Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-06-17

cinnati on Wednesday the market
closed unsettled at from 81 Is to $3.50
per Dbl. for new southern. The price
here is $l,5O per Dbl. measure with
several buyers out Of the market for
the present. A few new apples are
taken for northern shipment at $3.50
per Dbl. measure. A small lot of dried
apples sold at &c per h., business in
this line being dull. Hay is very fat,
and numerous consignments are going
into store for want Of buyers. South
ern prairie is equally heavy, no de-
maud prevailing. The market is over
stocked with medium, and poor grades
of country butter, while strictly choice
is scarce. Eggs are unsettled, receipts
from the west offering at lac, while
fresh country sell from Is TO l7c.
Flour is strong, with an advancing
tendency, Western meats are also
stiff, while country qualities are dull
and lower. Sugars have fallen a shade,
the demand being slack. The ex-
tremely hot and dry weather is fine
for cotton, but corn is beginning to
need showers very much.
FLOUR AND MEAL-Jobbers are
holding the better grades strong and
prices are for XXX "a 70 to "a So per Dbl
family, IS 50 to So rs, choice Sc OOg6 rs.
patents $72597 So per Dbl. Cornmeal easy
at So OF to 50 10 in round lots and l0c
higher in a small way.
FEEDSTUFFS-Corn is in steady de-
mand at 5S@59c for mixed and e3c for
dry white per bushel in a small way
Oats are in liberal supply at As c per bu
in lots and 81 c from store. Bran irregular
at $12 501$l4 per cwt. Hay
dull and slow to sell at Sl6 to S18 so per
ton for mixed and choice western, and
$l3 90 per ton for southern prairie,
small orders 81 to 81 10 per ewt.
ESCULENTS-Potatoes are unsettled
at 81 80 per Dbl measure and 81 0C
to 50 % from store. Onions, scarce at 81
pur Dbl. Cabbage slow at 50 50 per crate
FRUITS-Raspberries 81 90 per q
pint case; green. rpples 81 so perbbl meas
ure. Bananas plentiful and weak at 81 90
to 81 80 per bunch. Lemons So 30 to 81 sc
per box. Oranges So 80 to So Copper box.
Dried apples 3 to 81 C per ID.
POULTRY AND EGGS-Ohickens
= HI AN..f.,~ - 40 .,.I m IL -. L..
for old, and dull; young, 81 Is to u 90 for
small, and slow; well grown, 81 to 81 Ii
and fair demand. Eggs 10 to lie per
doz for fresh, and irregular.
BUTTER-Fresh grass country is in
fair demand at 10 to 18c per ID; prairie
IS to zoe; common do, 12to l5c; western
slow ut Is to 22c; creamery. rs to 2Sc
butterine, 16 to lie aud dull.
MEATS AND LARD-Jobbors' casl
prices are for smoked shoulders 81 to &c
do C. ribs "a TO 95sc; do sides 9% t,
9Hc, hams liz TO l15sc; breakfast bacor
II to llhc; mess pork sl8 Is per Dbl
bulk shoulders 81 exc; do c ribs 81 t
SIC; do sides 9 to91s; country meats, ~
less. Lard, 11% TO 1l5sc for ties, llAl
kegs and hf hbls and II 70 l21c for pals
HIDES-Prices easier dry hint No.
161Ic No. 2 lS1Sc; green salt No.
sac; No 2, o.; tallow, 6kG beeswax
20c; wool very dull at 10 to Doc as pc
quality.
WOOL-Unwashed bury 10 10 l5c pc
pound, Clear do Is to 25c per lbi WasheI
do rs to 35c.
NAILS Quiet at 50 10 per Ike
rates.
SUGAR-Market quiet. N. Y. brown
Sc do G, 81 TO 8Ac; standard A, l0c. o
, A SIC to 994c granulated, lie; powdere
lie; crushed and cut loaf, llHc. Molasse
quiet at "a to Acc per gal.