Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-07
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK
BUSINESS lMpHuvlNs.
Nearly All Sections Report an Active
Trade.


New York, Sept. 7.-R, G.. Dun I
Company's weekly review of trade says
Business improves in all sections, at
the south partly because of injury to the
cotton crop and the consequent advance
in the price. AT the west some injury
to corn by frosts late in the week is re-
ported, the extent of which is not yet
known, and if it is serious the loss may
affect trade to some extent, but at latest
accounts business was active and almost
everywhere improving.
The wheat crop is out of danger and
is enormous, undoubtedly the largest
ever grown, and moving with unusual
rapidity.
The corn crop has been saved and is
very large in most of the surplus-pr
ducing states, and even within the range
of recent frosts appears to have been In
part beyond injury
Cotton has been damaged seriously in
some states, an Alabama correspondent
thinks 30 per cent, and New Orleans
dispatches represent 10 to % per cent. in
Louisiana and Mississippi.
The monetary situation is also de-
cidedly clearer and more favorable.
The reports from other cities express in
creased confidence, and show some act
ual gain i'll the volume of trade.
Steady improvement is seen at Boston,
with large sales Of wool, moro demand
for dry goods, improvement in leather,
and larger orders for boots and shoes.
AT Hartford hardware is gaining, and
groceries little, though collections are
slow. At Philadelphia improvement Is
seen in iron and coal, steady buying of
wool by manufacturers, especially of
worsteds, and fair trade in tobacco and
chemicals, but collections are, generally
dull. Manufacturing is active at Balti
more and jobbing trade healthy.
Clothing and dry goods alS especially
active and collections fair at Cincinnati.
AT Chicago wheat receipts are four times
last years. rye nine times, corn and
dressed beef double, and oats show in
crease, while some decrease is noted in
flour, about one-half in barley and cured
meats, and quarter in lard. Sales of
dry goods exceed last years, which were
phenominally large, and in clothing and
shoes the trade is immense. At St.
Louis the distribution exceeds last years
and orders are free. At Kansas City
trade is fairly healthy.
At Minneapolis the jobbing trade is
very good, wheat receipts being double
last years, and lumber advanced 81 per
1000 by the association and at st. Paul
trade steadily increases with assurance
of unprecedented crops. At Milwaukee
business gains, though unusually slow
collections pinch some of the jobbers.
At all southern points higher cotton
stimulates trade, and collections are
somewhat better, and at New Orleans
there is fair demand for sugar. At most
southern points money is also easier, and
at New Orleans in ample supply for legit-
innate needs. At the west no COM
plants of stringency are noted though
money Is firmer at Chicago.
Operations in speculative markets
have been more active, and wheat has
declined four and one-eighth cents on
sales of $4,000, 900 bushels on account of
enormous receipts at the west
The great industries are doing well,
though strikes of Importance are threat
ened in the cotton mills at Fall River,
and the window-glass workers at the
west. Distinct improvement is seen In
the demand for iron and its products,
though prices are unchanged and also in
coal, while minor metals are firm.
Sales of wool at Boston reach 4,371 900
pounds
The business failures throughout the
country during the past seven days
number, for the United States 1877, and
for Canada 20 or total of 217, as com
pared with total of 226 last week and
216 the week previous to the last. For
the corresponding week of last year the
figures were 203, representing 1877 fail
ures in the United States and SO in the
Dominion of Canada.