Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-04
TRADE

issued IN lSOZ Dy the county,
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TRADE.
Receipts of produce yesterday and
to-day were, with the exception of
one or two articles, light, and business
only moderately active. Transactions
on Change were confined as usual to
grain and feed, and were compare
lively small. The movement in meats
is also light, the demand being chiefly
for clear sides. Flour has not i'm
proved any in price, but, on the con-
trary, is dull and dropping. Liquors
are quiet and unchanged. New apples
are dull, with a marked decrease in
the shipping demand since our last
weekly review, and decline in prices
to $1@1 so per Dbl loose from wagon,
with an exceptional purchase at 81 %
for strictly choice, ready for shipment,
Choice butter is still in fair demand,
with an Improvement in receipts, but
little or no change in prices; for extra
western and country, 292c is easily
obtained; fair to good is worth from
16 to 19c. Beans are steady, and the
demand is more active; prices range
from 81 so to 81 per bushel for mixed
white and navy. Cement, lime, fire
brick, ETC., r steady, and prices IN
changed. Cornmeal declined to So %
during the week, but again advanced
to 50 so, at which prices sales of 50
bbls are reported today. COttonseed
is in good demand, with extreme light
r~eceiptsi prices are unchanged.
Cheese is very quiet; a better feeling
prevails, however, in consequence OF a
prices range from IA to 15c as to quail
ity. Canned goods of every descrlp-
ton T dGll and unchanged. Coffee
is quiet but steady, with only a mod
crate demand; common to choice Rio
is held at l4@17c, and Java, 27@2Sc.
Dried fruit is dull and nominal. Eggs
opened firm at the beginning of the
week, but receipts being large on Sat
urday and yesterday, the supply was
in excess of the demand, and prices
declined to 15@154c, with an eXcep-
tiOnal sale reported at 144c. Flour is
dull and 2j@50c lower than quoted in
our last weekly review. Sales have
been light and offerings large; low
grades have sold as cheap as 81 in
small lots, while the average price of
good family brands has been from
Sc 40 to s. %; choice and fancy brands
are 81 80 to S % in lots. Fruits are,
with the exception OF peaches, in
limited supply. The stock of lemons
is quite small, and prices have ad-
vanced from 81 10 to 81 per box.
Oranges are scarce and held at 500.
Corn has 1uctuated in price but little
during the week, ranging from Il to
re, and closing firm to-day, with
sales Of 40 sacks choice white shelled
at 724c; mixed is held at ia to 72c,
with light offerings and a moderate
request only. Oats are firmer, with
sales to-day of 49 sacks at &c; D do,
Csc. Bran has been in fair request
during the week at $24, until to-day,
when the receipts were over 1000 SKIS,
which had the effect to depress prices;
sales early in the day were 2S5 sacks
at $23; at the close so was the best
price offered, aad so 80 asked. Hay
continues steady, with only a mode
rate stock of common to good, and a
very light supply of choice timothy;
prices range from ST to $2l for COM
mon to good, and $23 for choice.
Hides, furs and tallow are quiet, with
only a moderate business doing;
prices are nominally unchanged.
Hominy Is firm at "a 70 per Dbl. To-
bacco is Arm and without the slightest
change in quotations. Molssses and
syrups are firm, with an upward ten
dency in prices. Tar, oils, etc, are
quiet and unchanged. Old and young
chickens opened steady, but declined
50c9$1 per dozen in consequence of
heavy receipts; to-day they are a
shade firmer, and sold at $2@3 70 for
young, and $495 for old. The move
ment in provisions during the week
has been light, and prices have ad-
Yanced fully &c on bacon and sugar
cured meats, and soc per Dbl on pork.
Bacon clear sides to-day are quoted at
94694c, and in filling orders, Zoe;
clear nib is steady st9@9ic; shoulders
dull but steady at 7&74e; mess pork,
SIG %, with an exceptional sale Of a
small lot at SIG; sugar cured hams are
steady at l4916c according to brand;
breakfast bacon, CanvasSed, 114a124c.
Lard is dull but firm at 1lal1fc for
fierce, and I29I2tc for keg in round
lots. New potatoes are dull, with 8
marked decrease In the shipping de-
mand since our last weekly report,
and prices still declining. Shippers
to-day were Offering 81 50@2 20 per
bbl loose from wagon, while there
were those in the market who bought
al So for the city trade. Onions are
quiet but steady at $494 so. Cab
bages are duh at $8a9 per 100. Sugars
are steady, with an improved demand
Tor louisiana common to prime, and
sales of z hhds fair at l04c; refined
sugars are frmer mt l41c for crushed
and powdered; coffee A, l31ci b,
I3se; @, I3e; extra G, 13tc. Salt is
steady and unchanged. Spirits,
LIQUORS, wines, etc, are unchanged In
prices, with but little doing.
GENERAL MARKET.
fouotations below are wholesale or job
hing cash prices in store. On small or
dsrs. retail prices are chRrged.)
APPLEs-Are dull at - OOQ2 %, with
BUTrER-Choiee butter is 6rm at 229
24c. with q light supply. Common to
good is in fair supply, and held at lISSOe.
BKANs-Steady. White. mixed, u 4O9
1 60; navy, E@225 per oushel
BuLpERs' OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES CO
ment, per Dbl, g u.s. Rosendale cement,
S4a4 rs; plaster paris, "a 2594 so; Order
4 Cos Alabama lime, 81 709l 80; hair, in
bales, e 6O92 IS; fro brick per 100 a 90
as 90; common brick, SlO9l2 per 1000,
deliyaredMst v.EeL
CoRNMRLL-Is firm at g 35@3 40 from
store and s. 50 from mills.
CoTroNsEED-Cottonseed, OF leyee, -
per ton, buyer furnishing sacks.
CHEEsE-Quiet 81 l4&l6c a TO quality.