The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-10-08
BUSINESS REVIEW.

The Condition Of Trade Throughout tho
Country as shown by II. q. Dun q Cos
Weekly Review-The Recent Hot Wealth
er Retarded Fall Business somewhat
But IL Is Improving, and Trade Is Gen.
orally Reported Active.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review of trade says:
The iron markets are distinctly stronger,
there is less pressure to sell and concessions
are more rare, oven though any advance in
prices Is as yet resisted. The demand for bar
iron Is not active and weakness in stocks
tends to check sales of rails Large sales
of copper at l2i7. are reported. but tin has
| sold as low "a 20 cents, and sales OF lead are
small and of tin plates moderate. Tobacco
| has risen 5 to s cents in the Connecticut val
| ley, and the producers are realizing large
| profits, Sales of dry goods are large In tho
| aggregate, but in light weights far below
| last years, and many looms are Idle for the
present On the other hand there Is Pc
| culiar demand for heavy weights. and OF
| dress goods sales are satisfactory, great i'm
| provemcnt in quality being noticed. Cot
| ton goods are a little less active. sales OF
knit goods are retarded by the weather and
| hosiery is dull Sales of wool at the differ
ent markets are not per cent. below those
| of last year thus far. Boston reports a
| closer money market and satisfactory trade,
| especially in dry goods, since cooler
| weather came. Sales of wool are J.ooO.OO)
pounds. with prices firm At Philadelphia
money is in fair demand and Improvement
is seen in all lines OF dry goods aud cloth'
| Ing though there is complaint in these as
| In other branches OF trade of slow collec-
| tions At Baltimore the shoe trade exceeds
/ last yenr's at Cleveland trade in dry goods
| and clothing has been retarded by the
| weather but other trade has been good aud
| at Cincinnati some Increase is seen IN re-
! ceipts OF corn, oats and cheese, an eighth
/ NH,sr rfFR1 10
| receipts five times, and rye receipts
! eight times last years but decrease appears
| of one-h half in lard, third in cured meats,
| and a fifth In barley. at st. Louis trade ana
| manufactures are active, aud money close.
| At Minneapolis and st. Paul business Is
| good and lumber advancing, and at Kansas
| City and Denver Improvement Is seen at
| all points at the south trade is improving.
except at Savannah, where a great strike
| suspends the movement of cotton. In spite
| OF several more circulars of advice TO the
farmers to hold their wheat, the price mas
| declined about cent. Receipts at the west
| have been over 5O0),9O0 bushels IS
| I'm four DAYS; corn has advanced two
| cents and oats lis cents. and while cotton is
| unchanged In price pork products have
| changed but little, and coffee and oil are &
| little lower. There is more perplexity than
usual regarding the yield of cotton. but the
| most conservative estimates conclude that Q
| large decrease in the product is probable
| making a market for the heavy stocks
which were brought over from last year
Imports of merchandise. though smalle
than a year ago when the movement was ex
ccptional are quite large, and exports from
New York for the past two weeks are nearly
| equal to those of last year. Railroad earn
ings exceed last years, as do exchanges a
the various clearing houses outside OF New
York, though but slightly, and there are a
yet no symptoms of the artificial monetar!
pressure which some have apprehen ded.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven days
number, for the United states, 2jl. and TO
Canada, 20. or a totd of 23l; as compared
with a total of 2i4 last week, and 239 for the
week previous to the last. For the CORE
spending week of last year the figures wer
lg7, representing l66 failures in the Unite
States and 81 in the Dominion of Canada