Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-12-10
DUN q COMPANY.
Review of the Conditions of business fOH
the Past Week.


Review of the Condition of business SOH
the Past Week.
NEW YoRK. Dec. 10 .-R. g. Dun s. Com,
pany's weekly review of trade says: Reports
OF the condition Of business note confident
feeling as TO the furure, but many causes in
different sections produce slackening for the
present Much uneasness is fels in por.
tions of the south, and collections are not
above par, while failures in some southern
districts ars many. Memphis reports so per
cent more than last year.
Open and mild weather in the northwest
causes some uneasiness in some trades, par
ticularly in clothing and boots and shoes in
Kansas City and Milwaukee, and lack Of
snow delays logging in Wisconsin.
The money markets are nowhere disturbed
but z and per cent is paid at many west.
ern and southern centers, and per cent
month at Salt Lake. The treasury reports
show that the currency in circulation,
Though 81, 600 less than November /, was
about So7, 100000 larger December than
year ago. But during the past week the
treasury has taken in So. 400, 600 more than
it paid out.
Imports for Ave weeks at New York have
been only 3 d psr cent smaller, end exports
from New York only as per cent smaller
than last yeer.
Yet exports Of wheat from Atlantic ports
were only 300, ,SS2 bushels against 8, l70, ,76d
bushels in the same weeks last year, and OF
-four 500, 297 barrels, against l.l7S,6l9 bar.
rels, with an increase Of 1,345, 900 bushels in
corn.
Wheat closes higher than a week ago.
Corn one-half cent lower. Pork Is fifty cents
lower, and hogs twenty cents per one hun.
dred pounds Oil has risen two cents, coffee
three fourth of cent, and hides have declined
one-half of cent. The coal market is dull,
and actual prices twenty five cents to fifty
cents below the schedule.
Wood has advanced, the finer grades moro,
than a cent, since the middle of November.
The average Of 106 qualities, is twenty -foRs
and eight tenth cents, against twenty-fouI
cents; November lS, twenty three cents
| October l5 twenty four and one-tenth cents
December |, last year, and twenty y-six and
eighth-tenth cents, December /, 1856 The
belief that the clip and the stock on
hand have been below estimates grows more
prevalent The iron market Is dull and
waiting, with prices shade weaker at Pitts
burg. 1t is now reported that steel rails
have been sold for SIS at the mill, but S9S al
Pittsburg is said to be the bottom at present
Nails are dull at $L90, but bar irdn H.
| frmer.
The large sale of copper to manufacturers,
said to be sixteen and one,half cents, does
not prevent speculations which has caused
weakness in prices Stocks in England and
France are 95,790 tons, against 9l,74o q
month ago, and A. 130 year ago, and 1t is
believed $4,000 tons are in stock in this
country. A break in tin also lowered the
price to twenty two cents. The stock mar
ket has been depressed, On Wednesday the
average of lowest sales for sixty active
stocks was but $5S.63 per share, against
s60,29 December /, and sos 90 September 30.
Want of confidence in arrangements of rail-
road managers prevails, and foreign holders
appear to be selling gradually.
The business failures number $685. as com.
pared with @33 last week, and 20n the week
previous. For the corresponding weak OF
last year the figures we're 254.