Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-12-30
General Trade.

General Trade.
The close of river navigation above
CairO, both in the Ohio and the upper
Mississippi, has impaired increasing
strength in tho general market, especially
for feed, -four and meal. Stocks here are
rather light except for flour and meat,
which are ample. The latter exhibits an
easy feeling and the tendency is toward
even lower than the prevailing prices.
C0RN-Receipt per steamer Vicksburg
from Cairo 42O sacks; last round lots sold
or landing at 46@47c; offerings this fore
noon 47c, and acc bid sales 5000 sacks TO
arrive at Acc; orders from store 53@55c
per bushel.
CORN MEAL-SAles on landing Satur-
day at 81 10per Dbl. in lots; the tone to-
is slightly Off receipts per steamer Vioks-
burg 433 bbls; small orders 81 10 per Dbl.
OATS-Receipts per steamer Parker
1896 sacks, and per Vicksburg 400 sacks
sales On landing Saturday at 33@35c per
bushel; small orders 38@40c.
FLOUR-Steady. Prices to jobbers, as
follows Western, in lots, So 50per Dbl for x,
81 for Xxx, "a 80 for XXX, 81 for choice
family, and $5@5 rs for fancy.
BRAN-Several lots of ship stuff, wheat
and corn bran, sold Saturday at $l4 per
ton; small orders 10000 per cwt.
HAY-Sales Saturday of 100 bales
prime timothy at $l3 Is per ton; held
chiefly at $13 50@15 90 p%erton; the mark
ct is firm and tends upward; prices arc for
common $ll per ton; good mixed, $l2;
prime, $13@l4; choice, SIS prairie hay
at So so per ton; in a small way 80@90c.
POTAT0ES-Market strong and high
er; sales on landing at 50 20 per Dbl; also,
100 bblS Peach Blows at 50 per Dbl; from
store 81 80 per bill sweets 81 loose, and
81 2@1 so per Dbl from store.
APPLES - Firm in price; sound,
81 1902 per Dbl in lots, and 81 so in a
small way.
TURNIPS-Dull, at 75e per Dbl; pars-
nips, 81 per Dbl horse radish, IS 60@c
BEANS-In lots 81 5O@1 rs per bushel
the latter for choice navy; in small lots
81 75@2.
CABBAGE-selling at $500 per lOC
head, as in quality, and S. 50@3 70 pei
crate for trimmed, also "a for choice.
ONI0NS-Quiet, with offerings at 81 q
f al so in lots; in a small way 81 Il
az per Dbl.
FRUITs-oranges; $500 50 per Dbl
lemons, s. so per box; dried apples
slow sale, at 2@3e per ID; peaches, 2@3c
and 1910 for unpealed.
BUTTER Market steady; prices a
follows: Choice Western in lots, 1611S,
per ID for best; medium, 12H@l5o; com
mon, collie; creamery, 27@28c; country
butter, l0@l22ci poor grades are neg
lected.
EGGS-Prices are 19c per dozen il
4 round lots, and 20c in a small way.
: POULTRY-Market for all classes ex
D cept choice is dull. Chickens, old stool
slow, at 81 50@2 per dozen; fresh arrival
!, of choice would bring perhaps ~ so pc
4 DOZEN dressed old, 81 90; turkeys slow a
: SS@10 per dozen; dressed l0c; ducks va
! 225; geese S4@5; dressed do, a.
> GAME-Venison, whole, 495e; sad
dies, 6@8c; quails, 81 per dozen SPUR
rels, 81 per dozen; rabbits, 75c@S1 pc
dozen; wild turkeys, .50@75c; duck.
common, $li mallards, 81; fresh fish, A.
@5o per ID.
DRESSED MEATS-Hegs r sellin
freely at 4@411c per pound for large an
4H@5c for neatly dressed shoats. Bee
steady at &c for fore and &c for hind quar-
tiers.
PROVISIONS-Meats are quiet wit
ample stocks and a fair jobbing dc
mand at the following quotations
bulk shoulders, loose, 81 90@3 per cwt
long clear, do, 3Tc; clear rib, $3
, as 95; clear, $@4 05. Mess porl
2 IS 25@8 so perbbl. Smoked meats, pacl
ed, 81 for shoulders, 4%@4He for clea
ribs, 4H@4%c for clear sides. Hams, u
2 @7Ac. Breakfast bacon, 69S@6Hc.
SUNDRIES-Cider, $S@S 80 per bt
and S. per half Dbl. Cranberries, SO
Is per Dbl. Horse radish, 81 80 pc
Dbl. Mince meat, $1,000 per ID. App
y butter, 7c per ID. Bologna sausage, &c pc
ID. Pigs feet, 81 rs per keg; $3@3 80 70
half bbls and 81 for bbls
:. LARD-Steady t%ierce, 6H@69sc; ha
!" bbls, 6Ao; kegs, 6H@7c; buckets, Tx
RS nc; half buckets, 7ss@7Ac.
H1DESTSteadyi dry flint No. l l.
per lbj No, 2, 10@11c; dry sailed, l0@l2c
: green sailed, 6@7c; common, 4@6c sheeI
skins, 25@75c. Beeswax 20@22c per
Tallow &c per ID.
r., NUTS-Cocoa, s5@5 50per100. PeaAu
4c for red; choice white, be. Pecans, $685.
10 for Arkansas; 10@l5c for TEXAS. Almond
N &c; Taragona, 19c. Filberts, DC,
" 1IMR-S1 per Dbl in store; 9Oc by Ct
load. D..
- COTTON SEED Nominal, the d
10 mand having ceasedi Interpretations 81 p
q ton.
a. SALT-A lot Of 300 bbls sold on Ian,
ing al private figure, but understood to
$115 per Dbl for upper Ohio salt dra
load lots delivered are 81 45 per Dbl.
BALING STUFFS- Baggigg-Ha
e 3 to2H lbs, ll@llAei hemp, 1915 ia
q ljute, 2 to "a lbs Il@llMc; baiing twin
" he iron ties, ~ O5g2 10 per bundle.
y HORSES ANDMULES-Tradeis fla
u Good dray range from $3.50 to Sl75, al
70 500 to S1l0 for slock from IL to 10 han
i high. Saddle horses eve $50 to SlOO +
common, and up to $l75 feG 4rst-clal
Plugs ere S60@76.
u LIVE sTOCK-Light stocks duriI
,,r the past week caused q better market thu
usually prevails during the Christm
'SSyy holidays Hogs have been aetiVe 1t 10
9S 25 per cent. shove ruling figures in Mort
Isl ern cities. The best butcher selection
:. 1870 10 $50 lbs are quoted At &c; small
'eV hogs. 2L@2Ac. Sheep, 30 toli0 lbs eaC
90 464llc II choice, SH@3<c for mediq
and 81 to 2 for common. Cattle 4h@4
- for choice corn-fed, 3M@4c for go
butchersteers; 2k@2Ac for inferior
nj medium. These are Frey q SchillinI
o. quotations. They report the marx
on strong for all descriptions, the tenden
being upward, and everything SOFA out
in Paris milk is furnished in seal
J, bottles. with the date affixed to insu
"a y, its purity. IN this country milk