The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-11
GOOD INCREASE IN TRADE.
BR fDSTREETs SENDS OUT 4 VERY
 EAVORABLE REPORT.

Tho Practical Cessation of Various Severe
 Industrial Disturbances Has Led tn
 Improvement in Manufacturing and
 Commercial Centers.
 New York, Aug. l0.-Bradstreets to. morrow will say:
 Evidence continues to accumulate that the earlier portion of July wit messed the lowest point In the ebb of the commercial tide in the reaction after the moderate revival in the spring. As reported last weA July bank clear ings this year furnished a list of twenty nine cities with larger aggregates than last year, while June report furnished only eighteen cities with totals larger than in June year ago. The olearings total for six days ending with Thursday Is $774, COG, ,0Oo, or l.20 per cent larger than in the week previous, but 3.6 per cent. smaller tn m in the second week of August last year. Reports of gross earnings of 12S railroads during July point the same way, with an aggregate of $50, l6s, ,00O, decrease of $l9.30 per mile compared with July, 1893. as against decrease of g per cent in earnings of similar number of roads for June.
 The practical cessation of various se- were industrial disturbances has em- ani. reported from leading manufacturing and commercial centers this week. A further indication of the tendency to inn prove is seen in the weeks advance of 50 cents per ton for steel billets, and iR the fact that the domestic wool markets to-day are more in favor of the seller than for a year, and that wool Is firm at the two cents advance scored in the last week. Refined sugar Is % cent higher. possibly for reasons not con- nected with questions of demand and supply, but prices for pig iron is higher.
 Leaf tobacco and leather are both firm, the tendency being upwards. and the recent destruction of lumber by fire at Chicago has steadied quotations. Panic and unreasoning speculative in- 
 price nearly eight cents bushel this week, about twenty-five cents above low water mark for the year.
 Bradstreets telegrams from those in position to know as much as can be learned in the great corn growing states are at variance with the more sensation al dispatches bearing on damage to the corn crop. Lard has advanced sharply, demand at home and abroad having ex. banded noticeably.
 Rhode Island woolen mills have re- ceived numerous orders because oe smaller importations due to the expect ed adjustment of the tariff and cotton manufacturers in that state have thus far taken no action looking to reduction in wages, as at Fall River.
 Boston reports Massachusetts cotton manufacturers find business unsatis. factory, but manufacturers of mems woolens report products moving freely, Buffalo and Pittsburg report an im- provement in trade extending to several lines. At Baltimore the months report thus far exceeds anticipations. Rela. lively the most favorable report thus far this year regarding the demand for and the movement of staples is re. ceived from western and northern cit- ies this week. The comparatively un. favorable reports are from Chicago. Kansas City and Omaha Transao- tions have been more numerous at Cin- cinnati and business at Detroit is fair for the season. Louisville reports al- most all branches of business havine. a healthy improvement. There is some gain at Duluth, where collections are better. The improvement extends to all lines at San Francisco as we'll.
 Chattanooga advices are that grocer les are moving more freely with collec-' tions fair. while at Atlanta jobbers in nearly all lines report more active ship- ments. Favorable weather, good crop prospects and bright outlook for busi- ness characterizes the situation at Augusta and at Jacksonville. Ameri- can and European total available sun- plies of wheat decreased 4,1O0, 900 bush- els. net during July against decrease or only 100000 bushels in July a year ago. Last months sharp falling ofS In the worlds stocks Is due to an un. usually heavy increase in European supplies and those af1oat therefore. he. cause stock at home increased excenu tionally last month. Exports of wheat. both coasts, this week aggregated g.. All, 1000 bushels, gainst 5,01S,0OO bushels ,h the week a year ago.
 The number of business failures iu the United States reported this wees are 1s7 against 474 in the second week of August, 1893.