Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-05

lnoiement weather prevailing alm0s
without intermission until eight day
since wholly prevented out of dool
work. The river at Cairo has dechnet
fully 3 feet since It began TO recede OF
Tuesday last, and rapid fall is nov
anticipated. Business has been fairly
active, especially in q retail or small
jobbing way. Receipts of -four here
for the week include 1860 bbls, anC
dealers are we'll supplied, the tone o.
values ruling easier. Corn meal is in
very scant local demand and only III
bbls have been received from the
North. Our local mills continue Il
supply the trade, and some 1000 bbll
of home ground have been shipped
South from here within the past two
weekS,lyielding:fair returns to millers
The shipping demand is, however
falling of and will not continue much
longer. Corn has arrived freely, the
weeks receipts being equal to 600
SKIS, and prices are cheaper. Oats are
quiet for feed classes, and receipts for
the week sum up 1850 SKIS. Seed quail.
ties are dull and droopy. Bran has
ruled high with a very scant supply,
the weeks receipts being 336 sacks.
The entire receipts Of wheat here for
the past two months have been but
1929 sacks. Hay exhibits improved
feeling, and the weeks receipts sum
up 2lOO bales. also six cars Southern
prairie. Potatoes are active and firm,
the weeks receipts being 3lOO bbls,
nearly all for dealers account, and the
few consignments were readily taken
at full prices. Sales Of Western rose
on the landing were made at 50 per
Dbl. Few p. BIS. are coming in, the
recent food in the lower Ohio having
prevented shipments. Apples are
scarce and higher, the week. total re-
ceipts being $50 bbls, and onions are
quiet, with receipts since Monday last
ot25O bbls. The meat market has
been in a varying condition, and dur
ing several days Of scarcity values
we're so unsettled as to render quota
tiOnS nominal. The feeling is consid
erably easier at the close, and prices
rule lower. The weeks receipts Of
dry sailed out meats include 43 car
loads, besides liberal quantities Of
hams and other classes in tierces, etc.
The poultry market is firm, especially
for desirable offerings, and chickens
rule stiff with q ready demand. Game
has been in light offering, the season
being nearly over. Eggs are droopy
and incline downward. But for q
shipping demand for northern account
prices would doubtless have let down
some time ego. The number sent away
from here is not far below 10000
dozen. n itl1
FLOUR AND MEAL - Dealers
quote single bbls Of -four as follows.
Low grades. "a 90 to 4 10 per bbl family
IS TO 6 2per Dbl; patents, So 50 to $50
per Dbl. Cornmeal, in lots, 81 85a2 80 per,
Dbl, and l0c higher in small way.
FEEDSTUFFS-Corn from first hands
68a60c for.car and drayload lots in sacks,
and &c higher in 3 small way. Oats, 49a
SIC in lots and atretail for feed classes:
black seed 49a56c; rust proof, Coo in lots
and higher in small way. Hay, Sl4sl6
per ton and S0a90c per cwt for Western
mixed and clear timothy; prairie, So 5Oa9
per ton and Soc per cwt; seed meal, 81 90
al 05 per cwt in small way. Bran,$l 10
al 10 per cwt at retail for wheat, and SIS
per ton for corn bran.
VEGETABLES-Seed classes of pota-
toes sell ina small way at $eaS rs per
Dbl, as per quality; tabl6 varieties, 50 50s
2 10 per bbl sweets, 81 50a2 % pbr bbl.
Onions, 81 65a276. Turnips, 81 Is. Cab
bage, s3a4 Is per crate; new beets, Soc per
doz; celery, 40a5Oc; beans, 81 6Oa8 90 per
bu, as per quality; peas 81 25a2 Is per
Blu, as per quality,
FRUIyS-Choice apples are scarce, and
sound sell al 81 GO to eco per Dbl, as
per quality; dried, 8 to 7c per Id;
peaches, dull at 81 10 &c per ID; lemons,
50 to 3 so per box; oranges SO to 3 so per
box and " to rs for cases; pineappies,
sSa4 per doz; raisins $Sa4 per box.
POULTRY AND EGGS = Chickens
81 50a5 go per doz, the latter for choice
hensi turkeys, SIS to 20 per doz for
live and l8a2Oc per ID for dressed; geese,
81 so to a5 per doz for live; dressed scar;
ducks, $4a4 30 per dOE eggs IA to l6c
per doz.
GAME ANDFISH-Ducks 81 so to
2 so per doz, the latter for mallard and
teal; quails, 81 Goal rs per doz, squirrels
81 to rs per doz; rabbits 81 80 to 10
per dol Reelfoot fish 6tosc per ID.
BUTTER AND CHEESE-Butter il
10 t. zoo per ID as per quality for coun-
try; Western cooking, Is to l8c per ID;
medium dairy, 20a22c per lb; fancy do,
25c; creamery S8 to 40c; butterine, II to
20c per ID; cheese 9lal0c for factory, 14Ia
l6c for full cream, and 15al6c for y a;
round lots lower. rnvr
MEATS AND LARD-Dry salted
meats are quoted at 7Na7lc per ID for
shoulders, and l0aal0He for c r S.
clear do l0sSal0Nc; hams, l29a
lSKc; breakfast bacon 13c; mess pork
SO 0Oa20 81 Lard, in ties, 1l%ai2Kc,
as per quality; kegs and hf bbls, l2al2I<c;
buckets, l2Nal21Sc; hf do, 12Aa1Sc.
Consignments of small jobbing lots Of
bacon jowls sold during the week at 9Ifc
per ID; hams do at l2hc and lard at ia
l2Hc; the latter in pals. - 3lio ! mob
{ COFFEE = Easy at 9xal3fc per
lb for Rio, and 25a26c for Java.
SUGAR AND MOLASSES-Y 9
sugar, 8Na8ic per ID; W c, 8Sa9c; 0 X,
6sa7lc; granulated, 9a9lc; powdered and
cut loaf l0lalOic. 1olasses, 80 to 65c per
se AnnyNn Ann mruo MI.