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Show BRADSTREET'S REPORT. Retail Trade Reqarded as Good as That of Last Year. NEW YORK, Dec. 22. Bradstrcct's tomorrow ill say: While the weather has not been the best z'or holiday shopping, and country trade especially has been retarded, political po-litical Influences have been instrumental In inducing a largo volume of buying at retail and early reports of the volume of this department of activity arc gcncrn.lv as favorable as ln3l year In most sections. sec-tions. Least satisfactory advices come from tho south, because of low-prlcod cotton, and parts of the Pacific northwest, when-the when-the repressive influences that have traversed trav-ersed the entire country still linger. In the larger fields of basic endeavor the events of tho week have been mainly favorable. In general wholesale trade the tendency ten-dency has been to quiet down as too year draws to a close and salesmen come In from the load and inventory time approaches. ap-proaches. Tho boot and shoe trade sends irregular irregu-lar reports. The lumber trade sends varying reports. re-ports. The eastern cantors note fair activity ac-tivity while from the Pacific northwest advices arc of quiet trade Business failures in tho United States for the week ending December 21 were 203. against 309 last week, 271 In the like week of 1010. 2GI in 130D. IDG in 190S. and 2 IS In 1907. Canadian failures not given. WVicat. Including flour, exports from the United States and Canada for tho week rinding December 21 aggregate 4.530.801 bushels, against. 3.157.733 bushels last week and 2.720.S17 bushels this week last year. Corn exports for tho week are 651,613 hushols. against 390.657 bushels last week and 1.39S.S5G bushels in li'10. Bank Statement. NEW YORK, Dec. 22. BrHdsircefs bank clearings report for the week ending end-ing December 21. shows 1111 aggrogato of 53,299,508.000 as against 53.219.253,000 last wook and 53,110,373,000 in the corresponding correspond-ing week last year. Tho following is a list of tho cities: P.C. p.C. Inc. Dec. Now York f 1,830,230,000 4.0 Chicago 203,150.000 (. I Boston 1S1.29I.000 12.3 Philadelphia 165,633.000 S.S St. Louis S7.2G5.000 9.2 Kansas City 53.611,000 1.6 Pittsburg 50.059.000 3.0 San Francisco 51.10S.000 3.0 Baltimore 35, S6 1.000 :t.S Cincinnati 27,527.000 3.9 iMInncapolis . ... 25.I52.0U0 fi.S Cleveland 21.739.000 y..'J New Orleans .... 25.307.000 3.1 Detroit 21.3(15,000 12.7 Omaha 1 f.S 16.000 3.2 .... Los Ancelcs 21.1S2.O0O 27.6 Louisville 15.011.000 0.5 Milwaukee 1 1.171.000 0.4 Seattle 11.717.000 12.0 St. Paul 10.611.000 7.5 Portland. Or 10.9S6.000 10.1 Denver 9.3S6.000 3.7 St. Joseph 7,031,000 12. n SALT LAKE .... 9,224.000 12.0 Tacomn 4.127,000 1 .3 .... Spokane. Wash. . 4.190.000 10.2 Des Moines I.OS7.00O 3.1 Dulutb 1.751.000 27.3 Oakland. Cnl. ... 3.73;.i'0U ... l.n Sioux City 2.5S7.000 1.1 Boston Wool Market. BOSTON. Dec. 22. Tim Commercial Bulletin will sny of the wool market tomorrow: to-morrow: Transact Ions in the Boston wool market mar-ket tbls wek hovn hern only fairly good. Lat lut week further largo purchases of territory slnnln wools were made, making tho total for the present w.j.k about tho inme as that of a week ago. For the fonnlghi estimates place the transactions at 10.000.000 to 12.000.000 pounds. Fine warned delaine is firm, at 3lc and flno Htnnlc at 21c. or 61c to 62c j clean, while half-blood is held at 22c, or: about r.offl'oTo. ' Liltl fear I expressed In Ihe trade j I over the report of the tariff hoard. : New York Money. NEW YORK. lce. 22. Clour. Prime mercantile paper. UM4 per cent. Sterling cNchnncre easy, with actual business in bankers' bills at ?1.8'.l for sixty-day bills and ta SI.S6.25 for demand. de-mand. .. ... Commercial bills. S-I.S21. Bar silver. 31J cents. Mexican dollnrs. 1G cents. Government bonds, steady. Itallroiid bonds, Irrepular. Moncv on call steiidy. ai(51 per cent.; rullns rate. -I per cent: closing bid. 15 per cent: offered at r.J per cent. Time loans, easier: lor sixty days. If ll per cent; for ninety days, ! per cent; for six months. -lli per cent. Plax, Oats and Rye. MINNKAPOMS. Dec. 22. Close: Klax. $2-072.01). Barley. 70c5'Sl. 16. Corn. No. " yellow, i'fi oS:c. Oats No. .". white. 41 toe. Hye. No. 2. SSSSjc. St. Louis Wool. ST. LOriS. Dec. 22. Wool steady; me-dlum me-dlum prades combine and clothing. 21rai "lV": iTsbt nne. WWlOc heavy flue. 18& 1 ,r-; tub washed, 27(fj'3Uc. |