The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-24

undergone is an advance In latl from
= 90 to s. aud In dimension lumber
from $l5 to $lG. d
t.,. CLOTHING. ~.
Ready mado clothing shows no ad.
vance over 1890 prices. The tendency
in prices is downward. Merchant tai.
Tors OF long experience everywhere aro
buying worstcds and woolGns as low rs
ever before. ss E.g,f ~
f;s DRY GOODS. p, at
Dry goods merchants report prices
averaging tho same us before tho Nc.
Kinloy law was enacted. Carpets
showed disposition ut first to advance.
but they have iallon back and are now
MS low as they have ever been sold.
Outside OF some fancy and expensive
importcl goods which arc not sold hero
to any considerable extent tho McKin.
10y act has not Affected prices,
FURNITURE. IA 7.
There has been but littlc change in
tho price Of furniture, but tho tendency
Is downward. Tho cheaper machine
made goods arc rctailed us then. Higher
grade goods arc sold some cheaper. Tho
tariff cuts no figure in tho furniture
trade. We are becoming largo export
crs, beating the worldein;styles land
prices.
DRUG STORE STOCK.
The general tendency in the stock OF
drug stores is still downward. Lamps
are lower than ever before. a Our manu-.
facturcrs beat tho world onlamps and
chimneys and arc selling them abroad.
Stationery is ut least 10 percent cheaper
than III 1890. and envelopes % per cent
less. Books were never so cheuu. Oils
were never so cheap.S Lead is some
higher because Ola combincwhich
not last much longer. IinsecdS oil is
much cheaper than ever because that
trust is in 4 dcmoralized condition.
Drugs are generally lower. Alcohol 10
higher because OF 4 combine.
GROCERIES,. 60
In groceries sugars nre about . cents
per pound cheaper by tho direct effect
the Mckinley act. Cofiocs arc cheaper,
but as there is no duty upon them tho
tariff has nothing to do with it. Canned
goods and dried fruits nro all cheaper
than ut the time OF our last report, not
outstanding tho protection extended
to those products by the Mckinley act.
The home productions OF fruit have
been greatly increased. Flour is higher
than before, because the farmers arc
getting moro for their wheat now than
then. Other articles sol:i in grocery
stores are about rs before.
FARM PRODUCE.
The price Of most farm produce is
better now than year ago. Corn ut
this season OF 1890 was worth II cents
per bushel, now %; outs were worth 10
cents. now %; flax was higher, being
Sl-25 then, against Is cents now, 4 drop
for which the Mckinley act is not re-.
sponsiblc. Hogs arc worth from s.. rs
to S3.S5 Mt this writing, which is about
80 cents more than two years ago. Cat
tie are about 80 cents per hundred bet
tor. Eggs are considerably better, be-
ing worth % cents, and the Mckinley
bill! is to be credited with some of this
by keeping Canadian eggs out OF our
markets.
All around, tho condition OF the
American farmer is better to-day than
two years ago, or at any previous time.
The man who owns q farm finds the
world steadily coming his way. In
ventors and capitalists are competing
with each other to serve him cheaper
and make his goods cost him less
money, and every year .thercris' Il let
down somewhere in the price of things
ho has to buy. The idea that the Nc
Kinley bill will increase his expenses
is now completely exploded. 1t merely
compels the foreigners who have been
selling goods to US to move their facto-
ries over here. ~.