Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-01

language towards him. At Providence hos pital the reporter was told by Doctors Baines and Rooms, in attendance upon Mir. Taulbee, that their patients general condition was
 quite favorable, and that he was doing even
 better than could have been reasonably ex- pected. While the exact location of the ball IS as yet undetermined, 1t is the opinion of the attending surgeons that it is lodged In the superior maxillary bone, not moro than an inch or an inch and half from the place where 1t entered.
 There are but slight hemorrhages which, together wfthsthe fact that the brain and the optic nerves are untouched, leads the attends ing surgeons to regard the case at present as entirely hopeful.
 WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE. Doubts About she Monetary Eusure-
 Little Improvement In Trade at
 Bossen-Dun as PhilaasIphia-The
 Iron Market Weak-Woolen Goods
 Behind Last Years DelIveries-Busi-
 s1ness Failures for the Week.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 28.-The Weekly Trade Review of R. G. Dun & Co. of the Mercantile agency says:
 Unreasonable weather and growing doubts about the monetary future do not help busi- ness. To tho trader who bought 20 per cent.
 more than in any previous season but has only sold 5 per cent. more, business Is un- satisfactory. The enormous traffic during the latter part of last year showed that tho exceptionally heavy purchases were made and the clearings indicate that settlements
 are in larger amount than year ago last
 week. showing an increase of 40 per cent. at New York, per cent at Boston, Philadel- phia and Chicago, and 10 per cent. at all other places.
 But the prevailing tone just now is one of Encouragement. Boston notes little inn provement; small sales of wool with prices favoring buyers; good jobbing trade in dry goods, for the month up to the average; a fair trade in boots and shoes, though facto- ries are short of orders, and collections in that trade and some branches of dry goods not satisfactory, weather having curtailed sales by retailers. The Philadelphia dry goods market lacks life, bad weather affect | ing retailers, though in spring clothing there
 are better expectations, but collections are slow. The boot and shoe trade is fairly active and expecting the most prosperous l season for several years, but there is little l trading in wool with some concessions. Philadelphia finds the iron market weak, 1 for other than best foundry graded dull, and disappointing speculative lots being all the time offered at prices below present cost ol production, and at Plttsburg Iron IS weaker, | bessemer having fallen one dollar per ton. There and at Philadelphia manufactured iron is also weaker in tone, without change | in price. Nails are weaker and there is more anxiety for orders in plates and structural iron. But steel rails are reported frmer. The woolen manufacture, according to esti mates of competent houses, is running 10 to 15 per cent. behind last year in deliveries | the large unsold stock embarrassing dealers and clothing manufacturers and the anxiety 1 to sell goods leads to some remarkable con. sessions by makers, but there are of late nc additional reports of mills suspending pro l duetion.
 The weakness of the wool market, particu'
 larly for fleece and delaine, at all the chie1 cities plainly indicates that manufacturer
 venture to buy only for present needs. 1 The business failures occurring through
 out the country during the last seven days
 as reported to R. G. Dunn & Go. and E Russell G Go. of the mercantile agency bJ telegraph, number for the United states 25i and for Canada A, or total of 301, as com pared with total of 271 last week and 3os l the week previous to the last. For the COT
 responding week of last year the figures wer,
 232, representing 18a failures in the United States and A in Canada