Show BUSINESS PROSPECTS ilcporf to tftrutlBtrccts Indicate ix Ilet1IY State or Affair Nw rOK J > c 8Speoial telegrams to Bradstreets while recording a moderate r check in the sales of some staples as expected ex-pected at this time make plain new evidences I j of an exceptionally heavy volume of business busi-ness The bank dealings now begin to reveal re-veal the full proportions of commercial I I transactions with a heavy total for thirty cities During he current week as especially es-pecially wired to Bradstreets the aggregate clearings are 1 203258487 as against 996 I 813528 last week and JiG738195 in the I like week of 1885 hov > int n gain of 204 percent per-cent this week r tQ 1 per cent against last year Tile Ju dings in the New York stock market w account for the share of the inuu i s PAW York the total for the week amounting J33000 shares as against 2045000 lust n and 1156000 in 1885 The total earnings of fc nine railways for September as roported to Eradstreets is 2025UCD3 against 185G C23 in 1885 and f 18124000 in 1884 For nin < months the aggregate is 139508000 or 3000 more than m 1884 and 691000 mom then in 1885 The New York stock market was active feverish and influenced bj L ijhly speculative specu-lative feeling Prices advanced irregularly although toward the close of the market a quieter feeling prevailed Lends vcre firm money was extremely firm and foreign exchange ex-change weak and close to the gold importing r point SalesDry goods cotton wool and to some extent lumber have been somewhat checked but there remains confidence on all i sides of good demand in the near future Pig iron is now 1 per ton higher in all directions Southern and Western furnaces are heavily sold ahead and a demand for 3039 tons from a dozen consumers in New York for early delivery would put No 1 up 2 per ton For this grade 19 is now asked with the probability of 20 being reached by January Dry goods are firm Print cloths are higher and brown and bleached sheetings are fractionally higher Stocks are not increasing in-creasing Wool is quieter but strong In spite of the speculative buying the home price is below the foreign The loss of cotton in Texas by the late storm is reported to amount to over 30000 bales Estimates of the loss to the Western tobacco to-bacco crop are placed at from 5 to 10 percent per-cent Louisville reports incline to the lower ligure There appears to be some doubt as to the extent of the loss by frost in the Virginia Vir-ginia and North Carolina tobacco regions Tobacco and cotton as well as petroleum I are dull and featureless without material change in the price at New York I Hog products are depressed and lower There is no sign of a gain in wheat despite the late excellent export demand The receipts re-ceipts at the West End and Northwest have declined some Flour is depressed and lower with continued con-tinued heavy foreign consignments The industrial situation is disturbed by an extended strike and lookout of the textile operatives at Philadelphia the threatened lookout of the knitting mill hands in the Hudson liver Valley and the threatened I strike of 20000 pork packers employes at Chicago against the reinforcement of the i tenhour day Improved cane crop prospects have further depressed sugar and increased prospects 11 of corn have caused a decline in whisky |