The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-11-16
A TEN DENCY TOWARD QUIET
In Many Leading branches of General
Tradc...Thc Cause is the Mild
Weather, Which Has Made Fail
business Observation-Disclosures of
Grain Last Week.

York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh, Memphis, Kansas City, St
Louis and Galveston, while Mt others
Chicago, MINNEAPOLIS, ST. Paul and
Duluth, trade maintains fair volume,
having decreased in some lines rs com.
pared with few weeks ago. Through,
out central western and eastern states
the weather has been too mild to help
trade, but further west, as at Omaha
and at Minnesota cities, n cold wave has
stimulated distribution OF staples some.
There has been some improvement nj
Cincinnati, New Orleans and San Fran.
cisco.
Dry goods and clothing sales have
dragged in almost NIL directions. Low
water is restricting the outputoi cottons
III New England. Trade in woolens has
been disappointing, and manufacturers
are slowto buy stocks Of raw wool, which
remains dull and heavy. Exports OF
cottons are restricted byunscttlcd trade
Ill Brazil, China and Chill. Cotton is
weak on large crop movement. Phila,
dclphia carpet yarn spinners report an
unlayorable season.
Mild weather has checked the move.
mcnt OF green meats ut the west, and
hog products generally are in smaller
demand, with downward tendency
Live hogs are &c lower, and free re-
ceipts OF live cattle weaken quotations
for them. Raw sugar is 1lGaic up on
reduced bcct-crop estimates. better de-
mand and decreasing stocks. Sales OF
leather and lumber are more active. at
nearly all points, except for the former
ut Boston. Domestic hides are lower,
while foreign are higher. Eastern boot
and shoe manufacturers have begun
work on spring orders. Disturbances
in Brazil continue to advance the price
OF raw rubber here. Mercantile collcc-
tons are only moderately prompt south
and quite variable elsewhere. The pig
iron trade thus far is disappointing, de-
mand not having met expectations, be-
ing materially below current takings at
many points, The anthracite coal mar
kct, too, is lar from satisfactory at the
moment, with the prolonged spell OF
unseasonably mild weather and practi-
cally unchecked production. Business
failures in the United States number
2GS, against 23S. last week and 200 this
week last year. The total January to
date is l0,3S9, against S,702 last year.
Exports OF wheat Including flour
from the United States ports this week
reported to BruiStred's equal 1900
bushels, about twice the quantity sent
abroad in corresponding weeks in four
preceding years. There has been a
gain in exports OF wheat land -four Tor
two weeks past, that over last week
'equaling fully 100000 bushels. For
twenty weeks exports OF wheat and flour
from United States ports reported
equal nearly s., 100000 bushels, against
81 ,29S,000 bushels from United States
and Canada in twenty weeks OF lSg0-9l,
and as compared with 50, 1874, 900 bushels
III 1889, 42.44S,O00 bushels in 1855, and
81 ,35S, 900 bushels in 1887.
The speculation in the New York
share market continues to be mainly
professional, and in spite OF the subsi-
dence oil financial disturbance in New
England and OF renewed ease in the
loan market, has been mainly bearish
in character. Foreign interests have
been sellers, although the recent bank
ing failures in Berlin had little interna-
tional significance. The coal stocks have
been the principal object OF bcarish at
tacks, large earnings and heavy traffic
on the principal granger lines protect
ing them, rs well rs the trunk lines,
from manipulative pressure. Foreign
exchange is slightly iirmer on de-
creased supply Q; commercial bills, due,
it is claimed, to the lack OF ocean freight
room. The payment OF maturing stcrl-
ing loans also strengthens exchange tenn
porarily. The money market shows re-
ncwcd ease on the return OF funds sent
to new England during the preceding
fortnight.
Bank clcarings, as wired exclusively
to Bradstrects, are from G5 cities this
week. The total, Sl,3l5, 2S7, 1876 from 81
cities in the United States, is l3.l per
cent less than in the like week OF 1890.
The decline is largely due to the de-
crcascs at New York city and at Boston.
Chicago's tota! increased ~ per cent MS
compared with.the week Il year ago.
Out OF 90 cities reported IS show dc.
creases.
October's gross railroad earnings are
among the!best this year, the gain being
slightly less than that OF September
over the like month in 1890. Increases
are larger and more numerous, and de-
creases corrcspondingly less noticeable
than for many months. Large gains by
the srangers reflect the heavy grain
movement. Gross earnings OF l4O
roads for October aggregated S6,7l2, 549
on total OF 97,7G4 miles gain OF 81
per cent in earnings and Is per cent in
mileage over last year. This follows 4
gain OF IL per cent in October, 1890,
over 1859. For ten months the earn.
ings' aggregate is Si5442l,75l, gain
over ten months OF last year OF SIS per
cent, following gain in ten months OF
1870 over 1859 OF 81 per cent.
General trade in the Canadian Do.
minion appears TO have shown more
life during the week, notablyin demand
for dry goods and export request for
grain. The Dominion reports thirty
business failures this week, against for
ty-threc last week and forty this week
last year. The total number January
to dntc is 1887, against Lbs last year.
Bank clearings Mt four Canadian cities
aggregate SlS,G00,Sl7 this week, n dc.
crease OF l5.2 per cent compared with
last year.
a Ton Dollar Gold Piece fer Cont.
Some time ago q gentleman bet that
ii he stood at the corner OF Broadway
and Fourteenth street, New York, and
offered gold eagles to the passers-by for
n cont nnrh hn ,rnull find No nnrsI,a &c