Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-23
BRADsTREET's BUSINESS NOTES.

BRADSTREET'S BUSINESS NOTES
 The Bank Clear1ngs for the Week a,
 Thirty Cities-A Gain in Railroad
 Earnings.
 NEW YORK, Oct. 22,-Specia1 telegrams to | Bradstreet's note further decline in the to-
 tai volume of merchandise distributed owing l to the prolongation of mild weather, to con.
 tlnued low prices for grain and produce and
 to country merchants having been quite well stocked up with goods in the late season of 1 active trading. At New York, Boston, De- troit, Nashville, Louisville, Chicago, Bur lington and New Orleans these influences have evidently been recognized. This decline
 in the movement having been in progress for over two weeks continues to show itself in
 the clearings. The total bank clearings at
 thisty cities for the week as specially report
 ed to Bradstreet's is $1 ,O90, ,293, ,686, against
 $1, ,095 ,659, ,00S last week, @ decline of $5,-
 OO,OOO or E per cent. Earnings of forty-four railways during the second week in October aggregated S4,90O, ,809, gain of s428, ,OOO or nearly 10 per cent. as compared with the like week in 1885. The conspicuous trade feature is found in the large increase in de- mand for raw and finished iron at the West and South. prices are again higher. At the East the demand is not nearly so large, though prices are firm. Steel rails are no higher, although the mills are we'll sold up. Dry goods generally are not so active as week ago for causes already named Prices, however, are firmly held and on some grades of brown and bleached cottons even higher figures are asked. Woolens are firm and promise to advance. Wool is easier, with a tendency toward weakness. The lockout in the knitting mills checks sales and stimulates resales to some extent The labor troubles at Philadelphia textile mills, where a lockout to affect 75, 900 employees is threatened No vember unless the latter keep agreements alleged to have been made, promises to become disturbing influence. The switch mems strike at Minneapolis is practically ended, after delaying traffic week Wheat is higher on a better demand and the arrival of cold weather will stimulate the hog pro- ducts industry. Cotton is weaker on heavy movements to sell in the South. Spots are off one-sixteenth and futures 10 points. The weather favors picking. The Louisiana sugar crop outlook is improving.
 CHICAGO EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. Several Important Recommendations
 and Rules Considered.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-A report on the gener- al theological seminary was presented in the Episcopal convention to-day showing that the present prosperity of that institution was very great. The receipts of the past three years were $322, 729, or fifty per cent. more than in any three years during the past sixty seven years. The joint committee on Chris tian education made report in which they recommended that measures be taken to at- tract attention to the church, schools, col 1afrae s,,1 kI,k I. be properly endowed and furnished Reports were presented from the committee on canons in regard to marriage and divorce. The com mittee recommend the adoption of canon providing that marriages not authorized by Gods word unlawful; that min iters admonish their people from time to time that the church the public solemnization ought not to be dis pensed with except for cause; that no min ister shall solemnize the marriage eff pe sons under eighteen years of age unless the par ents or lawful guardians present or have given consent to the marriage; that no min ister shall solemnize any marriage except in the presence of two witnesses who shall be personally acquainted with the parties unless the minister be so himself, but he shall keep 8 register of all marriages solemnized by him, containg the names. btrthplaces, residences, age and con dition of each of the parties married by him and the names of the parents and two wit nesses; that marriage may not be dissolved except for adultery; that the guilty party in a divorce suit be prohibited from marrying again during the life of the other party; that if any minister violates this canon he shall be subject to trial and liable to admonition for the first offense and suspend sion for a repetition of the same, that per sons who shall marry in violation of the can on, shall be liable to be expelled from the holy communion unless they confess repent ance and final determination to live sin gle life thereafter. No minister shall refuse the sacrament to any penitent person who may be in imminent danger of death. That the question touching the facts in the cases may be disposed of by the ordinary after such inquiry deemed necessary, the canon shall not apply to cases which have arisen before the canon goes into effect.
 A motion to make the proposed canon the special order after the questions by the litur gical revision is opposed went on the calen- dar. A motion that the convention adjourn .Jo1 II,