The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-29
TRADE AND coMMERcE.
a Fair weel's Trade Merchants Encour.
aged Over the Situation.

"A Fair Weeks Trade-MIerchants Encour-
aged Over the Situation.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept 81
The volume Of trade in the week closing to
day has in many departments been quite salts
factory on the principle that slight improve
ment is better than the monotony of some
months past The branches of trade in which
the Improvement is most noticeable are dry
goods, leather, drugs and groceries. Produce
men, sswell, are remarkably busy. Erocers
report sugars barely STEADY; eoffees in a some
what stronger position than one week ago; eggs
continue in light supply prices stiff the same is
true Of choice butter. Poultry is
weak. and break IN prices Is quite
probable on Monday, Apples ana Iriah
potatoes are il good supply, and steady It
our quotations There have been rains pretty
generally, throuehout the country, Within the
past few days. and the probability is that tho
backbone q the receHtdTenght l. about broken.
This, Of course, is not likely tp have much to do
with general business, but II will be Of greet I'd.
vantage to the country in more ways than one
In edition to FsxiEng the pasture, it win start
mp the wheat recently put in the ground Taken
as whole, there is much that can Be said re-
45t1EuAS JIG 5teudOAOn yAAdN - 4dfOHseDtP OOuu-
aepce is one thing most essential to bring about
still further Improvement in business In com
Mentipg on the condition cf trade, the New York
Shipping List says:
ssFakilg into copsideration the conservative
methods that arc now In vogue in every
debartTnent Of trade as we'll as The absence Of
Is PROFESSIONALLY faif and AZ the How of the cur
rent Is not quick it is helass steadily main
tanned, and that is better than to ind the stream
drying up. The favorable conditions that now
exist and that have been SO frequently entifn
Grated of late, are slowly, but surely, effecting
changes that must ere long lead to the more ez
tensive and profitable employment Of the surplus
reserve Of the banks and when money begins to
move more freely into the channels Of general
trade there will be corresponding evidences of
renewed activity 1t may betrue tosome extent
that the eject of the enormous yield Of the crops
has been already discounted so far as specula-
ton in stocks is concerned, but it is likewise &
fact that it takes time to fairly readiust the
course Of trade upon the basis Of lower
prices, which now seems likely to be the dis
tinguishing feature Of business dur
ing the next six months at least, The
corn market is still under the influences Of ma
nipulation and the effort to discount large
crop by selling short long before thesneN yield
could be mhde available has resulted in a corner
The shorty are being squeezed for all they are
WORTH but as soon as the deal has been lqui-
dated values viii grayitate towards normal
basis, as may be observed from the vide differ
ence that now exists between the prio5 of cash
and qistant options The advance in wheat has
likewise been due 70 Manipulation, The market
for|oatly options having been ov6r5old, and the
discovery Of this fact afforded SPECTATORS an
pportunit{ . bid prices qR While the export