The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-09
1HEsITUATION UhCHANGED.
Very Little, If any, Improvement in Gen
IrAl Business.

NEW YORK. Feb. S.-Bradstreets to-
morrow will say:
Extremely low temperature, snow ana
high winds have visited the greater Ior-
non Of the country this week, ami eNer-
cis4d a marked influence by restricting
orders received by jobbers I'm all siapl"
lines. But they have @ended 60 stimulate
purchases Of ScasOnablc goods.
General trade at larger eastern cenleIS
remains unchanged. Philadelphia IepJits
continued free sales of dry goods. Al
Baltimore bills sent South and Southwest
have been paid more promptly thah eN-
pectcd. 49,.
ports that the volume of trade tor Jan
nary i'm spite Of the lower range oil
nrices is equal TO that for 1894. in con
mast. is a decrease in all lines at Au-
oustn with commercial collections un-
satisfactory. Business has f5llen OF al
Atlanta. bat at Savannah the SITUATION
is unchanged, with jobbers cautious as 10
openiug accounts. \ fair volume OF buSl-
moss is doing at New orleans, but coffee
lions are poor because OF noh-lay mem
of sugar bOunties. 80 important chahEe
is reported from Memphis, KlcIilhoild'
charleston or Galveston.
Ths damage by the Florida freeze was
Il. y
orange crop has already been marketed.
Thr late crop and mat held FOR higher
,,rices was caught and destroyed. Some
yonnp trees were hurt but old groves
were practically uninjured Heavy losses
feu on large growers. \ good but sndll
crop is expected this year. KesultS Oh
Florida naval stores and phosphate III
dustrIes. truck ana berry farming axe
said to have been fairly satisfactory
DUN's REVIEW.
NEW YORK. Feb. S.--R. q. Dun
cos weekly review Of trade tomorrow
VII say: ,..,,a
Apart from The gold and bond issue
questions the domestic money mdrhct -
decidedly encouraging, with a fairly nope
full increase in transactions OF CONNER
cal paper. though receipts of money iioHi
the interior continue surprisingly large
In cotton goods there has been re-
duction I'm some brown Sheetings, while
other qualities are moving fairly at IN
charged prices. The general tone o. the
market. however. is MOI particularly en-
couraeing. \ large auction sale oil slihs
resulted I'D prices about 10 per cent. be-
low the recent market or September
prices. In woolcns the openings OF the
finer GRADES for the heavy weight season
have brought some increase In business
but not al satisfactory prices, while the
duulicate orders in the light weights are
unusually large.
the market for cotton goods does not
appear 10 have improved abroad as 1t
does not here
~ advance i'm the prices OF manufac-
turcl nrOdL.Is indicates a better demand
ON the contrary. iron and steel products
have slightly declined for the week ana
for the month and in comparison with
prices of October 1850. are but OH per
cent. AGAINST 5iS per cent. January ISL
During the week the demand has been
checked by the higher prices al Pitisbdrg.
so that Bessemer iron rccelcd Httle
while structural products. In spite OF some
large contracts are shade lower. Some
reductions Of wages are reported in Tar
iron, and the demand for rails does not
increase There is a little better tone al
Philadelphia and sales OF pig are quite
heavy. while at Chicago things are bright
er pig iron Is IN better demand, and Ialr
orders are coming for bar, but structural
orders are delayed by severe weather
The failures reported for the month
OF January show an aggregate OF 3d.
l03, 22 liabilities. against S29,Si3.02S last
year. and in manufacturing only S,72S.o@,
against 81 $50. 715 last year. while In trad
ing the liabilities were $ll 055, l05, against
T.23i5S7 last year.
The remarkably large decrease in manu-
featuring failures deserves the more at
ter,ion, because prices OF manufactured
products have 50 greatly declined during
the year, and the output has been greatly
reduced.
Failures for the past week have been
2Sl IN the United States, against SS last
year. and 5S in caIada, against ~ last
year.