Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-19

chandise market is anticipated week
or two hence, as dealers are already
preparing to lay in stocks for their fall
traffic.
FLOUR AND MEAL-The -four mar
ket is steady, with buyers taking sparng-
ly. Extras are jobbing at "a % to B rs
per barrel family choice and fancy at
Sc 90 to co. patents, 81 so to 90 corn
meal is in moderate demand and firm ut
So 95 per barrel in round or dray
load lots, and 10 cents higher on small
orders.
FEED STUFFS- Corn is in demand
and light supply and held at 64c per
bushel for mixed; small orders
&c higher. Oats firm and in fair
request at 4Sc per bushel; in
small way, so. Bran is quiet at SIG per
ton and SOC per cwt. Feed meal, Sl4 per
ton. hay easy and nominal, poorer
classes at $12to 10 per ton; strictly choice
scarce at SIT to Is 90 per ton; per cwt, soc
to 81 90; southern prairie slow at s. W
per ton.
ESOULENTS-Potatoes in light local
movement at 81 30 to ! % per barrel
measure from wagons, and 50 to ZIG
from store. Onions, 81 rs to 90 per bar
rol. Cabbage, So to 3 50 per crate. Toma-
toes 50c per one-third bu box.
FRUITS-Apples, slow sale at 75c to
so per barrel, according to quality.
Peaches, 40 to Toe per one-third bushel
box. Georgia watermelons, $40 to 30 per
one hundred. Lemons, scarce and high
all over the country; sales here being at
$40 to II 90 per bushel box. Oranges
scarce at 81 to s 90 per barrel
POULTRY AND EGGS = Young
chickens are in steady demand at 81 90 to
2 so per dozen, as per size; old do, ~ so
to 3 90, Young ducks, 81 so to 2 10 per
doz. Eggs irregular at to &c for western
and 10c for fresh Tennessee.
BUTTER-Quiet; country stock II T.
l5c; strictly choice and well handled i
49, western table, 16 to lSc; fancy dairy
Is to 20; creamery rs to 27c; butterins
dull at 1Gc.
PROVISIONS - Market active and
firm. with an upward tendency bacon
shoulders, ~ to SC; bacon clear ribs, 10H
l0Hc bacon clear sides, 1875 to 10%c;
bulk shoulders, 7G7Hc; do clear ribs,
9H09ssc; do sides, 97s9lOc; break
fast bacon, 11H to 1lAc; hams, liz
@8c, do clear ribs, 1910 1glSc; do sides,
@l2c mess pork, quiet at $40 per
Dbl; lard, excited; ties 12K@1234c hif
bbls and kegs l29zc pals 13M@14c.
HIDES Market; weak dry flint No.
Ice; No 2l9@131lc; green salt No. |,
| SIC; No 2, 6ili tailow, 5iGc; beeswax,
zoe.
W0OL-Unwashed bury 10 to 15c per
pound, Clear do 10 TO 25c per H.. tub
washeddo % to S5c.
NAILS Unsettled and weak at So 95
per keg rates Round lots slightly less.
SUGAR-Market quiet. N. Y brown,
re; do O, 9to 918c; standard A, 10 to 1913
of A, l0c; graduated, lie; powdered,
Ike. crushed and cut loaf, HE. Mo-
lasses quiet st 81 to Acc per gal.
COFFEE-Firm 1T l0Kto loo per ID for
Rio and "A to 26 for Java.
BALING STUFFS.-Market quiet, at
TO lie for bagging, as in quality;
Irvine, Ice per lb; ties, 81 90 for standard,
and 81 60 to 81 Is for other qualities.
RICE-Demand far ut to 6 per ID
for medium qualities.
LIVE ST0OK-Butcher cattle have
been 10 moderate supply during the past
week Several droves Of Texas and home
raised arrived, nearly AL meeting ready
sale at 81 50 to SO IS grass fer Texas me
dunn to choice and 81 to SO 81 for
home raised; yearlings 50 to Sc per head
Mich cows SIS to $25. Sheep in light
demand at 81 to II so per head for com
mon and to SIC per pound Tor butcher
mutton. Lambs in demand a. So to So
each. Hogs slow at to 4He per ID.
RTTTJDING MATERIAIi-Tenn
see lime So to SOC per Dbl; Alabama do
95 to 81; Louisville cement 81 20 to 81 IS;
Rosedale 50 to 81 10 Portland IS; Plaster
&c paris 81 So, RFlcI $40 so per 1000 for
hard Sud 50 for sefS Fire do 81 to 4c
each.
and a ;obbers sci, rs follows: Kits, No. /,
75c; No. 2, Csc; No. 8, 60c. Eff. bbls: No ! Q
/. So Is; do No. 2 and No. 8 large, s. 50.
SALT-From store. 81 40 to 81 70 per
sack for Liverpool coarse and line ONO
river, 81 so to 81 60.