Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-25

but a-e well provided in hay. Corn is
held firmly, and is sold at Y to 74c for
mixed and choice white from the levee
without difficulty. Oats are firm and
held above the views Of buyers; one small
lot Of mixed sold at 65c. Bran is firm
at $26. Hay is quiet, with offerings of
red-top on the levee at $40 and choice
timothy at $2l. Corn meal is in active
request; receipts were some 300 or 400
barrels, which was all taken quickly at
SO rs; at the close SO 30 was asked.
Groceries are quiet and unchanged.
Louisiana sugars are shade firmer, but
not higher; hard and refined are quiet.
Provisions are dull, with better feeling,
however, in bacon; mess pork is quoted
at $l7 so to $l8 in lots and SlS so from
store. Lard is dull and unchanged.
Flour is quiet and shade easier, but
not quotably lower; the demand is less
active than during the early part of the
week, but will doubtless improve as the
stock disappears. New potatoes are in
better supply and are now coming in
more freely from the country; prices are
shade lower, one lot of 20 barrels hav-
ing been purchased by dealer at 50 30;
old are dull at So to 3 10. Eggs are
shade frmer and are quoted at Ii to l33c
in lots. Butter is dull at 20 to 22c, and
receipts are increasing.
From store on orders prices are as follows:
BAGGISG-Is quiet at 2O@2Sc. with very light
BEASs = Navy. 81 1902 90; white mixed.
BAcoN-Quiet; clear sides, gj1@1Oc; shout
ders, T1sgIz2c; bulk sides, clear, 8149854c;
shoulders, SIC; sugar cured hams, l419gl51Sc
BRAN-Firm at 81 35@l 40 y 100 in store.
BUTTER-Good Western, l0@1Sc; inferior,
dull and nominal; new grass. 22g24c.
'COTToHsEED 50 90 q ton on levee.
CoRN MEAL-Firm ats325 on leyee. and So 80
CORY-Steady at 74@75c, with a fair supply.
EGds-Quiet with a fair supply at l3@l4c.
HAY-Quiet at SlS O0g2i 90, as to quality.
FLoUR-Quiet at So 5000 Is for super to fancy.
LARD-In kegs. 12@l21zc; tierces. 11@1l1zc;
caddies. l4@l5c.
MoLAssEs-- Louisiana. 45s7Oc in barrels;
syrups, 40tg75c.
0ATs-Firm at 65@66c on levee. Gs@69c from
store.
PoULTRY-0ld chickens quiet at 81 5O@5 90;
new. So 50@5 90, as to size.
POTATOEs-New Southern, scarce at So 500
4 so u barrel; old, quiet at So 20 50 barrel;
sweet. SO 75@4 00f barrett cabbage. scarce at
s27 00@29 90; new onions, 81 50a5 10.
PORK-Mess, SIT 75@lS 25 in large and small
SALr-s2 25@2 IS u Dbl; 81 6 al 70 "A sack.
SUGAR-Quiet; Louisiana firmer. S@l2c for
common to fair. 12G14c for yellow and white
clarified refined. crushed and powdered, 1910
l4s4c; Coffee. A, B and G. l3@lS14c.
MONEY.
We have no important changes to
report to-day in the local money market.
The demand for discounts is light and
confined almost exclusively to that class
known as chronic borrowers. Regu-
lar customers and depositors, were they
in need of funds, would be accommodated
at 10 to II per cent. at the banks, and
in the open market the bank rates are
followed closely on all prime short date
paper ranging perhaps from to | J per
cent. per month
The market for exchange is easy and
rates nominal. Cotton bills are coming
in more freely and are taken at par.
Eastern bank exchange is bought at par
to 4 premium and sold at ! premium.
New Orleans bills are taken at J dis
count and sold at par.
| The offerings of gold are better to-day
and the market gradually works toward
a close margin between here and New
York. One dealer this morning pur-
chased $4,000 at l1lI, when the premi-
UNI at New York was liz. The local
demand is light and to-day is much less
active than during the early part of the
week
In local securities there is very little
Of interest transporting and but few trans
actions are reported. County warrants
are taken by dealers at Y to 73c and
sold at 75c. Bank of TeHmssee money
is scarce and in demand at 70 to ice and
is sold by dealers at rs to roc. Memphis
and Charleston shares are in demand at
36c and could be sold at a fraction
above. Dealers quote selling rates at
36lc, but little, however, is offered at
that price. Mississippi and Tennessee
shares are quoted at various prices.
Some of the heavy purchasers during
the late excitement would be willing to
unload at 25c, but would find it uphill
work to sell even at that rate. City
bonds, new currency issue, are sc to Sic
buying and selling, and the gold issue
60 to Gle
Tennessee bonds are steady in New
York to-day at II lc for both the old and
new. Some 100000 was paid to the
State Comptroller at Nashville yester-
day by the Memphis and GAINESVILLE
railroad.
The excitement mentioned yesterday
continued up to the close of business,
sales for the day being 100 bales. To
day there is no abatement in the in
quiry, nearly all of our buyers being in
the market, and nearly all being some
what disappointed in the way Of offer
ings. Sellers are firm, and quickly take
advantage of the slightest rumors of adj
vances in other markets to advance
prices here. An advance Of &c in New
York this morning and the upward ten
dency of prices there, with Lied ad-
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