Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-31
Clearing House Report.
General Trade.


An improved traffic in general mer-
chandise, provisions, feed and bread
stuffs has been the leading feature Of
the markets during the past week.
The rivers are open and free of ice to
all points except between Cairo and
st. Louis; the regular local packets
have resumed their trips and go out
With heavy cargoes; the roads are in
better order for travelling, though still
muddy aud troublesome to pass over,
especially in the valleys, while several
days of dry weather during the week
has enabled planters to pick out a por-
ton of the cotton, which for threa
months past the cold, inclement
weather has prevented from being
saved. A few days of sunshine and
the old crop will soon be gathered
all hat is worth anything. The plow-
ing season is only a few weeks ahead,
and planters are already preparing
for seeding the next crop, happy over
the reflection that the three past
months of unusually severe winter
gives promise Of being replaced in a
few days by genial spring. Several
important changes in values have
occurred during the past week. Meats
have advanced ! to / cents per pound
on all cut grades; lard is 30 to 40 cents
per hundrodweight higher corn is
to 2 cents per bushel better wheat in
the west is firm and unsettled, while
-four is quiet at 5 to % cents per barrel
lower prices. Hay is a little better,
and oats are steady whisky has fallen
3 cents per gallon sugar is to ! cent
per pound lower; coffee / to J cent
lower, and molasses 2 cents per gallon
lower on poorer grades. Eggs continue
to command fancy prices, owing to a
scarcity in all markets. Poultry is in
demand at good figures. Potatoes and
apples are firm and higher, while other
articles exhibit no change of import
ance.
FLOUR-Quiet, with a fair demand for
medium and HIGHER grades; round lots sell
ps follows; XXA, "a 70; family, $ % to
s. So choice, s. 90 to $75; fancy, Sc to
Sc TO- patents, 81 to 81 q; small orders,
25c per Dbl higher.
CORN MEAL-From the mills for
fresh ground by the drayload 81 70 per
Dbl; offering TO arrive Mt 81 60 to 81 %;
small orders. 10 to l5c higher.
CORN-Market firm Soc per bushel
from first hands, and $4,000 in q small
way.
UATS-By The carload 44@45c per bu
on arrival, and 4S@5Oc in o small way OF
on orders.
BRANDON first hands at SIT per
ton, and 95c@Sl per cwt. Corn bran SIC
per ton.
HAY-Firm at s18 to $50 per toy for
common, mixed, prime and choice west
ern timothy; ut retail 81 10 to 81 IL. pei
cwt Arkansas prairie $l5 per ton and DC
per cwt.
POTATOES-Market firm, with hold,
ers o f.sced stock Indifferent; round lots Of
%peachblows, early rose, russets and peer.
less are quoted at 81 so per bbl,an1 eastern
rose at So; small orders 25c higher. Sweet:
in demand at SO per Dbl from store.
ESCULENTS-Louisiana in crate:
S. to So; kraut, IS to Sc fol
half and So 10 81 for Dbl; turnips 81 u
per Dbl; beans 81 GO to 2 % per bu fol
medium and choice medium; lady peas
81 so to 2 Is per bushei; blackeycd peas
81 % to l IS per bushel ! celery, 40 TO bOf
per bunch.
FRUITS-Apples firm, for sound, al
1925 " 255per bblfor choice;oranges 81 81
to SO 50 per bOF for Palermo; no Lousi-
ana offering; lemons 81 50tG8 90 per box
dried apples firm and in demand az to AZ
Der pound; peaches 5 to &c, and l6c foi
peeled, crgnberries, 81 70 to S. for hal
| bbls. and IS to 20 for bbls.
BUTTER-Creamerg 26@87c per 10
geqteyn table and dairy, 20@26c country
l26lsc; butteri9e 19@2lG poor steel
slow and plsRtifql good, in fair de-
EGGs-scarcc, and selling ut 30 cent
pePT0TTTRY AND GAME-ChickenI
IA cood demand at 81 so to 1872 per doz
for iigs and dressed; turkeys SO to $l2 pc
dozen for I've and IL to l2c per ID TO
dressed; ducks scarce. at - 20 to % % Pc
d-ozen;geese 81 509S6 per 9e1eni the latte
Cor choice dressed; squirrels 81 PeE doz
rabbits 81 Is TO 81 so quail 81 % Z
81 so duck1 q IS 10 81 80 for teal an'
mnllard; v%enisOn scarce, at &c tooc whole
and II to lSc for saddles, keeiioot nsh
I 20 &c per 10.
FRESH MEATS-Dressed hogs p TO y
per Id for country and city dressed beet
2c to 4o for fora, and sc to &c for ~
. quarters; live hogs 81 10 4#e, and brlsl
demand for good butcher grades.
Professionalism meats unsettled
/ with upward tendency;shoulders 4Ato Dc