Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-02

-four, 1925 bbls meal, 1900 bbls apples,
$50 bales hay, one car load being Ar
kansas prairie, IA sacks corn, az
sacks bran, $50 sacks oats, and heavy
imports Of assorted merchandise, gro
c%eries, provisions aud sundrics. A
feet Of barges with produce is looked
for from St. Louis to-day. The river
channel between Cairo and St. Louis
is reported somewhat improved, with
6 to Z feet of water. The Ohio is very
shoal with less than 4 feet over the
worst places, and business is much
restricted thereby.
FLOUR-Market steady with a good
lobblng demand and q fair wholesale
movement, the lower grades not showing
any demand. Quotations are for family.
fancy and choice grades S. TO 5 70 in round
lots and Sc 70 to Z for patents. Small or
ders are &c per Dbl higher.
CORNMEAI-NOne on the landing
Last sales were 81 % TO 2 80 for standard
brands and 81 10 for dark from the Ohio
river mills; small orders are 10 to Zoe
higher.
C0RN-No receipts and dealers are
poorly supplied, some being entirely out.
Last GALES from first hands DC. A few lots
between dealers sell at ODE; small orders
55c per bushel.
OATS-Feeling firm, with light Ohio
river grades at 40c for lots if sound; west
ern AZ TO 43c in lots; small orders 45c; sup
ply fair.
BRAN-In light movement and DC, T
stock. Sales at 10 to S5c per cwt for wheat
feed meal last sold at S13 so per ton.
HAY-Feeling rather stiff on better
grades of timothy. Stock light, with sales
Of prime to choice western at from IA TO
SIS so per ton. A few car loads of bright
quarter bales would perhaps sell for $40
The chief arrivals change hands at SIT DO
to IL 90. Small orders filed at 81 to l 10
per ewt; Arkansas prairie hay is slow at
s. per ton and 50c per cwt.
VEGETABLES-Weste potatoes are
firm at 81 IS to 81 per Dbl in lois and 81 10
to 225 in a small way; cabbage very
scarce and IN demand at 50 to $40 per 100
head and 81 70 TO 3 so per crate; sweet DO
tatoes slow at 81 so per Dbl for yellow
yams from store; beans 81 rs to 81 per
tushel for white according to quality;
onions S303 90 per bushel.
FRUlTS-Apples weak at 81 so to 200
in 10 and 20 Dbl lots for sound stock and
81 % to 2 so in a small way. with stock
heavy; Louisiana oranges Sc so per Dbl
from store; lemons $5Gb so per box; dried
fruit at 3G3Hc for apples and 4@4Xc for
peaches; cranberries So for half bbls and
50 for bbls.
POULTRY AND EGGS-Chickens in
fair demand at y too so per doz. accord
ing to size, order and condition; ducks
" 70 20 3 % and in fair request; turkeys
slow at SO to 8 per dozen; geese SO 50a
! 90 per dozen; Eggs irregular at l5k@
l6c for lots and lie but slow in a small
way.
LUTHERAN grades in demand with
supply inadequate to meet it. Creamery
S3@36c; western table % to 28c; medium
ditto 20@2lc choice country % to 28c:
common ditto Is to 2i; buttefine l8d5Oc:
ditto roll 23@25c.
PROFESSIONALISM arein brisk iob-
bing demand but prices are lower with n
downward tendency. Smoked shoulders
&c per ID; ditto ribs &C.; ditto clear sides
9ssc; hams he; bulk shoulders SIC: ditto
c ribs SIC; ditto clear sides sac, all loose
packed &c higher; breakfast bacon llLn
llAc; mess pork SIC so per bbl.
LARD-Weak. Tierces 8ske half bbls
9,c buckets 9Hc half ditto 915c; country
ditto Sc.
LIVE ST0CK-Cattle in fair request
for butchers stock, at 81 Is TO SO 60 per
cwt gross, according order and size; COWS
and calves $50 to SIS per head hogs in
demand for corn fed, ut Az to Sc gross
sheep in less request at 3 to 4c for butcher
qualities, and 81 Is TO " so per head for
poor to common lambs 81 % to So 50
per head for poor to common, and Az TO
DC for best so to 75-pound species; horses
ana mules are moving freely and dealers
are getting in large supplies for planta-
ton use.
BAGGING-Market quiet at 1O%@
llMc for flax and jute, with an active de-
mand. Ties, 81 65@1 70 for piece, and
~ rs per bundle for Standard.
WOOL-Tub-wasbed, 35@40c per h
unwashed, 20@28G unwashed bury
from 10 TO Soc per cent less. according TO
condition; market firm.
SUGAR-All classes lower. quotations
Icing for yellow clarified 834@9. coffee
l0Ac do b, 91sc; do G, 05sc; standard
A, l0hc and and lie to HE for granu-
lated, powdered and loaf.
COFFEE-Rio steady, 1917 to 1GHc
for good to choice; Java, 23@25c per ID
MACKEREL-Marke quiet at 10, 70
@S0c per kit.
HIDES-Market Arm with steady de-
mand, at IS for No. /. dry flint; l6c for
No. T.; l4cfor dry sailed; 9Kcfor green do
7c for green; DC for talloW; 2Oc for bees
and 25c to 81 rs sheepskins, according
10 wool.
LEATHER-Oak sole, 38040c; hem
lock, 2s@32c; harness, S6@38c; skirting.
s6@S7ci French calf $4,000 per dozen
cali, $4,000 per dozen.
TOBACCO Prices range 20c to 42c
for several grades oftwistand II inch plug;
grades ranging from Doc to accord
ing to brand.
SALT.-Per Dbl, 81 40 per car or draw
load; orders 81 80 sacks 81 80Ql so for
coarse and fine. Rock salt 20 per pound.
RlCE-Market weak and lower at AZ
csc for the several grades.
BUILDING MATERIAL. - Lime.
per Dbl for Louisville, and 81 25 for
R~osendale. Plaster, 81 IS. Fire brick,
ici pressed brick, $40 per thousand.
NAILS-Per key, SO 10 to 50 20 rate
NUTS-Peanuts 4Ho for red and 6L
white Va; %cocoanuts rs per hundred.
CHEESE-Market steady; Y. A. lSc
full cream Ice: half do llLc. mart skim