Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-21
WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE.

Grain, Pork Products, OIL and Sugar
Have Advanced-stocks Stronger.
NEW YORK, April 2l.-R G. Dun &
Company's weekly review of trade says
A season of extraordinary speculation
has set in. Grain, pork products, cotton,
oil and sugar have advanced, the latter
in spite of the proposal to remove the en-.
tire duty, and spruce lumber, also, in
spite of the rapidly increasing Interrupt.
ton of building by eight-hour strikes,
The general average of prices for com.
modities have advanced g of one pen
cent. in a week, and IL per cent. in
three weeks. Stocks have also been
stronger, and reports of trade which are
influenced rather by prices at which
goods are sold than by the volume of
business transacted, are uniformly more
cheerful. At the same time there is con.
tinued evidence of an actual increase
over last year in the volume of business
transacted.
Wheat was started upward by reports
OF injuries in winter wheat states. AT
New York the sales have been l94, ,000,-
600 bushels, probably the largest weeks
transactions on record. Corn has ad-
vanced, lin sympathy" two and one
fourth cents, and oats enc and three
fourth cents. Oil has advanced four
and one-half cents without known oc-
casion. Pork has risen 50 per barrel.
There is not corresponding improve
ment in the industrial condition. Wool
has been firmer at Boston. without
change in price, and very dull and in
active at New York and Philadelphia
In the goods market no improvement is
seen.
Cotton manufacture does not thrive
the better for the advance in the ma
terial, with goods unchanged in price
and print cloths only 33c, for Gas. The
boot and shoe industry is clearly thriv-
ing, and leather and hides are both a
shade tirmer and in more active de-
maud. But the eight-hour strikes in
many cities have already arrested many
building operations, and are expected to
extend so that the market for glass is
already affected unfavorably, and also
the demand for structural iron. The
iron business shows no improvement
In steel rails large orders are pending.
and it is thought they can be placed at
S33. Bar iron is dull and depressed.
Substantially all the reports from other
cities give an encouraging record of the
SIaIR OI Du6lHbSS AT DOSLOI lHlDIONt-
ment continues; retail dry goods trade is
large, and causes better jobbing trade
and domestic hides are higher At Phil
adelphia there is especial activity in
drugs and chemicals, and the past week
was the hest for long time in groceries
Chicago reports the usual great increase
in the movement of grain and dressed
beef lake shipments of grain being
la xvnar'o on1 6rv pprAc calnc
fully equal to last years, while clothing
falls behind, but is fairly satisfactory
Collections there are generally good. st.
Louis also notes improvement, fairly
prompt collections, and expectations of
a good spring trade. At nearly all west
ern points similar favorable reports are
made, and St. Paul notes that recent
rains help farmers and seeding is going
on rapidly.
1t is especially noteworthy that there
is no serious monetary pressure any
where. Money is quiet and easy at Bos.
ton. easier at Philadelphia, and steady,
with plentiful supplies, at Chicago, st.
Louis, Milwaukee and Omaha, Clevs-
land and Detroit only reporting some
closeness.
Exports of products In March appear
to have increased fully per cent. over
last year, and probably exceeded ex-
ports by Sj,a90,GC0, but thus far in
April exports have fallen about 10 psr
cent. below last years at New York,
while imports show an increase Of " 2
per cent
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during the past
seven days number 2l4, as compared
with 200 last week. For the CORE
spending week of last year the dgures
were DAG