Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-06-04

and S5c Rper cwt; corn bran, quiet at $40
TO 81 per ton. Hay slow. with sales at SIT
to $40 per ton, and light offerings Of
western, and in a small way 81 10 to 81 rs
per cwt; no arrivals of prairie; last sales,
$l6 per ton.
PROVISIONS AND LARD-Market
steady for all classes of meats; smoked
shoulders .6M to 6Tc per ID loose and
packed for cash; do C ribs 81 to 9Bc; do
c sides 10 to l0Hc; hams stiff at II to
Ike; breakfast bacon lie; mess pork
$18 so per Dbl; dry salt shoulders 6% to
6Tc; do C ribs so to SIC; do sides 9 to
9Hc, all for cash. Lard, 11% to l1%c for
ties, 1lAc kegs and hf bbls; l2c for pals.
BUTTER Ordinary country, II to
15c per lb; choice do, IS to zoe; yellow
prairie, &c; western, II to DC creamery,
16 to 2Sc; butterine droopy IA to lie.
ESCULENTS- Potatoes. new stock
dropping at "a so to IS per Dbl; cabbage,
81 to 81 so per crate for home growth;
onions in scant offering, with sales
at s. 30 to Sc per Dbl; beans, none
offer, with prices given at 81 rs to So
per Dbl for white medium; stock peas,
81 70 to 81 IS per bu from store; clay and
w%hippoorwill do, firm and in demand at
81 80 per bu from store. Fresh cucum-
bers and squash, Is to 40c per doz.
POULTRY AND EGGS Chickens
81 50 to SO 25 for old, as per quality;
young spring in plentiful supply at 81 Is
to 81 Is for small size, with good large
scarce and easy to sell 50 to 81 70 per doz,
Turkeys unstable. Ducks slow at 81 so
per dox. Geese no sale. Eggs in better
offering, with prices lower and sales at IL
to lac per doz.
FRUITS AND NUTS-Raspberries
sell at 81 rs per "A quart case. Lemons
range Fl om So so to SO so per box, Oranges
81 Soto So for imperial and Messinain lots,
and Soc higher in a small way; Palermo
fruit not wanted. Bananas 81 so to $50 per
bunch; dried apples dull 4 to 4Kc per
ID; do peaches 8 to 615c; peanuts, dull at
~ to 4c for Tenn. red and Va. white;
pecans, 8 to Sc; c%ocoanuts steadier at S.
to SO 80 per 100; flberts, walnuts and
almonds, II to l3c per lb; Brazil do, s
TO 10c.
HIDES--Prices firm; dry flint No. l
l6H;No2 l3c; green salt No. l,8c; No.2,6 81
dead green 5 to &c; tallow, SIC; beeswa1
Zoe; wool very dull at 10 to 35c as pei
quality.
BUILDING MATERIAL. Lime
80@S5c per bblfor Alabamaand Louisville
cement, and 81 So to 81 80 for Rosandale
Plaster, So 10. Fire brick. So so.
NAILS-Weak at So 10 per keg
rates.
SUGAR - Market stiff. n. Y. brown
TIC; do @, 8 to SIC; standard A, 10c; of
A 9Hc to 9Ac graduated, 10Ac; powdered
l0%c; crushed and cut loaf, lie. Molassei
quiet at "a to 45c per gal.
C0FFEE-Firm at IL to 16c per ID fol
Rio and "a to 26 for Java.
BALING STUFFS.-Market quiet, a
8 TO lie for bagging, as in quality
Irvine, 16c per ID; ties, 81 90 for standard
and 81 60 to 81 10 for other qualities.
RICE-Demand fair al 5 to 6 per Il
for medium qualities.
LIVE ST0CK-The market show
firm demand for butcher cattle, SO to 81
per cwt for corn fed, and 81 IS to 81; 70.
grass, according 10 quality. Cows anC
calves SIS TO $50; yearlings 81 Il
Sc; common to good grazing
stock 81 so to So per cwt; sheel
and lambs firm and in ready demand a
81 90 to So 80 per head for lambs and 81 2
to 81 30 for sheen.