People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — HOLDS ITS OWN. [ARTICLE]

HOLDS ITS OWN.

But Very Little Change Is Apparent in Business Circles. New York, Dec. B.—R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: "It is difficult to detect any change in current business. Prospects for business after January 1 are quite generally considered mors hopeful in some branches. There are larger orders and the west-bound shipments of merchandise are larger. But the working force is naturally diminished near the end of the year, and the holiday traffic brings just now a temporary activity which is not of much general significance. The meeting of congress and the announcement of the new currency plan and of various bills proposed have not affected the situation perceptibly. Payments for bonds have been completed without disturbance, but did not prevent the shipment of some gold to Europe Friday. On the whole, agricultural products are scarcely stronger, and wages of labor do not advance, but there is reason to expect the employment of a somewhat larger working force after the holidays. "The liabilities in failures for the last week of November were t 2.038.407, against *2.904.478 for the same week last year, but the decrease was wholly in manufacturing liabilities, *427.644, against *1,675.027 last year, while trading liabilities were *1,567.318, against *1.308.449 last year. For the four weeks of November the aggregate was *10.581.873, against £39.841621 last year The failures this week hare been MS in the United States, against 3*5 last year, and 40 in Canada, against 42 last yean "