Evening star., 1867-05-30
Dry Goods.


There is almost a holiday stiffness in all de-
parfments OF trade in the dry goods line. A
few jobbing houses are moderately active; but
the great majority, ee regret TO say, are not
doing enough to pay store expenses. This
statement will apply alike to importers, COM
mission houses, jobbers, and retailers. This
branch Of business never was more active and
rushing. Holders of merchandise, fearing
lower prices in the fall are now disposed 20
submit to those fixed by the auctioneer's ham.
mer, and make the best OF it. The demand for
staple goods has fallen off TO SO great an extent
that only very small lots Of any fabric can be
disposed Of 1t is almost useless for US in The
present state of the market, to name and COM
ment ON each style OF goods. Brown sheesings
and shirting, calicoes, bleached goods, denirns,
drills. stripes, and ticks, and all the leading
makes of goods are dull, and prices are
newest patterns sell pretty well, and the
same may be said of printed lawns Carpets
are firm in price, with only moderate sales.
Foreign goods are very heavy, and are almost
entirely neglected. Sales are mostly made az
suction. Some of the jobbers, being un willing
to buy goods in the present condition of things,
are receiving consgnments from the commis-
sion houses and importers, and thus give the
impression of some little activity, while they
take none OF the risks Of a falling marKer.
Trade in the interior is reported light. money
more in demand, and collections are mads
with less promptness. Some few faiiures are
occurring in the country, and numerous ey.
tensions are asked for from second-class mer-
chants. Our jobbing dry goods merchants.
here and elsewhere, As q class. are sound
strong. and well able to bear the losses incident
to the present condition Of things: and when
the fall trade commences they will be found
with their arnor on, fully equipped for new
campaign-N. 7. Independent, 30h.
A GROWING HEN-There are MANY in nstspcss
OF acts performed during sleep, sucn as walk
ing and talking. But it is new thing 10 hear
of a woman who crows In her sleep. as Rich.
mond female is said to do, by Richmond pa
per. 1t seems that bridegroom was wakened
on the post.nuptial morn by loud Growing
Rising, he beheId his wife stretching ont heI-
neck, Mapping her arms, and Growing loudly
then sank back and slumbered. The husband.
it IS said, is pleased with his wife's accom-
plishment, as he has to rise early, and is glad
to escape the cost of an alarm clock He has,
however. been much troubled in mind py the
recollection of an old saying of his grand
mother, "that the Growing of a hen indicated
ill-luck, unless her head was at once cut OFF,
He has, however, been induced to deter his
wife's decapitation for while. The Rich.
dent, and accounts for the peculiarly of the
lady by the fact that during the year pre-
ceding her birth large Shanghai roos ter was
confined in a hen. coop just under her mothers
window. This rooster was remarkably reg.
ular and loud with his daybreak Growing,
and, doubtless, produced the impression that
was followed by the remarkable result above
described. Whistling women have sometimes
been ikened to Growing hens. and it does not
parallel to the story of Growing woman IN
the discovery of a whistling hen. The Rich.
mond paper concludes with the following
sage moral L." Ladies who do not desire crow.
ing children should not sleep too near a men,
COOP"