The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-04-15
Improved.

BradStre cts last Saturday SAID: ne
course of general trade shows some improve.
ment, Notwithstanding an almost complete
stoppage of business in the South Mississippi
valley by washouts, overAows and floods.
The condition of country roads throughout
the central Western states and the North
wet is such as to further delay collections
and check demand from interior merchants.
Another drop is recorded in prices of Bes-
ssmer pig iron and steel billets, and in
wheat, flour, coal, coffee and lard, which is,
in part, offset by increased activity and
higher prices for wool and woolens, corn,
oats, sugar and petroleum. Interest in lum-
Der and shingles has increased on the North
west Pacific coast, and Galveston is export
ing cattle to Europe direct. The most fav
orable trade reports are from Northwestern
spring wheat states. There are 4,o42 bust
ness failures in the United States reported
ny Bradstreets during the past quarter, COM
pared with 1872 in the first quarter OF 1890,
falling off of about II per cent. The de-
crease is reported from all sections except
New England and the territories. The
larger numbers of Eastern state failures are
small ones. The total liabilities of those
failing in the New England states are about
~ per cent. smaller during the past quarter
than year ago. Liabilities of all individuals,
firms and corporations which failed amount
to S62, $780, 900, a falling off of 10 per cent.
from the corresponding total last year.
Special reports to Bradstreets from fifty
cities, with reference to revival in activity in
industrial lines, indicate there are at work at
the centers probably not to exceed 100000
in excess of the number employed in Nov
ember last. The increases are largely among
employees of manufacturers of WOODEN goods,
shoes, clothing, machinery. engines, agri-
cultural implements, bicycles, carriages,
furniture, iron, steel, glass and ship building.
Depression still exists among some branches
of the wooden goods industry, in coal mining
and cotton goods manufactures.
The April CENTURY is a ''Grant
Memorial Number" signalling the
dedication of General Grants tomb.
General Horace Porter, who was Presi-
dent of the citizens association that
raised the money for this magnificent
and who will deliver the
Grafton at the dedication. contributes
an article descriptive of the tomb and
of it's building. A striking drawing of
the tomb by Castaigne is given as a
There are also pictures
of the interior (the only ones yet made
and of the fignres for the facade de-
signed by the sculptor Rhind. In "a
Blue and Gray Friendship. John K.
Proctor tells of the esteem and affection
in which General Buckner and General
Grant held each other for years, and
in connection with this article there is
printed for the first time a facsimile
of the message Grant
while on his deathbed wrote to General
Buckner. There is also given facsi-
mile of Grants most famous words.
81 propose to fight it out on this line
if it takes all summer. - which were con-
tanned in a letter to General Halleck,
and a copy of hitherto unpublished
letter from General Sherman. express
ing his frank opinion of Grants char
acter. General Porter's Champaign
ing With Grant. relates a number OF
new anecdotes about his chief, and tells
of President Lincoln's first visit to the
front. The other articles give the usual
variety to the number.