Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-22

increases, ana at CmcInnau the shoe
business IS especially active, but the
carriage trade quiet. At Chicago some
decreases in receipts of lard, butter and
wool compared with last year. is report
ed for the week, but increase in barley,
flour, cured meats, cheese, hides, gain
of quarter in oats. while receipts of
rye and wheat are six times those of
last year. At Minneapolis trade is
active in lumber and flour, shipments of
-four being more than double those of
last year AT st. Paul trade greatly ex-
ceeds expectations, and at Omaha is
good, though money is close.
AT Milwaukee it is observed that the
weather has greatly improved the pros
pect as to corn; at st. Louis the country
banks are not drawing as heavily for
northern crops, but money is gong
south for cotton, and at Kansas City
trade satisfactory and money easier. At
Nashville Improvement is seen and
money is not so close as heretofore; at
Memphis the gain is slow, but while
money is not abundant the market is
easier; at Savannah trade is fair, but the
money market is still tight, and at New
Orleans improvement is seen in grocer
les, rice is moving freely and money,
supply for all legitimate demands.
1t is especially noteworthy that col
lections are improving at most points,
and that the money markets are on the
whole comparatively easy although the
crops to be moved are enormous and the
actual movement unprecedented. Wheat
receipts at the west for three days of
this week have averaged more than
1000, 900 bushels daily, and though ex-
ports are only about half as large the
foreign demand suffices to strengthen
the price, which has risen two cents in
the past week on sales of only about 80
600, 900 bushels here.
Corn has declined rapidly as the fear
of harm from frost vanishes, and is
eight and c1e-half cents lower than
week ago, while oats are two and one
fourth cents lower. ard and hogs have
declined with corn, but mess pork is
held by speculation. Cotton has also
declined three-sixteenths, for while re-
ports indicate that the yield may be
much small, /. than that of last year, for
eign buying is much diminished and the
stocks on hand here and abroad are
large. Cooffee has declined three
fourths Of cent, while oil has advanced
two cents.
1t is surprising fact that notwith-
standing the output of pig iron is almost
equal to the largest ever known, the
price grows more steady and decidedly
better tone is observed in all the impor-
tant markets.
The deliveries Of rails to Sept. were
but 500, 900 tons, though the demand for
other iron and steel is better. An awaken
ing is seen in the boot and shoe bust
ness, although shipments are not at
present equal to those Cf last year, but
the manufacturers have more satisfac-
tory orders and the feeling is more con-
fident.
The wooden manufacture is doing re-
markably well in some branches, par
ticularly in worsteds and dress goods,
and the demand for dress goods notably
exceeds the present supply. 1t is be-
lieved that in all-wool cassimeres as
much business is being done as ever.
Print cloths have advanced q little and
it is believed that this has been the
largest season ever known in prints.
The treasury has paid out but little |
money for bonds presented during the |
past week, and hence has little in
creased its stock on hand, but receipts Of |
part of the gold recently shipped from |
Europe have strengthened the New |
York banks in spite of the large outgoes
to the interior.
Business failures during the past seven
days number, for the United States 210 |
and for Canada 20, or total Of $3.50, as
compared with total of 214 last week
and PIT the week previous. For the cor
responding week of last year the figures
Were $780, representing 1874 failures in the
United States and 90 in the Dominion of
Canada