Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-26
TRADE REVIEW.
Business Unusually Light In
New York City.
Larger Than Usual at Many
Other Points.

The Low Price of Cotton Causes a Dull
ness in Many of the Southern Cities
The Money Markets Flrmer-The Iron
Outlook Encouraging -Dun's Weekly
Review of Trade.
New YORK, Dec. 26.-R. q. Dun &
Company's weekly review of trade says;
Trade in this city is unusually light,
merchants being engaged in taking
stock, but at many points it is reported
larger than usual, and even larger than
last year.
Reports from other cities show less
complaint as to collections and a large
trade in progress Boston reports quiet
wholesale trade in dry goods, but retail
ers are doing bip business and shoe
manufacturers still have orders to keep
them busy. Leather is steady and iron
Is qniet. Iron manufacturers talk more
enconragingly and the money markets
are firmer. At Hartford most branches
but at Baltimore trade in clothing, dry
goods and boots and shoes is good for
the season.
AT Philadelphia the jewelry trade is
unusually active, the grocery trade light
but equal to last years trade In tea,
coffee and sugar, fairly active, and in
chemicals quiet and steady; while
tobacco, liquors and wool are quiet. Al
Pittsburg trade is unusually good In al
lines with iron and steel manufacturers
more hopeful and the glass trade fairly
good. AT Cleveland wholesale trade is
good, though the shoe trade Is dull.
General trade is good at Cincinnati and
prospects very fair, cigar makers exceed
ing last years work.
AT Chicago sales and collections of
merchandise exceed last years in spite
of soft country roads, and the holiday
trade is phenomenal; receipts Of wheat,
corn and rye are double last years; of
dressed beef, three tunes last years; in
crease in flour is third; in cured meats,
quarter, and in oats, barley and cattle
large, Notwithstanding the complaints
of car famine in the west money is
easy and demand good.
At Milwaukee open weather and bad
roads retard trade, but the holiday bus
mess exceeds last years, though traders
in country towns are suffering At st.
Louis mild weather also checks trade,
but trade in clothing, shoes and other
goods is above the average
and money easier. AT Kansas City hol'
day trade is brisk, though the blockade
affects receipts of cattle and grain, and
other trade is fairly healthy. At s..
Paul, in spite of unreasonable weather,
jobbing trade is good and retail trade
very active, and at Minneapolis the cut
of lumber for the year is 45O, ,000, ,OO0I
feet, the output of -four 201 900 barrels
against 1870, 600 last year, and the general
feeling confident.
At Omaha trade is good though money
is close. Southern cities report less
the low price OF cstton, caus-
ing dullness at Memphis aul Galveston.
and also at Savannah. But aJ New
leans business is more active and larger
in volume, though cotton receipts are
heavy and sugar is fairly active, with
money in strong demand, Tho great in
dustries close the year with more than
usual activity.
Speculations continues moderate, |
wheat having risen one and fourth |
cents with sales of 10000, 900 bushels;
corn having declined one cent and oats
a fraction. Coffee is unchanged, oil
one-half cent higher and pork un-
changed. Cotton has dropped one-six-
teenth below eight cents with receipts
from plantations exceeding last years
to date by $4,000 bales. The very
large output of coal leads operators to
expect lower prices,
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last six days
For the United States 257,
and for Canada 35, or total Of 900, as
W 4 total Of 335 last week
and 320 the week previous to the last
For the corresponding week of last year
the figures were 883, representing 3O3
failures in the United States and 30 in
,he Dominion of Canada.