The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-09

corresponding period lost year, and 8,5l0,-
1j5.SS for the core bonding period In 1851.
Clearings by days
SATURDAY '.'...'. .'..,'.............SSi2,liS 90
MONDAY ..,.......,. ...-...........-. 79i,Si9 30
Iuesday .......... ................... 62I.S27 O8
w eduesday ............. ..,......... 793 il3 66
Thursday .............. ......... sos 7O5 So
Friday ......... ..................5 $50 292 93
Foreign Exchange-Market steady. The
following are the Savannah quotations.
Commercial demand, I.A; sixty days.
81 79h, ninety days, Salts. francs. Paris
and tavre, sixty days 5.2ils Swiss, sixty
days, b.2Sla marks, sixty days, 9SA; nine
~ days, 9Si4
Domestic Exchange-Steady; banks are
buying at 4 per cent. discount and selling
as follows: Amounts up TO S25, 10
cents; $25 to $50 10 cents: $50 to $500 20
cents 500 to $780, 25 cents; 500 and over.
par
Securities-Inactive and dull
Stocks and Bonds-State Bonds-Georgia
Sla per cent bonds OF 1880, Ill bid. 1is
asked; Georgia 3l5 per cent, do 1915 i07
bid, 1903 asked Georgia AZ per cent bonds,
1915, l2l bid, l23 asked; South Carolina as
100 bid. 122 asked
City Bonds-Atlanta AZ per cent, 1922, lie
bid. ll5 asked Augusta 4 per cent 1927, 100
bid, lOl asked; Augusta 4iks, 1925, 1l2 bid
ll3 asked; Augusta per cent, 10 bid
III asked; Augusta per cent, liz bid.
ll3 asked; Columbus 5 per cent, 107 bid
iN5 dHhtht hdeon % per cent, lib bid. lly
ASKED; Macon as 1926, los bid, ITO asked:
Savannah per cent. quarterly January
coupons, 1874 bid, llih asked: Savannah
per cent. quarterly February coupons
ll3h bid, III asked; Charleston u.s. 105 bid,
LOG asked
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Yves ern Ra Dad g neral NOR gage bonds
6 per cent interest coupons, 1875 bid, 12s
asked; Savannah, Florida and Western
llrst mortHage per cent. gold bonds due
1924, ll5la bid, l161s asked; Savannah Flor
ida and Western Railway Co., St Johns
division FIRST mortgage As, 9iA bid,
30 asked ex-interest; Central Rail-
road and Banking Company col
lateral SIS, 96 bid. "a asked; Gem
trial OF Georgia Railway first mortgage IS,
50year gold bonds. III bid. IFS asked;
Central of Georgia consols per cent.
bonds. % bid, % asked; Central of
Georgia Railway first preferred Incomes
% bid. 81 asked; Central of Geor-
ga Railway second preferred in
comes. 10 bid, II asked; Central
of Georgia Railway third preferred in
comes. bid, asked; Georg Railroad
6s, 1910, 1l6 Did, asked; Charlotte Co
lumbia and Augusta first 5s, 1903 bid 10
asked Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta
cord NOR gage rs, 1l9 bid. 120 asked;
Georgia Southern and Florida 107h bid
1854 asked; Oc' an teamship per cent
bonds. 1926, 17 bid. 100 asked; City and Su-
Uuinhn ikdl IDdu III 81 mortgage Z Der mt
bonds 1903 bid, 10 sked; Alabama Midland
per cent ind ed, 80 bid i0l asked;
Brunswick and Yves ern as, SO bid, 81 ask
ed; South Bound Railway g. 96lh bid. 1914
asked; Georgia and Alabama first pre-
ferred 5s 1906 bid, 1O6 asked; Georgia ana
Alabama consoli aied IS, 100 bid, i01 asked;
Eatonton Branch, 30 bid, 81 asked; Gem
trail of Ger Ia, Middle Georgia and At
lantic division 5s, 81 bid, 92ik asked
Rar, ad Stocks-Au gusta and Savannah
11O5s bid 1llA asked; Southwestern. 110%
bid, 11lh asked; Atlanta and West Point
stocks, 1926 bid, l2S asked Atlanta
and West Point per cent. certificates
105 bid. 106 asked; Georgia common, 2Oi
bid, 20S asked; Georgia and Alabama
stock 20 bid. 81 asked.
Gas Stocks and Bonds-savannah Gas
Light stock, q bid Is asked; Edison Elec-
trio Illuminating Company, per cent.
bonds 1Oi bid. 106 asked; Edison Electric
Illuminating Company stocks, 100 bid, l05
asked.
Bank Stocks. Etc.-Citizens Bank. 12O
bid, asked; Chatham Bank, 1921 bid
10 asked; Germania Bank, 1875 bid - ask
ed; National Bank of Savannah 40 bid
- asked; Merchants National Bank OF
Savannah, 1N bid, 105 asked; Oglethorpa
Savings and Trust Company 1891 bid =
asked; Southern Bank of the State OF
Georgia. 40 bid, asked; Savannah
Bank and Trust Company, ia bid, 1l5
| dSkeut AbhtHdul ltSdl Estate ana I'M
provement Company, A, 81 bid, So asked:
ID, Sc bid, 81 asked; Peoples Savings and
Loan Company 1914 bid, 991s asked.
Factory Bonds--Augusta Factory 100
bid, 1902 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
pany 6s 1O2h bid. 1881 asked; Eagle and
Phenlx Mills per cent. bonds, due 1928.
LOT bid. asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, n
bid, 80 asked; Graniteville Factory, 16e
bid, 165 asked Langley Factory, lis bid.
- asked; Enterprise Factory common, 9S
bid, 80 asked; J. II. King Manufacturing
| Company, 1854 bid l07i5 asked; Sibley
Manufacturing Company "a bid 81 asked:
Savannah Brewing Company, 30 bid, 100
asked
New York, Dec S-Money on call strong
at SOP per cent, the last loan was Of
fered at 5 per cent. ruling rate 7iA per
cent Prime mercantile paper. 51z46 DER
cent Sterling exchange irregular, with
actual business in bankers bills at $4SGM
al. 1914 for demand and at S4.S1Am4S1M
for sixty days Posted rates s4s2a4. s2Ik
and st.S7iz. Commercial bills, $fTss. sil-
yer certificates 591sQ60c. Bar SILVER, SIC.
Mexican dollars, 47hc. Government bonds
strong. State steady Railroad bonds
weak