Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-07

~SAH ~ eeSAAhph w pei but Will y
decreased demand and droOpy tone.
Receipts for the week, 115O SKIS. Oats
are IL TO l3c per bu below last weeks
figures, the receipts being 1150 SKIS.
Western hay has sustained full value,
with receipts for the week Of 600 bales.
Prairie hay is very dull, with
liberal receipts. Whisky has
declined Sc per gallon. Coffee has
advanced to per pound; also rice,
while sugar exhibits no variation of
Importance. Meats are sc up on
smoked ribbed and clearsides and to
up on dry salts, while lard is to per
pound higher. The total weeks pack
ing in the West was 10000 hogs, an
increase over the previous week of
1900 hogs; yet $4,000 hogs less than
for the same week last year. The
total packingS since March LIST sum up
100000 hogs, a decrease Of $4,000
as compared with last year for the
same period, and the average this
year for the past p weeks has been
100000 hogs per week, or about To-
100000 lbs per week, considering that
this years hog crop has been unusu.
ally light in weight. The weight at
some points average 1913 lbs per hog,
against 23l lbs last year. The supply
has run so low that many packers are
shutting down and will not reopen
until fall, when prospects indicate a
full average crop. The prospect Of a
heavy corn crop gives promie Of lower
prices in the early fall.
FLOURAND MEAL-The -four trade
is quiet with jobbers quoting at So rs TO
5 D per Dbl for lower qualities; SIS so to
8 70 for choice to fancy family, and 81 to
8 80 for patents Cornmeal "a per bbl in
lots and l0c higher in 3 small way.
FEEDSTUFFS-Corn 81 to 95c per bu
in lots and at retail; oats As 10 48c; bran
Sl4 to 10 per ton, and 85c per cwt for
wheat; hay S22 to "a per ton, and 81 &c
to l 25per cwt for Western; prairie Sc to
7 per ton, and 45 to 50c per cwt.
ESCULENrS = Potatoes, from store
~ 25a2 so per Dbl; sweets So 25a9 25 per
Dbl; onions quiet at 81 80 per Dbl; cab
bage $2a2 % per crate.
FRUITS-Apples, per Dbl 50 to 2 80
Peaches 20 TO 95c per box. Water.
melons, $l8a20 per 100. Lemons,
Sc 60a7 per box. Raisins, $3at per box.
CHICKENS AND EGGS-Chick.
ems are 81 % to SO 25 per dozen.
as per quality. Eggs, l4al5c per doz fol
fresh and strong.
BUTTER AND CHEESE.-Good
country butter Is to z5c. West.
ern table and fancy dairy, 22a25c:
creamery, Soc per ID. Cheese, nominal
at l2Hc for factory; loo for cream and liz
per ID for Y. A.
MEATS AND LARD-Quotations ara
for bacon shoulders, llal12sc per Dbl; dc
C ribs, l4Hal4Hc; clear, l4Aal6c; bull
shoulders, l0Mal02sc; do CT, l3aNl3Hc dc
clear, 135sal3B.A Mess pork. S23 90 pei
Dbl. Hams 16al5Hc; breakfast bacon
l4Xa15c. Lard in ties, l2%al2Xc; hlf Dbl
and kegs, l2Aal9c; pals, l3alHc, anC
second quality, nc less half do, 1915
l3Ac.
SALT-Ohio river salt, 81 40 per Dbl
carloads, l0c less; Liverpool, 81 S6al u
in sacks for coarse and fine.
HIDES AND WOOL-Dry fin.
hides, l6Kc per ID for No. !
and l2Xc for No. 3 dry sailed, l0al2C
green, 4a6c; green sailed, 7Hac8. Tallow
3ha7ci beeswax, 20a22c. Wool
BURY 10 to Ice per lb; unwashed cleal
10 to 29G choiced washed, 80 to Csc.
TOBACO0-Common 33a3Sc 70
l1-inch plug; choice to fancy, 40a60c
twist, Boa 45c; navy, 35a60t; smoking, 80
&c for common to fancy. Market dnll.
RICE-Choice Louisiana, SIC per II
common to prime, 6Xa7c.
! BUILDING MATERIAL-Lime, 95
81 per Dbl for Alabama and s5a9Oc fo
Tenn. Cement, 81 70al Is for Louisvill,
and 81 80 for Rosedale, Portland SIS. Plas
ter, So 80. Brick, $4a4 so per 100 for fir,
and S9al0 80 per N, for hard. Roug
framing lumber $l5 per M; dressed, d
$50; yellow pine flooring, $25; shingles
Sa4bO; lathing, 81 10 for poplar, and $
for cypress.
.vfNEGAR-Per gal, l2Hc. Cookin
oil, 62a65c.
SUNDRIES.-Jelly, 1Oc per pount
preserves, l2c; pickles, 81 Is to A 8
for half and ST 80 to 800 70
whole bbls.
SUGAR AND MOLASSES-Yello,
a911c and scarce; VIC, 91za9%c; eastern 81
1ar QlZoQTo. rron,,latod fno, o.,L
md pulverized l0Ac; cut loaf l0At
Molasses. nominal.
LUMBER-Per M SIS for rough, 81
or yellow pine flooring; shingles $3a4 Of
poplar lathing 81 10, cypress do, 81 pc
thousand.
STAKCH AND CANDLES-StaroI
irm at 4Kc per Ii; full W.T. candle
l6c and firm. Soap 81 to 6Ac per ID a
per quality.
NAILS-Per keg, IS 60 for ten pennies
and very firm.
COFFEE-Market quiet at 9Hal5H,
per ID for Rio and 24a26c for Java.
MACKEREL-Prices droopy. at 81
for No. 8 large, in hf bbls, and 50c for Nc
l in kits.
BAGGING AND TIES-Jobber:
prices, 9a9Ac per lb, for fax, an,
3Nal0c for jute, as per quality; Irvine
lac per ID.
COAL-Pittsburg per box to river 8
and unsettled; city trade, del, 40
per Dbl; per hid 81 so to 3 60 Anthra
cite $40 SO per ton. Kentucky coal 80
per Dbl delivered.
LIVE STOCK-Cattle are 8 +
41Ic for medium to choice gras
fed,and lA to 2%c for common, Year
lings, "a 90 to 81 10 each; mich COWS
SO to 80 each. Sheep, slow at SO t
4hc for medium to choice. and 5
to 81 90 per head forpoor. Lamb:
scarce at S2a2 30 per head. Hogs nomi
nal.
J, RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
BOATS LEAVING TODAY.
For Friars Point, James Lee.........5 p 1
" Osceola, Coahoma D I
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