Review Of Trade

Dun'ssays: The severe cold snap. with extensive frosts. and in some states snow. has fortunately done little damage to the great crops, though urnen to fruit, but has considerably retardeil retail trade. The best news of the week is the auvance of 10 per cent in wages ! by the Carnegie works followed bvother establiahments and evidently itnplyíng a similar advance by many more concerns. The Illinois SSeel company is tarting lts lurnaces without eranting the demands of employés Ño a dvajice has been found practicable in the woolen milis, where condiuons as to prices and toreiisn competion are very different. In other departïiKiits of labor, troubles are not serious, and the demand for manufacturen product lacreases. With material and steady en:, mem. in domesüc traüe tnere is still great want of employment in the interior formoney which rcaches New Vork, #3.500,0:10 during the past week, and with tlie millions distributed by the yndicate on bond account sUmulatea apeoulation. Accordlngly. wheat has rison surprisïiiitly, although the reports of injury by irost do not appear, upon sifting. to concern any considerable proportion of the growing grain. The g-eneral public of England celebrated the birthday of Florence Nightinfrale, the great hospital worker, with appropriate ceremonies. At Loveland, a Cincinnati suburb, Frank Hill and George Myers collided vvhile going at full speed on their bicycles, fraeturinpr each others skulls. Koth were made unconscious and are not expected to live. A mad dog attacked a big flock of sheep belonging to Win. Keiler near ïiffin, O., biting a large number ft them. The authorities ordered Keiler to kill 150 head of sheep and tvvo cows to avoid a hydrophobia epidemie.