Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-06-15

do to barrel their respective purchases
from wagons for northern markets,
number enc stock commands 50 80 pei
Dbl. measure, while $500 is the lowest
ruling prices. AT Cincinnati on
Tuesday free receipts Of new potatoes
from tho south had reduced their
value to $3.50 to $500 per bbl., and
news from other points also indicates
easier values.
FLOUR AND M~EAL-Medium and
better classes of flour are firm, and tend
upward, and lower classes are dull. job
bcrs' prices are "a so per Dbl xxx and
So 25@6 20 for family, choice and fancy,
while patents are 81 00@7 so per Dbl,
Cornmeal is So 10 to 50 10 per Dbl in
~drayload or larger lots and l0c higher
in small way.
FEEDSTUFFS-The market for corn
is steady ut SOC for mixed in lots
and 81 to Csc in a small way; white scarce
at Ga to 65c in lots. Oats quiet at 48LSC
per bu by the carload, and 50 to 63c
III y sllhh why DAdn HulOb az VI w
per ton, and 70 to soc per cwt for wheat,
and $ll per ton for corn bran. Hay
drags, western timothy being from $l8 to
$40 so per ton and slow to sell;
small orders 81 10 to 81 10 per cwt; new
Ark. prairie selling at $l4 per ton.
ESCULENTS-New potatoes 50 90 to
81 80 per Dbl measure from wagons, and
SO 90 to SO 25 from store. Onions, SIS ia
Sc with light receipts. Stock peas, 81 rs
to 81 SO per bu, as per quality
POULTRY AND EGGS = Old
chickens are dull and slow at 81 80 to
So 70 per doz; young spring, 81 70 to
" 7b per doz., food frying size being in
demand at 81 to ~ 70 per doz. Ducks
dull at 81 90 per doz. No demand for tur-
keys or geese. Eggs firm at 10 to lGc
per doz.
BUTTER-Fresh grass country is in
fair demand at Is to l8c per ID; prairie,
Is to zoe; common do, Il to 15c; western
slow at 10 10 22c; creamery, 26 to 2Sci
butterine. l6 to tic and dull.
MEATS AND LARD-Jobbers' cash
prices ara for smoked shoulders 81 to 70;
do c ribs ga to 95sc do c sides 9A to
9%c, hams liz to 1890; breakfast bacon
IL to llHc; mess pork $l6 % per Dbl
bulk shoulders 6h 6Nc; do C ribs 50 to
SIC; do sides 8 to9%; country meats, Hc
less Lard, IFS to l1%c for ties, Ike
kegs and Inf bbls and l2to 121Ic for pals.
FRUITS AND NUTS-A few rasp-
berriee ure offering vt S2per "a pint case,
Lemons 81 70 TO $3.50 per boxfor lots and in
a small way, as per size and order, for
Palermo and Messinai Oranges 81 so to
So so box. bananas 81 so to 2 so per
bunch; dried apples dull 4 to 4Hc per
To- do peaches 6 to 6Lc; peanuts, dull at
2X to 4c for Tenn. red and Va. white,
pecans, 5 to Sc; c%ocoanuts steadier at So
to SO so per 100 hlberts, walnuts and
almonds, II to l3c per ID; Brazil do,
TO l0c.
HIDEs-Prices easier; dry flint No.
1870; No. 2 13%c; green salt No. l,
SIC No. 2, 81; tallow, SIC; beeswax,
zoe; wool very dull at 10 to Doc as per
quality.
W0OL-Unwashed bury 10 to 15c per
pound, Clear do Is to 25c per ID; Washed
do 20 TO 36c.
BUILDING MATERIAL. - Lime,
80@85c per bblfor Alabama and Louisville
cement, and 81 So TO ~ 90 for Rcsendale.
Plaster, 81 Is. Fire brick. SO 90.
NAILS-Quiet at So 10 per keg
rates.
SUGAR - Market stiff. N. Y. brown,
&c; do 9, 81 to sac; standard A, l0c; of
A 9Kc to 9Hc graduated, lie; powdered
lie; crushed and cut loaf, llHc. Molassei
quiet at "a to Acc per gal.
C0FFEE-Steady at IL to 16c per bfol
Rio and "a TO 26 for Java.
BALING STUFFS.-Market quiet, al
8 TO lie for bagging, as in quality
Irvine, l6c per ID; ties, 81 90 for standard
and 81 90 to 81 10 for other qualities.