The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
FINANCIAL.
Monev-Market steady

EANANCtALs
Money-Market steady.
Foreign Exchange-Market is steady
The following are the Savannah ono,
tations: Commercial, demand, $4S6lL: six
ty days, $4.S4; ninety days, 81. francs.
Paris and Havre, sixty days, 5.2isl; Swiss
sixty days, 5.269s; marks, sixty days,
81 5-16.
Domestic Exchange-Steady; banks are
buying at par and selling as follows.
Amounts up to $25, 10 cents; $25 to $50 Il
cents; $50 70 800, 20 cents; $500 to $500. u
per cent. premium; $500 to 81 900. AT u
per cent. premium; $1,000 and over. 81 per
$1,000.
Securities-Business is inclined TO dull
ness, with but light inquiry.
Stocks and BOnds-State Bonds-Georgla
S12 per cent. bonds of 1880, 112 bid, 1lS ask
ed Georgia 3la per cent, due 1915. III
bid, ia asked Georgia AZ per cent. bonds |
1915, 129 bid. 125 asked; Georgia per cent.
due 1920, 12O bid, 121 asked; South Caro-
lima 415s, 116 bid, III asked
City Bonds-Atlanta AZ per cent 1909
10S bid asked; Augusta 31bs 1923 105
bid, 1O3 asked; Augusta 412s, 1925. 1O7 hid
1OS asked; Augusta per cent. 10 bid III
asked; Augusta per cent, Ill bid liz
asked; Columbus per cent, 1O7 hid los
asked; Macon 6 per cent, III bid. 120 ask
ed; Macon 41as, 1926. 106 bid, - asked Sa-
vannah per cent. quarterly July cou-
pons, 113% bid, 11416 asked; Savannah 4 Nor
cent. quarterly August coupons, 11Sb bid.
114A asked; Charleston As, los bid, 107
asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah. Florida an1
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds
per cent interest coupons, 124 hid 795
asked; Savannah. Florida and Western
first mortgage 8 per cent. gold bonds due
1924, lis bid, ia asked; Central Railroad
and Banking Company collateral Is aS
bid 100 asked; Central of Georgia Railway
first mortgage 5s, 50-year gold bonds III
bid, rs asked; Central of Georgia Cons
5 per cent bonds, 96 bid, 81 asked: Cen
trail of Georgia Railway first nre-
ferred incomes, Al bid, AZ asked: Cen
trail of Georgia Railway second preferra5
incomes, 121a bid, 1872 asked; Central If
Georgia Railway third preferred in
comes. 6 bid, asked; Georgia RAN
road 6s, 1910, 1874 bid, III asked; Charlotte
Columbia and Augusta LIST IS, lO91b bid 110i5
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is. 123 bid, 14 asked.
Georgia Southern and Florida new 5s 100
bid ITO asked; South Georgia and Flor
ida second mortgage Is 100 bid, lO1 asked:
Ocean steamship per cent. bonds, 1926,
los bid, 107 asked; City and Suburban
Railroad first mortgage per cent. bonds
1903 bid 104 asked; Alabama Midland per
cent. Endorsed, 80 bid, 101 asked; Bruns-
wick and Western As, 50 bid, SO asked;
South Bound Railway IS, 90 bid. 100
asked; Georgia and Alabama first pre-
ferred 5s 1O5 bid, 107 asked; Georgia and
Alabama consolidated S. 101 bid, 1O2 ask
ed: Eatonton Branch, 991s bid, 1O0h asked:
Central of Georgia, Middle Georgia and
Atlantic division IS, SO bid, 100 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Sayan-
nah, 1l3 bid, 1lSl2 asked; Southwestern.
1872 bid ia asked; Atlanta and West Point
stock, 1A bid, 1875 asked; Atlanta and
West Point per cent. certificates 1927
bid, 1O4 asked; Georgia, common, 2O6 bid,
2O7 asked; Georgia and Alabama stock,
"a bid 35 asked; Savannah Hotel Co. stock
IS bid, 60 asked
Light stock, 26 bid, q asked; Edison Elec-
trio Illuminating Company, per cent.
bonds 105 bid, 106$l asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-Citizens Bank. 12O
bid, 121 asked Cha ham Bank, 1O7 bid
10S asked; Germania Bank lis bid, 12O
asked; National Bank of Savannah. 1923
bid. - asked; Merchants National Bank of
Savannah, 94h bid, 80 asked; OgIethorpe
Savings and Trust Company. 1O7 bid los
asked; Southern Bank of the State Of
Georgia. 1874 bid 1876 asked; Savannah
Bank and Trust Company, Ill bid, liz ask
ed; Chatham Real Estate and Improve
ment Company A. 5e1s bid. 81 asked; B.
5fAA bid, Do aSheus ISOpiS 5 SAVINGS and
Loan Company, "a bid, IS asked
FACTORY Bonds-Augusta Factory. 1Ol
hia 102 asked; Sibley Manufacturing Com
many 6s. 1O2 bid, 1903 asked; Eagle and Pho
nix Minis. per cent bonds, due 1923, 1Oi
hid. 1O5 asked; Bib Manufacturing Com
pany. 1OS bid 105lA asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, IS
hid. 80 asked; Graniteville Factory, $50
bid. 1855 asked; Langley Factory 81 bid
1Glb asked; Enterprise Factory, common,
80 bid g2 asked; J. r. King Manufacturing
COMPANY, 81 bid, 1O1 asked: Sibley Manu-
featuring Company, IS bid. 70 asked; Sa
vannah Brewing Company, 1A bid, los
asked
New York, May 27.-Money on call was
nominal at 2Q21s per cent. Prime mercan-
tile paper was at 3ibQiA per cent. Sterling
exchange, firm, with actual business in
bankers bills at s4S%@4SS for demand
and at sis5lbG4.S57t for sixty days; posted
rates. "a. SGI5 and S4.SSls. Commercial bills
S.S5 silver certificates. 6l062c. Bar sill
YER. sic. Mexican dollars. 4shc. State
bonds were inactve; railroad bonds were
strong; government bonds were steady.
New York, Noy 27.-The weekly bank
statement shows the following changes:
SurDns reserve increase 5000, 200; loans
decreased Sl7,57S,sDo; specie, Increased
A se2. 600; legal tenders, increased $2,454 100;
deposits decreased s12620. 500; circulation
decreased s25. 900, The banks now hold SAB
9s8 .725 Ia excess of legal requirements.
New York. May 27.-There was a marked
disposition in the Stock Exchange dealings
to sunder the speculation in railroads and
in the Industrial sDec.alties.
The immobiily Of the standard railroad
stocks in face OF the demoralised OPEN
Jag in Sugar and Metropolitan Street Rail
way was strikingly like the midsummer
markets OF yore. when Sugar was likely