The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-07-28

THE MARKEr-Therei Is no subject Of
so much importance to the reader O.
that Of the cost Of living, and the most
important branch Of the subject d that
which relates to the supply, quality and
prices Of provisions. II IL = subject,
however, Of too vast proportions, cover
Inc too wide a field 70 be considered In
detail BY local reporter, but there is
one branch Of 1t which is Of more general
interest than any other, coming under
the head Of Marketing Of which .
short article might be written, which
may be read with profit by housekeeperS.
For the various other branches Of the
subject the reader Is referred to the mar
ket reports Of the IsrE1IIGEscER, which
are admitted by all to be the most full,
complete and reliable published in any
paper in the city.
There are few cities in the country Of
the size Of Wheeling with so poor market
facilities; few with better markets and
fewer still, in which meat, vegetables,
fruit, etc., command so high price as
they do here; in other words there are
few cities where the people are so fear.
fully imposed upon in the manner Of
marketing as they are in Wheeling, where
extortion is the rule and not the excep.
ton. Notwithstanding this, both the
upper and lower markets are we'll patron.
lied, not so much from necessity, however,
as habit, as there is scarcely an article
offered for sale in the market that any
housekeeper cannot procure nearer home,
Of as good quality and at q less price
than at the market. The Wheeling meat
market is unquestionable good, and the
same source that supplies the market
supplies the meat shops throughout the
city, and the green grocers draw upon
The same source for their supplies Of
fruit and vegetables, US do the hucksters
who deal them out at extortionate rates
at the market house.
The butchers, Notwithstanding the gen.
eral downward tendency Of everything
else, manage to hold beef up to initiation
prices, and according TO their own state
ments are getting poor selling beef at y!
to 10 cents per pound, when cattle costs
from three 10 four and a hal, while humid
reds got rich selling at the same price
when they had to pay nearly double for
cattle what they now pay.
New potatoes bring twenty and twenty.
| Eve cents per peck. Tomatoes, although
very plenty in market, are still held at
high figures, when sold in small quanti-
ties, and were sold yesterday at fifty cents
per peck. Other vegetables are sold for
lust what they will bring, consequently
cannot be quoted In the fruit line there
are good supply Of apples, blackberries,
whortleberries and few peaches and
pears. Apples were selling yesterday in
small quantities at the rate Of forty cents
to 81 2b per bushel, according EQUALITY
The supply Of peaches and pears was Sc
meagre that they were commanding high
figures, notwithstanding they were very
inferior in quality. Blaokberries and
whortleberrios sold at the rate of thirty
Eve cents per gallon, or ten cents per sin,
gle quart. The season for both these
fruits lis at least one week earlier thii
year than formerly, and 1t will probably
4 end much earlier than usual. The peach
season proper will not commence before
the first OF next month, although few Of
the more early varieties are already in
market.
The supply OF melons is greater than
was ever known in this market so early in
the season, but the demand has not been
so great as at other times, and the dealers
all look blue. Watermelons sell all the
the way from ten TO fifty cents, and musk.
melons from ten to twenty. FIVE cents each