Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-15
General Trade,

The reopening of navigation from
st. Louis south, after being closed
two months, is somewhat important
event to the mercantile trade. Boats
are now under way with consider
able amount of bread and feodstuffs
for our market, and some dealers have
had consiguments of -four on board
and detained by ice above Cairo for
several weeks past. The rate Of
freight by boat from st. Louis is 35e
per Dbl, or Tho per cwt, and free
offerings of wheat bran to arrive are
made at SlS to $l8 50 per ton. The
last sale Of a lot noted here
occurred last week at Sl9 40.
The supply is exhausted,
both in first hand, and among dealers.
Local millers are supplying corn bran
rather freely An over supply of hay
is in the market, the stock Offering
being estimated at from 1900 to 1000
tens, and the buyers are slow to take
hold, The market for it is very dull
with values weak. Corn is firm and
somewhat higher. Prices at st. Loais
have advanced, but in other markets
are not varying much. Cornmeal is
very unsettled. Sales here yesterday
were 81 65 per Dbl for several hundred
bbls; also at 20 20 and again at 80 rs,
while some millers we're asking higher.
having sold all they can supply for sew.
eral days t. come. The price at Sc.
Louis went up 1Oc per Dbl, and with
the freight added St. Louis meal
wonld cost here SO O5 and So 10 per
Dbl. Local mills are, however, sup
plying about all We want here, aud
they are likely to keep it up. But
little has been shipped TO US for sew
eral months, Meats are very unsettled
here, and sellers vary from ! to 10 per
lb in filling their orders. Potatoes
are in good demand, and all arrivals
find ready sale at full quotations, if of
good quality. Poultry meets ready
sale, and eggs are weak and declining.
FLOUR AND MEAL - Jobbers
quote flour firmer, with some inquiry for
lower classes Single barrels sell ut from
50 70 to So, as per quality and at Sc so to
;! 50 for patents. Cornmeal ~ 70a2 80 per
Dbl.
FEED STUFFS.-Corn Is firm at $50
for shelled in sacks, and 64c in bulk. Ear
corn, scarce ut 52c, and in the shuck at
Zoe, all in lots. Retailers charge Base
higher Oats, steady at 49a50c, with fair
demand, at retail j0a52c; black seed,
53c in lots and Doc in a small way; rust
proof at the track 68a70c per bu and nj
retail Toe Bran, unsettled at 81 per ton
in small way, with dealers nearly all out
of supply; corn bran $l4 60al5 per ton
and 75aS5c per cwt. Hay, fat, ut Slla
Ia 90 per ton, as per quality, and S0a9Oc
per cwt for Western; prairie, $7a7 90 per
cwt and 45a5Oc per cwt; cotton seed meal
95caSl per cwt
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in demand
Mt 81 30a2 40 per Dbl for table, and 81 75a
2 90 per Dbl for seed varieties in lots; at
retail S8a3 so for the latter and 80 61a2 IS |
for the former; sweets in light movement
at 81 70a2 per Dbl Cabbage from La, 50 80 |
% 30 per crate krout 81 75a2 10 per half
aHq 81 b0a6 90 per whole Dbl; beans 81 40 |
a3 rs per bush. for white as per dnality
and. quantity po0s do. 81 25a2 90 as per |
quality
FRUITS.-Apples scarce and in light
receipt at g IONA 70 per Dbl as per quail
ityi Dried do active at xa7c per ID as per
quality peaches dull at S1Sa6c. Oranges,
S8a3 % per for Messina and Palermo, and
SO 50 per case for Valencia. Lemons,
81 75a8 80 per box. Rasins, S8a5 per box.
BUTTER AND CHEESE-Coun-
try butter in over supply at l2al8c per
ID, western lSa80c for common TO medium
and choice; butterine l7a2Oc. Cheese 9Kc
for hat factory, l4Jfc for full cream and
25alG for Y A.
POULTRY AND EGGS-Chickens
Of good quality sell readily at $3a4 80 per
doz: poor slow at S2a3 turkeys, in light
supply at sl2 GOALS on per doz for five
and l8a20c per lbfor dressed; ducks, .-'s3a4
per doz; geese 81 0Oa6 90 per doz. riggs
plentiful and weak at l8c per doz, with
Tree offerings at this price.
GAME--Ducks II b0a2 IS per doz;
squirrels, Slal %; quail, 81 75a2; rabbits,
Sl 75a2 Is; venison, scarce at l0c per ID
whole and lSc for saddles Reelfoot Ash,
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