Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-23
A DOUBLE SENATE IN OHIO.
FHH CONDITION OF TRADE.

hianiifaeti,rers Anxious About The Low Proflts And TfoubIes With Ea- Dor.
 NEW YORK, Jan 99.-Taking the country
 as a whole; special telegrams to Bradstreet 8
 received this week do not indicate any nate- rial gain in the distribution of general mef- ehandse. At Boston there are no new flea lures and there Is considerable anxiety among ihahafaetdfefs over the low margins of
 profit, particularly In view 6f the prevalence
 8f labef troubles. Al Philadelphia It is as=
 serted that there Is tendency t6 improve,
 but business has been checked by the wealth eF. Baltimore reports afe that the severe
 weather has checked all lines If trade, al=
 though dry geeds iobbers leek ahead ta q
 fair distribution. At Boston the dry goods
 trade with jphhers starts moderately favor
 able, the western and southwestern orders
 for spring prints and dress ginghams being
 above conservative expectations. With
 agents business is more quiet and the low
 range of prices is a prominent feature Print
 cloths at the mills appear firmer than for
 some time at unchanged prices,
 314 cents for 64s. Stocks are still
 light. The seaboard wool markets are steady
 with no new features. Manufacturers are slow to order until goods making are des-
 posed of, though the average aggregate of
 weekly sales is good. Australian wools bound hither tend to check any advance in fine wools. At Milwaukee and St. Paul, at St. Louis and at Burlington, Iowa, the move ment of general merchandise is relatively quiet with mercantile collections only fair. The movement of dry goods in the central Mississippi river valley has slackened and prices are not so firm. At Chattanooga and at Memphis there is material improve ment except in dry goods to moderate de- gree at the latter. Trade has been visibly checked at the former, the iron industry there being almost at a standstill. At h. dianapolis the business situation is disap- pointing and collections are slow. There is little disposition to buy and traders are not so confident as heretofore. At Evansville the commercial outlook is less inspiriting also. Chicago reports gain i.1 the distri button of goods. The iron and steel indus tries have not improved any. On the con- trary there is a perceptible check to orders for raw and manufactured iron. Prices re- main unchanged. Anthracite coal is more demoralized. Prices are off again and there has been no decision respecting the quarters or years output. Checked buying of cotton by spinners and continued light exports have permitted spots to go off about 1-16 of cent and futures about 13 points on the week. The wheat situation looks more bullish. Leading interior stor- age points have begun shipping wheat to the country milling points, which indicate very light invisible supply. The outlook for six months of this year promises 8 more rapid destruction of the enormous visible supply of stocks than had been expected and has turned attention to the worlds demand and supply from a new point of view. Spot wheat closed at 90c against 9O1ac. week ago. Indian corn and oats too are firm and higher. The de- cline in the supply of hogs at packing points has bolstered the hog products markets. The of grocery staples has been disap pointing and behind those in the same week last year. Dairy products are quiet with limited export demand.