Show Trade In the East I Business in New York continues large in Volume and generally profitable Boston finds the boot and shoe trade encouraging couraging and prices in that lino are firm while leather Is unchanged and the trade in hides is quiet Sales of wool are rather large amounting to 4264300 pounds but there is a distinct improvement in the market for woolen goods and manufacturers manufactur-ers are more hopeful Cotton goods are firm in price while the raw material declines lines At Philadelphia the liquor trade is good the trade in chemicals is fair in volume and the paint business is good while money has become easy at 6M toper 7 to-per cent and collections are on the whole satIsfactory At Chicago there is a marked decrease in receipts of cured meats dressed beef lard butter and hides but in cheese and wool an increase and the volume of business continues larger than a year ago with satisfactory collections in dry good and clothing At St Louis the state of business is healthy and while money is rather scarce there is no trouble about collections The volume of business at Cleveland is much above lust years specially dry goods and clothing though the unfavorable weather retards trade to some extent and at Pittsburg the manufacturing lecturing interests are nourishing though lower prices are quoted for Bessemer steel and blooms It is a remarkabla feature of returns this year that the western cities appear to prosper pros-per without the slightest regard to the condition ition of business on the seaboard At Milwaukee trade is satisfactory and money unusually active at 0 to 7 per cent at St Paul trade is excellent and at Minneapolis i receipts wheat reach 1900000 bushels at Kansas City trade is healthy and at Denver good There is rather more indi cation of monetary pressure at southern centres and at Savannah receipts of 59434 bales of cotton and large receipts of rosin and turpentine make money tight but business busi-ness is dull at Jacksonville and only fairly active in the Louisiana region The money markets are on the whole less disturbed than they were a week ago but there is an increasing scarcity of funds at some of the western and southern centres The most important industries are doing well The demand for boots and shoes continues tinues encouraging and advances in prices of hides and leather are maintained The sales of wool at Boston are 4364300 for the week and at Philadelphia and Now York there is an increasing demand with some stiffening in prices The iron business is hesitating because an unprecedented consumption umption is apparently overmatched by an unprecedented production and Bessemer iron is weak at Pittsburg and Philadelphia But the demand for all finished products continues so large that the capacity of the mills seems to be strained to the utmost I and while no advance in prices is reported the market is everywhere strong The markets for breadstuffs continue to I advance Wheat has risen ig cents during dur-ing the week corn nearly 1 cent and oats nearly 2 cents The foreign demand affords af-fords no support to this speculation and the exports are far below those of the corresponding responding weeks last year The market for cotton has yielded a sixteenth and while exports are very heavy the reports indicate the largest crop ever grown Hogs are steady and pork a shade lower but it may be fairly said that the speculative markets though rather less excited than usual are at this time singularly unreliable unrelia-ble as a measure of values The business failures occurring throughout through-out the country during the last seven days as reported to R G Dun Co number for the United States 203 and for Canada 2 2 or a total of 225 as compared with a total to-tal of 227 last week and 215 the week previous pre-vious to the last For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 225 representing I rep-resenting 18S failures in the United States and 37 in the Dominion of Canada |