Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-13
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 \ SHARP RISE IN COTTON, And Both Spots and Futures ss Sail Upward. S0MEOF THE ADVANCE LOST. ThesGrain Markets on the Other Hand Were
 fDepressed- "A Dull Day m Stocks.
 Nl The Local Trade
S0MEOF THE ADVANCE LOST
Age-Herald Office.

= Monday Night, Aug. 12. Sugar opened very stiff today; granulated a5scJ yellow clarifeds s41se.
 Pfovisions are weaker, in sympathy with Chidago; ribs, in car lots, s6S5; hams. spe- ciah.xxx cured, lie; good sugar cured hams, 10lsea
 Flour is easier; roller champion, $i.50 othersbest patents, $3.75a40O; straights, S9.45 QS5Os
 Meal is weak-Ssd9Sc.
 Lard-Best leaf, 7c; medium 62lc.
 Rice. 4l4a5Ac. The new crop is beginning to come in and is about half cent above these quotations.
 The market was bare of eggs today; deal CTS set the price at 1212c. The impression preyails that eggs will hold their own, if they do not appreciate.
 The supply of chickens was light and the den1and fair; large flyers bring 12laQ16c; small flyers, SG10c. It is said that the sale of chickens is making sharp inroads Into the business of the butchers.
 Lemons are relatively lower in this mar ket than in New York, where they are re- ported to be very firm; S6Os sell in Birming- ham for Si.50. p The market continues to be well supplied with peaches of an inferior grade, which are het in request Realy good fruit will bring satisfactory prices.
 Pears are to be had in plenty. The price varieswit the grade of stock, but the best stuff yields satisfactory returns alike to shipper and consignee-
 The smelon season is nearly over; the sup ply for the city is principally drawn from the surrounding country. Prices are there foret nominal.
 The Pittsburg Dispatch of Saturday says: Furnaces in blast in August, 1891, were 135 weekly capacity, 4,506 tons. August l. lSso, alrIx ity, 17&505 tons; increase ii in furnaces 6o; ln- crease in capacity, 61,999 tons. Notwlth- standing the large increase in productioIa the furnaces are bare of stock, and many of them have sold all they can produce the balance of the year.. This looks healthy for furnace owners September will show a large increase oyer the present production, as several large furnaces will be in blast befofe that time. The number of furnaces out of blast are 273 with weekly capacity of 1a2905 tons The present outlook is about all that could be desired for the fall and winter trade.
 Henry Clews: The plain fact today is that the treasury and the banks have It In thelr powerfo so readjust their relations as that each will have enough gold for all the re- quireinents of safety and credit; and it is inconceivable that they car, much longer delay coming back to their old relative po- sitions.
 Woerishoeffer & Co.,: The traders short of stocks think gold exports very threat eningSto the market; they even think now that the promise of phenomenal corn crop is almost a public calamity, as there may be so,much that 1t will be worthless to the farmers, except possibly for fuel and, ot courses in such a contingency thesrailroads will beswithout traffic eitherFway; inasmuch as if the farmers realize nothing for their corn, they can buy nothing in the shape of elothing or household goods, can make no Improvements and may have a hard time to get sugar and coffee. This is a sad out look and the market ought to go all to pieces ,Ebut then it doesn't. The sun shines brightly for all but the confirmed ,pessi- hnistssand they, like the scriptural charac- ter Weeping for her children will not be comforted.