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BUSINESS FAILURES. Bradstreet's Report of Trade Embarrassments for the Past Week. There were 243 failures in the United States reported to BradstreeΕ₯s during the past week, 14 less than the preceding week, 22 more than the corresponding week of 1883, and 71 more than the same week of 1882. About 82 per cent. were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000. Compared with the previous week the Middle States had 57, an increase of 4; New England States 34, an increase of 1; Southern States 45, a decrease of 13; Western States 86, a decrease of 4; Pacific States and Territories 21, a decrease of 2. Canada had 66, an increase of 33. Among those reported embarrassed were William S. Fogg & Son, bedding; Joseph Freeman, importer of dry goods, and George Parsons, toys and fireworks, New York city; J. M. Jones' Sons, car builders, West Troy; Jones Car Manufacturing Company, Schenectady, N. Y.; Central Bank of Upper Sandusky, Ohio; Edward Pilsbury's Sons, cotton commission, New Orleans; L. D. Mowry & Son, cotton factors, Charleston, S. C. In the principal trades they were as follows: Grocers 44, general stores 42, shoes 16, clothing 13, hardware and agricultural implements 13, dry goods 13, liquors 11, manufacturers 11, drugs 9, hotels and restaurants 9, produce and provisions 9, grain, flour, etc., 6, jewelry 6, books, stationery. paper, etc., 5, cigars and tobacco 5, fancy goods 4, bakers and confectioners 3, cotton 3, crockery 3, furniture 3, men's furnishing goods 3, butchers 3, banks 2, lumber 2, millinery 2, toys 2. ALABAMA. Gravelly Springs.-C. M. Parham, general store, reported failed. FLORIDA. Quincy.-Stockton & Shaw, general store, assigned to William Munroe. Assets about $1,000. GEORGIA. Atlanta.-C. H. Hutchings, grocer, failed, and out of business. J. H. Smith & Co., grocers, assigned. Augusta.-Charles Caple, groceries and liquors, assigned. Blackshear.-D. N. Baldwin, general store, closed by Sheriff. Midrille.-Evans & Sandeford, general store, offer 50 cents in thirty and sixty days, and the balance in November and December next. SOUTH CAROLINA. Blackrille.-James Kelly, general store, embarrassed, and mortgaged all property to a creditor for $3,500. W. J. Martin, general store, asks an extension. Liabiilties, $7,000; assets about $10,000. Charleston.-L. D. Mowry & Son, cotton factors, failed. Liabilities reported at $150,000; nominal assets $225,000. P. R. Shaw, dry goods, mortgage foreclosed. Drakes.-Drake Brothers, general store, ask an extension, offering acceptances on New York factors, Everett Brothers & Gibson for 25 cents, payable November, 1884, and extension on the balance November, 1885, and November. 1886. They show liabilities $55,000; assets $70,000. Martins.-J. L. Ellis, general store, assigned. Spartanburg.-Lewis M. Hummell, dry goods, failed. Liabilities $9,000.
