Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-08-20

trade will pay you to look after. You
have an immense field for operations.
We think Memphis one of the best points
on the river for business, and with a
connection or business acquaintance this
way you ought to do a very large trade.
Receipts to-day per river and rail; Ale,
% packages; bran, 100 sacks; butter, q
packages; crackers, IS packages; corn,
lis sacks; cheese, 10 boxes; chickens, Is
coops; drugs, 81 packages; eggs, 40 pack
ages; -four, 14O barrels; fish, l35 packages;
gunny bags, p bales; hay, A bales; iron
ties, I13 bundles; lard, 205 kegs; molasses,
20 barrels; oakum, 80 bales; sugar, 3 hogs
heads and p barrels; tin, 100 boxes; wine,
81 boxes; assorted merchandise, $50 pack
ages.
The supply of FRUIT is fully equal to
the demand, and prices are irregular.
In BUTTER there is but little doing,
though prices are some sitter. Choice
Western is held at 50 t o3Ie; Good Country
. to CSC.
There is a fair stock of BAGGINe on
hand and prices are firm. We quote as
follows: G~reenleaf, . to 26c; Heavy
Flax "a to 25c; Heavy Kentucky . to
25c; Todd's Light 19 to zoe.
The demand for COTTON YARNS is light
and prices firm. No 400, % to 24c; No.
500. 21c; No. COO, lee; No. 200, lie.
The Provision market is firm. Mess
Pork SS5 30 to $50; Clear Bacon Sides 20
to 2OLc. A sale Of 10 casks city packed
was made to-day at 1899; Shoulders I6K
to lie; Country Sides 10 to l9Kc; Sugar
Cured Canvassed Hams "A to 25c; Break
fast Bacon p to DC. Lard in tierces 20 to
2Ozc; keg 2H to 221zc; caddies22k to DC.
The COFFEE market is weak and stock
moderate. Inferior to choice Rio 19 to
25c; Java IS to 3se.
The Produce market is dull. Potatoes
retail from store at 81 per barrel and in
lots 81 50 to l 70. Onions dull at 81 25 per
bushel or s. IS to 3 90 per barrel. Toma-
toes 8 per bushel.
In FEED there is not much doing, and
receipts were light. one or two lots Of
corn were offered at s2I!c, while others
were held at s5c. Oats are scarce at IS to
Coo on levee and in store. Hay SIS to so.
FLOUR is unchanged. We quote Low
Supers, s. to s. 5Oi Good Supers, s. "a to
So; X, S. p to Sc 80; XX, 81 to s. 50;
xxx and Fancy, s. to SO 80.
The demand for MEAL is about equal to
the supply. Fresh on levee 81 25 to 81 S5;
from store 81 50 in lots. Kilndried 81 65
to IS.
Foes are scarce and firm at 25c per dOz.
The HIDE market is quiet. We quote:
Green, 9 to exc; green salt, 10 to IQ1zci
dry salt, Il to IKE; dry flint, 2le,
IRON TIES are steady at : to Sc.
In LIME there is no change, with the
demand fair. Alabama 81 to 2 25i
Utica 81 70 to ?. Cape 81 s. to ? 90. Ohio
river 81 40 Il 81 so.
The stock of POULTRY is light, and
prices are firm at - 80 to So p for young;
old 81 to 81 3.
The stock of RICE is ample. Lou
isiana So to sc; South Carolina 10 to 1OHc.
We II no change in SUGARS or
Louisiana I2JZ to 15Kc;
clarified l6 to l61zc; white clarified
1917 to lie; A, l617 to lie; hards 17K to
ISc. MoLASsEs remains steady.
Keg TAR firm at s. . to s. 50 per dozen.
The stock of SALT is ample and
steady. We quote: Large dairy
bushel barrels s. so to 4 70; small
dairy 1--WE bushel bsrrels) s. so to 3 IS;
common (seyen bushel hhls.) s. 80
to 3 so; small common Is bushel bbls,)
g 90 to 2 IS.
There is a fair demand for manufactured
TOBACCO and stock good.
In LIVE STOCK there is but little change
in prices, though there is some speeula-
tive demand. A lot of 435 head of Texas
beeves sold yesterday at S23 per
head. Western are held at 8 to sc
gross; Texas SOB to % per head. Sheep
at s. to 5 per head. Hogs duh at
"a TO Sc gross.
WHEAT is in fair demand. and receipts
light. We quote No. I white 81 IS
to l 40; No. l red 81 80 t l 35; No. ,, 81 20
to l 25. Rejected, 75c to 81 10. We would
add that very little No. has as yet been
received.
The WHISKY market is fairly active.
are very scarce and firm at
81 1917 to 81 l5c.