Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-10
Provision Market.

The market is bouyant. for all descrip-
tions of stuffs under this head, and prices
through the week have hardened daily,
though still keeping in most cases q
margin below the Western packing points.
Receipts Of country bacon have been
liberal, and full prices are readily paid for
it, leaving the dealer but bare commits
sion for handling it. Bulk meats continue
in good demand, though bacon Is beginning
to be more sought after, and the range of
prices between the two is being gradually
widened. Until now the difference in cur
rent value has not been near sufficient to
pay the cost Of smoking. Meas pork has
been elevated 81 per barrel during the
week, and lard has sustained an advance
Of ! cent per pound. II is stated by some
of our Cincinnati contemporaries that the
stock of mess pork is now nearly or quite
one hundred per cent less than it was last
year, and few are predicting that $40 00E
will be obtained for it before the season is
over. As il stands now il is regarded as
the cheapest of the hog product Choice
hams are in fair supply, and our home in
stitution, Messrs. Hart & Hensley's "ehOice
country cured" are going of freely to the
trade at current figures.
BULK MEATs-CIear sides 17@174c,
clear rib 17@l7Ic, Shoulders 1910, Hams
l73c.
BACoN-clear sides 1S@18le, shoulders
l44@l4ic, plain country hams l7@l7}c.
CHOICE HAMS - Hart & Hensley's
"choice country cured" 1S4c. No can
yased ready.
LARD-Hart & Hensley's leaf, in tierces
zoe, kegs and cans 2lc.
MISS PoRK-Full weight SO 90 per Dbl.
RUMP PoRK-Full weight % 90 per Dbl.
DRIED BEEF-Sugar-cured 1S@lS4c.
BEEF ToNGUEs-6 80 per doz.
HoMINY-7 O0@7 so per Dbl.
BUCKwHEAT FLOUR-Per Dbl, 10 90.
DrygOOds. etc, etc.
There has been a little inactivity in the
drygoOds market during the past week, in
comparison with that Of the week previous,
oecasioned, doubtless, from the fact that
country dealers are busily engaged in get
ing rid Of their old stocks with view of
making Spring purchases.
n,. soHbor, aro ~ m,
packages, and indications point TO an early
Spring trade. Many of our business firms
have Two purchasers IN the East, who are
forwarding rapidly, and in the course of
week or SO, the different houses will be
crowded from cellar to garnet.
We continue TO report the market firm
and there is now no reason to believe that
there will be any decline in any Of the
staples. With cotton at its present price,
there certainly will be no reduction in
sheetings, shirIings, Osnaburgs and other
slaples. These goods are now mostly
purchased OF home manufacturers, who are
entirely independent of their Northern
friends, because the raw material is close
at hand and the saving of transportation
enables them to make a good profit
at duplicate price,. We quote /
brown shirtings 134c; ! do l5c; do l64
@17c; bleaehed shirtiugs, 1O@l24C; ! do
l2!@15c; "A do 15@25e; brown drills,
l74@2Oe; bleached do, 18@22c; ] O4na-
burgs, 2O@22e; A do, 224@274 plaid
cottons, I6S@25e.
PRINTS. Wamsutta 10c; Arnold lie;
American 134; Dunnels l34; sprsgues l4!;
Spragues' pink, 15c; Allen lie; Amos
keag l34c; Manchester I94c; Gleneove lie;
Glendale lie; Wauregan BE; London
Mourning 134e.
COTTON YARNs-We quote at l9, 81, %
and 25 for 200, coo, 500 and 4OVs.
Boots and shoes are comparatively
quiet, but tie jobbers are making extern
sive preparations for the Spring trade.
The hardware men have had their
hands full for week or ten days, the de-
mand for everything in that line inereas-
ing rapidly. During the month OF Janu-
airy the trade was more than double that
experienced for the same month last year.