Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-26
General Trade.

M receipts OF LOUISIANA products,
including sugar, molasses and rice,
continue liberal. The arrivals Of
Western and Southern prairie hay
are also in excess of the demand
Meats are also coming in plentiful
quantities. Everything else in feed,
breadstuffs and produce lines is nov
ing slowly and arriving in meagrc
quantities, Traffic, except among
small dealers is not brjsk. Bad roads,
ice INSTRUCTED rivers, and uniavorable
weather has retarded trade 20 a con
siderable extent for some time past.
The -four market is stiff, with.
light stocks and higher quota.
tons. Cornmeal is steady, though
sellers make concession for round lots;
corn moves in very light quantities
and is unsettled in value, with but
little on the market; oats continue
scarce and in demand, black seed in
carload lots are quoted at 52a53c, while
feed qualities are held at 49c. Hay is
plentiful aud weak, with sales slow
Potatoes have sold freely for the past
three weeks and no round lots offer,
while retail dealers anticipate a de
mand for all on hand aud all likely to
be received. A small retail demand
for seed qualities has set 10, and will
probably be brisk a week or two hence
10 apples the supply is ample for the
demand, which is only moderate
Onions are scarce, and small dealers
are about out, with the inquiry good.
Cabbage from the Ohio valley sell
from 6 to loo per head, and from
Louisiana at 50 so to 81 90 per crate.
Butter is in plentiful supply and in.
CLUES toward lower figures, especially
country made. Beans 10 lots are sell
ing at 81 3Oa2 so per bushel for white
medium, and peas at 81 % to l rs.
The egg market is unsettled, and
lower, with the supply plentiful. Ship
ments are noted from here to New Or
leans, to Chicago, Cincinnati and Other
cities, a rather unusual movement for
the season. Poultry Of all good quail
tiles is meeting ready sale upon
arrival at good prices. Game, if 10
good order, also sells freely. A lot Of
Arkansaw pecans sold to day at 4lc
per ID, and Tennessee peanuts at 43c
FLOUR AND MEAL-Single bbls,
by dealers, are quoted at 81 70a5 90 for
family; IS 25a5 70 Tor choice to fancy, and
s. 2ba7 90 for patents. Oornmeal 81 % per
Dbl at the mills and 81 90 in a small way.
FEEDSTUFFS-Corn in SKIS 52a53Xc
for sbelled and Zoe in bulk; ear corn &c
in SKIS and 49c in bulk, all in lots; retailers
charge 3 TO &c higher; oats 48a5Sc for
lots and at retail; black seed in a small
way t5c. Bran firm at $40 90 per ton and
90a95c per cwt for wheat; corn bran $14 90
a15 90 per ton; hay easy and slow 10 sell
at 81 Goals % per ton rs per quality, and
in a small way S5a90e per cwt. Prairie
do 4Sc per cwt and 81 00per ton.
ESCULENTS-Potatoes are firm at
81 25a2 40 in lots for table varieties, ard
81 so in u small way. Seed qualities 81 G5
a3 90 for lots. Retailers charge SO co for
western, So % for eastern and 50 70 for
home growth, Sweets are slow at 81 T5s
225 per Dbl. Onions in demand at 81 70
az so per Dbl. Beans in lots 81 36a2 &C.,
! and al retail 81 50a3 % per bu the late.
for navy. Peas, 81 25af 70 for blackey &
and clay peas; Others not moving. Krau
dull stSl 75a2 Is for hf and So 75a4 20 To-
whole bbls,
FRUIT-Apples quiet and in ample
supply at 50 5Ja4 60 per Dbl rs per quail
ty and gpantity; dried do in good request
at 5a6hc per b; peaches dull at 3Assc;
lemons IS 35a4 90 per box; Valencia
oranges s. 0Oa9 90 per casa. aa.
BUTTRR AND CHEESE-Country
butter plentiful aud dull at l6a2lo as per
quality; creamery Ssai0ci western table
| 12a2lc; do dairy 27a98c; butterine l7a2lc;
! common cooking l6alSci cheese 9al6c, as
per Quality.
POULTRY AND EGGS-Chickens
So 5Oa5 90 per doE, the latter For stiic.ly
choice; geese 81 OOas 0O per do2, the Latter
lior4at dressed; DUCKS A tl94 81 per doz'
and IN demand; turkeys S12 Goals Cd per
ldoz for live, aud l6al8c per pound for
Edrc.aed; eggs weak at l7e peP doz.
CAME-Wild ducks 81 60a3M per
doe. he latter for choice mallard; sqdir-
rel $lal y per doz; que 81 55a2 OBJ rat
bit 81 75a2 IS pc: doz, and " 80 for large
Arkansaw; Reelfoot Ash 6a6c per ID.
MEATS, LARD, ETC.-Small orders
for 1neats are filed ut 6Aa61sc per ID 70,
dry salted shoulders; 9a91sc for clear
ribs; 12kal3c for hams; l2%c for break
fast bacon, $40 per Dbl. for mess pork
Lard, ia tcs, llAlii{c hi bbls and kegs,
11KallMc pals and half pals IL higher,
Hogs dressed, G>saSc,the latter for choice.
Beef 3Xa7c for fore and headquarters.
BAGGIKG AND TIES-lron ties,
81 IS per bundle for pieoed and 81 b5al 60
FOR standard. Twine, l2c per lb. Bag
ging. liable perlb f%orflax, jute and hemp.
SUGAR AND M0LASSE9- Good
common y X sugar, 6AabKc; fully fur,
6a61sci prime, 6Ha83lci y. c, okaIAci