Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-01-13

Import Dry Goods $62 846731 Sol 6541H 1913, 7O42l1
The Journal says: The dry goods trade OF New
York fer the past year has been unparalleled IN all
its previous history. Never before many
goods landed here in the space Of time, and yet
the market has not been overstocked. By state
ment which published short time since, the total
value of dry goods remaining in the bonded ware
house, on the opening of the present quarter.
shown TO be 81 ,592 979 against ST. 227,762 at the
corresponding date of last year. and yet the total i'm
port since January lst has been $50 $50 O67 greater
than for the year 1882 and $50 48O greater than
for the year 1851
The stock in private warehouses is also but little
larger, that there have actually gone into the chan
nels of consumption from this market $50, 530,762 Of
dry goods, IS, 1876 than were distributed
last year This immense trade has been prosperousIy
conducted. There have been individual instances OF
extravaganza both in private life, and in the rental of
stores, and management of general business; and
vet in the main, this branch of business has been
managed with singular shrewdness and Judgment
During the recent pressure there not only few
instances of bankruptcy among the dry good dealers
but there sCarCel suspicion OF their general
credit. While many other classes OF trades gave
signs of weakness, and the regular financial opera
tors nearly all driven to beg Tor little more
time, the merchants engaged in this branch OF busl-
ness were supplied with large share OF the neces
sary funds by their regular collections and legitimate
receipts, and quite independent OF assistance
as during less stringent periods.
The New York Post of Saturday says. The dry
goods trade is yet dull but will soon commence active
ly for the spring consumption There has been this
week good deal of inquiry, and importers are show
ing their new styles. The stock of domestic goods
has accumulated of late, but foreign goods are not sc
abundant especially continental goods All silk goods
have an upward tendency in price,
The imports this season will be comparatively
light as importers have been afraid of ordering large
supplies in the face of stringent money markets a
home and abroad, and with the liability OF eXces
sive supplies in European general war shou'
break out, when all surplus goods would be sent her
on foreign account as in the year 1913. Domestic
goods are heavy in price than they have bee
for some time past. Cloths have declined especiaI
the lower grades.
GuANo-As the result of an investigation, recent
ly made, the British Admiral on the Pacific station
(Moresby) writes to his government that the tota
quantity of guano on the Chincha Islands, Peru, a
the present date, is only 100000 tons; and that
the present rate of expectation, it will be exhausted
l. e. so much OF it would pay freight, in eght,
nine years The outer Lobus Islands, whittier M
Benson's vessels sent TO load, will doubtless
opened to commerce when the supply at the CHR
cha Islands is exhausted.
There are some deformities which attract no pa
: ticuar attention, but man born without feet mus
Y necessarily be notorious character