The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1891-10-30
TRADE AND COMMERCE.

r. G. Dun n Co.'S Weekly Review, Show.
Ing the Condition of Trade Throughout
the COuntry-A Steady Improvement
Noted at Most Points in the Volume OF
Trade-Money in Demand and Getting
Easier-Business Failures, Etc.
New YoRE, Oct 24.-R. G. Dun q
Co. s weekly review of trade says:
General business is remarkably active and
increasing In volume at the west, improving
at the south, and distinctly less duh than 1t
was week ago at eastern cities. CoIlec.
ttons are improving in nearly all directions.
The money markets are nowhere strin gent,
at nearly all important points being quite
easy, though with a noticeable improve
ment in the demands. These signs plainly
promise a strong trade for the fall and win.
ter unless disturbances which can not now
be foreseen should interrupt. The reports
from other cities are on the whole more ia.
vorable. at Boston the improvement In
tt s slow. Wool 10 steady, with sales of
2,74S.090 pounds at unchanged prices, and
lumber Is in moderate demand. At Phila.
delphia the boot and shoe trade 10 satisfac-
tory groceries are active, With a decline in
sugars. Canned goods are also quite active.
The paper trade is good. In paints, glass
aud lumber business Is quiet. Dry goods
jobbers are doing fair business. At Gin
CHM att retail trade is brisk, and clothing is
active. At Cleveland business is good, aud
the tone confident. At Detroit trade and
manufactures fully up to last years
mark. At Chicago an increase appears of
third in receipts of hides, dressed beef and
-four and corn: and receipts of rye are
three times.Iast years, but some decrease
appears in oats. barley. cured meats, lard,
cheese, butter and wool. The dry goods
trade is much larger than a year ago. the re-
ceipts OF cattle larger, the shoe and clothing
trade large, and business gradually increas-
ing in all lines. At Minneapolis the lumber
trade Is very good, prices rising; the -four
mills again beat the record, and general
trade Is good there and at St. Paul. At
Omaha and Kansas City business is satis
factory. At St. Louis trade shows encour-
aging strength, and at Memphis business is
very fair. at New Orleans better feeling
is seen, with money in active demand. At
Savannah trade holds well. and at Jackson
willie trade Is steady with bright prospects.
Wheat has fallen 4s4 cents, with receipts at
the west OF 5,500,G00 bushels in four days,
and exports of l,250,GOO bushels. Corn is
scarce and 3l2 cents higher for spot, and
oats la cents higher. Cotton receipts sur
pass those of the same week last year by
So, 90 bales, and the price falls sixteenth
with sales of 9l4, 900 bales here. Coffee is an
eighth lower, oil one cent lower, lard an
eighth lower, and hogs have fallen 30 cents
per 100 pounds, with no change in pork.
Sugar, both raw and granulated, is some-
what lower with quite active market. In
general the speculative movement appears
the supplies being unusually large.
The iron industry looks stronger,
with recorded sales of $4,000 tons
of steel rails. Bar, plate and structural
mills are fairly employed. but supplies are
low Boot and shoe manufacturers shows
signs of more active demand. Tie wool
manufacture shows more demand for dress
goods. and stocks of these are relatively
low, while for mems spring goods the orders
of clothiers are far behind. The stock
fcI Insa- %I1o for
the week. The Paris bourse is disturbed by
heavy selling of copper shares. But the
Bank of England does not charge its rates,
though losing this week S1,93l. % gold. Here
the treasury has put out s., 100000 more than
it has taken in during the week. The mer-
chandise exports for the past two weeks
have exceeded those of the corresponding
weeks last year, whileSimports fall far be-
low those of year ago Foreign exchange
has declined half cent during the W elk,
and money at New York has seen easy and
cheap.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven days,
number, for the United States, 2G7, and for
Canada, AZ, or tot of 249; as compared
with total of 259 last week, and 270 for the
week previous to the last. For the corre-
spending week of last year the figures were
22S, representing 203 failures in the United
States and % in the Dominion of Canada.