Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-03

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count at 21c. The purchaser evident
ly have more money than they know
what to do with.
General Trade.
1t has been showery nearly all ovel
the South during the past week, but
navigation in small rivers has not i'm.
proved and all southern tributaries
are very low. In this immediate
vicinity the rainfall was light. The
river hence to St. Louis has deepened
to full eight feet, and large boats now
carry full cargoes without detention
or trouble, the ruling freight rate
being zoe per cwt. In the Ohio the
water is still too low for regular pack.
cts to resume business. The steam
boat cotton trade hence to New Or.
leans has opened, the mammoth car
rier Henry Frank coming up to Hell.
ena a few days ago and turning back
from that point. The iron cotton boat
Chouteau is under way from New
Orleans, and will be here for a return
trip south this week. Business has
ruled quite active in most lines. Cot
ton receipts and sales were heavy,
while prices are ] to ic higher than
ruled this day last week. Manufac-
tured goods are quoted firm in the
East, with an upward tendency, while
woolens are strong and a general ad-
vance of 5 per cent is noted. The
value Of soap, candles, starch, etc, is
higher. An advance is reported in
iron goods and raw material South is
SOC to 81 per ton above last weeks
prices, with an active demand. Trade
in this line is very active, and the de-
mand for nails at Pittsburg is un-
precedented, while fouhdries South
are declining orders until those on
hand are caught up with and satisfied.
Whisky is lc higher than last week
and above any previous figure touched,
with the feeling firm and upward and
a very active demand in supply mar
kets West. At all the larger cities a
brisk traffic rules in every line, the
drought of | st summer having SEEM
ingly influenced no Oppressive effect.
Our local trade is in healthy promise,
the high prices of breadstuffs, provi-
sions and other necessaries being the
only serious feature, its effects falling
heavily upon the poorer classes. A
leading item of change was an advance
of 13c per cwt on cotton freightage
from here to the Eastern seaboard
and announced by railway agents
about the middle of the week.
FLOUR AND MEAL-The market
for -four is steady, with a good demand
for low qualities, and fair movement in
all classes. No advance has been estab-
lished here during the week, though
prices are 10 to 25c per Dbl higher in
Western markets, where wheat has been
unsettled, and is | to &c higher. Jobbers
here are filling orders at the following
prices, car and dray load lots being Is to
25c cheaper: X, 81 rs to S. 21 Xxx, SO %
to 81 25; xxx, 81 so to 81 rs; choice to
fancy, IS to IS %; patents, SO. Cornmeal
is unsettled, with limited demand, at So 70
to So 70 in car or dray load lots, and So 80
per Dbl on orders. Receipts Of -four during
the past week, $500 bbls; do meal, 2l50
bbls.
FEEDSTUFFS-The movement in all
classes of feedstuffs has been light during
the week just closed. Total receipts in
clude but 600 SKIS of corn, 450 do oats 600
do bran, and SEQ bales hay, of which sew
eral were ArKansaw prairie. Corn is
quiet, last round lots selling here at 80 to
Sic per bu, both for ear and shelled,at the
landing, or by the car load. Prices in the
West are lKc per blu above last week.
Small orders here are &c per bu above
foregoing figures. Oats are very firm and
tendupward, though last car load lots sold
at &c per bu, the same as previously
ruled. An incident Of the past weeks
transactions was the closing of q 200 0
bushel transaction at Soc per bu, contract
ed for last July at 32c, q clear profit to
the buyer Of 1Sc per bu, total yield $1,000
cash. Retail prices here are Do to 81 per
bu. Bran has ruled weak, sales being VA
per ton, and by the cwt 81 %; corn bran
$18 per ton. Hay firm and tending high
er, with first dealers quoting at $lS to $22
per ton for Western, and Sl2 for South
ern prairie. Retailers charge 60 to
Coo per cwt for the latter, and 81 10 to
81 10 for timothy.
ESCULENTS-Potatoes are stiff, and
choice sound are held higher. Sales Of
car load lots of good Western were at
So So per Dbl. On Saturday several car
loads fine large N. Y. rose arrived and
met free buyers at So so per Dbl. Retailers
were selling at So 70; poorer classes are
from 81 90 to So 25 per Dbl Sweet pota-
toes are slow at 81 50 per bu and Sd % per
Dbl. Cabbage have been plentiful and
weak, selling down to $40 to Gil per 100
head, a goodly number being cut up into
kraut; the latter is jobbing at IS to IS so
per hf, and $15 to SIG per Dbl. Onions
are weak and slow, at So soto & per Dbl;
beans scarce at So 70 to 81 for white me-
dunn; dried green peas 81 per bu.
FRUITS-Apples in lots at the track
sell at 1925 to So for Roman beauties and
other species in sound order, inferior lower.
Jobbers sell from 81 rs TO 81 90 per Dbl
dry do in good inquiryat ~ to8Kc perlb;
evaporated l4c;peaches s to &c per lb,green
peaches lb to 75c per Is bu box; Gran
berries 81 to IS per Dbl for cultivated
medium, lemons $40 per box oranges
81 do.
POULTRY AND EGGS Chicken:
have ruled unsettled, small inferior stock
being hard TO sell at any price until Sat.
urday, when oil classes found buyers and
the market was brisk; late in the day lib
eral arrivals caused dizziness; prices arr
50 to So % for coed hens, and 81 90 81 II
for small size to fair; turkeys are coming
into notice, and sell at Sc TO $40 per doz
geese also, but dull at SO so per doz; duck
" 10 TO So. Eggs rule weak at l6 to lS,
per doz.
PROvISIONS-The market has rule,
unsteady, though prices exhibit no nd