Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1895-02-14
DuH's COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

The siase~ Gate. OF the y~Ilew Sea cis.r<s
by the FxP~etstisn .f noad ssI-- Ne
Advance In the Frtr~s of Nanafsetur~d
froaaets and Bat Little IN Cer~ai.-
stock. a Iiftt@ Railroad Farm
Ing Failures
Nav IoRK. Feb. a-R q. Dun &
Co weekly review of trade. issned to-
day. says,
whole week, the confident exree-
tation % the sale Of bonds. has kept
back exports of gold Withdrawals
from the treasury amounted To abput
ss.ooo. 600. but were mainly for domestic
purposes No bond ball has passed Or
Is likely 10 pass congress. and in the
two months ending with FEBRUARY 1.
the treasury actually last 81. 90. 90
ia gold. Of which $50. Ena. .eso went
into circulation aud 81. slsl 90 besides
the prusinct ~ the mines. vsnt alsrsaasa
How TO arrest this outEo in either ii-
rcction IS a probe N which another -
sue of bonds may pssSibly solve.
II j. hoped that the negotiations with
foreign bankers Enay secar. s1uae inn
provcment. though il j. clear that
sales - securities here will have
the same effect as il the bonds
were placed in tins country. and they
may Rot be stopped hy the new trans
actions In other respects the do-
nessic money market i decidedly en-
cour2glng. with a fairly hopefal in
crease in transactions % csssgmerrial
IA pr. though receipts Of money from
the interior continue surprisingly
fN~r~s. fe.- shss TTs-s.
II industries. II not definitely better,
at least presents some points OF en-
enlargement
No advance in the prices OF manu-
faetured products indicates a better
demand on the contrary. iron and
steel products have slightly declined
Tor the week and for the month.
aud in comparison with PRICES Of O,-to-
Der, lss-l. are but Sal PER cent. against
5i-> per cent January l. During the
week the demand has been checked by
the higher prieeS at Pittsburgh. -
that hes>erner iron ryce,ied a little.
while structural products. in spite II
some large contracts. are shade
lower.
At Chicago things are brighter. pig
iron Is in better demand and fair or
ders are coming in for lar. bat strue-
taral orders are delayed bv severe
weather Tin has bccn lifted shade
hy speculation. and lead j. steady. ba,
copper i slow of sale. and weak at ~
cents for lake
The difficulty ia Noots and Shoes has
not been removed Although deliver
les On past contracts are larger than in
any Prvvious year. since January Z. uot
usany are running - their falI capacity
and orders are restricted in some
--rasl~s
In cotton -oo-is there has l--en a re-
dactiuu in some brown shertina-s.
Nhiie ether qualities arr uovins fairly
a. unchanged prizes. \ large auction
sale of silks resulted in prizes ai-1ut Ia
Ter cent below the rycent market
~ September priees~ In vo-slcslS the
openings of the finer grades for the
sosae s;'.' iaeresse IN business. but bot Al
satisfactory prices
SALTS Of wool thus far this year have
been l-.sze>. fsiS pounds domestic.
against 1881 SO last year. bat q for
eign N,s0>.s 80 against I.sss. 30 last
year. Il j. noticeable that sales q
foreign wooi have mt h.sen materially
larger this wear. w5fhoat duties. than
they were in the same weeks VI I.sS -
l>gs
No Improvement in the prices 81
farm products has resulted fran the
somewhat active speculation during
the week, wheat bssin. only half cent
higher than 4 week zg-o. with western
receipts ouiy sg@s-t bushels. against
-.-sQ. .5s6 last year. while exp-arts have
tssen little smaller Receipts e e,1ru
have been small. bat prloes have
slightly advanced Pricrs II cotton are
unchanged. althoawh the receipts con-
tinue unusually large far the seas-sE.
he market for cotfea goods does mt
APPEAR 10 have improved ahruaaA. - il
do--s rot herr.
Speculation ia ssas-zs has = little
more than recovered frum the tss-cl inc
early In the vee&- 4ad railway stocks
closed - ecats laser with the rsr~x
RAilruad earu5nE-s sh8z a slirhs i'm
/ Proveu1rat f9r January. as far A. thsy
I have h--rn rep-artssi. amounting Ia = .
1 pr csnt.. compared with last rear. bat
are IA p-sr ceat. smaller than in l-.sl
issssaFEss trasz I=s1!=a=p..lls ard -
I Lauas hpsh show an inerra~e
< movement The mast .us-
Z p-arsAnt event i the Appearing
I u ry-oeirers for the Norfolk 4 West
I eru. rad - l. 10 miles. with szse-1.
{ -. inslshGcslnsss, ard So -sss. aaa0 sts-sls-
+ While thfs has h-sen ia azeasure rx-
l F--ctes1. il 5 likely - have s.su1e effect
uPsn foreign holainEs II Am~rican
stocks >inee the sales u b5nsts -
I farrign hankers tend - iarrease sales
by Foreigners of American railway -
eurities. this may he imparsanL
The failures repartesi for the nonth
I Of January show an aggregate - SIS
L ltes-s9@ liabilities. against s. <sa.ag--
. last year. and ia manufacturing auly
-. -. -. against sIi. -. rs last wear.
while in trading the liabilities were
sIl.eS5. los. against SI-,--4.s>- lzss
year
The remarkably large decrease a
manufacturing falarss deserves tho
more attention. because priess nf n1an-
ufactar,ed products hare - greatly de-
clined during the year. and the outpa.
has been greatly rcducesl
Failures for the past two weeks have
been - in the United States. against
ssS las; year. and ; in Canada, against
60 last year.
BURNED LEATHER.
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