Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-22
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The general market was Gisgustingly
duh. Corn vas offering but could secure
no improvement in price. oats are in
small stock and still smaller demand.
Bran remains %stagnant. Hay is very
quiet but rates are firm. Cornmedl Is
quoted unchanged, s. IS. Flour is heavy
stock and cOnsignees fird it hard work
to unload. Eggs sell mostly for at
they will fetch, we heardOf sales of good
eggs as low as Zoe and as high as I21c,
the differehce in rate was mostly gov
erned by the quantity taken. P0tdtoes
are coming down daily a. new continue
to arrive. wagons were selling at 81 JGa.
l 20 in bulk. Bacon showed no change:
a lot of shoulders sold at 5lc, and Of
clear sides at &c. Some good country
Lard was selling as low as Sos. Coffee
is q subject Of close attention. The New
York BulJctin Of Tuesday last Y
every pound of stock in merchantable
order still appears TO be held with the
utmost confidence and fiTmess, and even
at extreme quotations it is difficult to
bring negotiations on first hand invoices
to a successful issue, as importers, as a
rule. look for a still higher range of
values, and are quite indifferent about
realizing. Buyers are not dipping in
with as much freedom as heretofore, and,
very naturally, with the additional cost
Of supplies, there is q little more caution
shown in making up invoices, but still 8
demand can be found for all the leading
grades, and anything worth handling is
pretty sure 70 attract attention when
offered THE same paper says Of
sugar: Until reiners know positively
TO what extent they can continue the
production, they are naturally inclined
TO purchase supplies with great caution.
and a dull market for raws must result
willie the current receipts contribute
still further To the accumulation Ia first
hands. Importers, in the majority of
cases, assume to be quite as confident in
the future and TO see nOreason for allow
ing easier terms, but a stagnant business
and a good many landing cargOes has an
effect not TO be fully resisted, and the
tone of the market shows some little
sOftening here and there. We do not
alter quotations, but they must for the
present be considered somewhat nomi-
mai, as there is scarcely enough business
doing to make a market. For refined
the market continues unsettled, and is
becoming a little excited. Stocks are
offered VERY spaTingly, and in some cases
OILY AZ very GAAAh N5a4AN AaNCof anu az
tuai sales have been made to-day at a
material advance, with bids repeated at
extreme quotations at the close. The
position, however, is such that reliable
figures are almost impossible, and our
table is revised to give out of town an
idea of the cost, but "a margin must be
allowed for the ideas OF various refinens,
as there is no uniformity ofactiOn at the
moment" The ST. Louis Times, of June
10th, says of the market there: Corn,
except for the upper gradesof white and
white mixed, was weaker and slower all
around; low qualities being almost I'M
ssleable. For the better grades of oats,
in sacks, there was a rather larger inqui-
~. but for bulk there was little demand.
Hay was waited only among the choice
grades, lower qualities being weaker and
very dull. Provisions were notably
stronger, and more lively in bacon
shoulders and sides, while dry sat meats
and pork were firm and unchanged.