Show VIEW 6 I 1 R G dun co s beliew of trade I 1 tan 28 business both domestic and foreign has a more encouraging appearance money Is reported at very low I 1 distant points but I 1 everywhere else and collections am I 1 fair in all quarters with substantial tardiness has been observed the of busine Ss has been by storms and tile block ailing of railways but Is fair for the season and exchanges outside I 1 of now york are 37 per cent larger I 1 than for the same period last year it Is 0 decidedly symptom that there Is general absence of speculative excitement and prices of products aro I 1 in most bases settling toward a more natural lev el though the avenge Is emial ned by the scarcity of anthracite 0 coal the scanty supply of vegetables t and the advance in botton boods foreign trade in december w a more favorable thau early stat a 1 ments indicated the decrease in ex t ota of cotton and p ro visions being partly a lanced by in ln cattle petroleum and minor items tho excess of exports over imports of merchandise I 1 forthe month with outgoing silver exceeding incoming gold by a withdrawal of capital ex c eding by the average re quiren for interest payments and lona but for ithe past six months receipts of foreign capital have apparently exceeded withdraw ais by th returns for january thus far indicate an increase of 5 per cent in exports over last year etim having lately encouraged a more amo movement of but the important Import ast new york increase of 14 per cent As the ex bolts exceeded imports by 20 millions last january these reports a continued though emiller excess the great strikes an fn the anthracite regions continues and the scarcity of coal at any manufacturing points contrasts with the official reports of largo movement to tidewater panics not obliged to stop work are vastly increasing their e many iron and other works which dei pend upon the reading and lehigh supplies of feel bare been obliged to stop iron Is percept bly sustained I 1 a price for the time by this enforced I 1 I 1 curtailment of production and several southern furnaces bare stopped for but the feeling prevails that resumption of work in the coal mines inay be followed by lower prices of iron at pittsburg bessemer iron is 25 acts lower at philadelphia bar is quoted at And sales of I 1 tons steel rails to the pennsylvania I 1 sire reported at bover tal at mill I 1 with of tons besides during the week in all branches of this great industry the decrease in railroad demand Is felt I 1 th a success of tile atchison and I 1 some other railroad companies I 1 n placing loans and the recent im pro y ing demands for bonds do not alte r J the fact that sales of securities to actual investors continue much behind those of corresponding weeks last year A better tone in the stock market bail been observed for two days but the I 1 I 1 business il still mainly leatto specula fore and the inability of promoters to securities may retard new railway building for some time to come though current reports still show large gross earnings the storms the strikes and the recent disagreements ab 0 ut rates may be felt a little later in speculation the tendency has been toward a low er level wheat has declined 1 cent pork 25 cents per barrel sugar tin eighth and coffee half a cent and oil ag cents but oata have advanced 14 centa lard and hogs are a shade stronger and tin his advanced a frac tion there Is movement in wool a but quotations average a little lower cotton is unchanged while prices of many makes of bleached and bown goods and fancy prints ha e ar been advanced and print claths cloths r e tile boot I 1 and shoo business shipments exceeding last bearo and prices of almost all kinds of leather favoring buyers the lumber at and about albany reported As larger thin for 1886 with stocks on hand six million feet sm aller than a year up tile treasury its cash last well though it added aw to bank deposits the de casion of secretary fairchild riot to add to the number of bank tories on the ground that an increase In creaso in the deposits above I 1 might prove a source q danger comes at a time when money is rapidly ac cumulating at the chief bentres centres cen tres but I 1 I 1 the prospect of definite action by congress regarding the surplus revenue does not appear to improve writes to an eal ern paper to know if be should refrain from marrying until his salary Is a week we should bay certain ly nal if your salary Is low I 1 oi even a week dont stop till it dwindles to a paltry 25 before launching out you will have no dif faculty in getting rid of your entire income without letting matters rest 00 will look a boa p of anoney before you get through gl MIE NEW iaan it ac 1 cording to present indications the re pub licaus who desire the nomination of mr blaine am not only more nu berous than the supporters of any other candidate but they are more numerous than the supporters of all other republican candidates gether well that about bottles the business dont it I 1 I 1 I 1 tit E IOWA are protesting agai at them election of james F wil as U S senator by the legisla Lo gisla ture because that body was elected by 4 I 1 ge try manderen districts how I 1 they can even think of such a thing and have no word of reproof for their bretl iren in indiana land ohio Is an I 1 unsolved pr 4 I 1 V I 1 I 1 10 |