The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-28
FINANCIAL.

Foreign Exchange-Market weak The
following are the Savannah quotations;
Commercial demand. $tS3a4 sixty days.
AS0l2, ninety days, $L7S5s; francs. Paris
and Havre, sixty days 5,25i2; Swiss, sixty
days. 529; marks, sixty days, & 9-l6;
ninety days, SO 37l6.
Domestic EXchangc-Stca banks are
buying at \ per cent. discount and sell
ing US follows: Amounts w 10 $25, ~
cents; So 90 $50. - cents; $50 "a Sln, %
cents; 500 10 500, p cents; 500 aud over
par.
Securites-There is no change in the
tone OF the market. II continues very
sluggish and inactive. Quotations are
nominal
Stocks aud Bonds-State Bonds-Gcoreia
3la per cent. bonds of 1880, III bid ms
asked. Georgia So per cent. due 1918, l0l
bid, 100 asked; Georgia AZ per cent. bond.
IN bid, 123 asked; South Carolina 4i2s
III hid, l19 asked
CITY Bonds-Atlauta AZ per cent. 1923
llS bid 1l5 asked, Augusta Sl2s, 1922, 100
bid. 102 asked; Augusta 4iss, 1928, no bid
ll2le asked; Augusta Z per cent? lM bid,
III asked; Augusta per cent, Ill bid
11S asked, Columbus per cent, los bid
10 asked, Macon { per cent. IFS bid, ll9
asked; Macon 41as, 1926, 109 bid, 10 ask
ed; Savannah per cent" quarterly oc-
tober coupons, 1131a bid, ll5 asked; sav3n-
nah per cent. quarterly November con-
pons, 1888 bid, 1l4l4 asked; Charleston Is,
1O4 bid, 1O6 asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad general mortgage bonds.
per cent interest coupons, l26 bid, LIS
asked; Savannah, Florida and Western
first mortgage per cent gold bonds, due
1924, ia bid. 115ts asked; Savannah, FLORIDA
and Western Railway Company, ST. Johns
division first mortgage Is. 94l2 bid, 90 ask
ed; Central Railroad and Banking Com
pany collateral IS 81 bid IS asked; Cen
trail of Georgia Railway first mortgage
5s, 50-year gold bonds, III bid, ll9 asked;
Central of Georgia cons, per cent. bonds
90 bid, 81 asked Central of Georgia
Railway first preferred incomes, Al bid, 43
asked; Central of Georgia Railway second
preferred incomes. u bid - asked Cen
trail of Georgia Railway third preferred
incomes bid, asked; Georgia Railroad
6s 1870 lis bid, 11612 asked Charlotte, Co
lumbia and Augusta LIST SIS, 1903 bid, 10
asked; Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta
second mortgage Is 125 bid asked ;
Georgia Southern and Florida, 1O7 bid
109 asked: Ocean Steamship 5 per cent
bonds, 1926 107 bid, asked; City and Su-
burban Railroad first mortgage z per cent
bonds, 107 bid - asked; Alabama Midland
5 per cent, indorsed, 9S bid, l01 asked
Brunswick and Western As SO bid So ask
ed South Bound Railway S. 100 bid, 10l
ferred 5s 106 bid, los asked; Georgia and
Alabama consolidated'5s, 100 bid, 1O1 asked !:
Eatonton Branch, 95 bid. 81 asked, Cen
trail of Georgia Middle Georgia and A.
lantic division IS, 1884 bid, 9512 asked.
Railroad Stocks-Augusta and Savannah
1922 BID, 1l01a asked; Southwestern, 1922
bid 11Ol5 asked; Atlanta and West Point
stock - bid, asked; Atlanta and West
FONT per cent. certificates, 1O4 bid, 1O5
asked; Georgia common, 2J7 bid, 2O9 asked ;
Georgia and Alabama stock, 80 bid IS ask
ed; Savannah Hotel Company stock, 81
bid, 81 asked.
Gas Stocks ard Bonds-Savannah Gas
Light Stock 26 bid, y asked; Edison Elec-
trio Illuminating Company 6 per cent.
bonds. 1917 bid, 1881 asked; Edison Flee
trio Illuminating Company stocks, bid,
- asked.
Bank Stocks, Etc.-C items Bank, l2)
bid, asked. Chatham Bank. JOS bid,
1903 asked; Germania Bank. 100 bid - ask
ed: National Bank of Savannah, 40
bid 49, asked; Merchants National Bank
of Savannah. 104 bid, les asked; Ogfe-
thorpe Savings and Trust Company, 10S
bid asked; Southern Bank of the
State of Georgia, $40 bid 141 asked; Sa-
vannah Bank and Trust Company, 112 bid
11G asked; Chatham Real Estate and I'm
provement Company A, 81 bid, So asked;
3, Sc bid, 81 asked Peoples Savings and
Loan Company. 81 bid, 100 asked.
Factory Bonds-Augusta Factory, 100
bid. iO2 asked; Sibley Manufacturing
Company 6s, 1929 bid, 1882 asked; Eagle
and Phenix Mills, 6 per cent. bonds, due
1928, 1O7 bid, asked.
Factory Stocks-Augusta Factory, Is
bid, 50 asked; Graniteville Factory. 100
bid, 165 asked; Langley Factory, Jos bid,
- asked; Enterprise Factory common, IS
bid. 9s asked J. r. King Manufac-
turing Company, 1O512 bid. 1917 asked;
Sibley Manufacturing Company, 81 bid, 81
asked Savannah Brewing Company, 14
bid 1857 asked.
New York, Sept. 27.-Money on call cas-
Ter, Sd2O per cent; last loan al per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 5lzd6 per cent
Sterling exchange easier with actual bust
ness in bankers bills at $4S5d4S54 for
demand, and at s4.S1isd4Sl% for sixty days;
posted rates, $4.S3 and 1852; commercial
bills. $4.S01sG4S1; silver certificates, 59GD
soc; bar silver, 5SiRc; Mexican dollars, 47l2c.
Government bonds weak; state bonds
steady; railroad bonds steady.