Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-02
General Trade.

here two days ago. AS the water at
Cairo has fallen over five feet within
the past ten days, and the Ohio, with
all of its side streams, are rapidly re-
ceding, with less than twenty feet in
the river from Louisville to the mouth,
the prospects for the river to shortly
drop within its banks are very en-
~couraging. The highest level of the
water this season at this point was "a
feet two inches above low water, and
two feet v inches below extreme
high water mark. The highest last
year was the.latter part of April, when
it reached within two inches of the
rise Of this season. The prospect OF
an early decl ne is good news for the
valley planting population. Those
living in low places are already pretty
we'll soaked, and roads to and from
the river through the swamps are i'm
passable, but no serious damage has
so far been experienced, though the
river is even with the bank tops from
here to the gulf. Our trade is slack.
ing up somewhat, though jobbers are
not complaining of dullHess. The
huctuation Of values have been very
slight during the week. Meats are
wholly unchanged, though the feeling
is easier and more in buyers favor.
The markets of supply in the north
west have ruled dull all the week.
Prospects indicate unusually heavy
packing operations during the coming
summer, cheap ice and plenty of live
hogs being the prominent features to
stimulate activity, while a shortage OF
over 100000 hogsis noted in the total
packings of the past winter, as com
pared with the previous season, when
the total was 935, 900 hogs. Lard and
whisky are quiet and unchanged
Flour and wheat are wholly unchanged
from last weeks values, and the
movement is not brisk. Corn is easier
but in several western markets the
price looks upward, owing to scarcity
Of stock. Shipments are exhausted in
Madrid bend and along the Ohio, and
no more of consequence is expected
south this season. Happily, grass il
now plentiful, and planters stock art
not likely to suffer. Hay rules very
; high, last weeks advance being fully
sustained, and all arrivals meet quicl
sale. Coffee is weak and fc lower
while sugar tends upward and l.
higher than a week ago on some quail
tiles. Butter is from two to five cent
per pound lower, with western stool
dull and giving way to fresh grass
which is now coming in, though in
small way yet. Poultry has met goot
sale during the week. The receipts o
leading items during the week includ.
1850 barrels -four, 1000 barrels meal
1900 sacks corn, 400 sacks oats, 40,
sacks bran, 1850 bales hay, and small
arrivals Of potatoes and apples.
FLOUR AND MEAL-Quotations 70
-four are for XXX, 81 25; family, IS &c
choice and fancy, So 50 20 So co; patents
S. 50@7 co. small orders, Csc higher
Cornmeal, easier feeling at So 80 per BIB
for lots on the landing, and 10 to 10
higher in a small way.
FEED STUFFS- Corn, quiet feelini
at SO to Coo per Blu for round lots, and 6
TO Csc in a small way. Oats, Acc in lot
/ and 48 to Soc at retail. Bran, SIG so t
SIT per ton and Csc to 81 per cwt 70
wheat, and $ll so pei ton for corn bran
Hay in demand at S24 to $27 so per tor
for western, as per quality, and 81 40 t
81 80 per cwt at retail; prairie hay, SIG 81
!, per ton; millet, 81 So to 81 80 per bu,
ESCULENTS = Potatoes scarce ant
finn at So to So Is per hbl for table vari
cites. Sweets scarce at SO 25 to So so pc
Dbl; cucumbers, 90c to 81 90 per doz; greer
, peas$1 % to 81 70 per bu box; cabbage, 5
70 So per crate for sound, and scarce: infe
Z rior plentiful and nominal; beets, 90 to go
Z per doz; onions, SO Is to $4 co for oil,
sprouted stock; white beans, 81 20 to 81 81
= per bu; stock peas 81 IS to 81 80 per b
for car loads, and Doc higher IN a small
way.
: FRUITS AND NUTS-Apples scare
and worth So 10 SIS 90 per Dbl for sounC
meuium; oranges So so per box for Sicily
aud IS 80 for imperial MessiLa; lemon.
So to So so per box; strawberries, IS so pc
"a pint case; dried apples. 4 to 41Sc De
10; do peaches 6 to exc; peanuts, 2X to 4
Tenn. red and Va. white; pecans. 5 to 81
cocoanuts So to So 50per 100; flberts, wal
nuts and almonds, II to l3c We. ID; Brazi
do, 8to 10c.
BUTTER AND CHEESE - Fres
country and prairie stock, IS to &c pc
lb; inferior, 16c; western table. scarce at :
= to 23c; creamery, 80 to 34c; butterine !
: to 100 and slow; cheese, loo for mild fat
no other Offering.
spring chickens, 81 so to SO so per do,
D no POI oiNVi allu III uollhuui Olu, u DO Z
81 10 per doz, ducks, dull at SO 25 to So 81
= geese very dull at SO per doz; turkey
: scaDd offering, at SIS to $2O per doz. Egg
easy at l4c per doz.
e PR0VISIONS-Jobbers' cash price
e are MS follows; Bulk shoulders. 6 to Ga,
S do c ribs, 81 to &c; do clear, 8 to 81,
!, bacon shoulders, 81 TO SIC; do C rib
n 9% to 9Ac; do sides, 81 to l0c; breakfa,
bacon, 1917 to liz; hams, l0M to III,
. country hams, 9Hc country C sides, 9A,
o shoulders, SIC. Lard, liz to 12c for &c
l2M to l2hc for kegs and Inf bbls; III
= to l2hc for pulls; country do lie.
W0OL-Dull at 35c per ID for tn.
washed; zoe for unwashed free from bur
% to &c for bury and washed; and 10
l6c for inf-ri0r bury.
SUNDRIES-Kraut, hf bbls, SIS 80
So; bbls, SO 80 to $l2; cider, "a 10 to $5 fc
Ihf and EQ IN ~ 20 for bh1s