Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-02-23
General Trade.

High water is having a bad efec.
upon trade. Freight rates by rail anC
river from Cairo here have been ad.
vanced, Last quotations were 1915
per cwt by rail, but the difficulty O.
making transfers at Cairo has caused
prices to go up. AS yet the figure,
are withheld. A good demand pre-
walls for cornme cal at stiff values. Flour
is quiet, with the lower and medium
classes scarce and in improved de.
mand. Corn is in brisk request, anG
steady. Other feedstuffs are in light
jobbing movement only. Southern
prairie hay is reported under way By
St: Francis river steamers, and con-
signments have been sold ito arrive
The seed potato traffic is quite brisk
and all good stock is meeting ready
sale at full prices. The apple trade is
about over for the season. Captain
Gregory, the last of the hatboat
people, will close out within a few
days, and expects to go home by the
first of next week. He is now closing
out his cargo Of 24O0 bbls Cave-in.
Rock potatoes. Only about twelve
Hatboat cargoes have been disposed Of
here during the entire season. Cen
orally thirty or forty cargoes find a
market here, but this year failed to
furnish that number for lack of stock.
FLOUR AND MEAL. = Jobbers
quote prices rs follows. Common to GOOD.
81 65 to 8 rs per Dbl; family, Sc 50a6 rs;
fancy, Sc 75a7 so; patents, So 0OaS so.
Cornmeal SO 90a3 95 per bblin lots, and 10c
higher for small orders.
FEEDSTUFFS. Corn 72a74c per
bu for feed qualities in round
lots and SOC for white; small orders
3 to &c higher. Oats in lots 63a54e per
bu; and in a small way 5Sc; rust proof on
orders, 80a82c; bran scarce at $26 per ton,
and 81 30a1 30 per cwt for wheat and
S15a16 per tor. for corn bran; hay
quiet at $16 to 20 so per ton from
first hands, and 81 00af Is per cwt;
prairie hay Toe per cwt.
ESOULENTS.-Potatoe active for seed
classes at SO 90 to 81 90 per Dbl. as per
quality; onions 50 rs TO 8 % for sound;
sweet potatoes So 20 to 4 % per Dbl;
cabbage 50 80 to 6 CO per crate, as
per quality; kraut very fiat at
81 75a5 for hf and So to Ii for whole
bbls from jobbers; white medium beans.
W 6ba4 90 per buj peas, $2a2 80 per bu, as
per quality, turnips slow at 81 % per Dbl;
celery, Coo per bunch.
FRUITS. = Green apples scarce at
W b0a5 30 per Dbl in lots, and at
retail the movement being light; dried
do easy at 5Ha6Ac per ID; peaches
dull at 3Ha4c per ID for lots, and
In q small way lc higher; cram
berries, $l2 per Dbl; oranges So to 8 Is per
box for Palermo and Messina. and SIS so
for imperial; lemons 81 50a4 90 per box;
bananas 81 to 2 30 per bunch; raisins So to
3 so per box.
POULTRY AND EGGS.-Chickens,
" oOaS 70 per doz, as per quality; turkeys,
W to IL per doz for live, and 1910 14c per
10 for dressed geese dull at $3a3 90 per
dozi ducks ~ 70 to 3 30 per doz. Eggs
26a28c per doz and scarce.
BUTTER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
butter 3S to 4Sc per ID, the latter for
giltedgei Western, "a to 26c; fancy dairy,
2SaSOc; Western cooking, l8a2Oc Ky and
Tenn, lSa2Oc common, l2al5c; country,
l6alSc; butterine, l8al9c. Cheese, 9Ia
loo per ID, as per quality.
PR0VISI0NS.-Bulk meats rule as
follows for cash; Shoulders, 6Na7Lc perl b;
Q r l0al016c; clear, 10hal0%c; bacon not
moving breakfast bacon, 18al3Hc;
hams, l2Hal2Ac; mess pork, $40 so per
Dbl lard, in %tierces, llAa12c; hf bbls and