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Show METROPOLITAN MATTERS. The Stock Craze The t'onn-(rj's t'onn-(rj's Exports. New York, 12. There has been no iiriaugement made yet between tbe Pacific Mail Company and roads, looking to harmonious working of the two companies, notwitlistanding the positive assertion of a railroad man at Chicago last wees, and from the present pres-ent outlook nouo will be made. New York, 13. There is evidence of ipulberia in Brooklyn which causes eome alarm. Denlns from that cause last week, 35; this week, fc7. Speculation in slocks which has been cheesed in part fur a we.'k or two under un-der tbe influence ofasl.iugent loan market, baa become extreincly active again. Tbe transactions yesterday were the largest ever known on the Stock Exchauge and amounted to 637,879 shares. It was said, yesterday, yester-day, by old members of tbe exchange that the actual bueinees probably exceeded ex-ceeded the reported transactions, by many thousand sbarea. The annual report of tbe cbiel ol the bureau of statistics at Washington, Washing-ton, which has just been completed and printed, Bbows that tbe last fiscal year was tbo most remark- : able one iu tbe history ol American commerce. The quautity of products of the soil exported was wonderful, and the balance ol trade was over $269,000,000 in favor of the , United States. Only 23 per cent, ol the goods exchanged by sea were or-ried or-ried in Ameriean vessels. Oregon Railway and Navigation Company stock, among the new securities se-curities placed in the stock exohange I list yesterday, sold at 109. Tlie slock was placed on tbe free list, and the bonds at the end of th regular list. |