Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-14
General Trade.

General Trade.
The weather is very warm for the
season, the crops are making a fine
start, and business is Stacking of to
light dimensions. The tone of nearly
all leading articles Of consumption is
easy or downward, though no fuctua-
tions of importance are noted since
last report.
FLOUR AND MEAL-Flour un-
changed; prices TO jobbers are: xxx,
A2i family, So 90; choice and
fancy, So 50 to 81; smaller orders 25c
higher. Cornmeal firm at 81 80
per Dbl from first hands, and from store
FEED STUFFS-Corn is easy at 5GH
to 60c per bushel, the latter for choice
white; small orders 62 to 6Sc. Oats
firm at 46% to 47c per car load and As to
Soc in a small way. Bran quiet at $15 per
ton and 80 to Soc per cwt; corn do, $40 90
per ton; hay easy at SO to $23 60 per ton
and 81 Is to 81 30 per cwt for western;
prairie do SIS. Tenn. mlllet 81 Is to
- 80 per bu.
ES6ULENTS-Old potatoes are about
out of season, and sell at 81 % to 50 l0per
Dbl in lots, and 81 rs to 81 90 in d small
way; new from La, Sc per Dbl; home crops
are blooming and will soon be ready for
market, with splendid prospects for a
heavy yield. Cabbage "a per crate for
sound La. Onions, cd stock, SO to $4 per
Dbl and nominal; new, So per Dbl. Green
peas, 81 per bushel loose; snap beans, Toe
per S-peek box; squashes, 50 to Coo per
doz; cucumbers, Soc per doz; white beans,
few offer at 81 80 to S3 90 per bu. Stock
peas, 81 So to 50 10 per bu in store, with
very light demand for carloads.
FRUITS AND NUTS = Oranges
scarce at 81 90 per box for small
and Sc 50 for large imported. Lemons
SO 90 to SO 25 for Palermo; and So so
for Messina per box; off stock selling
lower. Strawberries, unsettled at 81
to 81 Is per case of "A quarts.
Bananas in good supply at 81 80 to
$3.50 per bunchi dried apples, 4 TO 419c per
ID; do peaches 8 to SIC; peanuts, ~ to &c
Tenn. red and Va. white; pecans, 5 TO SC;
cocoanuts 50 to SO 50per 100; filbcrts, wal
nuts and almonds, Il to l3c yer lbi Brazil
do, 8to 10c.
BUTTER-Good demand for fresh of
ferings at 20 to 23c for best Ark. prairie,
and Is to 1Sc for country, with cooking
qualities at ~ to l6c; creamery 30 to &c;
western table - to 25c and in light move
ment; butterine dull at 16 to lie.
POULTRY AND EGGS = Spring
chickens are in liberal supply and small
sell slow at 81 so to So co per doz, while
large size are from 81 90 to 1900 and in de-
mand; old stock range from " IS
to "a so per doz for all ROSTERS and
mixed and choice hens; no turkeys Of
fer. Ducks are dull at 81 IS TO So 90. Geese
are fat at SO to So 80 per doz. Eggs weak
al 81 to 10 per doz.
PR0YIS1ONS-Jobbers cash prices
are rs follows: Bulk shoulders,6H to exc;
do c ribs, So to &c; do clear, to 9Isc,
Pork per Dbl SIS 90 bacon shoulders,
7 TO 7Hc; do c ribs ga to 9Mci do
sides, 81 to 10c; breakfast bacon, 1919
to IL; hams, 1893 to l1Hc; country
hams, 8 to 9Hc; country clear sides,
W to 924c; shoulders, GA to &c. Lard,
liz to 12c for ties; 12% for kegs
and hf bbls; l2h to 12Hc for pulls;
country do, 10% to lie.
SUNDRIES-Kraut, hf bbls, s. 80 to
S6 bbls, 50 so to $l2; cider, "a Is to So for
Inf, and So 80 to 50 for bbls.
HIDEJ-Dull, dry flint No. 16c; No.
2 1l@l2c; green salt No. !, &c; No. 2, 81;
dead green 5 to &c; tallow, 5Hc; beeswax
2Ot; wool very dull at 10 to 35c as per
quality.
MACKEREL-No1, half bsrrels. 81 90.
No. 2, SO 60; large, No 8, So 3d. No
8, So; kits No l, Zoe; No 2, &c. No 3, 65c.
SALT.-Per Dbl, 81 so per or drsy
load; orders 81 IS; seeks 81 30Q1 so for
coarse and fine. Rock salt &c per found.
BUILDING MATERIAL. - Lime.
80@85c por Dbl for Alabamaand Louisville
cement, and 81 85 to 81 80 for Rosendale.
Plaster, 81 IS Fire brick, So 80.
NAILS-Weak at So 10 PEI keg
TOBACCo.-Quiet, at 29c to 55c for
twist and plug 35 to 56c for smoking,
and 55c TO 81 for fancy chewing.
SUGAR-Market stiff and prices irreg-
ular. N. Y. brown, 7Ac; do ., 8 to SIC;
do A, 8 to 9Lc for standard
grades; granulated, 10Ac; powdered, 1910;
crushed and cut loaf, l0He. Molasses
quiet at "a to 45c per gal.
C0FFEE-Quiet at l0X to l5c per ID for
Rio and "a to rs for Java.
BALING STUFFS.-Market quiet, AT
9K to Tic for bagging, as in quality
Irvine, Ice per ID; ties, 81 90 for standard,
aud 81 80 to 81 10 for other qualities.
RICE-Demand fair at 5 at &c per ID
for medium qualities.
HORSES AND MULES Fair
demand for plantation stock. Best
dray mules 15al6H hands high, $3.50
to 200; do IA TO 16 hands $50 to $l65
Horses, common to good plugs, $50 to $40;
common to good saddle and harness Sis
tos200 each.
LIVE STOCK-The market is about
bare of butcher cattle and receipts contin-
ne light; prices range from 4 to 4%c for
medium to choice and 2M to 4 for grass
fed and other qualities yielding 4 to &c
cash. Cow and calf IS to S25, sheep in
scant offering at 4 10 5 for mutton grades;
lamb very scarce ut - to $4 per head;
hogs scarce and finn at 4 to 81 c.