The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-01-01
THE couNTRv's TRADE.

Business Reported Unusually Light In
New York. Hut Large ut Most Other
Points. with Money Fairly Easy-Busl-
ness Failures for the Week. Etc.
NEW YoRK. Dec. a5.-R. q. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review Of trade says:
Trade this season l. unusually light mer-
chants being engaged In taking stock. but AZ
many points Il s. reported larger than usual,
and even larger than Inst wear. Reports from
other citiee show lees complaint as 20 collec-
tions and large trade in PROCESS. Boston re-
ports quiet Wholesale trale In dry goods hut
retailers are doing big business. and shoe
manufacturers still have orders to keep them
busy Leather j. steady and hides quiet. Iron
manufacturers talk more encouragingly and
the money mark t. are firmer. AT Hartford
most branches Of trade are quiet and collec-
tions dull. hut NJ Bait irnorr trade in clothing.
dry goods and ipot> and shoes Is good for the
unusually active: the grocery trade light
but equal 20 last years trade:
in tea. coffee aud sugar fairly
active and IN chemicals quiet and steady:
while tobacco. liquors and wool are quiet. At
Pittsburgh trade L. unusually good in all lines
with iron and steel manufacturers more hope
full. and the glass trade fairly good At Cleve-
Land wholesale trade IL good. although the shoe
trade j. dull General trade i god at Cincin-
natl and prospects very fair cigar makers ex-
ceeding last year work. AT Chicago sales and
COLLECTIONS * merchandise exceed last years
in spite Of soft country roads. and the holiday
trade Is rhenomenal receipts ~ wheat, corn
and rye are double last years: Of dressed beef
three times last years: the increase in -four Is q
third In cured meats a quarter. and in oats.
barley and cattle large. notwithstanding the
complaints of car famine throughout the west.
Money l. easy and the demand good. At
Milwaukee open weather and had
roads retarl trade. but the holiday
business exceeds last years. though
Louis mild weather also checks trade. but trade
IN clothing. shoes and other seasonable goods Is
above the average. fni money i easier. At
Kansas CITY holiday trade r. brisk. though the
blockade affects receipts of cattle and grain and
other trade T. fairly healthy Az -. Paul. ID
spite of unreasonable weather. the jobbing trade
Il god and the retail trade very active. and AZ
Minneapolis the cut 81 lumber for the year is
t00DmU feet. the output o. -four sul.0n bar
rcls against ls9.0D last year and the genera.
feeling confident At Omaha trade T. good
though money l. close. Southern cities report
le~s cheerfully. the low price 81 cotton causing
dullnesS NJ Memphis and Galveston. and also at
Savannah But at New Orleans business Is
more active and larger Ia volume. though cot
ton receipts are heavy and sugar il fairly active,
with money in strong demand. The great in
du-tri~ close the yesr with more than
usual activity. Speculation continues mod
crate wheat having risen 10 cents with
sales ~ Sl3.On0O bushels. corn having declined
ore cent and oats fraction. Coffee y un-
changed. oil half cent higher and pork un-
changed Cotton has dropped sixteenth be-
low cents. with receipts from plantations ex-
cresiing last years to-datc by E6.m bales.
The very large output Of coal leads operators 70
expect lower prices.
The business failures occurring throughous
the country during the last six days. number
for the United states. 257. and for Canada - or
: total Of ~: ~ compared with xB last week,
f, "a III the week previous 20 the last For the
corresponding week Of last year the failures
were yr3. representing 81 failures IN the United
States ana ID IN the Dominion Of Canada.