Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-09-13
ON AND OFF 'CHANGE.

JOHN K. SPEED has returned.
THE demand for cotton is stiff.
WEATHER warm, but doubtful.
CORN and wheat sold higher in Chicago.
THE Kansas City grain market was
slightly off.
THE autumnal equinox approaches.
Look out for storms.
Provisions were dull and not materially
changed in st. Louis.
RECEIPTS of cotton at the ports are
| rapidly increasing daily.
THE clouds and sunshine PLAYED hide
and-seek all the morning. g
J. N. FALLS of G. Falls & Co. has ri
turned from a business trip East.
THE telegraph folks are fixing up their
office nicely. Howard it is to move and
fix up.
UMBRELLA stands are one of the few
needs of the Cotton and Merchants Ex-
changes.
THE demand for cotton is fully equal to
the supply. Factors tables are cleared
every day.
THE new Cotton Exchange is still the
attraction. Wait till the Custom House is
completed.
THE streets are daily thronged:with vehi-
cles loaded with Observation-Disclosures
and exports.
THE st. Louis corn market closed unset
tied, buyers and sellers apart on corn.
Wheat closed higher.
n. NJ. JONES of the coal firm of Brown
& Jones has made application for member
ship TO the Cotton Exchange.
THE happiest people in the world are
those who have secured apartments in the
new Cotton Exchange building.
THE early bird gets the worm on the
cotton market. Buyers often find factors
tables cleared by 8 o'clock in the morning.
ALL but few rooms in the Cotton Ex-
| change building are occupied. Those still
vacant can be had on application to the
| secretary.
The nice pavements surrounding the
| Cotton Exchange building are popular re-
| sorts for ladies and children during the
| early part of the evenings.
MERCHANTS should bear in mind that
| after September 10Th certificates of men,
bership to the Cotton Exchange will cost
$500, and that up to that date they cost
only $3.50.
| ASSISTANT SECRETARY IagHACHE ts the.
Lord pesteIfield of the Cotton Ext,ange.
| Positio to be supplied in the Merchants
| Exchang out temporarily filed by mem
bers Of the eress.
THE man "A the north basement of the
Cotton Exchange building is evidently
getting ready for business. His blinds
1have beer own -Fs --.tch string pulled in
| the past see1-ai days.
The first transaction in cotton.seed meal
this season was made on the board yester-
day. car year delivery sold by W. J.
Chase & Co. to Katzenberger Sons, ct $17
per ton. The next lowest offer to sell was
by R P. Walt, at S17 20.
The owners of the Kit Williams build
ing, opposite the Madison street entrance
of the Cotton Exchange building, would
improve the view from the Exchange by
either painting or stuccoing the walls.
They present an unsightly appearance.
| SECRETARY KEELING of the Merchants
Exchange filed yesterday twelve applica-
tions for membership cert iticates, to take eff
feet October 1st. This will make 315 mem
bers, leaving only thirty-five more to be
supplied to complete the limit of 8 o. The
business man who delays filing his appli-
cation in time, will wake up some morn
ing and find that he will have to pay SIPS
or more for one of these certificates.
CoTToN EXCHANGE visitors: J. J. Wealth
erby, Boliv n; r. NJ. Hill, Clarksville !;
Shelby Compton, Louisville; T F Dunna-
way, St. Louis; S. W. Hargis, Indian Bay
DR.. A. B. Ferrell, Loves, Miss; ]. NJ.
Dean and Miss Cora Dean, CoIdwater,
Miss; Miss Clyde Thornton, city; J. M.
Flora, Brinkley, Ark; L. Openheimer,
Trenton; B S. Callum, La; Mrs. Tulula
aatton, Lagrange; A. Dreyfus, Skipwith
Landing.
MERCHANTS EXCHANGE visitors: Misses
Jennie Isaacs, Polly Rosenthall and Rics
Rosenthall, city, and Miss R. L. Isaacs,
Paris; 7. F. Dunnsway, St. Louis; R. NJ.
Hall, Clarksville; Miss Minnie Taylor and
, Mrs. A. P. Taylor, city; Ms. w. H
| Adams and w. H Adams, Buffalo
! Charles L. Harry, Cincinoati; W. T. Gill
Lagrange, Ark; A. S. Graham, Madi-
: son, Ind; 7. V. Kilgore, Newman, Ga.
G. L. Broaddus, Clarksville; Mrs. Q. g.
! Gregg and Mrs. Matte Simpson, city; DR.
A. B. Ferrell, Mississippi; ]. NJ. Dean
Coldwater; Miss Cora Dean and Clyde
> Thornton, city; S. A. Warner, jr., Jones
+ boro, Ark; John Newhardt, Bartlett; A
; | Dreyfus, Mississippi; Mrs. F. Halter
= Lagrange; W. E. Lee, Huntington; Mis-
3 | NJ. W. Berlin, Fort Worth, and Mrs. III
7 Sigler, city.