The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-25
DuNs REvIaW OF TRADE.
General Business Fair IN spite Of the
Speculative Hxcirer- ent.

| NRw YORE, Feb. 24.-R. G. Dun & Co.'S
weekly review Of trade will say: The col
| lapse OF the coal combination formed a year
ago by the Reading railway and the sharp
! depression in sugar stocks and few rail-
| way stocks have made the week one Of un-
| usual excitement IN speculative circles. But
! while s.. 100000 gold has gone abroad this
/ week aud $50 900 more Is expected 70 60
to-day there is no increase Of apprehension
about the monetary future, and the business
world pays little attention 70 the action or
inaction of congress, though the increasing
probabilities of an extra session are regarded
with some interest. The volume Of trade
has not bsen diminished, except by severe
storms and the holiday Wednesday,, and the
activity Of the great industries is IN
checked.
AT Memphis trade ia looking up.
Business is fair at Nashville, though
collections are not quite 50 good.
AT Atlanta trade is good.
Mobile reports fair trade and satisfactory
collections.
AT New Orleans general trade is only
fair, but building contracts are heavy, mills
having all the orders they can fill. Sugar
is in light demand and rice dull.
Savannah reports dull trade, but an
active demand for money, while at Charles
ton trade is improving.
Iron is still the weakest of the great in
dustries and pig not OF the best brand is
shade weaker than a week ago. Business in
bars is unsatisfactory, plates are very weak
and while structural works are full Of
orders, competition is so sharp that prices
have little chance to improve.
Cotton manufacturing IS thoroughly
healthy. the dividends at Fall River being
the largest for four years and some advances
are noted In the prices Of goods, while prints
and print cloths are very firm.
The business failures during the past
week numbered for the United States 1873
and for Canada 81, total Of 23O."
BRADsTREET's REVIEW.
BrddstreerS tomorrow will say:
Throughout the eastern and middle states
favoring conditions in some leading lines
continue to dominate. The Improvement
in the prices of iron and steel at Pittsburg
seems to have checked buying, which is now
from hand to mouth again.
Commercial travellers from Baltimore
are returning, some having finished their
trips aud others to meet southern merchants
and customers expected at Baltimore in
large numbers about inauguration time to
make the seasons purchases in person.
THE demsHd for staple cotton goods at
the eastern mills is in excess of the supply.
Print cloths are firm at cents, with deliv-
cries equal to the output and no stock at the
mills, against $4,000 pieces on hand one
year and $4,000 pieces two years ago.
"keports from the more important south
ern commercial centers indicate that con-
tinued unfavorable weather and bad road
ways at the interior have exercised further
unfavorable influence.
business is steady at Nashville, but
there Is no rush. The weather has inn
proved, but is not entirely favorable.
TRADE is fairly active at Memphis, par
ticuiarly for boots, shoes and groceries, and
the like is true as to hard ware and of food
staples at Richmond. but other lines are
said to be quiet and collections less prompt.
Even from Atlanta come reports of |
mercantile collections being visibly affected |
by the bad roadways ana continued I'M
favorable weather. and New Orleans re-
ports that the stagnation in the cotton |
market is resulting in fewer orders from |
country merchants.
1.-THE weather In Louisiana is favorable to |
sugar planters, and the acreage Of sugar
will be increased.
THE weather is better in Texas, where
commercial travellers are sending in larger
orders and more of them.n -