Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-09-12
ON AND OFF 'CHANGE.

COFFEE firm.
NAILS are strong.
PROVISIONS are weak in st. Louis.
The flour market continues strong.
The sugar market continues excited.
SALT fish continues firm at quotations.
Corn, wheat and oats are lower in Chi
cago.
THE produce market was quoted firm
yesterday.
DEPRESSION was the rule in the Chicago
provision market.
The provision market is strong and firm
for lard and meats.
DECLINE was the word in st. Louis
grain and provisions.
ST. LOUIS reports flour steady and corn
meal firm-quotations unchanged.
VERY little change in the Kansas City
grain market, but all looking down.
The Grocery Committee continue to re-
port no Louisiana sugars in market.
HENRY SoLARI, who has been sick abed
several days, was on Change yesterday.
The committees are actively at work on
the preliminaries to the grand formal
opening of the Cotton Exchange building,
October 18th.
MoYsToN is going to photograph the
Merchants Exchange membership. 1t
will take the press gang to make that pict-
ure complete.
THE Memphis Grain Elevator reported
in store yesterday 70S7 bushels and $3.50
sacks of corn, and 921 bushels and 4740
sacks OF oats.
The new Cotton Exchange building was
crowded with lady visitors yesterday,
several OF whose names are among the
list of visitors printed below.
CHAs. Q. Hoist Of Lucy Station has an
ear of corn on exhibition at the Mer-
chants Exchange remarkable for its large
proportions. Lucy beats the world on
/ corn.
AFTER October 18th the rules of the
Merchants Exchange will be rigidly en-
| forced as to admittance. No one admitted
| except members or non-residen;s accom-
panied by members.
A PROMINENT bank was yesterday in re-
| ceipt of the following letter, postmarked
Brownsville: "Pray to the. devil to make
| all preach that commit crime. A men,"
| The writer did not calculate for an audi
| ence.
THE vacancy in the Board of Directors
| OF the Merchants Exchange, caused by
the death of ]. A. Hunt, has been supplied
| by the election of @. @. Helm of J. T. Far
gason d Co. Mr.. Helm was also appointed
a member of the Finance Committee, in
place of Mr.. Hunt.
MIS- E. M. CHELLIs of Brownsville was
in the city yesterday, and will probably
come to Memphis to establish a ladies'
fancy work and art needle work emporium
She was looking at rooms in the Gotten
Exchange building.
| CERTIFICATES of membership to the
Merchants Exchange can now be pro-
cured for $50. The membership is linn,
tied to $50, of which number there are
now 303, leaving only AZ to be supplied
to complete the full membership. Those
who do not secure certificates previous tc
January lst, will haYe to pay S125 fol
them after that date.
MERCHANTS EXCHANGE visitors: Mrs
A. ]. Holroyd and Mrs. E. NJ. Ellis
Brownsville; Daniel Bond and A. w
Chambliss, Brownsville; Sam Morgenthsn
Cincinnati; Wilbur Robbins, st. Louis
Miss Callie Moore, city; Miss Carrie Dent
} Vicksburg; D. H. Hamilton, Wittsburg
} P. G. Hicks, Arkansas; G. F. Weller, st
Louis; r. G. McCurley and B. B. Bethel
Des Arc; r. /. Mays, Delta; J. D. Atchin
J son, Columbus, Miss; s. b. Hamlet
Loves; Miss Allie May James and Mes
| uaInSB w w. JdlueS anu M n ~ efluSUu
city; Sol Applebaum, New York; Mes
danes N. Pinckney, Pueblo, Col, and E
| NJ. Durham, city.
CoTroN EXCHANGE visitors: Misses Hes
ter Sautory, Matte Shankle and Annie
: Ssutory, New York u. Gusdofer and wife
Vicksburg; w. D. Roberts, Dyersburg; 81
@. Porter, Rewbern; E. j. Crossett, De
| View, Ark; Mrs, Elise Shepherd and Mis-
Maggie Minor, city: Misses Csllie Moore
city, and Carrie Dent, Vicksburg; Loui
Volmer, Little Rock; w. J.. Mcdonald
, Newport, Ark: G. B. Howry, Oxford; .
81. Hamilton, Wittsburgi P. @. Hicks, Al
, kansas J. w. Small, Bartlett; j. A. Tug
Z gle, Capleville; Mrs. A. ]. Holroyd, Mrs
e Z nj fhAlIis R-"~nsvii,~. @ d -
|, Loves; viii f. Gage, city; W. T. Char
man, Randolph; B. Nj. billiard, Baldwin
W. w. Mathis, Clsrksdale.
J "WHAT are those handsome tables for,
i asked a visitor to the Merchants E.
change yesterday during business hour
, 81 don't see any one trading at 'em
Where ! come from we amt got no e.
change, but l could go to the marke
house every day and get any amount {
any line OF trade / wanted, and at th
!; lowest figures they conld he bought TO
" and you bet your sweet life there was 4
a monkeying with the market there" TT
J; old gentleman's remark contains a NOR
% that our Memphis merchants would pro-
by studying. II they can't come theI
Q selves to the Exchange, let them ser
u samples and representative OF the
house. In such way only the utility OF Il
le Exchange can he realized.
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