traI Of Georgia, Middle Georgia and At
lantic division 5s, - bid, 92 asked
Railroad stocks-Augusta and Savannah,
III bid. 1l2 asked; Southwestern, 100 bid,
10 asked, ex-div.; Atlanta and West Point
stocks. bid, 1N asked; Atlanta and
West Point per cent. certificates. 105
bid, 106 asked; Georgia common, 20 bid,
200 asked; Georgia and Alabama
stock, bid, 2s asked.
Gas Stocks and Bonds-Savannah Gas
Light stock, 26ts bid, N1k asked; Edison
Electric Illuminating Company per cent.
bonds, - bid 105 asked; Edison Electric
Illuminating Company stocks, bid 105
asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-citizens Bank, 100
bid, - asked; Chatham Bank. 1861 bid, 107
asked ex-dlv.; Germania Bank, i25 bid,
128 asked; National Bank OF Savannah, 40
bid, asked; Merchants National Bank
of Savannah, 104 bid, l05 asked; Oglethorpe
Savings and Trust Company, 100 bid, 40
asked; Southern Bank OF the State OF
Georgia. 140 bid, - asked; Savannah Bank
and Trust Company, ll5 bid, JIG asked;
Chatham Real Estate and Improvement
Company, A. 81 bid, 5s asked; B, Sc bid, 81
asked; Peoples Savings and Loan Com
pany. 90 bid, 100 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, 100
bid. 1O2 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany 6s 102h bid, l03k asked; Eagle and
Phoenix Mills 8 per cent. bonds, due 1925
1O7 bid. asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory n
bid, 80 asked: Granitevile Factory 100 bid
1G5 asked: Langley Factory. 1l5 bid, =
asked: Enterprise Factory, common, 9s
bid, 80 asked; j. r. King Manufacturing
Company, 1854 bid. 1914 asked; sibley
Manufacturing Company. A bid 81 asked 7;
Savannah Brewing Company, IS bid, 100
asked.
was al per cent; the ruling rate per
cent. Prime mercantile paper 5lkfte Der
cent Sterling exchange easier with act
ual business in bankers bills at sLs7hQ