Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-06-30
ON AND OFF CHANGE.

Hot!
EGGS s9t0c.
CoTToN steady.
I4isjDLINa cotton, 10ic.
BUSINESS continues dull.
No SHIPMENTS of cotton yesterday.
81. LOUIS reports potatoes easy at 500
65c.
CORN and wheat are up again in Chi
cago.
FLOUR is dull and continues declining in
st. Louis
REczIPTs Of cotton yesterday and Sum
day, 81 bales.
IMPORTS of corn, 1865 bushels; exports,
1896 bushels.
How to kill the hot hours is the study
Of the million.
WHEAT receipts in Chicago were in ex-
cess OF Saturday.
CoRNMEAL was mentioned several times
on the Board yesterday.
PoTAToEs are worth about $1@l 10 per
barrel packed, in carload lots.
Provisions are firm in St. Louis, with a
shade higher for lard and clear ribs.
PoRK closed shade higher in Chicago;
lard unchanged, and ribs a shade lower.
r. g Irwin, Of Tunica county, Misc,
visited the Cotton Exchange yesterday.
RECEIPTS of cotton at the ports, 749
bales, against 1894 bales same day the pre-
vious year.
BU1TER quotations are nominal-dull at
any price-owing to excess in supply of
country butter.
FUTURE cotton dropped 8 to 10 points in
York Unakardou S.,ofu CT
and unchanged.
THE grain elevator reported in store yes
terdav 1859 bushels and 5051 sacks corn
and 1925 bushels oats.
THE rush in the potato trade is about
over. Apples come next, commanding
now from 81 TO 81 % per barrel loose.
ALE II. JOPLIN, BStesville, Ark: R. G.
Cony, Kansas City; +. g. Robbins, Louie
vile, visited the Merchants Exchange.
THE Call Board was full yesterday morn
ing, and much interest developed in corn.
There was a lively list OF bids and offer
ings and some sales effected.
A BOUQUET of cotton blooms from the
fields OF Z. @. Brown, two and half miles
south of the city, was on exhibition at the
Cotton Exchange yesterday.
The representatives of the various or
phan asylums can get their pro rata of the
proceeds of the base ball games played be-
tween the Exchange teams by calling on
SECRETARY Z. A. Keeling, of the Merchants
Exchange.
Two hsli-grown cotton bolls, the first OF
the season within the Memphis district,
were on display at the Cotton Exchange
yesterday. They were shown by r. @.
Irwin, of Tunica county, Miss, who writes
that he has 800 acres full of them. They
were sent through fulmer, Thornton
&Cc,.
A FRESH outbreak Of the war in Europe
was the theme Of discussion at the Cotton
Exchange where corroborative evidence
was seen in the drop in prices of cotton in
New York. Liverpool cotton market re-
ports were not SO strongly confirmstory,
excepting the irregular tone in futures.
HRRBERT GILLIAN, the thrifty farmer of
the Fourteenth District of Shelby county,
| the banner agricultural district OF the
| county, sent to the APPEAL Office yester-
| day the first Tennessee cotton bloom yet
produced. Gillian is now supposed to bs
| laying to capture the first boil, and, still
more, the first bale, of cotton. The APPEAL
is pulling for Gillian.
4 PROMINENT Front street dealer regards
the present d1llness as favorable for
| future business Consumers, on &C.
count Of the scarcity of money, are prac-
ticing the most rigid economy to Keep
from goingfnto debt until the crops mature
and they can realize the promised album
/ dance. They will then have plenty of
| money, and be able 10 purchase what they
want and pay cash for 1t.
CorroN and Merchants Exchange habi=
| tues spent the day discussing the European
war rumoTs. Said one to another: IF the
United States was lying right alongside OF