The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-02
FINANCIAL.

hOn6y-OFlfket STEADY.
Foreign EXchange-Market is weak.
The follow ing are the Savannah quota
tons: Commercial demand, $4S6A six
" days. $4S3; ninety days, $4S17s;
francs, Paris and Havre, sixty days, 52112;
Swiss, sixty days, 5.227s; marks, sixty
days. 9lH.
Domestic Exchange-Steady; banks are
buying at lilo per cent. discount and sell
ing as follows: Amounts up TO $25, 10
cents; SO to $50. 10 cents $50 to 800, 20
cents; 500 to $3.50 y per cent premium;
$3.50 to $3.50, lilo per cent. premium; $3.50
and over, rs cents per $1,000.
Securhies-The market is very quiet
Some bargains are being picked up on the
quiet by withdrawing people.
Sto cks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
3ls per cent. bonds of 1880, 10 bid, 1l2 ask
ed, Georgia 3I2 per cent, due 1915, 10S bid
10 asked; Georgia Az per cent. bonds
due 1915, 1929 bid, 1889 asked; South Caro-
lima 412s. 1852 bid, 11711 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta 412 per cent, 1924
109 bid 10 asked; Augusta 3las, 1929, JOG
bid, 1872 asked; Augusta 414s, 1925 112 bid,
1l3 asked; Augusta Z per cent, 10S bid, 10
, asked; Augusta, per cent, 112 bid, 115
asked; Columbus . per cent, 105 bid, los
| asked; Macon per cent, III bid, 11S
| asked; Macon 4las. 1926, 1862 bid. asked !;
| Savannah 3 per cent, quarterly October
| coupons. 1872 bid, ia asked; Savannah 3
| per cent. quarterly August coupons III
/ bid. 115 asked; Charleston As, 104 bid, 1O5
! asked.
Railroad Savannah, Florida and
| Western Railroad general mortgage
/ bonds, per cent. interest coupons, 127
| bid asked; Savannah, Florida and
! Western first mortgage per cent. gold
bonds, due 1924, ia bid. asked;
! Central Railroad and Banking Company
! collateral 5s, 96 bid, 81 asked Central of
! Georgia Railway first mortgage IS, 5O-year
! gold bonds, III bid, asked; Central of
/ Georgia cons. per cent. bonds, 81 bid,
! gS asked; Central of Georgia Ra lway
! first preferred incomes 413l bid, 1872 asked;
| Central of Georgia Railway second pre-
ferred incomes, 10 bid, II asked; Central
of Georgia Railway third preferred in
comes bid, asked; Georgia Rail
road 6s, 1910 1l3 bid. lis asked Char
! lotte. Columbia and Augusta Isl 5s, 1OS bid,
| 1897 asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Au-
custa second mortgage Is, 123 bid
- asked; Georgia Southern and Florida
new IS, 10S bid, 1881 asked; Ocean
/ Steamship per cent bonds, 1926
107 bid. 10S asked; City and Suburban
| Railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds,
1O6 bid, 107 asked; Alabama Midland .
per cent. indorsed, IS bid, 10l asked Bruins
! wick and Western As, SO bid, 81 asked :;
south Bound Railway. IS, 9S1a bid, 80
asked: Georgia and Alabama first pre-
| ferred as. lG5 bid. 107 asked; Georg a and
| Alabama congoiidated 5s, 1902 bid, 103 asked :;
| Fstonton Branch, 96l2 bid, IS asked; Cen
tral of Georgia Middle Georgia and At
Iantic division IS, 80 bid, So asked.
railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savan-
nah. 40 bid HE asked; Southwestern,
110n bid. ill., asked; Atlanta and West
| Point stock. 12t bid, 125 asked :;
| Atlanta and West Point per cent GER
tificates. 1O3 bid. 10i asked Georgia com
mon, POS hid, 2i7is asked; Georgia and Ala
bama stock. 30 bid, "a asked; savannah Ho-
tel Company stock, 81 bid, 81 asked.
Gas Stocks and Bonds-Savannah Gas
Tighr stock. % bid. % asked; Edi-
SON Electric Illuminating Company 6 per
cent bonds. 1868 bid 1914 asked Edison
Electric Illuminating Company stock, 100
bid 1O7 asked.
parls Stocks. Etc.-Citizens' Bank, 119
hi1 121 asked Chatham Bank 1919 bid
MS asked; Germania Bank, llS bid
ia asked: National Bank of Savannah,
19t Ma 139 asked Merchants National Bank
20 lS' eavannah. 1882 bid, 1Ol asked; Oglethorpe
zines and Trust Company, 10712 bid, Jos
| - southern Bank Of the State of
@Saorgia 1l0 bid.1n asked; Savannah Banks
ard trust Company, Ill bid III asked
chatham Read Estate and Improvement
,-er,N9nv. A. sc bid. 81 asked; b, soy bid
5ci5 asked; Peoples Savings and Loan
company, 80 bid, 95 asked.
t7actorv Bonds-Augusta Factory, 1924
"a to9j. asked; Si1ley Manufacturing
5 c-,,i 6s 1929 bid, 1922 asked; Eagle
and Phenix Nils 6 per cent. bonds, due
ia28 iod bid asked al, Bi6 pm Manufacturing
Factory stocks-Augusta Factory, IS
,td ~ asked: GranHevi.le Factory, 15l
piJ i-5 asked: Langley Factory, 103 bid,
asked Enterprise Factory, common.
! az XII az asked. j. r. King Manufacture
sne company. 104 bid 103 asked; Sibley
M9nufacturins Company rs bid. 50 asked;
savannah Brewing Company l11 bid l05
| asked.
| steady at .St64l2 per cent; the last loan
was at per cen. Prime mercantile pa
rer 8l56ips per cent Sterling exchange
heavy. with actual business In bankers
! bfts at slgH for demand, ana 40 As3M
for sixty days Posted rates @Si0iSii2,
| snd 81 g7la04gS. Commercial bills. AS2la.
silver certificates. GO2qGlc. Bar silver,
| el2sc. Mexican dollars. 4sc. Government
| -, H. ,,,1ro stoady. state bonds were in