The Portland daily press., 1883-08-24
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
DOMESTIC CoTTONs.
The Great Auction Sale at New York
Low Prices Obfaiusd


Low Prices Obtained.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-By order of George
.. Richards & Co., sWimerding Hoguet &
20. to-day held q peremptory sale OF 14,000
packages of domestic cotton goods. The bid
ding was brisk, but none of the Sgoods brought
large prices. The largest buyers were II. B.
Clafin & Co., Bates, Reed 8 Cooley, Fl. Swan
Brown, and Teft, Weller & Co. The first lot
25 Epieces of Everett blue denim, sold at 1sc
per yard. Halstead, Howes & Co. purchased
% pieces at u $50. Twenty.six more lots.
comprising about 75o pieces, were sold to differ
ent parties. new shade of so pieces was
bought by Fl. B. Clafllin s. Co. for 10 3-4c.
They also bought 80 pieces of slate color at the
same price. One hundred and forty-two pieces
OF Everett brown denim sold for 10 3-Sc and
~ l-2c. d. B. Clafin & Co. and Fl. Swan
Brown OF Boston bought 25 pieces of Andover
seconds OF the same material, at 10 1-8c and
10 lac, respectively. One hundred pieces eff
Everett plaid denim sold for II lac and lie,
while As pieces of seconds brought 10 1-2c.
Forty-eight pieces of Everett check denim
sold for II lac; 43 pieces of seconds brought
lie from Bates, Reed & Cooley and only 10 7-sc
from smaller dealer. Fifty pieces of Everett
striped denim were bought by Fl. B. Clafiin &
Co., for prices ranging from 10 3.Sc to 10 7-Se:
81 pieces of check, comprising lots 81, IS and
80, brought 10 3-4c from III. B. Clafiin & Co.,
and 10 7-8c from two other purchasers; "a sec
pieces OF Newport slate denim brought &c
from 81. b. Clafin & Co.; also 43 pieces of
seconds OF the same, sold for the same price to
the same purchaser; SO pieces OF brown, of the
same stamp, sold for 14c; 30 pieces of blue
brought $40 and 7-Sc As pieces of check.
same stamp. sold for 1-4c, while 1872 pieces Of
York blue sold for from II IL to II 7-8c; Mys-
tic River seconds of the same, comprising l15
pieces. brought IL 1-4c from FL. b. Clafin &
Co. The same firm purchased 141 pieces of
the same staNp for 10 81 and 10 s-Sc; IS pieces
OF the same shade, Mystic River stamp, sold
for 10 1-8 and 10 3-Sc; 10 pieces of York stripe
brought 10 Sac; pieces lof York seconds sold
for 10 3-4c; 81 pieces of York fancy plaid dem
Ina sold for 10 IL and 10 5-8c; 6 pieces of the
same, in seconds, brought t10 i4c; 81 pieces of
York fancy stripe went for 10 1-4c, and so
more pieces OF the same were knocked down
at 10 3Sc; ii pieces of the same, in seconds,
sold for 10 Lao; 1853 pieces of York fancy stripe
in blue and brown, ran from 10 1-2 to 10 3-4c;
to 81. Swan Brown, Teft, Weller & Co.. and
IL. b. Clatin Co. The latter firm also
bought 63 pieces of York seconds for from
10 to 10 1-2c; pieces of York fancy, in Sec
onds, brought lazy bid of 10 Lac, for which
they were sold; 36 pieces OF the same, in firsts,
only brought 10 1-Se, and IA pieces of the same
In another lot, dropped to 93-4c: pieces of
the same, in seconds, sold for 9 34c, and II
pieces OF the same stamp, in fancy plaid,
reached 10 7-Sc, for which it was sold
One hundred and eleven pieces of York gold
mixed denim were sold in five different lots
at lac, 8 3-8c and 9 1.8c; 26 pieces of seconds
in the same brought 1-8c; 81 pieces of York
slate denim went to H. B. Clafin & Co. for II
cents and II 1-S; 131 of the same two ounces
heavier, sold Immediately after for Is "a cents;
ana 10 I-oc, Mystic River seconds of the same,
OF 10 OF. weight sold for 13c; 63 pieces of 10 oz
York gold mixed brought from II 3-4c to
IL 1-Sc, eight pieces of Mystic River seconds
OF the same sold for II cents: II pieces of extra
heavy mixed denim, in assorted colors, brought
IL IA and 13 IL cents; the same in gold mixed
sold for u IL cents; 20 pieces of York extra
heavy, In assorted colors, and 10 pieces of the
same In common, brought IL 5-8 cents Slate
and gold in three pieces sold to Mr.. Wardlan
Tor l2c, while 8 pieces in slate and white
ratified up to IL 3-4c; 15 pieces of the same in
blue, gold and white sold for II and 127-S
cents; 26 pieces of Mystic River seconds in
York extra heavy of assorted colors sold for
II 1-S cents; II pieces Of Saco River
slate denims brought 5.S cents; %
onds sold for II cent less; 116 pieces of Saco
River gold mixed sold to H. B. Claf1in & Co.,
for from cents to IA cents; 40 pieces of the
same in Wachusett seconds brought "a cents
from the same firm; pieces of striped denims
OF above stamp sold for 3-8 cents; 10 pieces of
Saco River fancy stripe sold for cents, and IA
pieces Of the same in Wachuselt seconds
brought IA cents. n. Swan Brown bought
eighty-six pieces of Saco River fancy plaid
denims for "A cents; 35 pieces of the same
was bought by II. B. Claflin & Co. for s at 8
3-8 cents; 26 pieces of the same in seconds of
Wachusett stamp sold for 1-8 and 8 cents;
164 pieces of Everett mixed deaims, of assort-
ed colors, were sold for prices ranging from
IL cents to 9 "a cents; 73 pieces of Andover
seconds and of the same were sold for 9 IA
cents and 1-3c; pieces of Andover blue
canute brought 10 IA cents; % pieces of the
same of Newport stamp 10 1-Sc; 2 pieces of
assorted, 10 1-Sc, and 81 pieces of Essex in
blue-brown and assorted sold for &c and 9 SAC;
1A pieces of Everett plaid Cheviots sold for
IL, "a and SIS cents; % pieces of the
same in Andover seconds brought 6 7-8 cents
while 25 pieces of new plaid Cheviots of the
same stamp brought 3-S and 34 cents.