There is some gain at Memphis, particu
larly in dry goods and plantation supplies,
which is true at Atlanta and Augusta as
well, where retailers and jobbers report
that cash sales are larger than for a long
time. Birmingham jobbers in groceries re
port increased sales, as those in dry goods
ami plantation supplies at New Orleans, al
though exports ot grain at the latter are
cheeked. Business at Chattanooga is also
good considering the season and few com
plaints are mail.? by leading merchants at
Little Rock, Galveston and Savannah.
Trade at Charleston, however, is reported
quiet, sales of lumber only being fair.
Itimage froif frost in the vicinity of Nash
ville a week ago was small.
The industrial feature if the week is
found in thirty-one strikes throughout the
country, involving 4,000 employes, principal
ly among building trades at New Y'ork and
Chicago, textile industries at Paterson
and New York, coal miners and coke opera
tives in western Pennsylvania and further
west. A noticeably large increase in the
number of small strikes weekly have taken
the place of resumptions of industrial es
tablishments. Manufacturers of print cloth
have marked the price up 1-1(1 cent and re
port demand brisk. Increased demand for
billets and bessemer pig is due to shaded
quotations. The trend of prices continues
1 upward.
There were 199 business failures reported
to Bradstreet’s this week, against 224 last
ASSIST NATURE.
Assist nature a little now and then, with a gentle laxative, or
if need be with a more searching and cleansing, yet gentle <*atha--
tic, to remove offending matter from the stomach and bowels, and
tone up and invigorate the liver and quicken its tardy action, -
1 pecially in the Spring time, and you there-
by avoid a multitude of derangements and
diseases.
