The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-27
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
What Bradstreet's and r. G. Ounn's
Trade Review Has to Say.
BY Southern Assooiatoi Press.

NEW YORK, July %. Bradstreet's
Tomorrow viii say: The most etHrt-
ling features OF tho business week are
the influences OF important crop pros
poets and the continued largo demands
Tor iron and steel with one of the
largest manufacturers i'll tho market ns
n buyer OF Bessemer pig. Most OF the
commercial and industrial features of
the preceding week are retained.
Tho volume uf trade hns not varied
materially, but in Instances is larger
than ut corresponding period last
year. Trade III almost MI lines is fairly
active for the season and the general
tendency Of mercautilo collections la
toward greater easier. Commercial
travellers are being sent in oil leading
lines aud reports from those now on
tho roud nppenr to meet expectations.
Among larger Eastern cities no strill
ing changes III the conditions OF trade
are reported, with tue exception Of Gu
mproyement1n industrial liuGs, and in
the Lake trade with Buffalo aud q
rather smaller volume of business re-
ported from Baltimore.
Ilttsburg non furnaces are sold
mouths ahead, aud ut Philadelphia the
strike among the textile workers re-
mains unsettled.
Central western cities. among them
Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati aud
Louisville, report the usual volume of
midsummer business, with perhaps
more activity relatively at Louisville,
where the question oil suspeudiug tue
production Of whlshcy is being dis
cussed. Fair orders nre being received
10y Jobbers and merchants at both Cni.
caSo aud St Louis, but no pronounced
revival in the demand for fell dclivary
Is expected before August lst,
New YORK, July 2G. II. G. Dun ~
90. Ill their weekly review OF trade to.
morrow will say: 1T is not the sea
son Tor the tide Of business 10 rise. bui
there Is scarcely my shrinkuge except
that which comes naturally with mid.
summer heat Lnteuess OF spring
trade threw heavy settlements into the
second week OF July, and Clearing
house payments are now almost Il
quarter smale than IN that week, but
arc 2l.l larger than last year, aad only
90 per cent. smaller than IN the same
week in 1872.
The volume OF new business is still
compared with recent months, but
large enough to encourage moro open
ing OF works, and more advances III
returns TO lubor, Important strikes
SHOW that The advance Is not enough
Tor some hut seem no more threaten.
ing than woek ago. The smnli snip
ment of gold count for nothing, and
money markets ure uudisturbed.
The Textile works have n better ont
look With larger demand, both Tor cot.
ton aud WOODEN goods. shade advance
III print cloths, aud IN most bleached
goods, nnd more hopeful market Tor
light weight WOODEN.
The financial situation is not dis
turbed by gold shipments, nor by the
largo excess Of treasury expenditures
amounting to about Si2,3Ou, 600. Re
ceipts Gre naturally better IN July than
ln most other mouthu, but expenses are
also large.
Much scarcity begins to go ont for
crop movemout, and the demand for
commercial loans Is not as large locally
as 1t had been. Failures for seventeen
days OF July show liabilities OF S.. 800.
I0l, OF which 81 ,993, j2S we're OF maui.
featuring aud q. ,SSl of trading
concerns. year ago corresponding
weeks covered $j.3l7, ,G9G, OF which
So. .ooo. .93S were OF manufacturing,
s., 4S3.0l OF trading concerns. Foil
ures for tha week vera 2U2 IN the
lnitcd States, against 2l9 last year aud
- lu Canada against 30 last year.