Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-07
General Trade.

The -four market is slightly weaker
and buyers take hold very tenderly,
while holders express themselves as
feeling no uneasiness, and say that
consumers must come to it yet, feeling
satisfied that no decline can follow.
Cornmeal is also shady, and dealers
dispose Of lots at a little lower prices.
In feedstuffs values are fully main
tanned, corr being scarce and firm, oats
steady, bran strong, aud hay well up
to previous rates. Chickens are re
ported in ready demand, especially for
good qualities, offerings being taken
freely at from % to SOC per dozen
higher than neutrality-suspicious.. Eggs
are unsettled; meats rule firm with an
upward tendency. Trade is active
and exhibits increasing volume daily.
with prospects favOring high prices
throughout the season for all CON
sumptive articles.
FLOUR AND MEAL-Flour is in
lib raj offering, and slow to sell.
Jobbers' prices are as follows: XXX, 81 70
to s. Is per Dbl; xxx, SO 90 to So so,
family, Sc rs to ST. 25; choice, 81 % to
81 60 fancy, 81 Is to IS 25; patents, IS 6u
to 50 90. Cornmeal in light demand and
unsettled at 81 05 in lots, and l0c higher
in a small way,
FEED STUFFS-Corn from first
hands SIC per bu, and in II small way SIC.
Oats firm and held at Csc in lots and Doc
from store. Bran, $26 per ton and 81 40
per cwt. Cotton seed meal, 81 Is per cwt.
Hay steady at ST. to $40 so PEI ton by
the carload for Western timothy, 81 10 to
81 10 on small orders; Southern prairie,
$ll 80 per ton, and Csc per cwt in a small
way.
ESJULENTS Potatoes weak at
So 70 to So rs per Dbl on arrival and So sc
at retail. Onions, 81 90 per Dbl on arrival
and $4 80 to 81 rs in a small way. Beans
firm at SO per blu for medium white and
So Is at retail. Cabbage, 81 so to So 90 per
crate and $40 90 to $500 per 100 head for
sound Northern. Kraut, per Dbl,
50 on to $40, and hf bbls Sc SO to Sc 90.
FRUITS Apples, 81 . to 81 so per
Dbl, as per quality. Dried apples, quoted
at 6 to 6Xc per ID, with none offering
Dried peaches, SIC to nc per In and
inquired for. Fresh peaches, rs to 50C
per one-third bu box. Duchess pears, zoo
to 81 per bu. Oranges, 81 o. to So 90 pei
box. Lemons, 50 to $40 per box.
POULTRY AND EGGS-Chicken.
are in good demand at 81 rs to So % pei
dozen as per size, order and quality,
with ready sales of good at SO CD
Ducks So 80 to 50 IS. Eggs unsettled
and sales from lac to Ice per dozen.
PR0VISIONS-Meats are firm and
cash orders are quoted as follows: Bacon
shoulders, 8% to Sc C ribs, llA to llHc
c sides, liz to liz; bulk shoulders. 8 tC
SIC Q ribs 1917 to l0%c; C sides, 1919 tc
lie; breakfast bacon, 1917 TO lS1Ic packed
hams 1917 to 1870. Lard in tierces IN t.
1910, hf bbls and kgs, l2}3c, pals l2Ac
hf do 1870.
BUTTER-Markct firm with light
supply and active demand. Creamery 35C
per ID; Western table, z4ci fancy dairy
28c to 90; common, loo to l6c fresh
country, zoe to DC; butterine, Zoe
SUNDRlES-Vinegar II to loo pei
gall; peanuts 4 to 4hc for Tenn and
s to 6Te for Va. and firm.
HIDE5-Market quiet dry flint No.
Ice; No. 2l3c; green salt No /
SIC; No. 2, 6Hi tallow, 5KG beeswax
W00L-Unwashed bury 10 to loo pei
pound, Clear do 10 to 25o per h.; tul
washed do Is to 35c.
NAILS-Steady at SO 90 PEI keg rates
Round lots slightly less.
SUGAR-Market firm. N. Y. brown
TX to SIC; do {, S1S to 9Ac; standard A
l0A; of A 9Ac,granulated 1880, powdered
1910; crushed and cut loaf, llAc. Mo
lasses quiet at 93 to 43c per gal.
C0FFEE-Firm at l1Ato l61Sc per Il
for Rio and "a 10 rs for Java.
BALING STUFFS.-Market Arm, a
10 to 12c for bagging, as in quality
Irvine, l6c per ID; ties, 81 IS for standard
and 81 40 TO 81 so for other qualities
RIOE-Demand fair at 5 TO 6 per Il
for medium qualities.
BUILDING MATERIAL-Tennes
see lime So to 95c per Dbl; Alabama d,
IS to 81; Louisville cement 81 go to 81 75
Rosedale 50 TO 81 80; Portland SIS; Plaste
, Of Paris 81 80; Brick,$9 to $40 so per 1000
Fire do 81 10 &c each.
MACKEREL.-New stock rs fol
lows Kits, No. l, Zoe; No. 2
Csc No. 3, 55c. Half bbls. Nc
/, So rs; do No. 2 and No. 3 large, So u
|, SALT-Fr9m store, 81 60 TO 81 IS pc
sack for fine and 81 40 for coarse Liver
pool. Ohio river, 81 As andS1 so.
! BTARCH-Firm at 4c per lb. Can
Has IVA and firm for fnll weight.
) liabt. Choice butcher e. cattle ais''' ar ar
8c TO &c per ID gross Texas d
2Hc 10 &c; smooth oxen in goo
, order, 2Ilc TO 30; thin scrubby and rough
lc TO &c; yearlings, 81 TO So; mich cow
SIS TO $50. Sheep are Ia soant offering
and no good in market, Prices are &c :
SIC for choice mutton and 75c to 81 Q