Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-10-29

ing Itoih thnse tHcts.
RETAIL TRADER5.-Still the streets are not |
doIofous ways" nor are the homes gem |
orally OF our people full of shadows. Even
Inc poorest, until the pinch comes, are merry,
ana tne great body who are cramped only take
y as they do the bustling Of crowd-any-
thing but agreeable, still rather disposing 10
locosity than to crying. We have been trav-
cling among the retail traders d good deal OF
late, feeling their pulse through the crisis
Scarcely one in thousand whois not worse
OIL for the late panic and depression Of trade
still the majority feel, SO general is the dull
ness, that their individual condition is not
much To be mourned over,
! The retail grocers have to tolerate pass-bOoks
good deal more than is quite desirable, and
while credit ia large circles grows into disfa-
| vGr, in these small circles it comes unwonted-
| ly into use, Their sales too are much dimin-
/ iShed. The staples always must find a sale,
| but suddenly the delicacies that are so appe-
tizing as seen through their Clearly windows,
the truits that are the more relished for being
| bit out OF season, the dainty pickles and
! luscious preserves, the little kegs so formally
sealed, and the boxes so deliberately pictured,
all packed with the Injuries that grow with
marvellous rapidity into necessaries while the
times are gOOd-all these are suddenly drugs
in the morning market. To hundred women
that were giving parties last Fall, ten are not
now and as everyone knows Ill at one party is
family giving, it is evident that the grocer has
lost largely on this item. Even in the abso-
Lutte essentials to the family table there is a
great contraction. The digestion and the
stomach are consulted more and the palate
, less. There has been general presumution
| Of those old-time Yankee lodges for shorten
: ing the inner mans expenses, which is illus
, trated in the Connecticut custom of tspuddipg
I before meat"
The retail tobacco dealers say that they have
: lost more Of their receipts than of their Gus
, toners. While the storm waa still coming
! men who used to drop in every two or three
Q days fer their Sohce" or g." Lilenthal rushed
Q in daily for plug or even pig-tail. The day of
the general suspension, those purchasers tore
in three or four times, and when they got their
supply set their teeth like iron into the doc
a tored, adulterated, lye-eurod weed, But when
4 the storm burst they fell back again unon ESQ
d lace" and chewed with gentle moderation
9 These chowers never quite stop the heavens
e might rush, economy might find its way
= to their table, their bed, even their babies,
a playhouse, but they would never stop buying
tobacco. The smokers, however are more
q sensitive to current events. With the tiabt,
it ness Of the money market and the apprecia-
Al ton of specie they buy fewer high-priced ii.
i gars and some lay in the fine-cut and a brace
y Or pipes, as il contemplating new methods of
"a narcutiSm. -
n, The retail crockery dealers saw THAR dish 4.
o. broken on the counter for this Fail 49,
d; gets new set only replaces parts of broken
ID ones. II is the time that young coupes get dis-
70 gusted with boarding and start housekeeninV"
y, ~ out not young couple had one of our In.
Il iormants-a large dealer in crockery-seen
n since the panic was abroad. In short. If II
Is were not for the buttered fingers of servant
. girls and the mischief of small boys, they con.
q less they might as we'll shut up shop and no
T visiting their country cousins.--N YORK. Wssi,.
a ly Times. W."
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} During the whole of the reyulsion in 1887.
the number of failures reported in New York
was about five hundred, but the returns under