Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-29

cabled to the Memphis cotton ex-
change:
Bales.
Week. sales ................. ..-........... 5000
Week receipts. ......--..- 1900
American ............... .......... $500
Total since September st--........... $3.50
american .........-..-.~..... .-.-.......... 1850
Total Bl,O01
american -.............-.r.. -, ........-.-. z1osOU
otoch 80. Jul ,UVU
hmerlcan..-............ .---.......,........ 2o9,OOO
General Trade.
The unsettled state of the weather
for several days past has interfered
seriously with the delivery and hand
ling Of cOnsignments, while disturbed
freight rates has caused considerable
fluctuation in values. Breadstuff and
grain merchants took advantage of
last weeks low figures on freight from
st. Louis to gil up depleted stocks and
all are now literally supplied. The
only article of scarcity at present is
meats, the droopy condition Of which
causes all merchants to order for i'm
mediate requirements only. The rate
on freights from St. Louis has been
advanced again to2Oc per cwt., though
a few lots came in yesterday at from
10 to 17lc. The steamer Wyoming
left here for st. Louis last
night with the understanding that
another cargo will be brought
south at something below ruling
figures, Business is active in all
lines, a heavy trade going on in sup
plies and general merchandise, while
produce, fruits aud vegetables exhibit
an increasing traffic. The movement
of cotton southwark is heavy and in
excess of transportation facilities, and
the gulf route appears to be the ia
vorite one this season. A steamer,
the Guiding Star passed down last
evening carrying $50 bales of cotton
from st. Louis for abroad by way of
New Orleans, the jetties and gulf, and
two other steamers passed within the
present week, each with about the
same quantity, and for the same desti-
nation. The present ruling rate on
cotton from here to New Orleans, by
steamer, is 81 per bale, and on oil cake
$3.50 per long or English ton. The
heavy rains Of the past three days have
interfered with the movement, and
also checked picking, as well as in
jured to some extent that ungathered,
but it has caused a swell of two feet
in White river, and improved naviga-
ton is looked for in the Arkansas and
other streams.
FL0UR-Quiet. with ample supply.
Quotations are 81 60@4 IS for XXX, IS Is
for family So 25G5 so for choice; IS 50@
6 90 fer fancy; 81 90 for p%stents, all in
lots; small orders 25c higher.
CORN MEAL-Market weak with a
liberal stock at 81 2OG2 25 per Dbl for lots.
and l0c to l5c higher in asmall way. In
fefior meal slow at 81 05@2l0 in round
lots.
CORN-Unsettled ut 49@50c for new
ear, and 54@55c per bushel for new an old
shelled. Supply ample small orders, Csc
per bushel
oATS-Lower, with sales of lots at
384c to Csc; small orders, 43c to 45c per
bushel
BRAN-Scarce and firm at SIG to
Sl6 SO per ton for wheat, and SOC per cwt
in a small way.
HAH-Firm and scarce, with dealers
asking SIS to ST. per ton for mixed, and up
to $40 and $40 for strictly choice timothy;
retailers charge 81 to 81 TO per cwt; no
Arkansas prairie offering; nominally 50
per ton and Soc per cwt.
APPLES-Receipts heavy and sales
active at 81 Is 20 81 50per Dbl at the track
in car loads; only strictly choice bring
outside prices; small orders, 25c to SOC pGr
Dbl higher.
P0TATOES-Scarce and tending up
ward, with fist dealers quoting lots of
peerless and early rose al 81 70 to 81 So per
Dbl; small orders 81 rs; sweets 81 per Dbl
loose from wagons and 81 80 from store.
ONIONS Scarce and in demand, at
50 Is TO 50 10 per Dbl; cabbage in active
demand ut $40 per 100 hundred head for
choice stock, and 50 TO 70 90 per crate;
trashy stuff, of which much has been offer
ed, brings lower prices.
BEANS-Firm at 81 so to 81 25 per
bushel for white medium to choice navy;
blaokeyed peas 81 rs to 81 SO per bushel.
EGGS-Narket stiff, at lSc for round
/ Il, and 20c in a small way,
POULTRY-Chickens, - rs to SO so
per dozen, ducks, 81 70 TO 50 per dozen;
turkeys, So TO u per DOZEN geese, 81 80 to
So so per dozen. All kinds Of poultry firm
and in good request.
FRUITS AND NUTS-Oranges, 81 %
@450p per barrel for Louisiana; lemons, s. 90
to 5 90 per box; cranberries, "a 70 for half
and S. 80 for barrel; California pears,& 90
per box; catawba grapes, Soc TO 81 per
%ten-pound basket; malnga grapes 81 % for
twenty-pound kegs c0cOanHts, - per lO0
peanuts, 4Hc for Tennessee, and &c for
Virginia; round lots a little less; chest
nuts slow at SO rs per bushel in lots.
DRIED FRUIT-Market firm ut 81
per pound for apples, and A to DC for
peaches.
PROVISI0NS-Ruling lower, with
the market unsettled; bacon shoulders, on
orders, 5%c to &c; do clear ribs, Sc and
scarce; do clear sides, 9Ac packed; dry
salt shoulders, SIC to 5Hc; do clear ribs,
SIC to 69SG do sides, sac to SIC
hams, 1910 to l015c breakfast bacon,
1910; mess pork nominal, at SIG so per
barrel; lard in tierces Sdci half bbls and
kegs, 9Aci pals, csc; half pals. 9Nc.
BUTTER-Low grades plentiful and
droopy; creamery, 80 to 36c; western. 20
to CSC; fresh country, Is to 25c; butterine,
Is to 25c.
CHEESE-l2& to l3c for mild fats,
Ice for full cream, and lie for 7 A.
BAGGlNG-MaFket easy. Flax l0h
to l019G mixed l01sG jute i0h TO llci
Irvine l5Nc.
HIDES-Market weak and tending
downward. Dry flint No. l l8c; do. No.
z l5c dry sailed lac; green 7c; green
sailed 81 to 9G tallOv 5 10 5Nc beeswax
zoe.
LIVE STOCK-Fair medium and
good grass-fed range from 81 to 3G
choice do. 81 to 9Ao, with receipts light
and feeling firm; poor IL 10 20; cows with
young calves $l8 to $25; yearlings 81 to
81; hogs less firm at 4 to SIC for shoats
and large size sheep in light supply at 3
10 40 fns Good and rhoipp, Al 10 N 80 nor