The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-28
Commercial.

In general merchandise trade Is begin ng
to look up, and with springlike weather
which has at last set in, merchants anticipate
q steady improvement in the volume OF busa-
Provisions are quiet, and values during the
week have fuotuated, the market to-day be
weak, with decline In prices.
In the grain market the movement Is not
large, but prices have been well maintained
and corn is fairly active at prices that have
prevailed for some iime past.
The produe markets are steady, with liberal
receipts of eggs. poultry and butter.
In dry goods prices are steady and the value
of trade steadily increasing. The New York
Daily Bulletin reviews the market as follows
The business Of the day has exhibited lit.
tie more animation, both in cotton and wool
en- productions, among manufacturers agents,
although the demand for either from first
hands wa by no means active.
The leading tObbtng firms have been more
busily employed in their distributions OF gen
eral stock, but The traffic among the smaller
dealers Of this department shove but little
Improvement and some continued to COM
plain of a dull trade.
Prices of standard cotton goods have In NEST
cases been steadily maintained, although OF
prints there has been further reduction In
values OF leading makes, which will un. iOubt-
edly be followed by general revision OF rates
Tor the different grades.
Bleached and unbleached cottons of leading
makes were each sold by agents in moderate
quantities at steady prices, and OF others the
piled at unchanged figures, hut we heard of "a O
large sales Of either, aud buyers Of considera
Ole lots OF low grades might obtain some con-
cesston from current rates upun negotiation.
Prints have been subject 10 a further reduc-
ton In prices, and the market for these fab
RIGS is excited and unsettled I'm consequences
OF the recent rapid fluctuations. TN addition
TO the changes noted yesterday the Harmony
fancies were reduced by agents to &c; do shirt
61zc: Gamers fancy to 615c; shirtings, &c;
MORNINGS, sc: solids, SIC; checks, SIC: pur-
pie, &c; pinks, &c: Wamsutta fancy TO So.
To-day, Oriental fancies and shirtings each TO
80; Bristol fsnees TO SIC; Central Park shirt
fngs 70 SIC Aliens fancy frocks, checks
and stripes each TO SIC; do butts, pinks
piles to 7c; KnickerboclIer fancy to &c:
Richmond fancies To nc: do greys and ohoco-
iaIe, each 33c; do 5ermsn, &c; do checks, 10:
srseiah grey .oIiS SLACK and sSepsssa
plaids, each TO &c; Washington fancy 70 6hc:
do robes, ruby, swiss ruby, green and orange
and German. each to 71zc; do blue and white.
blue and orange, each to &c; Gamers homo
Colored coitons. such as denims, dyed
ducks, tickings, stripes. checks aud cotton
aides, have each been selling mo .eratety ~
unchanged prices.
Ginghams Of leadin dress goods styles hay.
continued In moderate request. with fair
scriptions have moved slowly.
W, rsted dress goods IT favorite makes were
In fair request, with moderate sales
There Is little doing I'm wool Mt this time aud
prices arr nominal. The Boston market Is re-
ported as follows by the Journal ofCommerce:
The reported sales of the week aggregate
1OizsO0. against SCI 800 the previous week
Dealers are beginning To consider the prospects
of the coming spring clip ia California, and
already several representatives OF different
houses her have LEFT for that state. and others
win soon FOL ow. Last springs clip IL well
% o~ed out, hut there ~ considerable Of the fsu
clip on hand. Inc udirg about ,toc bags In the