The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-09-13
BRApSTREETS.
The ''ChoIera Scare Has Affected Dusf
ness But Little.

ness But Little.
New York. Sept. 12.-Special tele
grams to Bradstreets from leading trade
centers show that thus far there has
been little if any check experienced by
general trade due to cholera scare OF
quarantine regulations, except at the
metropolis.
At the New York Produce exchange
engagements TO export breaGstutfs have
been seriously interfered with and ocean
freights at the Maritime exchange are
only nominal.
Cotton exports are not naturally &C
tive at this period and feel the influences
less. Imported linen rags are up from
3 "a 10 cents per pound, and q higher
rate is expected. Fine writing papsr Is
expected TO be advanced soon. No 10Y
eign rags, cotton or wooden waste are
admitted now, and chemical wood pulp
has advanced $40 per ton. Bleaching
powders, used by paper makers and as
disinfectant, are up 2.l7 to 9 cents per
pound.
The sale of fruits and vegetables as
wall as the importation of the same has
been affected unfavorably. There has.
of course, been a greatly increased de-
mand for drugs and chemicals. Imports
of Russian bristles and wool have been
stopped.
The effect of delaying merchandise at
quarantine and disinfecting Is beginning
to b. felt. not few variety Of goods
failing to Withstand the effects OF the
latter. A number of wholesale houses
report a growing caution on the part OF
out-of-tow buyers.
Raw silk and stocks of manufactured
silk and embrOideries are ample for next
months demand. but a continued deten-
ton of goods will affect trade materially.
A few orders for German goods via
Hamburg have been countermanded.
1t should be added that sales of hard
ware cutlery. house furnishings. wood
and willow ware, china, lamps, brass
goods and glassware at New YORK are
in excess of the total in a like period OF
1891.
Prices have been irregular, the con
tinuance. of cholera in Europe and its
presence in the lower bay promising TO
exert a further influence on quotations
through checked impOrtatiOns and re
duced demand abroad for staple articles
of export Petroleum, refined sugar,
coffee and cotton have all advanced
fractionally. while wheat, Indian corn,
western steam lard and mess pork have
suffered like declines. Oats, wool, pig
iron and print cloths have not varied IN
price materially.
Exports of wheat from United States
seaports, both coasts, as reported to
Bradstreets, equal 1867 600 bushels this
week, about 10 per cent. more than last
week, but % per cent. less than III the
week before. In the like week Of 1891,
total exported 4.726,O00 bushels; in 1890
it was .4SO. 900 bushels: L. $50, 1885,
| 600. and in 1888, 2,73G.uNo.
! Reports from railroad companies
- = Il. 4 #-1t. TO
/ streets show an aggregate OF gross earn
( ings i'll August amounting TO %44 900. 900,
an increase over total for August last
year of 10 per cent. For eight months
| the gain this year as contrasted with last
| amounts to 6.6 per cent. the grand total
| gross earned since Jan. /, having been
in excess of 1910, 100000 The only
group showing a decrease in August
! gross earnings this year as compared
| with last is that of the trunk lines, due
to the falling off reported by the Grand
! Trunk