Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-08
Wheat Up a Cent on Visible Sup
 ply Statement.
TWAS A BIG DAY IN STOCKS.
Tennessee, Louisville and Nashville and South ernWere Fancied Refined Sugar Mark
 ed Up-The Local Markets.
Age-Herald Office,

Tuesday Night May T. There. is undoubtedly strong, hopeful feengsin business circles. Wholesale mer- ing irf business circles. Wholesale mer- chantsba made their settlements and are in position to speak of the business of last month as compared with those pre- ceding Almost without exception they state that April has been good month, showing increase ranging anywhere from 10 to 9 per cent. One of the leading wholesale grocers informed the Age-Herald man that his April business was better by $7OOO or $S000 than any month of the past two years. May. so far, promises well. Sugar rose xc today, making a total ad- vance& &within the fortnight of about 65 points.s It is understood that Birming hams Wholesale grocers are in a position to watch the climbing of the saccharine stuff with much complacency.
 Flour was shade easier. Local quota tions were unchanged.
 The produce market was quiet today. The feature was the heavy arrival of south Alabama strawberries. These were soft and in bad condition generally on account of the rain. Some sold low $1 per crate. .The ruling quotations, though. were S1.5Oq175. Shipments from Cullman were in better condition, but suffered to some extent from the slump.
 Eggs were firmer at 11Q111zc
 Beans advanced. The market is almost bare.
 Other quotations are unchanged
 Major Randolph informs us that on Thursday morning his garden was visited by swarms of flies that completely de> ctr bia bers, etc., in fact making it almost total wreck. The fly was black and about the size of an ordinary house fiy-Sheffield Reaper.
 Bank clearances today were sSOOS96s; balances, $15. S1003.
 Bradstreet's report makes the worlds visible wheat decrease 41OOOoO bushels.
 Clearances at Chicago today-Wheat, 154,0O0 bushels: flour, 52.OO0 packages, equal to 3S0,000 bushels of wheat; corn, 189 900 bushels.
 Railroad car lots for today-Wheat. 32; corn, 1S9; oats, 1S9.
 Receipts of hogs, 3l,000 head; cattle, 35O0. Eliminates for tomorrow-Wheat. 20 cars, corn, 105 cars; oats, 125 cars; hogs, 4000 head.
 The weather throughout the wheat coun- try IS generally Ialr ana warmer, Michigan reporting good rains last night in the southern portion.
 Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad reached 2iA on the New York stock ex- change today, an advance of Il points since the 1st of February, when the stock was quoted at 1874 In February. 1893. it stood at 36, but during the panic it was ham, mered, along with the other industrials and went as low as 9. The advance in the stock may be regarded as legitimate. The tone of the iron market in this district is firm; shipments are heavier than for long time past and quotations are steady at the recent advance.
 Louisville and Nashville and Southern were also on the jump There a good deal of local buying of these three stocks and transactions on the local board were the heaviest in weeks.
 A gentleman told the Age-Herald man today that while in Atlanta recently he met business man from Mexico who stated that American files were sold in that market after having been shipped to Eng land and exported thence This is true in South America also. Food for thought.
 Grain and feedstuhs.
 These are jobbers' prices:
 Corn (Alabama), 5Su60c.
 Oats 59q45c.
 llrot, 1T