The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-12-28
TREND OF TRADE.
Tho business Outlook Mt the Cl,Sr otthc
Year Dante Review.

Year DAME Review,
NEW YORK, Dec, FIR. G. Dun &
Co.'S weekly review OF trade, which is
sues tomorrow, will sny;
The sales for the quarter OF the year
1895, not yet finished, cannot be dell
nltely stated, but the aggregate OF de-
ferred liabilities for the year, while
much smaller than In 1888 viii very but
little from that Of 1884,
The years aggregate OF liabilities
will probably be about $40 100000 In
manufacturing, oyer N3,OOO,OOO, or 10
per cent, more thnn last year, but In
trading about SSS,0OO,0O0, or 0 per cent,
less than last year
The foreign and financial measures
from the President was followed by
violent reaction In the stock market
last Saturday, with grave fears OF mon
Ctary trouble
The sudden panic checked business
In many departments and the Indus
tricB cannot be- expected to show signs
Of improvement until the new year be-
gins. orders have for months been so
much smaller than they were IN the
summer, when production was expand
ms and price mounting rapidly, that
new causes OF uncertainty have the
more influence. ROsscmer pig has de-
cllned &c moro at PittaburEh. The bar
iron association has reduced its price
not yet 10 the rate at which steel rs
well as Iron bars are actually sold. In
most departments this Industry sunerp
from the speculative advance In price
and production last summer. IL 10
noted that Bessemer and open hearth
steel were offered at the same price IN
bids on 5000 tons, which q Pittsburgh
mill WIN produce for appraisers stores
here. Minor metals are shade lower,
Coke makers, after three meetings, de-
clded not To fix price except by months
and a combination OF Mcssaba ore pro-
ducetH is no longer expected. Anthra-
cite coal II selling at 81 10 In New YORK
harbor. In the great textile manufnc-
lures the usual holiday dizziness H. In
creased by delay OF orders. though there
IL some accumulation OF goods for tho
demand expected coon, In wooden goods
the market In extremely dull. soft wool
on dress goods and ladies' cloths are a
shade lower. and the average OF quota
lions IL about rs per cent lower for tho
week. Some makers have gone below
last years quotations in securing or
ders,
The shoe and leather business does
not improve. and both leather and
manufactured goods decline slightly.
The speculation Is again hoistlng hides
about 10 per cent for all In two weeks
and for some kinds % per cont.
Wheat and cotton were depressed by
last weeks panic and have had little
time to recover. Wheat receipts con-
tlnue enormous, for the week 5.749.012
bushels, against l.7i9,90S bushels last
year, and Atlantic exports, Hour IN
cluded, have been 7,526.96O bushels in
four weeks OF December. against 1853.
500 bushels last yenr. Russian and
other supplies are moving freely; Off.
cinl estimates are wholly forgotten and
the men who predicted 81 wheat have
disappeared Cotton has remained at
SIC sinco last Saturday. and enormous
commercial and mill stocks here and
abroad. with demand for goods much
smaller than In September, hinder an
advance The quantity which has
come into sight Is 90 per cent less than
last year to date hut slightly lnrger
than in 1892, when the crop was 100000
bales.
Failures for the week have been 322
in the United States, against $50 last
year. and 10 In Canada against II last
year.