Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-08-18
ON AND OFF CHANGE.

EdGs are scarce, selling at 12@13c.
CoRNMEAL is worth. s. 81 at the mill.
CoRNMEAL is g 6092 20 firm store.
CoRNMEAt casy at g O5 in st. Louie
SEVEN and half million bales predicted. |
ST. LOUIS reports flour quiet and un-
changed.
MAJ. JOHN D. ADAMS was on Change
yesterday,
CAP WEBB says he's going to give a
stag barbecue.
Corn and wheat closed at declines in
st. Louis yesterday.
Corn closed sc and wheat lie lower in
Chicago yesterday.
INTEREST in the cotton trade revives IS
the new bales come in,
THE Chicago provision market made
marked advances yesterday.
TIE St. Louis provision market was
tirmer, with pork sharply advanced.
S H TRUFAET of New Orleans visited
the Merchants Exchange yesterday.
Ex-PREsIDENT w. w. ScHooLFIELD of
the Merchants Exchange has returned.
CorToN selling at &c less than at the same
time last year, and lower prices predicted.
WHEAT made big declines in both :Chi-
| cego and st. Louis early in The day yester-
| day.
FURsTENHEIM's homegrown Piper Held
sick stimulated the new bale cotton mar
ket yesterday.
| One of the new bales received yesterday
looked as if it had been packed with a
sausage-stutfer.
THIS years cotton receipts are catching
up on the decrease as compared with last
year at the same time.
THERE was perfect food of new bales
at the Cojton Exchange yesterday morn
Ing, all claiming to be first of the season.
The Grain Elevator reported in store
Yesterday 2 ,065 bushels AID 6676 sacks OF
corn and $3.50 bushels and 1927 sacks OF
oats.
THE Cotton Exchange register yesterday
contained the following names of visitors
III. A, Sternberg and S. Mason, Browns.
vile.
LARGE imports of Northern potatoes re-
| ceived yesterday, selling at 81 50@l 20
st. Louis cabbage selling at 81 5t@2 q
per crate.
THE time is rapidly approaching for the
formal opening of the new Cotton Ex
change, but nothing has been heard o
any arrangements being made.
Il ASSISTANT SECRETARY LA HACHE, OF tn,
| Cotton Exchange, has deferred his We,
Memphis visit until after the formal open
ing of the new Exchange building.
CAPT. W. N. Brown received new bal
{ yesterday evening after business hours
but declined to enter it on account of tn
large number of new bales that had beel
handled during the day.
| THERE is strong feeling against the pre-
vailiDg system of selling first bales" at ;
premium, which is being much abused. l
is suggested that merchants offer pre-
MUM tor the first bale, and let it be solo
alone on its merits.
We won't suffer for bread this year
) Judging by the fine condition of the cor
crop. Neil Raspberry of Crittenden cour
, | ty, Ark, had on exhibition at the E,
cham yesterday a number of ears of el
traoIdinary proportions, said to be fa
specimens fro "a his farm of 100 acres.
!, THE formal opening of the new Cotto
1 Exchange building will not be celebrate
: until about the middle of October, OWN
: to the absence, from the city of lars
o number of the membership. The E,
a changes will take possession OF Their r
y spective chambers, however, on the lst
e September.
: AucrIoNEER SroDDARD became so b
o wildered at the high prices bid on coitc
and the fumes of the Furstenheim (hon
productiop) champagne, with which Il
n new bales were baptized, that he could n
believe his own ears, and would have
ask convenient bootblack what was Il
: last bid. When he dismounted from Il
u auctioneer's stand he was splitting 81
!, cotton.