The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-19
From Boston Eerald.l
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
A Glance al the Business aud Indus
trial Interests.

Glance al the Business and Indus-
trial Interests.
Visit OF Inquiry nt the Market
The Retail Prices OF Proyisions
and GrOceries MOI Sensibly Low
cred BY thc Pressure Of Hard
Zines.
The panic has largely affected almost
everything but the cost of articles used to
support life. The merchant and the me
chanlc who go to the provision and grocery
stores in quest of the weeks supply will
not be made sensible OF any material diff
ference between the prices of the commo-
dities they call for and those which they
paid before hard times set in. On all sides
the prostraton Of business is great The
common verdict is that the present surpas-
scs in dizziness the disastrous period of 81.
Business is paralyzed. Manufactures are
idle. Mills are either running on short time
or not ut all. The number of men out of
employment can be computed by hundreds
of thousands. \ dismal, disheartening
season is staring the Aborng class in the
face. Yet the farmer in the country rubs
his hands in satisfaction at the excellent
prices which he obtains, and the insolent or
the courteous market-men, as the case may
be, puts down nightly on his books a re-
cord of fair sales generally at the old, stiff
prices The last thing to yield is that which
ought to be the first
PROVISIONS.
The provision market remains practically
unchanged. the prices that prevailed be-
fore the panic being the ruling prices now.
In regard to the activity of trade, opinions
differ. Some dealers report il still and
others thriving. Evidently good deal de-
ponds on the character of the transactions
Credit is popular with buyers, and dealers
generally find that collections are hard.
One said he could do the most thriving bus
he ever knew. provided he manifested a
desire to inscribc the amount of every sale
he made on his account book. Pork, be-
Ing cheaper than beef. it Is noticeable that
buyers of the lowest orders run to that.
and that smaller pieces are sold. as a gen
U
nation of the reason why beet holds its
price 50 firmly is this The larger dealers
purchase an animal entire, and dispose of
| the hide and tallOW as well as the beef re-
suting thcrcirOm. At the present time
there has been Il marked decline in the
price that talow and hides realize. Where
from 80 to $3.50 was Obtainable for the
latter, only - can now be procured Tai
low has declined two cents per pound Yet
there has leen no sensible depreciation in
the cost Of cattle on the hool. The dealer
finding il necessary, of course, to get back
the amount which he expended and living
profit, charges the beef consumer the
amount Of the loss on tallow and hide.
And thus it happens that in hard times
| healthy price is asked for healthy meat.
TIE VEGETABLE MARKET.
Patronage in the vegetable market is re-
| ported to he good Hard times or easy
| times. people must live, and the experience
of thriving dealers Is that the stomach is
the last place which the generality of men
and women like to put on short commons.
| Therefore they say they sell nearly if not
| quite as much as ever, and customers APP
| pear TO be no more penurious now than of
old, the pencil gliding as glibly on the order
book rs heretofore In this as in the other
! branches, whatever variation is noticeable
is due to natural causes rather than to any
! that proceeded from a stringent money
market In the price of beets per peck.
there is falling off of IL cents carrots. 3
cents. Cabbages have advanced cents
per head. Caulilower has nearly doubled
in price, and potatoes have advanced .
cents per peck. The prices of these the
more common articles of sale clearly
reveals that this bos NOT fine scnsitivcncssGf
the rold or stock markets
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me grocery market is little effected.
! sugars cNhlDlt marked decline Powdered
| IS quoted at IL cents, graduated at 10
/ cents, and coitee-crushcd at . cents Flour
has gone down from 80 to 70 cents per
barrel holesale dealers note consdera-
pic ulillculty IN obtaining collections in the
mS',,iI,. -, hai;3 opcla'ncs "io
liouidatinr only when nnv-d9v comes
round The discharge of s,ch large num-
bers is telling already on retail dealers and
those who have bcen unable to effect n sot.
Element of their acconnts with consumers
are LARGELY in arrear, 70 citv merchants
Precisely what effect this viii have whole
sale dealers admit their inability TO de-
tcrmine
y,..,.,,r c,,,,ys, r,.
This market shows Il general advance in
prices, and the reason assigned is, that the
demand is far greater than the supply.
Usually it is largely furnished from the
West but the present season the call in
Chicago and the other cities in that section
has been sufficiently strong to keep prices
there up to figure high enough to retain
Western butter at home. Consequently,
we have had to depend on the diaries Of
the northern New England states and those
of western New York, and experience has
shown that the product of these is not
more than sufficient to meet the require
men,s of Eastern demand In this, there
fore, may be found an answer to the con-