Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-11
NASHVILLE MARKETS.
US1oN AND AMERIoAs OrFIcE,

4 UNION AMI AmEtkiCAA OEE1O1g
TUESDAY, Nov. 10.
We have no development of special i'm
portance 10 call attention to in reviewing
the city,s trade for the week just closed.
All branches of the market continued TO
show moderate degree of activity, and If
there was any change in this respect since
last week, it was on the side of improve
ment. There was not, however, the anima-
ton We could have hoped to see, and that
We expect to see before great while
There was no change during the week in
the quotations of cotton, except revision
made Saturday, which placed the three
lowest grades &c higher. Themarket ruled
quiet from day to day, but a very fair weeks
work was done. The movement, compared
with that Of last week, was as follows:
Receipts, 1873, against 1,629 last week;
sales, LAB, against lbs last week; ship
ments, $40, against 1,152 last week. OF
the weeks imports, 901 bales arrived by
the Decatur road, $40 by the Chattanooga,
81 by the Northwestern, and 500 by wagon.
Stock on hand this evening, 6,991 bales;
same date last year, 2,703. Receipts for
the past week, 1,7SS; corresponding week
last year, 1,599. Receipts since Sept. l,
9,SS1; same time last year, 10,444. On the
10th of November last year, the market
was quoted as follows: Middling, lie; low
midding, 11sc; good ordinary, lie, ordi-
nary, 9lc; inferior, 56s1e.
The provision market is just now in
state of transition from the old 10 the new
crop. The market is bare of old meats and
lard and just beginning to receive supplies
of new, though very slowly, owing to the
mildness of the weather, not only here, but
throughout the West. Bulk meats, two
weeks in salt, are offering at our quota
tiOns.
The dizziness of the -four and grain mar
ket, which we have been compelled TO
chronicle from week to week for two
months or more, continues unrelieved and
the millers and grain merchants begin TO
think cit is getting monotonous." The
same being the case throughout the West,
prominent merchants In this line have sug-
gested as a remedy a general suspension Of
the mills. Whether acting on this sug-
gestion or not, most of the mills in this
city have suspended temporarily to await
reaction in favor of more healthy trade.
The small business that is carried ON is done
on the basis Of our quotations.
The produce market did good average
weeks work at very regular prices. Dried
fruit continued at 5Ic for apples, and 5.
and 71c for peaches till tO-daynw there
was an advance of &c. There was fall
ing OFF of receipts during the week. One
firm sold in one lot on private terms 140,-
600 bs-probably the biggest sale of dried
fruit ever made in this market.
There was some improvement in the live
stock trade, as receipts were better and
prices fuller than last week. Receipts at
the stock yards since Tuesday; Cattle,
566; hogs, S24, aud sheep, 2O9.
COTTON.
The market ruled extremely quiet to-day
at yesterdays quotations, closing unchanged
and weak.
The weather having been very unfayor-
able the days movement was light. Of the
226 bales received, Y were by the Decatur
road, 50 by the Chattanooga, 10 by the
Northwestern and 81 by wagon; the 81