Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-11
GenernI Trade.

t0r seYefal weeks a gradual drop
ping off has been noticed in trade cir
cles, the volume being reduced fully
Prices of several leading
items show a droopy condition. The
market is in a state of depres-
sion, prices slowly going down. Pro-
visions arc in moderate movement
with prices easier. B~readstuffs r
less brisk, with values barely main
The iron market is quoted
weak for all classes, the demand be-
ing light and large stocks in the hands
manufacturers, with furnaces all
busy throughout the country, which
keeps the supply ahead Of the de-
mand. The grain market is steady in
the main, corn being in good demand,
though at prices slightly off, and hay
is also shady, with a reduced demand.
Oats are firm, and bran weak. West
ern butter is droopy because of more
liberal receipts of homemade fresh
grass. Chickens are in demand, young
spring meeting ready sale at good
prices when not too small to be re-
spectacle. Eggs are in a rather de-
spondont mood.
FLOUR MEAL-Flour is quiet at
unchanged prices and in moderate move
ment at the following prices to jobbers /:
XXX, 81 Is; family, IS so; choice and
fancy, So 50 to 81 90, smaller orders 25c
higher. Cornmeal irregular at 81 70 to 81 80
per Dbl from first hands.
FEED STUFFS-Corn is easy ut 81
to 5Sc per bushel, the latter for clear
white; small orders 60 to &c. Oats
steady at 47e per car load and 48 to
Soc in a small way. Bran quiet at SIG per
ton and 80 to Csc per cwt; corn do, $40 90
per ton; hay easy at So to $24 per ton
and 81 25 to 81 80 per cwt for western, and
SIS for prairie; millet ~ Is to 81 30 per
bu for Tenn.
ESCULENTS-Old potatoes 81 90 to
SO per bbE new do, 81 80 per 3-peck box;
sweets, So to 3 so per Dbl. Cabbage 81 SO
to IS per crate, as in quality. Onions So %
to SIS Der Dbl; spring do Sc per Dbl. Green
meas 81 60 to 81 so per bushel;
snap beans 81 80 to SO per 9-peck
box. White beans, scarce at $225 to ~ OK
per bu as per quality. Stock peas, 81 %
to 50 Is per bu in car loads and small
jobbing lots
scant stock at So 90 10 S. 90 per Dbl,
Oranges So so per box for small
and IS 90 for large imported. Lemons
SO 90 to So rs for Palermo; and So 70 to
to 81 Is for Messina per box; OH stock
selling lower. Strawberries, So % to 50 per
case. Bananas in good supply at 81 30 to
$3.50 per bunch; dried apples, 4 to 411c per
lib; do peaches 6 to 615c; peanuts, ~ to &c
Tenn. red and Va. white; pecans, b to Sc
~cocoanuts So TO So 50per lOG flberts, wal,
nuts and almonds, II to lSc yer ID; Brazil
do, to 10c. :
BUTTER Fresh grass is in demand
if carefully put up and meets ready mar
ket at Is to &c per ID; poorer qualities
II to 15e; western in light movement al
% to 25c for table and dairy; creamery 3.
to 33c; butterine dull at l6 to lie.
POULTRY AND EGGS : Spring
chickens sell readily if of good size and
prices range from 81 80 to 80 Cd per doz
old chickens have been selling ut 81 u
to 81 80 per doz for ROSTERS and mixeC
and 81 to 81 90 for all hens; 10 turkeys of
fer. Ducks are dull at 81 70 to So 81. Gees
are fat at $Sto 81 so per doz. Eggs veal
at II TO u per doz.
PROVISIONS-Jobbers cash price
are rs follows; Bulk shoulders,6H to SIC
do G ribs, 81 TO Sc; do clear, 9N to 9hc
Pork per Dbl. $18 80 bacon shoulders
HI TO 7Ac; do C ribs 9M to 9Ac; d,
sides, 9% to l0c; breakfast bacon, 10g
10 liz; hams, IL to 11l5c; countr,
hams. So to sc; country clear sides
az to csc; shoulders, 81 to GAc. Lard
liz to 12c for ties; l2% to l2hc for keg
and Inf bbls; 12H TO l2Hc for pals
country do, lie:
washed; zoe for unwashed free from burs
26 to &c for bury and washed; and 10 (
l5e for inferior bury.
SUNDRIES-Kraut, hf bbls. So 90 T.
So; bbls, 80 so to $l2; cider, 81 70 TO 50 70
Inf, and So so to 50 for bbls.
12e; green salt No. i, Sc; Moo. 2,6}S; dsa,
green 5 10 &c; tallow, 6Hc beeswax 20,
wool very duh at 10 to 35e as per quality
MACKEREL-No1, half barrels, "a 81
No. 2, So 60; largo, NO 8, 50 co. N
g., SO; kits No /, T5c; No 2, Coo No 3, 65'
SALT.-Per Dbl, 81 so per caro- ORA
load; orders 81 So; sacks 81 S00l 30 fo
coarse and fine. Rock salt &c per younC
BUILDING MATERIAL. - Linn,
80@85c per bblforA labamaand LouisviIl
cement, and 81 50 to 81 80 for Rosendal'
Plaster, 81 ~. Fire brick, So 90.
NAILS-0uiet at So 10 pc: Ike
rates.