Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-22
General Trade.

The value OF meats is sitter, though
dealers here have not advanced prices.
At Chicago mess pork has regained
the reduction sustained last week, and
is now 35c higher than it was at the
close on Saturday last. In the same
market bulkmeats are Zoe per cwt
above prices of Saturday on sides and
loo up on shoulders, and lard
has also participated in the ad.
vance. Other leading markets
north of the Ohio exhibit
equal stiffness in the line of provisions,
but in grain and breadstuffs the po-
sition is quiet and values about the
same as at the close of last week. Here
corn is extremely dull, with few buy
erS and free sellers. Shelled in SKIS
sold at the elevator yesterday down to
47!c, and many believe it has not yet
touched bottom figures. Oats are
quiet at steady prices, and little is
doing in bran. Hay is exciting some
attention, and sales of strictly choice
new Western timothy are noted at $l7
per ton 10 broken lots. A car Of new
Southern prairie is reported to have
arrived yesterday, the first in ten days
or more. Several consignments Of
new hay for this market detained on
board Of grounded steamers in the
lower Ohio, has compelled dealers
here to supply their pressing needs
by purchase. The -four market is
steady and unchanged, with moder,
ate demand and good supply. Corn
meal is.very dull, with little doing.
The total receipts here since the first
Of the present month have been barely
1900 bbls, and local mills are not doing
muck, though tho nc= one on Wash
ington street is in operation, and
ready to turn out stock as rapidly as
NAV be required. At this time last
wear over thousand bbls of meal was
| necessary to satisfy the requirements
| of this market.
FLOUR AND MEA4.-Single bbli
of -four are sold by dealers gt "a 80 {
Sc 90 for family classes, and So 70 and ii
| for patents. Cornmeal, 2 40 in lots
and Toe higher in a small way.
FEEDSTUFFS.-0rders for corn art
alled at 66a58c per bu in small way.
Round lots are 47ha48c for she'll
ed In sacks, and 44a45c in bulk by the cal
| load. with a weak fsaling, Oats steady
ut 80 20 36c for choice in lots, end 8Sa4OC
in a small way. Wheat bran $l4 per TOT
and S5a90c per cwti corn do, Sll per tor
and 500 per cwti hay, $40 to SIT pei
ton for Western and 65a9Oc per cwt
nrairie nomipally S6a7 per ton and 45a60C
her cwt. Cotton seed meal from store s.
pevS TIMETABLES AND FRUITS-Po
tatoes in single bbls,S 81 l5al 25, loose from
WAGONS 5Oa75c per Dbl; onions easy a
@ S TO 275 per Dbl; old peas 5OcaSl Q
Nor bu and nominal; beans 81 26a2 4
por hi and nominal, Apples per Dbl 90
Isl 25as per quality loesa,aHd 6Oa75c high
or nj retail; dried apples 5 to &c per H. d
neaches dull at 3Na416c; Bartlett pears v
per bu: peaches 25c per q bu box lemon
s6a6 20 per box. No oranges offer,
BUTTER AND CHEESE -orders ar
Allied al i2albc per ID for cooking qualitie
and l6 TO zoe FOR northern dairy cream
ery 20 and 27ci country l6alSc as pc
quality. No movement worth netting L
: cheese. 49,
POULTRY AND EGGS-Ohioken
range from 81 so to 4 10 per doz for yonnl
and 81 so and 8 so for old ducks w 6uaS
nothing doing in turkeys OF geese. Egg
plentiful, at l4al6c per doz.