Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-27


barrels yesterday depressing its value
oats are weak for all grades, receipts
being liberal hay is in good request
for western grades Arkansas prairie
Is dull and slow, receipts being large !;
bran is scarce and in demand for
wheat, and dull for corn bran apples,
if sound, find ready sale, a carload
being taken at $4.O5 per barrel; pota-
toes are in good demand, few OF none
being in first hands, and all grades,
especially seed varieties, exhibit i'm
proved feeling. Advices from New
Orleans state that new potatoes are
coming in but prices are too high to
warrant shipments sweet potatoes of
the yellow yam type are inquired for
at $3.50 in shipping order ifirst-class.
Cabbage is in demand, meme offering at
present. Butter is scarce and meets
ready sale atimproyed Poultry
aud eggs also sell without trouble at
steady figures. Fresh meats are a drag
at 4@52c for hogs. Live stock, if in
good butchering order, meets ready
buyers. Meats are steady, game very
scarce; beans are wanted, and peas
are in active request.
FLoUR-Firm, with a good jobbing de-
mand for family and lower grades. Prices
to jobbers are: For X, SIS per Dbl; Xxx,
So 25@5 so; XXX, IS 50@6 70; family
S6@6 rs; choice, So 25@6 So fancy,
Sc 75@6 $751; patent, $7@7 Is. Orders 25c
higbeP.
CORNMEAL-Weak ard in f II suo.
ply a. 81 g per boz u lots on landipH'
% 50il draw loads from tie mil, and
- 80 or orcers.
CORN-Demand good and receipts lib
eral, all grades Of sound Yelling from first
hands at SOC. Orders 54@55c.
OATS-MG"ket weak, receipts liberal
stoc' ample; LOIS sell at 42@46c. accord
ing too ,s,litv; small orders 48G50c.
BEAN-Scarce and in demand at $l4
80 per ton for wheat and 75@S0c per cwt
on order; corn bran weak at - 90 per
ton. and f0e. per cwt. in a small way.
HAY-lngood request for western; red
top Sl7@l8 per ton; prairie and mixed
timothy S20(921; choice do. $22@22 81
per ton; orders 81 1901 20 per cwt. re
ceipts light; prairie hay plentiful anC
weak at 80 50@l0 per ton and GOc. pc
cwt.
POTATOES-Few in market ant
second dealers hold the bulk of the stock
%peachblows ST 80 in lots; early russeti
'1S1 so; Jackson whites 81 10; early ros,
81 TOOL 80; peerless 81 50@l 90; New
York rose 81 1902 70; orders 25c. higher
: sweets 81 25@250 for yellow yams anC
81 75@2 70. r1d.
, ESOULENTS-The market is bare o
, cabbage and Louisiana will command s
80 per crate; beans active and wanted a
81 76@l 80 for western navy, and $l609
| 70 for other species; black-eyed peas il
demand Mt 81 50 pe,bdshel; lady peas s
. az 90; onions scarce and wanted at so
$50 Der bbl.; onion sets "a 50d5 pc
busbel for TOPS and S6@6 90 for bottoms.
APPLES-In sood demand AZ "a 5OG'
per Dbl.
EGGS-In liberal movement at l1}1@
l21ac per dozen.
POULTRY-ChicLers in good reque,
$3.50 to$375 per dozen, according TO qua
ity; turkeys scarce mt $40 to Sl5 per doz
and lie. per pound for dressed.
GAME-Scarce, quai's, 81 so per doz
squirrels 81 rs per ooz; venison DC whol
and S@SHc for saddles.
LUTHERAN grades scarce and !
reques. good country l5G2Oc wester
dairy 20G23c; extra do. 2S@20c; creNmer
80 10 SIC: cooking 10 to l5c.
FRESH MEArS-Hogs. 4QlHc fC
r country dressed; city do. 5%c; beef du
1t z 10 &c Cor fore and hiudquar. ers.
SOUTHERN FRUITS-Orsnges SCARF
c $40 per box for Valencia; s. 80 pl
i box for Palermo and lIessina; lemoes
u $GiI6L1 ner box for Messina and Pa'e. N
PROVISIONS-llarket quiet; bd
g clear sides are jobbingas 7@1lsc; clear r,
GA6G%, and shoulders at 42sG4A
j. breakfast bacon 9@9Hc per pound. Hac
Il 9H@l0c.
ii LARD-Tierces, Sc; half barrels, So
u sHc kegs, SIC; pills SIC; half pal
9HG. Country lard, 7@I4c.
SUGAR-COmmon, 0g63c fair
fully fair, 7@7Mc: prime to choice. 7N
8NG yellow clarified, SK@9ci hard, II
& Ollie.
z C0FFEE-Fair 20 choice l41a to Is
y according to quality.
y HIDES-Dry flint, No. /, is. No.
. l5c; dry salt do, l5c; green, No. 2, ~
q do sailed, 7@Sc; market dull; tallo
6@6c; beeswax, 2lc.
LEATHER-0ak sole, SS@4Oc beI
ID lock, 2S@S2c; harness, S6@9Sc; sbirtin
S5@37c; French calf, $4,000 per doze
do res.ic calf. $20@30 per dozen.
81 TOBACCO Per ID 42H@60c.
st SUNDRIES-Pigs feet, perkeg, 81 Go
e. 81 is half bbls, SO 10 bhls, 81; ssrer keai
dull, 50 60 per half Dbl, and So 90 for BIB
Horse radish, $6@6 so per Dbl. Apr
II buster 10c per ID; peach do, l2o.
LIVE ST0CK-Good butcher eatt
l. are in demand with stock verv sea
at Prices are "a to 411c per ID. for grJ
ard corn fed Western cows aud calv
ie Sl5 to $40 per head; hogs az 3
is to Axe; sheep 81 to 81 50 per head {
10 common and 8 to SIC per ID. for go
butcher mutton,
80 SALT.-Per Dbl, 81 rs per car or dr.
is load; orders 81 IS sacks 81 3O@l 90 I
course ard fine. Rock salt % per pOunC
le BAGGING-h arlet quiet; on ordC
is FAX, 91Ic per yard; iute, l0l9@lle; I'll
o. 81 75@3 per bundlei grip tie,
~ Irvine, lie per pound.
River INTELLIGENCE.