The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1881-12-10
FINANCE AND COMMERCE.
The Home and Foreign War;
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Reports
EXAMINER OFFIcE, December 9.
THE STATE OF TRADE.

THE STATE OF TRADE.
Special kilograms from thirty cities
throughout the United States to Brad
streets show that the falling off in gen.
eral trade, due to the close of the sea
son. has become more general than
was reported week ago. In holiday
/ goods and other retail lines the demand
is brisk, and the outlook is for a re-
munerative trade III those specialties
At the leading trade centres, but COM
paratively few goods are being deliv-
cred by wholesale dealers outside of
groceries. Orders by mail to piece out
stocks and for future delivery are, how
ever, noted in abundance at Boston,
Chicago, Philadelphia and else
where. Among the more promi-
nent industrial features may be in
stanced the difficulty in delivering the
output of the northern Ohio furnaces,
owing to the virtual close of lake navl-
Cation; the shutting down of two-thirds
Of the Minneapolis flour mills, and the
closing of the lumber mill for the
season at the same city: Considerable
feeling has been aroused at Cincinnati,
in consequence OF a combination of
dealers having refused to lower the
price of coal, in spite of the arrival of
supplies from Pittsburg, consequent
upon the rise iii the Ohio river.
Rainy weather still prevails in Wis
consin; the roads are, therefore, in bad
condition; country trade is disturbed,
and general trade in that region is
more or less suspended. The weather
IN Minnesota has become colder, the
roads have hardened, and business
Is said to be in a very gratifying shape
The condition of the wheat III the
Minneapolis elevator has been found to
be unsatisfactOry-due to lax inspec-
ton. Trade is dull in California, and
prices are falling except III holiday
goods.
CHARACTER OF BANKING-HoUsEs.
The important influences of banking
houses of high character upon the !
financial interests Of the nation can !
scarcely be exaggerated. They have |
much to do with the progress and pros |
perlty Of the country, and may be said |
TO constitute the centripetal force of |
the material wealth and credit of the
government. Some of the principal !
private banking houses have grown |
largely during and since the late war,
and have borne prominent part III |
building up and maintaining our ma
-ional credit. Ineir sphere of action |
is extended III exact proportion with |
-he increase of our legitimate Specula- |
i've arena, and in this sense they fur
lish the best guarantee of the general |
welfare of our future.
BALTMoRE's OYSTER TRADE.
The extent of the oyster trade of
which is the great centre Of
he oyster packing business, is shown
~ some very remarkable figures Dur
ng the years 1879 and 1880, 9,545 YES
iels brought 7,252972 bushels Of oys-
ers, besides $4,000 bushels brought by
steamers. Of this number 2,795,353
bushels were packed raw, and 1,6S9,939
bushels cooked and Theoretically sealed
The total amount of capital invested is
5LG6,979, and the wages earned are
SG,956,iiL Some places along the
horc of Maryland are built upon oys-
er shells, and in the lower part of the
tate oysters pass current as money.
COTTON AND BULLION.
Dr. Roberts, of New Orleans, who
vas recently in New York, writes "a
etter to Il friend stating that he has
nd his cotton seed oil butter patented
nd was offered 100000 for the patent
ie also says that he has sold 100000
ons of the fibre, bromelia fibrista, to
IA American company, for u cents per
pound, and 100000 pounds to an Eng
ish company for 20 cents per pound,
to SllO,000,00O all told
The doctor also says he has sold the
light to manufacture a patent pill for
$4,000 acres of land III Crockett
'ounty, where he expects TO grow the
ibrp