Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1882 — New York Dry Goods. [ARTICLE]

New York Dry Goods.

In jobbing trade reported actively yesterday there has been continued an increased scale, though buyers are less numerous than at corresponding seasons. Their selections comprised fuller and more miscellaneous assortments. Woodbury & David mills cotton, also Ravens cotton, Bear ravens and Manlona ravens light cotton, advanced lc per yard. Manville & Slater rolled Jaconets, reduced to 6o Cotton goods have been in quiet, but steady request, and through many moderate takings in the usual quota deliveries, business has been of good proportions. In brown and bleached cottons the supply has been much better conditioned than in colored goods, but the latter will show a change in a little while as there is a better feeling throughout the market and prices show a growing steadiness. Prints have been in good request and a fair business is daily recorded, although as in previous reports choice styles and specialties Jiave the preference. Dress goods are in daily request for moderate assortments of fancies and staples, underwear and hoisery quiet outside of the distribution in execution orders. Woolens in moderate demand, but the chief business is in through deliveries on orders. Foreign goods market fairly active in all departments, with novelties and specialties commanding general attention.