Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-05
WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE. Bradstreet's Figures Show No
 Material Improvement IN THE GENERAL BUSINESS Of the Country-Dun's Figures,
 on Failures for the
 Past Year.
IN THE GENERAL BUSINESS

NEW YORK, Jan. 4.-Bredstreet's to- morrow will say: There has been no ma terial improvement in general trade. At the large eastern cities only moderate volume of business is reported, but Buffalo and Boston are inclined to regard the near outlook the more hopefully. Philadelphia and Pittsburg are naturally affected some- what by later quotations for iron and steel, and Baltimore prefers awaiting orders from commercial travellers before expressing opinion on the outlook. Gen. eral trade is generally quiet at Charleston, Nashville and Memphis, with mercantile collections fairly good. At Chattanooga and Atlanta very little is doing in wholesale lines, the former reporting manufacturers quiet as q result of prolonged holiday and the weather. At Savannah trade is quiet, but improving, and collections are only ,ir.
 Cotton manufacturers are making some new contracts, but merchants will act with more conservatism. Augusta cotton fac- tories report fairly good demand and im- proved collections, though general trade shows no gain. Country trade is reported fair from Jacksonville. The damage from extremely cold weather in Florida to fruit and vegetables is quite heavy, orange growers being affected seriously.
 At Birmingham manufacturers report orders scattered, general trade quiet and collections only fair. There is only a small volume of business at New Orleans, and collections are slow. At Galveston trade is very quiet and orders are for needs only.
 All western cities announce practically unchanged trade and ligh or moderate volumes of business. The same is also re- ported from Cincinnati, Louisville aud Detroit. At Chicago orders are most of the fill-in variety, and at St. Louis mer- chants gre still working on inventories and starting out commercial travellers. Busi- ness is confined mostly to mail orders.
 DUN'S WEEKLY REPORT.
 NEW YORK, Jan. AR. G. Dun 6 Go. $ weekly review of trade tomorrow will say: Failures for 1894 are fully reported this week, being IS, 585 in the United States and 1856 in the Dominion of Canada. Eabili. ties in the United States were SIP ,992, ,866 and in Canada S17 ,6l6, ,2l5. Neither the de- crease of over mali tns interests in this country nor the increase in Canada is surprising, but the statement shows that'g most of the decreases In the United States is in manufacturi ng liabili. ties, while the entire increase in Canada is liabilities .of trad ing concerps.
 A fewsstates, including New York and Pennsylvania, show more failures than in 1893, and in a lew southern states the amount of liabilities is larger, but in the central and western states 1t is very much smaller. Iu eleven of the last thirty eight years reported liabilities have been larger than in 1894, though for this year and 1893 the statement is confined to com mercial failures, as it was not in former years. The failures have been 12.5 ia every 1000 firms doing business, though tho liabilities have averaged $l32.T to each firm in trade, and in proportion to the volume of solvent business reported by all clearing house exchanges S263 for every 5000,