The herald., 1896-11-16
Local, Eastern AMI Foreign
Commercial Dealings
WALL STREET SPECULATION
st. Louis Live Stock Trade Increases
Largely
The Importance OF Detail in Boxing and
Shipping Merchandise--Large Propor-
ton of Business Done by Checks.
Undesirable immigration.

At the annual meeting of the St. Louis
Live Stock exchange the gratifying show
Ing was made that the year ending with
october ! was the best in the history of
the trade. as gains were reported in all de
partments. The cattle receipts at the
National stock yards during the year
amounted to 745OOO head, an increase OF
10000 over the preceding twelve months.
The hog receipts were ,534, 900 head a gain
over the preceding twelve months of 1885,
600 head or a gain of IS per cent; these re-
ceipts We're the largest on record, eX-
ceeding the greatest calendar year by
225, COO head The sheep receipts amounted
to $4,000 head: this was an increase over
the previous year of 1l2000 head, or "a per
cent: the receipts mentioned surpass the
highest calendar year arrivals by 11S,00o
head. The horse and mule arrivals were
III 900 head. gain of $4,000 head. or 81
per cent: the gain over any previous cal
endar year is $4,000 head.-Interstate Gro
Ger.
A continual dripping will wear away
stone and IL continual inattentiOn TO the
small details viii lose desirable custo-
mer. BY the small details we mean such
as boxing. labelling etc. No retail buyer
so large that the goods cannot be kept i'll
turer will do well to copy after the for
eign products i'll the matter of putting
UP stock. On an imported hosiery box
you will not find the label off on one side.
but always just where it belongs. I'm
pressions are lasting. and the general APP
pcarance of Il line of goods VIII turn the
tide in favor of an article not one whit
better than dozens of others. Only
short time ago one of the largest jobbine
buyers i'll the country made purchase
from certain knit goods manufacturer
of ten complete lines OF goods. Many
retail merchants have hut a faint idea of
what orders like this amount to during
season. a fair figure to place on the vol
unle of bus ness that his order meant TO
the manufacturer was Sl5c.oc0. With such
customer, it would seem that every care
would be exercised to deliver the goods in
the proper shape. The goods were to be
stamped with private mark but the
very first shipment contained goods mark
cd for a iobber in st. Louis, and each sub
sequent shipment revealed a carelessness
utterly at variance with IL business sagac-
ity. The buyer. in mentioning the matter
to the writer, said the manufacturer i'll
question was personal friend and one
with but could not afford to jeopardize
his own interests. and in consequence can
Seed al lorders.--Dry Goods.
The business OF the United States which
was done by means OF bank drafts and
chicks IN the single week ending Septem-
Der 18th, was in round numbers $500 1900.
In some single weeks this business
amounts to $1,000, 000.00O III all these
transactions which make so vast an ag
gregate. probably moro than $4o,00oo,oo0 to
s5oooJ.o1o. in actual money passed from
hand TO hand. II this business had been
done for cash. it would have required all
the gold ana silver in the United States
to have made the payments; but since but
little money was actually used. it shows
that money plays an unimportant part in
the operations of commerce. and that it
is only in the small change business that
money is handled over the count ter.-Mich-
!gan Tradcsman,
immigration. despite the hard times
we have undergone, has steadily increased.
The total number Of Immigrants for the
year ending June 80 1885, was 34S 261--an
increase over the preceding year of SO per
cent. Nearly, three-fourtns of these
~ per cent--wcre destined for the four
states OF New York. Massachusetts. Penn
sylvania and Illinois, where they We're
least needed The total number of illit
crates among the landed immigrants was
S3l96, or nearly 80 per cent. a too large pro
portion for the safety of our institutions.
a rcstr cton of immigration is one of the
countrys greatest needs.-Farm News.