Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-06
GeneraI Trnde.

DciUic ~ ulu HeIei duu hluCe bucu IL
has fallen over q feet at hal point.
Many believe the water will be inside
Of the river banks before the middle
of this month, unless yesterdays
rains start streams to the eastward on
another freshet. The submerged dis
triots are very extensive and business
is naturally much depressed and large
ly curtailed by the inundation. The
grain market is active, with a brisk
demand for corn and scarcity Of hay.
Prices of the latter exhibit an ad.
vance of a dollar a ton on Western,
arrivals having been light and second
dealers are nearly out. Eight or ten
carloads of Southern prairie ar
rived and sold readily at
from $40 to $13 per ton, as in
quality. Receipts of corn include $500
sacks, also two barge loads of millers'
corn, mainly in bulk, from st. Louis.
Oats and bran have varied but little
in value. Receipts include 1850 SKIS
oats and l2OOsk bran. Receipts of -four
for the week sun up 5000 bbls. Prices
are a little lower on the poorer and
medium grades, with a good demand.
Wheat has fallen 5 to 70 per bushel in
Western markets. Meats have ruled
unsteady, but are not much lower on
any quality, though the tendency
is mainly downward. The packers Of
the West closed their years work last
week, and the total for the season
sums up $4,000 hogs, a decrease
compared with last year of about
81, 200, 900 hogs, or a reduction of 9
fraction over II per cent. The foreign
exports of meat shows a decrease Of
14l, 10000 lbs or the product of 1910,
900 hogs, while in lard thu
shipments were 4O,7l5,OOO les
than the previous year, 0,
the product of 100000 hogs, Cottor
has improved bc per lb for Spot deliv
cries during the week, while deal
ers in futures find a little comfort il
the fact that figures have advanced
from l to II points. In coffee, suga
and molasses no change of importancI
has occurred. Rice is a shade highe,
with a free movement to New York o
the Louisiana product. Eggs hav,
fallen from Zoe to l2!c per doz. Poul
try is without variation of Importance
In potatoes there has been a free job.
bingmovement and light receipts Will
few in first hands. Sweet potatoe.
dropped from 81 % to 81 90 per bbl OF
/, Saturday among jobbers.
FLOUR AND MEAL-Jobbers quot,
flour as follows: common 81 65a5; good
IS 25a6; choice family, 81 00a7 50; patents
81 75a8. Cornmealin lots $425a4 80, OF
orders from store $4 80.
FEEDSTUFFS. - Corn 74a75c pei
bu in lots for mixed, and Ta78c il
orders; white, SIC in lots, and 85c in Q
small way. Oats, 54a55c per bu in lots
and 57a58c in a small way; black seed, 6S
a60c rust proof, 82c, Bran, $25a2G pei
ton for wheat, and 81 80 per cwt; seed
meal, $23 per ton and 81 2Gl
l 25 per cwt; corn bran, SIS per ton
Hay scarce at SIG to q 80 pei
ton for Western, and 81 to / 10 per cwt
Southern prairie, Zoe per cwt, and $lla
II per ton.
ESCULENTS.- Potatoes are iobbinp
at So % to - 60 for table qualities and
SO 80 to 81 90 per Dbl for seed classes
Sweets, "a per bblfrom store. Onions $3a3 sc
n asmail way. Cabbage, 50 50a450pe Der crate
as per quality. Beans, So 65ai 10 per bu fol
wllite medium. Kraut fat at 81 75a5 for
hf and So to IL for whole bbls from job.
bers. Peas, $2a2 so per bu, as per quality.
FRUITS-Green apples firm and scarce
at So 50a6 90 per Dbl; dried dc
easy at 5ha6Ho per ID; peaches
dull at 3Ha4c per ID for lots, and
in a small way 1c higher Gran.
berries, So per Dbl; oranges SO 00a4 so pei
box for Palermo and Messina, and So 6(
forimperial; lemons So 75a4 so per box
bananas 81 to 2 90 per bunch; raisins 50 K
3 so per box.
GAME.-Squirrels, 75c per doz; quai
S1a1 25; rabbit about out of season ut 81 II
per doz; v%enison 8a4c per ID for whole
| nn1 EuI IAVs unHAla1
POULTRY AND EGGs.-Chickens
81 50aS 80 per doz, for live. N,
ducks or geese have offered foi
several weeks; turkeys, SO to l;
per doz for live. Eggs 12al3c per dol
with liberal offerings.
BUTTER ADMINISTRATORS
|, butter 45 to 52c per ID, the latter fol
1 gilt edge; Western, rs to 26c; fancy
dairy, 38a40c Kentucky and Tennes
see, 20a25c; common, l2Gl5c; country
l6al8c butterine, lSa2lc. Cheese, 9X,
l6c per ID, as per quality, and dull.
PROFESSIONALISM meats sell fol
} cash on the spot as follows: Shoulders, 62
a6Kc loose and packed c r 9Aa94o clear
/, l0al0Lc. Time orders are a to &c high
or, hams, 1910; breakfast bacon, PIC
Lard, 1lAal115c for %tierces; l1%c for h
bbls and kegs; l2c for pals and l2Hc fol
; hf pals; tins l21Sc for 10 lbs, 1880 for
lbs and 1910 for 3 lbs.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. quote hf Dbl
No. l at IS Is; No. 2, S51G No. 3, "a IS
Kits, No. ], 90G No. 2, 85c No. 3, 75c.
SEEDS German millet, 81 per bu
+ timothy, SSa3 Is; Hungarian, 81 2g blu
grass, 81 25; orchard, 81 90 red TOP ant
herds grass, 81 TO- clover, IS 76aG; onion set
, 81 bOaSi broom corn, Sl60a2M per ton
brooms, 81 75 TO 4 per doz as per quality
SUGAR AND MOLASSES-Marke
quiet, with jobbers quoting as follows
: w c 9a9kc, y c 8Aa9c seconds do TX,
8hS 0 X 7kaSc; hards 9Kal01Sc. Molas
: ses 46a76c per gal.