Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-26

Heavy Movement of Produce and Well
supplied Money Market-The Business
E'siures for the Week, Etc.
New YORK, Dec 19.-R. G. Dun g.
Co. s weekly review of trade SAYS:
The quantity of products marketed during
the past few months has been large beyond all
precedent, while the money markets are well
supplied in nearly all parts of the country
Roston reports fair trade in merchandise for
the season. with special activity in holiday
Goods boots and shoes more active, manufac-
turers having liberal spring contracts, domestic
hides firmer but foreign more active and lower:
wool steady with sales of 100000 pounds, and
little activity in dry goods. At Philadelphia re-
ports are less encouraging; dry goods in
active though the prospect is good, the wool
trade is limited, trade in lumber and tobacco
quiet; in hardware dull in boots and shoes only
fair with rather slow collections, and in grocer
les and chemicals steady; oils are dull and
paints at a standstill the usual holiday activity
is seen in jewelrv At Baltimore manufactures
are active, and at Pittsburgh iron seems a little
SITTER and an advance in window glass
is expected At Cleveland retail trade is
good, and the iron business shows mdi-
cations of improvement. AT Cincinnati general
trade is very 1air, especially in groceries, and
retail trade is brisk. At Detroit trade is equal
to last years. At Chicago general trade is q
tribe narrower for the week, but with good
prospects, and receipts of wheat and rye and of
dressed beef are three times, and of corn double
last years; in cured meats the increase is 50 per
cent and in cattle 10 per cent, while slight
decrease appears IN barley, decrease of 20 per
cent in lard, cheese and butter, and 50 per cent.
in wool Collections are unusually large, and
money is in good demand. At Milwaukee q
heavy coal and stove failure causes some ex-
citement, and rainy weather makes holiday
trade unsatisfactory, but the jobbers report
better trade than year ago. At st. Louis
much strength Is shown, particularly in grocer
les, Shoes oil and Idrugs, and the holiday trade
is large At st. Paul trade is brisk At Min
neapolis the grain and -four movement greatly
exceeds last years. AT Duluth, the lumber cut
for the year has been 3400O0.0O0 feet and the
jobbing trade is active, and at Omaha trade is
fair and money close. At Denver trade is good !;
at Kansas City only fair for the season, the car
famine checking the grain movement At
Little Rock trade is only fair. At New Orleans
receipts of cotton and sugar are large, the
demand for sugar good, and for rice moderate.
and money is in active demand at full rates. At
Savannah trade is light and interior reports not
favorable, and money is tight, but at jackson
vile trade is fair, and the movement of oranges
large. The iron trade shows greater strength
and larger sales of pig iron than for long time,
but extraordinary weakness is seen in some Of
the finished products. Crude rubber is weaker
at 81 cents for Para fine. In dry goods very few
orders have been placed for December. Wool
is steady, fleece and territorial being more ac-
tive. Trade ia cotton goods is improving, and
print cloths are firm.
The business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last seven days, number
for .e United States, 307 and for Canada 2S, or
j. toal OF 5s5 as compared with SO last week
and so the week previous to the last. For this
corresponding week of last year the failures
were 404, representing 1863 failures in the United
States and Al in the Dominion of Carada.