Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-17
General Trade.

in the leading markets Of the country
during the past week than has been
experienced for some time past.
Values on leading articles are lower
and tend downward. Cut meats are
&c to &c per ID lower, except for sugar
cured, which have not declined, and
trade at packing points has been main
ly confined to filling orders in the
South. 1t is claimed, however, by
leading operators that all classes of
hog products must advance beyond
any prices yet touched this season
Lard is also somewhat lower. Flour
has fallen off loo to 25c per Dbl, and
wheat is 4c to Sc lower than last
weeks prices. Feedstuffs are all
lower except oats, which are scarce
and quoted a shade higher. Corn is
weak and &c cheaper. Bran is a'so
cheaper and hay is a shade of, with
a weak feeling. Bread and feedstufs,
it is believed, are likely to 60 still
lower. Receipts here during the past
week include 1900 bbls -four, 200 bbls
meal, 1850 SKIS corn, 1000 SKIS oats, $50
SKIS bran, 1900 bales hay, IA car loads
being Southern prairie, which has
gone into store; 1900 bbls potatoes,
half as many apples and liberal ar
rivals of other produce. The sugar
market was brisk and firm IN tho early
part of the week, but dropped to a
state Of ~stagnancy several days ago.
The grinding season for the new crop
in Louisiana will begin in a few days
Coffee is depressed under the influence
of liberal receipts at New Orleans,
and of $4,000 SKIS of Brazilian at New
York. Teas are also weak and 1c to
&c lower. The iron trade is reported
lively at all points of manufacture and
price are firm, and quotations fully up
to those heretofore ruling. In
Boston the hide and leather trade
is reported active. Sales of boots
and shoes being 55,763 cases
for the week, an excess over the same
week last year. The weather here
continues dry and hot, and VIC have
not had a drop Of rain for 10 days.
Cotton picking progresses with great
rapidity, and many planters, even in
the bottoms, have gathered their en-
tire yield, while many are already
pasturing their fields. 1t is believed
that the entire growth will be picked
out before the close Of the present
month. AS yet we have had no sign
of frost, and fall vegetation is growing
and thriving handsomely. The river
hence to St. Louis Is deep enough for
the heaviest boats, aud the White and
Arkansaw rivers are both in fair
boatable order. The late rise in the
Ohio was too light to admit of the re.
sumption of navigation in hal stream.
Stocks Of coal in Southern supply
depots is running light, and there is
no chance to replenish until there is
water at Pittsburg. The A%gricultu-
raj Bureaus cotton crop estimates for
September appeared yesterday and
reports the general condition to
average 68 per cent, and the prospect
i've decrease, as compared with last
year at this date, is 10 per cent.
The average from % counties in Ten
nessee is given at IS per cent; Arkan-
saw, so per cent; Texas, 60 per cent;
70 per cent; Mississippi,
68 per cent; Alabama, rs per cent;
Florida, 50 per cent; Georgia, 70 per
cent; South Carolina, 60 per cent;
North Carolina, 60 per cent. Much
boil shedding has occurred, and the
top. crop is reported almost a total
in all sections. Complete re-
ports from the great corn belt of the
Northwest shows a very unsatisfactory
state of affairs. The crop in Indiana,
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska is un-
usually light, and almost everywhere
the corn crop shows a falling off com
pared with last year Of from 30 to 40
per cent, Old corr is scarce every
where, and the poor corn prospect
indicates a large falling off Of the
number Of hogs to be iatteued.