Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-06-05

rule firm at little or no change from
last week. Sugar and molasses have
been very. quiet, and some grades
of sugar are a fraction of. Coffee is
quiet and without change. Butter
has been in ample supply and its value
is loo per ID below a month ago. La
Dor strikes in the iron mills of Gin
%cinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburg and the
Shenandoah and Mahoning valleys has
unsettled the nail and iron trade.
Many furnaces have been banked up
and work is suspended. Full $4,000
workmen have been thrown out cf
employment about Pittsburg and
Wheeling alone. This stoppage of
production will perhaps be partially
offset by a curtailment Of consump-
ton. The condition Of the Boston boot
and shoe trade is likewise unsatisfac-
tory, and dealers arc acting with eau
ton. Last weeks shipments from
Boston include 30,23O cases, and 1892
cases less than a week before. Sales
of wool in the same market were the
smallest of any week Of the year, foot
ing up 1,l02,728 los, and 100000 lbs
less than the previous week. Last
weeks sales Of tobacco at Louisville
were 1440 hhds, an increase of 40
hhds over same week last year, and
total sales so far this year were 33,472
hhGs, against 32,439 last year, and
37,868 the year before for the same
time. The weather, throughout the
South has been more favorable for
crops during the past week than at
any time during the spring season.
The condition Of cotton, however.
throughout the northern portion of
the cotton belt, as well as in the Mis-
sissippi valley from V~icksburg up, is
not good. Large areas have been
replanted from one to three times, and
stands arc generally poor, while much
of the early paintings is stunted and
sickly. Numerous lowland places are
partially under water, and the river
is again SO high that many are solici-
tous. A rise set in az Cairo last Tues
day. The swell there since then has
been four and a half feet, and though
the water level at Cairo is still full ter
feet below the top mark of the great
overflow, rise of March last, yet it il
high enough to disturb the minds o.
many valley planters. The genera.
opinion, however, is that no serious
injury is likely to result. The water
here is rising a little, but the level is
nearly a foot below the stage of a week
ago,
HFLOUR AND MEAL-Jobbers quote
-four at $5a7 Is per Dbl for common to fancy
and 81 50s8 3 for patents. Corn meaI
scarce at "a LOAD 20 per Dbl from the
mills and 10c higher on orders from
store.
FEEDSTUFFS.-Corn, $50 to 92c per
bu at Wholesale and retail. Oats, 64a67c
per blu in lots and in a small way. Bean,
$40 30 per ton and $1.l5 per cwt for wheat
50 per ton for corn bran, and 81 rs per
cwt for cotton seed meal. Western hay,
$40 to q per ton and 81 l0al 20 per cwt;
Southern prairie, Sc to 8 per ton, and
6Oa65c per cwt.
ESCULENTS.-New potatoes, 81 5Oa
81 10 per Dbl, loose, and so to Toe higher
packed. Onions scarce at S5a5 80 per Dbl.
Cabbage scarce at S6al0 per 100 head.
Stock peas, $2a2 90 per bu.
FRUITS-Green apples 81 25a3 o. per
Dbl, loose and packed. Oranges, Sc 00aT so
per box. Lemons, SO 50a5 90 per box.
Dried apples slow 6a6Xc per h. peaches,
3 to &c do and dull.
BUTTER AND OHEESE.-Al classes
of butter are dull and plentiful; Tenn.
and Ky. grades range from l2H to lsc
per ID; choice prairie Na22c; Western table,
20a22c, as per quality; butterine, l6al7c.
Cheese, IKE for new hf cream; l5al6c
for full do.
POULTRY AND EGGs-Chickens
are 81 IS to $3.50 per doz for old and 81 GOT 10
g for young; ducks, 81 30 per oz; no
demand for geese or turkeys, Eggs, 20
to &c per doE.
MEATS AND LARD-Bacon shout
ders packed are 9Kc per ID; c. T. do, 1854
l2Hc; clear, l2Aa12Bc; bulk clear
sides, llMall%c; Loose and packed c..
r. do, 1lHall5sc; shoulders do, 8%a8Hc;
mess pork, 81 per Dbl. Breakfast bacon,
l4el4Ac. Hams, 14Kal6c. Lard, in
%tierces, 1lAal2c; hf bbls, 12Hal2HG
pals, l2AalSc.
SALT-0hio river salt, 81 40 per Dbl;
carloads, l0c less Liverpool, u 35al TO
in sacks for coarse and fine.
HIDES AND WOOL-Dry flint
hides, l6al6Hc per ID for No. /,
and l2a12Kc for No. 3 dry sailed, l0al2,;
green, 4abc green sailed, 6a7c. Tallow,
615a7c; beeswax, l8a20c. Wool in demand.
BURY 10 to l6c per ID; unwashed clear,
Is to 23c; choiced washed, 80 to Csc.
TOBACCO-Common S8aSsc for
ll-inch plug; choice to fancy, 40a60C
twist,S5a Acc navy, 35a60,; smoking, 30a
SIC for common to fancy. Market dnll.
RICE-Choice Louisiana, SIC per lh
common to prime, 6ha7c.
SUNDRIES.-Jelly, Zoe per pound;
preserves, l2c; pickles, 81 % to 4 so
Tor half and 81 so to s 90 for
whole bbls; cooking oil, 55a65c per gal;
vinegar, l21Sal5c per gal.
BUILDING MATERIALLNew brick
at the yards So 50per NJ; do del, 81 so; ship
/ As.A l..,L IOa IN 80, NJ a.. l.s.L 40 nA.0 In
per 100. Lime. 95ca$l per 8 bu bbls
for Alabama, and 85a90c for Tenn in
~ bu bbls. Cement, 81 50a1 Coo for
Louisville, $240 for Rosedale and So 90 for
Portland; Plaster, - 90.
LUMBER-Per M SIS for rough, SIS
for yellow pine flooring; shingles S3a4 So
poplar lathing 81 10, cypress do, 81 per
thousand.
STARCH AND OANDLEs-Starch
firm at 4hc per ID; full W.T. candles l9la
1dc and firm.