Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-09
General Trade.

biC AAOcu OOhoHASAO0o ANaNhASb W
traffic at the present time, the first on
account of its unsettled and, until
three days ago, steadily declining con.
dition, and the other because values
have advanced straight along for sew
eral months past, until prices have
reached an unexpected altitude.
Owners of hogs in the Northwest,
knowing the crop is small, are reported
to be holding them back, with a view
of making them as heavy as possible;
and corn being abundant, as we'll as
cheap, it cannot be used
better or more proGtably
than to fatten hogs for the fall and
winter packing, and they are counting
on 74c gross as late as the end of next
month. Last weeks total paekings in
the Northwest figures $4,000 hogs less
than for the same week last year, and
the total decrease since March LIST, as
compared with last year is l,275, 900
hogs. The value of clear rib pork
advanced here tie past week Go per
ID, clear rib bacon TO-, and mess pork
81 per Dbl. Clear side bacon advanced
in the Northwest &c per ID, but this
market is bare of that grade, as it is
also Of breakfast bacon and clear
ribbed, dry sailed meat, Lard is &c
higher than two weeks ago. Flour
is in good consumptive demand,
our receipts the past week being 3lOO
bbls, while prices remain wholly I'm
changed. Wheat is firm, and has ad-
vanced 2 to &c per bushel in the West.
Oornmeal has been very scarce for
several days, the total weeks receipts
being but $50 bbls, and as high as
50 80 per Dbl has been paid between
dealers. Freight rates from st. Louis
by river, owing to the water having
shoaled to scant five feet, have been
advanced to 80 cents per Dbl, and this,
added to a general scarcity of old
grinding corn, has sent prices up CON
siderably. The value of old corn in
the West has advanced 6 to 70 per Blu
the past week; here it is nominal, the
market being about bare, our total ar.
rivals for the past ten days being but
little more than 100 sacks. Oats are
in good supply, last weeks receipts
! including l0l6 sacks, while the tone is
firm. Values have advanced &c during
the week. Hay has been scarce, ar
rivals Of Western for three weeks
counting less than $50 bales and prices
are higher; while a scarcity Of South
ern prairie has stiffened the value Of
this class also. Butter is easier and a
shade lower. Eggs were up to 2Oc
early in the week, but have fallen
, Chickens are also less active at
cheaper prices. The value of nails,
owing to scant stocks, is held
above rival markets, though
a weaker tone is reported and manu-
faGturers offer to supply the trade at
much lower figures than has hereto
fore ruled. No variation has occurred
} in rice, coffee, or sugar and molasses
The first shipment of the new Crop
of sugar went into the New Orleans
market on Wednesday last from st,
John the Baptist parish, north of the
city, and sold for SIC fer yellow clari
fed, while tho second shipment Of
new molasses also went into the same
market and sold for Soc per gal. The
crop promises to be large and is of su.
perior quality. The same may be said
of the cotton crop. The staple il
superior, the fruit heavy, and SO fal
the weather has been splendid
: Throughout the cotton belt. There
I Mas as yet been no sign Of frost in the
Q cotton belt, though in past years kill
. ing frosts have frequently occurred
!, during the first week Of this month.
FLOUR AND'MEAL-Jobbers sci
-four at from STAT SO per b'l as per grade
and 50c higher for patents, round lots %,
less. COrnmeal firm and scarce at So 81
per Dbl,
FEEDSTUFFS-Corn $50 per bu 70
= old, and 4ba50c for new ear, the latte
, being dull and slow to sell. Oats 42a430
T, per bu in lots, and 46a47c in q small way
d Bran Sl5 per ton and S0a85c per cwt
Hay Sl2al6 80 per ton for Western; prim.
10 choice timothy, commanding from Sl4I
l6 90, at retail S0a90c per cwt; Southern
: prairie, So 25a6 SO per ton, and 4'aj0 pc
cwt.
n VEGETABLES-P ,tatOes 81 75al 81
y per Dbl for peerless and early rosS S2a2 l
J forpeachblOws and russets; at retail 30a5O
higher; onions 81 Goal IS per Dbl il
. lots, and $2a2 Is at RETAIL cabbage
Is So per 100 head; white medium beans
n 81 IS per bu in lots, and 81 75a3 90 in
y small way;oelery 5OaGlc per doz.
70 FRUIrS-Sound apples are in demanl
d and sell ut 81 50a2 81 per Dbl as per siz
and order, inferior lower; jobbers charg
from 25a50c above the foregoing figures
10 dried apples in fair request ut 3a5lc pc
&C. 10 in lots and in a shall way; orange.
!, S6a7 per Dbl; lemons, S5a6 so per boz
n ~raisins sSa4 per box.
A. POULTRY AND -EGGS-Chicker
: sell at from $2a4 per doz; ducks 50 J0a8 I
D. per doz, eggs, tl7al8c per doz.
lg BUTTER AND CHEESE-Jobbe