Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-11-22
Less Failure Reported This Year
Than Last.
A Moderate Demand for Heavy
Goods.
Less Activity In Some Lines cVm.
pared With Last Week.
No Rsassuring Features in the
Grain Market.

Ngw YORK. November 20.-Tke general
trade situation as te!sgrsphed to Brad
streets shows less activity in come lines
than was reported one week ago This is
particularly noticed in dry goods. The
continuation Of moderate weather &. the
West and North has seriously in,er'ered
with the distribution o! ssasonabls fabrics.
The regular fall trade is practically over,
and orders received now are largely o: the
reassortment variety Eastern jobbers and
agents are shipping very moderately and
complain Of the delay in the arrival OF
steady cold weather. Prices are firm Tor
all varieties excep, some lines Of sheetiuss
which have been shaded. Wool is quiet
and prices are firm. except for fine lesces,
owing to the relative decreased demand.
Low and medium grades are very strong.
Transactions are not expected to Increase
much so long rs the outlook tor the dispo.
sition OF heavy weight goods is so uncer,
tain. The movement Of grocery staples
has been fair, with lower prices on CO Zee
Dairy products ale lower and depressed
There is less activity in pig and mann
iactured iron. Piices Of both are firm, bu,
there has been no advance, and there is
now no likelihood o! any during the cGy-
rent year. The advance in rails, which is
very marked. is due in part TO better is
msnd, bat very largely TO manipulated
Old rails are scarce and higher, and so is Bes
semsr pig Anthracite coal is Ices active.
but is meeting q avery full domestic demand.
The labor troubles in the lower hard coal
mining regions have not been settled. The
Western Pennsylvania soft coal miners
have gone TO work without securing the
i.cent advance asked per bushel. Ohio
bituminous coal miners, however, are s;il
striking.
The wheat msrke, has no new features
besides the almost entire absence OF any
export demand. The price has made q
few spurts. but has dragged heavily since
Indian corn is lower than II has been
while oats are relatively firm. Flour Is
barely sustained, with the export demand
very light and production still very heavy,
In brief. staple commercial commodities
and products have generally held their
own as 10 price, but nothing more. Dis
tribuiion and demand have in various IL.
stances declined. This is in marked cen.
trast TO the swelling volume of speculative
business reported oaily from Wall stree,
TIE failure score of the Uniled Su'Cs
for tie week, as reported TO Bfadtrr,ets
aggregates 23l or more than last week.
This is II less than in the like week "a
1854, and more than in The third week
of November. 1883. Tho total number Of
mercantile failures reported throughout
the United States in 1855 10 date is s,sGi
as compared with o, 935 isilnres from JIr
uary 10 November n, 1884. a decline Of
"a. Daring The carly portion Of The car
rent year the rate OF failures indicated that
the heavy totals Of 1884 would be exceed.
ed, but the months Of August. September
and October showed une Xpec:sd declines
On November Ii the record for 1884 Sx.
ceeded ,hst for like portion ofles5 Ly
lOG. To day the total for this year is BIT
7i behind that Of lac, year, With q heavy
list during the last tIx weeks oi 1884
which will have 10 be exceeded if the iai.
total Of ibatyssr, II $40. is 10 be uyalpd