Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1894-04-26
SIGN OF TIE TIMES.
As Seen and Set Forth by IL. G. Dun s.
Coupauy.

As Seen and Set Forth by X. G.. Dun &
Company.
Extensive storms checked business
for time only, and numerous strikes
have not yet arrested II. Distributing
OF products to consumers seems large,
for more people are earning and there
fore more able to buy. The improve.
ment thus far realized is based on ac-
tual increase in orders for consump
ton. A considerable portion OF the
industrial force is still unemployed,
and with wages much lower than
year ago consumption is not as large
New Orleans orders for future d Sri.
button are still materially restricted
by uncertainty about action at Wash
ington and about the extent and out
come of the labor difficulties.
The strike of coke workers, though
virtually over, still reduces the out
put and deliveries. Strikes in build
ing trades at many cities restrict the
employment OF labor and demand for
materials, and during the past week
| there have been numerous strikes and
shut down of manufacturing works,
most of them because the restoration
of wages to rates formerly paid is not
yet conceded. The great strike threat
ened by bltuminous coal miners and
the strike OF the associated employees
Oh some railroads make the future less
hopeful.
Out of twenty-eight textile aud
metal working concerns which stopped
during the past week, about "A third
closed because of trouble about wages,
Otherwise the Number rcsuming work
or increasing force, which was TWEEN.
ty-five, would have been the larger.
Enough orders have been taken in
iron and steel to keep employed for a
time works now i'll operation, but
this week no definite increase is seen,
The great sale of Bessemer iron at
Plttsburg has been at such low rates
about 100, 600 tons going at little over
$40. with part below SO as to suggest
that the demand for this material has
not been realized. In few grades of
wooden goods tue prices are quoted
and in none all advance, although
strikes for higher wages are not infre.
quent. The ATTEMPT to advance print
cloths has been followed by IL slight
decline, and while abe cotton business
has not materially changed dimen-
sions, the tone is rath Ell less confident.
Cotton has changed scarcely frac-
ton, though receipts from plantations
have been larger and exports smaller
hn, L h,,ef
ness men consider the stories of de-
creased acreage entitled TO little conf.
dcnte. Spinners are not taking very
largely.
1t is said that $4,000 of gold
will go abroad Saturday, sowing to
British investment in he Paris loan,"
which is another way of saying that
there is Withdrawal of foreign capt.
tai from this country. Exports in
March showed an increase, with 8
great decrease in imports, and in April
thus far, exports from New York
have been about 40 per cent larger
than last year. Commercial loans do
not increase. and the rate for the best
paper drops to 2 A cents, the lowest
OH record.
The failures of the past week have
been somewhat more important thar
usual. There were 219 IN the United
States, against 1S6 last year, and AS il
Canada, against % last year. For the
first half of April the liabilities were
reported TO have been 81, 16S, 416, OF
which S2,0S2,55 were of luanufac.
turing and Sl,004, 1877 of trading con,
Germs.