The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-01
BUSINESS IS MUCH BETTER.
THAT CONDITION IS ESPECIALLY
 TRUE IN NEW ENGLAND.

TRUE IN NEW ENGLAND.
 There Is No Improvement In the South. the
 Sou Invest, or tho Northwest-Reviyai in
 Lumber, Cotton, Wheat and Onts-Jewei-
 ry Line is Low.
 New York, Nov. sO.-Bradstreets to- morrow will say: There Is no general or radical improvement in business at the south. the southwest or the north west. But in central western states and particularly at some important cit les in the old middle and New England states the reverse Is true. a material gain in demand for many seasonable staples having shown itself, with a cor responding increase in volumes of goods distributed or orders for future deliv- cry. This Is independent of the stimu- Jus to trade in certain lines. due to the approaching holidays, and in spite of the check to the volume of general bus mess within the week. caused by the Thanksgiving holiday
 A sharp revival in prices Is shown by quotations for some grades of lumber, but more particularly for cotton, wheat, oats, etc., improving prices of the first two of which having had an influence for good. Decreases in prices of steel rails and bars, cattle, hogs, Indian corn and naval stores are reported, but quo- tations for structural iron, rice, whis- key, tobacco, pork, coffee and sugar are steady. It should be explained that rails are now held at $22, the lowest price of record, and that steel billets and pig iron are, respectively, $2 and $1.50 below English quotations. At Chicago pig iron dealers are trying to force an advance, but at St. Louis that market is without life and the price is low. Cottons are weaker since the cut made by New York house. The de- cline in the London and Melbourne wool markets Is to get on a parity with American markets. New England wool en mills are generally well supplied with spring orders. At Philadelphia some worsted spinners have had to re- fuse orders for immediate delivery, and textile manufacturers report good or ders for delivery after January 1.
 Manufacturing jewellers report less trade than in October. Boston and Bal timore both report trade in staples qui- ct and of hand-to-mouth variety, but at Providence there is greater activity in almost all lines; at Philadelphia, in textiles, morocco leather and drugs; at Buffalo. in all of the more important jobbing and retail lines. and Tt Pitts burs as well, the chief compla1t being the continuance of very low prices.
 At the, south, Augusta and Jackson vile alone announce any improvement. Mercantile collections are generally fair for the season, except in some Of the heavier cotton-growing regions, be- ing specially classed as unsatisfactory at Savannah, Birmingham and Calves ton. There is more activity in grocer ies at Nashville. Galveston says trade Is dsll and unsatisfactory. At Charles ton, Chattanooga, Memphis and Atlan- ta 1t is quieter without feature.
 From Cincinnati, Louisville, Detroit and Chicago moderately encouraging reports as to the volume of trade are received. Similar advices are sent out from St. Louis but there Is only mod crate business at Kansas City and Oma- ha; country merchants tributary to those cities manifesting a disposition to buy more sparingly. Milwaukee job bers have been rather more active, and early in the week the like was true at Minneapolis, at Portland, Ore, and at San Francisco.
 A stimulating influence of a purely. statistical nature is the decrease of g. OO8, ,0O0 bushels of wheat in the quantity afioat for and in store in Europe last week.. thus early overcoming the in- crease of 2,12S,0O0 bushels of wheat available in the United States and Can- ada last week. Exports of wheat, and flour as wheat both coasts. amounted to 2,667, 1000 bushels this week, against 2,40O, 900 a, year ago.
 Bank clearings throughout the Unit ed States thissweek are sharply check ed, their total being only $804, 96s, ,0O0, or 21 per cent. less than last week, but nearly 2 per cent. more than in the last week of November, 1893.