Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-30
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
PUBLIC LEDGER OFPIoE, |
MEMPHIs. Tenn. May 30. 1871. !

is moderately active to-day, but far from
being brisk. In the general market grair
and feed seem to be the leading features
Corn is in good supply and moderate
demand at yesterdays prices. Sales OIL
Change this morning were 20 sacks
white shelled in Dundee sacks, at 73c
Oats are steady but quiet; 6s sacks white
and 60 sacks mixed sold on Change al
64c. Hay is firm and unchanged. Bran
is steady and shade higher. Provi
sions are dull and shade easier. Mess
pork is quoted at ST. 25 to II so, with
sales of small lots at both figures. Bacon
clear sides are dull at 9lc by the cask;
shoulders are quoted at u to zee. But
ter is quiet but not lower; prices range
from l6 to &c., according to quality.
Eggs are in good supply at l2c. New
potatoes are in better receipt and mode
rate demand for shipment to Northern
cities; some Is barrels have been pur-
chased from wagons since our last re-
port at 50 30 to 50; old are dull at SO,
the only inquiry being for seed kinds.
New onions are firm at IS IS to Sc.
Poultry is quiet and unchanged.
From store on orders prices are rs follows:
BAGGISG-Is quiet at 2O@23c, with very light
demand.
BEASs : Navy. 81 1902 90; white mixed.
81 so.
BAcoS-Quiet; clear sides. 91S@IOc; shout
ders,, 7A97Hc; bulk Sides, clear. s14@S14e;
shoulders, 6%c; sugar cured hams, 1i14gl6c.
BRAN-Firm at 81 309l IS p 100 in store.
BUTTER-Good Western, 10@l5c; inferior,
dull and nominal; new grass, lSg2Oc.
C0rTossEED-S9 90 u ton on leYee.
CORN MEAL-firm at % nleyee. and So 30
CORS-Steady at 74@75c. with fair supply.
EGGs-Dull, with fair supply at 12@l3c.
HAY-Quiet at $40 00gA 90, as 10 quality.
FLoUR-Firm at So 5000 Is for super to fancy.
LARD-In kegs, l214@lsc; tiorces. 11@111Sc;
caddies, Agl5c. ul,s4 eH 500
MoLAssEs-lLouisiana. firm $4,000 in bar
0ATs-Firm at 6i@65c on levee, 6s@69c from
store. s rlt
POULTRY-0ld chickens firm at 81 5O@5 SO;
new, So 1905 90, as TO size.
P0TAToRs-New are in better supply at SO 50
as 70 u barrel; old, quiet at So 90 n barrel;
sweet. So 1904 6OB barrel; cabbage, scarce at
vs. OOg2g 90; new onions, firm at S. 5096 co.
PoRK-Mess. sl7 5O9lS 90 in large and small
way.
SUGAR-Quiet; Louisiana firm, 91z@l2ji4c for
common TO fair. l21a@131zc for yellow and
white clarified; refined, crushed and pow
dered, l41S@l4slc; Cofees A. b and G. BIG
MONEY. III
Excepting one or two transactions in
local securities, nothing of importance
has transpired in the local financial mar
ket since our last report. Money is COM
easy, there being more seek
ing investment than there is No. paper
to absorb it, rates at the banksafe steady
at 10 to II per cent. for short-date notes
where customers are the applicants. In
the open market the rates rule steady at
| ! to 2 per cent. per month on good two
name paper and that secured by COLA
terals, and per cent. for outside paper.
Exchange is steady and the offerings
hardly up to the demand; several ac-
transactions, among them
one amounting to $4,000, are reported |
between banks at 81 80 premium per
$1,000. The banks take cotton bills at |
par and bank checks at 5c premium
selling the latter at }c premium. New
Orleans bills are &c discount to par buy
ing and selling.
Local securities are quiet; $4,000 in |
gold bonds were bought by dealer this
morning at Coo, and $4,000 sold over the
counter at 604c; new currency issue is
quoted at sc to SIC buying and selling.
county warrants are bought at 73c and
old at Toe. Bank of Tennessee money
5 rs to SOC buying and selling, with none
IN the market. Mississippi and Ten
lessee shares are quoted at lSc, with no
myers. Memphis and Charleston shares
re quoted at &c to 36lc buy ing and sell
ng. Mississippi State warrants are
uoted at GO to 65c buying and selling.
Gold offers only in small amounts,
nd is bought at llll to llls.
COTTON.
Sales yesterday were GOO bales, the
market closing quite firm and fully &c
igher on all g:ades. New York opened
rm to day at l7sc for middling, which
Inspires factors with the belief that the
shorts " are fairly canght, and pro-
hesy an advance during the day. The
INQUIRY is wholly from spinners' agents,
Tho are in the market to ell incomplete
rders, and to do so they generally have
D come to the terms offered by factors.
ales up to noon we're $50 bales, includ-
lg one list of 800 bales good ordinary, I
t l4lc, 10 mixed and stained at l5c, Al
God ordinary at l4!c, Is low ordinary
! l2c, G ordinary at l2ic, % strict low
Iiddling at l6c, 3 do. at l5Jc, II mid 1
ling at l6lc, and 3 do. at l6sc. Re
sipts we're 1853; shipments, sol, and
Oek 6575. '
COTTON STATEMENT.
CHAMBKR or COMMERCE, .
MKMPHrs, May 50. 4
ock on hand Sept. i, lS70-...... $3.50 L
eceiyed to-oay....................-... so {
'eViously 4sl ,5l2 ~, 300
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