Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-23
General Trade.

movement Of which is slack. Receipts
for the week have been $500 barrels
flour, HOO barrels meal, 1900 sack
corn, 1850 sacks bran, 1850 sacks oats
$50 bales hay and a liberal list O
assorted merchandise. Prices hav,
Auctuated considerably during thu
week. Flour is droopy and slightly
lower, while wheat is Sc per bushe
higher. Our stocks Of -four are heavy
the receipts of the past two week.
aggregating 1900 barrels. Cornmea
has been in slim movement, and sale
are slow with prices dull and marker
weak. Corn, owing to scarcity, is firm
and is 2 to 30 per bushel higher
though the demand is not much more
than local. Meats are excited ant
tending upward, having advanced | t
10 per pound on all cut grades durinl
the week. The supply in the north.
west is light and chiefly in the hands
Of spectators. Whisky is steady, but
prices in the west are &c per gallon
higher than they ranged through the
spring months. Coffee is strong and
fc up from last weeks prices. Sugar
is also &c higher on several grades
Molasses continues dull and 1nchang-
ed. Bagging is firm, with slight ad-
vance for butts and India, while
Kentucky is a little weak. Po-
tatoes sell slowly from wagons at
Zoe per barrel measure, the demand
for shipping having ceased. The
value Of cotton has advanced / to 1c
on the clean grades within the past
few days. Several bales of the new
crop arrived on Thursday and Friday
last, and a gradual increase of receipts
is anticipated from this time on.
Freights from st. Louis here by river
have advanced to Zoe per cwt. and 4Oc
per barrel. The Ohio has been almost
closed by low water for two or three
weeks, but yesterdays advices an
nounce a rise along its whole length
and good navigation is likely to pre-
vail for a period. The stage from St.
Louis to Cairo has shoaled to scant six
feet.
VEGETABLES-Potatoe in light
local request, at 75c per bushel from
wagon and 81 to 81 IS per Dbl from store,
sweets, 81 80 TO s. per Dbl; oniOds, So tc
50 so por Dbl; cabbage, IS per 100 head
and 81 90 to 81 70 per craze.
FEUIT-Apples, loose, 75c to 81 % pei
Dbl; from Store, 81 rs to 81 so per Dbl
according to quality peaches, Is to SOC
per box; oranges, 81 per box for Messina
F"L0UR-Wholesaie demand light, ow.
ing to liberal stocks, and prices weak. Job.
! bling demand active for family, choice anC
fancy, the price of which ranges from 5 e
S6 per Dbl, according to quality,
CORN MEAL-Market dull, ut 81 l.
@S2 IS per Dbl for choice and So O5@S2 Il
for inferior stockin round lots. Small OF
ders 10 TO 20c higher.
CORN-Supply fair and prices firm a
Soc per bushel for sound shelled; ear, 48c
Small orders 52@5Sc higher. Receipts To-
day, 400 sacks.
0ATS-Market firm, with supply Ugh.
at BIC per bushel in lots and So to 4Sc in F,
small way.
BRAN-Firm and in fair request at 81
per ton and 70 to Soc per cwt. Corn brat
50 so per ton.
HAY-Low qualities In poor reques
and nominal. Clear new timothy SIT Il
$40 per ton and 81 to 81 10 per cws. Ar
kansas prairie, 81 50 per ton and Soc pc.
cwt.
POULTRY AND EGGS Chicken.
are in rather light supply aud brisk de
mand. at 81 0J@3 90 Der dozen for yount
and 81 90 10 2 IS for old. Ducks 81 80 4
2 Is per dozen. Eggs steady at IA to l5c
per dozen.
PROVISI0NS-Meats are strong arc
advancing, with a very unsettled feeling
pr ices being zoo irregular to quote witt
accuracy. Jobbers. order figures are fol-
bacon shoulders 6%@61Ec; clear ribs, 81.
@9S{ci sioes, 9H@9Nc; breakfast
bacon, lie ihams, l224c; bulk shoulders
ribs, 8H@8Ae; do sidc7, 8@9Hc; mes.
pork, ST. 90 per barrel; country sides, Sc.
lard, DC for t%ierces i9A@ for kegs anc
pals and 9A for halfpaiis.
LARD-Tierces Sc; half barrel,
and kegs, 9Hc; pals, 9Mc up to Zoe.
LIVE STOCK-Cattle in scant receipt
and firm at 2@3Hc gross; Sheer
sell readily at 81 Is to 81 q
per head as in quality; lambs So rs tC
80 90 per head, Hogs $3@S5 90; yea
calves S4@$7, according to size; milci
cows in some request at Sl2 70 $50 pei
head.
BAGGING-Demand active and mar
ket firm, l0A@llHc for fax, anC
IN to 1910 for iute. Ties
" z6@2 80 per bundle. Irvine, Is to 20C
SUGAR-Yellowc laria led. OF pei
bioifwhites, 9H@9Ac crushed, granulatec
and ~pulverized, 1910; cut loaf, lie.
open kettle yellow, 8@9c.
MACKEREL-MMket quiet at 70, 81
| @9Oc per kit.
WOOL-Tub-washed, 35640c per r
unwashed, 2O928c; uu washed and bury
from 10 to Soc per owt less.
COMPREHENSIVE choice l4Ik to 49,
according to quality.
HIDES-Dfy Hnt, No. /. 49, No. 2.
l5c; dry salt do, 4GRroen. Nc. 2, 19c,
do sailed, 9G market lrm; tallow,
4H@5c; beeswsx, Zoe.
LEATHER-0ak sole, SS@4Oc; hem
lock, 2S@32c; harness, S6@86c skirting.
S5@S7c; French cali, 10000 per dozen:
domestic calf, $10@S0 per dozen.
TOBACCO Per ID 42k@60e.
SALr.-Per Dbl, 81 IS per car or dray
load orders 81 IS sacks 81 80@1 60 for
course and ans. Rock salt &c per pound.
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
M Iunc y b 49,. &c.