Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-08


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limited, and sales Of feed and breadstuffs
were lighter than expected.
Several merchants arrived here from
Arkansas on Monday, and proceeded east
ward to purchase goods. They report
travelling agents from distant cities have
numerously swarmed their country
throughout the season, and have secured
a large trade that could have been drawn
to us, If our merchants had visited them
during the summer months and exhibited
the same energy displayed by rival cities.
They reported having examined stocks
here and were satisfied that purchases
could be made at rates as favorable as
elsewhere, but having received favors
from other cities they determined 10 buy
exchange here, go on and settle Obliga-
tions, and while absent lay in their stocks.
It seems strange indeed that our trades
men will thus stand in their own light,
and permit rival cities to send out run
ners and secure business to which they
are not entitled.
While hundreds of agents have moved
around Us In all directions, ever to with
in twenty-five miles Of our city limits,
but few Of u own merchants have gone
into the country during the dull months.
We do not approve of this travelling agen-
cy business, believing that wherever prsc-
tleed goods are sold at an advance to make
up for the extra expense incurred. Tray
cling agents are proverbial for lavish ex-
penditures, and houses employing them
must make 1t up some how. Where 1t IS
in vogue, however, something must be
done as an offset, and few Memphis mer-
chants nave beeu so busy during the past
three months but that they could have
made excursions into the interior to see
customers, extend acquaintances, and
by becoming their own drummers saved
expenses and competed with their rivals.
The drumming system could be easily
brought to grief in this way. The enemy
should be met with their WI weapons,
and their game stopped.
New cotton continues to come in quite
briskIy, and is taken up as fast as II ar
rives, leaving the market bare, as the de-
mande exceeds the supply, and orders in
the hands Of brokers remain untitled.
The season will be well advanced before
there is a surplus for foreign export. The
impression Is general that estimates of the
maturing crop, like last year, are far
above the actual yield, and that $500, 900
bales will be fully as much as the crop
will sum up. UnfavorabIe news from
the uplands and along the Mississippi are
the auses assigned for the lessened yield.
Much Of the reported stock of I26 bales
here is not merchantable, some forty bales
being sunk cotton that must be over
Bauled at the pickeries before il will be fit
for, market.
Recent adviees from st. Louis report a
speculative and increased demand for
-four. A dealer there receiving an average
Of 500 bbls daily, meets ready sale Of more
than two-thirds ofhis receipts 10 millers. Il
is a singular current oftraGe TO find manu-
f~acturers purchasing their own pres acts,
and indicates a possible future advance.
Much of the -four now moving from st.
Louis is being shipped to the New Orleans
market, where the demand is greatest.
The liberal premiums offered by tbs
Board Of Tobacco Trade, together with
that to be given by the Agricultural Asso-
citation is considerably talked OF, and will
induce growers to send something hand
some 10 the October Fair. 1t must be
understood that the prices are only TO be
obtained foF hogsheads and moi for sam
plies. The cotton premiums Of over 5000
is also a matter Of much interest among
factors.
ALE AND PoRrER-Wm. x Robt. Your
gers Scotch imported, So to 3 50 for pts.
Barclay & Perkins pts s.; Byar's best
Stout, pts 50 Is; Guinness's extra do, 50 so;
J. Walker n Co.'S Cincinnati Ale. $40 so
per half bbis, including packages; kegs,
IS .; Lager Beer, sil for half bis, g of
for packages returned. Hostetter's hit
tiers, - 50 per case.
BAaGISG-The market is still advancing
with a. active demand and firm prices.
Heavy flax scarce e. 25H to 26ci Greenleaf
2Gc; Ky. Ply, 5kc; one ana a hall POUND
10 TO 2Oc. Iron ties, : TO Sc.
BEANs-So sale. Navy held at 81 80 per
bushei.
BEEswAx-Market deeli4ed, and sales
at 33c.
BRooMs-SteambOat Shaker, per doz.,
IS to :; plain handle parlor, s. to 6; COM
mon q to .. Owing 20 increased South
ern shipments Of corn to the West a
decline is expected. BrocH CORP is
worth S275 per ton.
BUTTER-Receipts to-day of l03 pkgs, AZ
choice W Of which readily brought 80 to
Sic, aul . sold at &c. The demand is ac-
tive at 80 TO IS FOR eHGice Western; Wes-
tern Reserve, % to BE; medium grades,
. to 2Sc.
CANDLEs-Star, p o., III to lsc per
poaad,
MATcHEs-S7 - per gross for No. 6.
=CIGARs-Domestic SIS to 70 per 1900;
imported, SO to 800.
CHEEsE-Supply light and prices adj
vsneed L. per pound. Western Reserve,
lSc; Switzer, SOc; LimSerger, 29c.
CoFFEE-Stesdv. SkimmiRgs, l9to ~;
common to fair Rio, 20 to 24c; prime do,
% to DC; Laguirs, 2jc; Java, 80 to 3Sc.
CCTroN YARSs steady. 400, pc; 800, 20c;
COO, Isc; 7OD, lTs.
CRAcKERs-Pilot, &c; butter, Vatsf,
soda and picnic, Sc; sugar and milk lac;
cracknel biscuit, 35c.
Corn MEALS 20 to 4 80 t the trade
for kiln dried fresh ground, 81 25 to s. 30.
Demand chiefly supplied by city milis.
Receipts to-day were 81 bbls.
CoAL-Pittsburg, 90c; Camel 81 10; Mt.
Carbon, az - steamers and zoe delivered
in the city. Prices aFH and tendency up
ward, owing to prospects of no receipts
ftlp the Ohio.
CANNED GooDs-Peaches, 2 lbs, s. IS
to 3 Oo. Oysters, standard brands, 81 IS
10 2 IS for ? Id. Brandy Peaches; S. to
Q IS. Cherries, So 10 6 SO. sBlaekberries,
81 IS. Strawberries, s. 80. Pine Apples,
81 to 4 Is. Tomatoes, s. 90. Sugar OF
Lemon, s. 60. Jellies, tqmblers assorted,
- IS, goblets, half size, s. 90; full size,
g IS. Chocolate double Yapilla, 47e.
EGGs-Receipts to-day we're 20 pkgs,
and sales were made at 2jc.
FL0UR-Receipts to-day were 4S9 bbls.
The market Is weak and the demand
chiefly for the city trade. spperans, S.
70 to 6; Extra, So . to 9 80; Xxx, 81 % to 7
50g Family, So 90 to 9 90: Fancy, SO to 10;