Show mn S CA fa OV 01 TRIDE last Lasto evening a gentleman was in our office who had devoted a considerable portion of his hia life canvassing and running a collection agency he declared that business mon men are largely influenced by atmospheric conditions said he 1 I always found collections coll actions easier just after a storm when the sun photo out brightly from behind the clouds aud all nature natura seemed to smile I 1 could get almos anything I 1 wanted then but when it was co cold d and cloudy and drizzling I 1 found collections almost an impossibility we wonder it if th the e same conditi do not account for the varying opinions of business bai iness men as to trade just before christmas when the ground was ivas abrou shrouded ded in a cold mantle of ef whito and the thermometer re gi stored somewhere below zero most of tho the day our merchants merch antt felt blue ovary every oue one seemed despon despondent deni t and the hoople generally gena grene rally talked of financial collapses and of coming hard times they talk differently today all coln cheerful and hopeful while many confess that tho the holiday trado trade has been goad one house bought a I 1 large arge st stock ock ul of holiday goldsand good gand sand when they arrived the tha manager felt felitte to regret that ho bo had ordered so every one was vas crying hard times just then than last lait week a brisk trade commenced raen ced and the me merchant said that he WAS astonished to see his best and costliest cost coit liest goods go first that show sho v hard times doas doaa it ita lie he asked when an lepre secta imitative tive called calleck on hiu him we believe it is a fact that the local holiday trade hasteen very fair better batter than maur many had bad em expected meted the tha trade leports ie PO As from the east are to tho the effect that beavy weight clothing atia dry goods havo have sold said more mora freely owing to the cold snap but in general jobbing is quieter pig iron Bres bessemer semer pig petroleum add od some grades of finished iron are lower as well as wheat and oats advances in corn coffee tea and s southern are conspicuous as aa well as in live cattle and hogs tobacco rubber robber leather lumber pnat poizat cloths claths wool and cotton have ruled steady the stock maket shows a disposition to recover from the effects of the tha liquidation and temporary stringency in money which marked the beginning lain odthe of tha week speculation however is nervous and apprehensions of further gold shipments ship manta thock heck any decided improvement while tho they y give play to bearish attacks en cn prices on the silver question bradstreets Brad streeta streetz says the silver marret marr et wis was weak on 01 tr tee a adjournment of the brussels Bru Brul isela sels conference and the price of bars declined 92 Y els cis a little abaye the lowest quotation on record the fall was however checked by action of cf tle the indian gavern government ment in red reducing acing its offerings of council biler |