Show Trade in the East Mild weather in tho east causes increasing increas-ing trouble Perhaps the coal trade suffers most many collieries in Pennsylvania stepped throwing over four thousand men ouW employment and great suffering results re-sults The output this year has been 2609819 tons smaller in eleven months than in the same months last year but the consumption appears to have diminished still more The dry goods and boot and shoe trade are much affected especially inv in-v articles for winter wear and in some quar tore even the holiday trade was restricted by the unseasonable weather Ono other unfavorable feature appears In some Southern States trade Is seriously affected for the time by the operation of Farmers Alliances which enlist farmers in cooperative trading and absorb money which might otherwise go to settle indebtedness indebt-edness with merchants The results in some localities almost paralyze trade but the general tenor of reports as to the condition con-dition of business excepting as temporarily affected by the weather is by no means unfavorable un-favorable The volume of trade continues larger than a year ago and though the comparative inactivity usual at this season everywhere appears transactions still I show a fair increase especially in the holiday I holi-day trade The exports in November appear to have exceeded those of last year by nearly or quite thirty millions the increase in value 0 qottorr breadstuffs provisions cattle I andpetroleum having been over fifteen millions But since December 1st the export ex-port trade has been a little smaller showing show-ing for three weeks a decrease of 113 percent per-cent In comparison with last year though the imports show an increase of 1834 percent per-cent Money is still close in New York at 6 per cent on call tight at Philadelphia though working toward greater ease at Boston comparatively easy at Cleveland unchanged but with liberal demand at Chicago close at Kansas City but in sufficient suf-ficient supply for legitimate business at western and southern points generally The treasury has made heavy disbursements disburse-ments so that it holds 5200000 less cash than a week ago and foreign exchange has advanced an eighth during the ke The general level of prices has scarcely changed The business failures occurring throughout through-out the country during the last seven days as reported to R G Dun So Co number for the United States 300 and for Canada J or a total of 312 as compared with a total of 290 last week and 310 the week previous to tho last For the corresponding correspond-ing week of last year the figures were 311 madeup in Canada Of 293 in the United States and 18 |