The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-21
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FOR tnb lTht Time IN Tue experience OF
the market reporter he yesterday saw a
tin quart measure used for selling berries.
A number Of purchasers wers observed to
look at the measure Curiously and q good
many invested In the fruit.
Tho pretty girl with the brown eyes
said that the market was only medium
mot much stuff in, eh?'
"Yes, plenty oil that, but buyers arc not
sa plenty as they might be-"
cents q dozen for corn when others sell II
at twelve and Q half and fifteen cents q
dozen?"
"Why, just compare It and you'll see,''
and the fact 10 that the ears were much
larger and the corn, as she said, ~''guaran.
teed to be OF the genuine sugar variety"
She also had Lima beans, the only ones
In the market, and sold them at twenty.
Ave cents q quart.
Hanover turnips, as big % 0 small
child's head, were offered az tye cents per
bunch. CuOumbers II enty'ave 10 thirty
cents q dozen. Parsley one cent q bunch.
RhubRrb three punches for five cents.
Some 6ne early apples from Zaue's OF.
chard brought readily City cents o peck.
The dealer said he expected to get the
same price next week,
There was only one lot OF peaches In
market. They were grown down at
MoundSville, and were about the slSe OF q
small knothole. Price zoe q quart haskell.
"And how isthe crop OF peaches, MajorY'
swell, down around Moundsville they
don't amount TO much" ,rD
Pears, which must have squeezed their
own seeds pretty tight, were disposed Of
by their owner without any visible effect
Of poignant regret at loo a quarter peck.
Some black ourrants, which plenty o.
people thought were hackleberries with
the stems on, brought 15c a quart. North
Carolina Watermelons, or csmpmeelinR
bread, we're on sale at one place, and
brought q quarter each.
The butler and tgg market wss rather
small Butter in crock and roll sold Yati.
ously Of ID, IS and 20 cents, according 10
quality. The reporter struck one lot. sam.
pied II with q knife, instead OF the Gus.
tomary thumb nail. and asked:
"Is this butter guaranteed to run q three
or four horse power engine? Why don't
yuu b0uu u bALlpId " bUu6 l6lIOW IN tQe
east who owns q canal2 Don't you think
that this butter, my dear sir, would do
well in some section Of the country where
there are . lot Of LOCUST ELpmpsto pun
out7 And
But here q lady who keeps q boarding
house appeared and cut short the CONVEX.
Batlon.
Eggs ranged from is to is cents a dozen;
live chickens 40 cents each; pArtridges at
the same price. With the reporters usual
luck he struck the leading chicken stand
lust as O woman was about ready 10 make
q purchase. She reached q long, thin arm
into the coop, and yAnked q healthy fowl
by Its left yellow leg, aud dragged Il out
through lie companions "a though she was
rescuing a elk year old child from drown.
ing, OF ponrse the lyaihed beast set up d
fearful CaCkle, which caused the fest to do
likewise, aud The reporter fled In disgust
Thorewere more things III market yes.
terdAy ifan vegetables, meats and fruits.
For instance, there was soap, dried apples
lot 90 per pound), cakes, comb honey,
bfeadslufs, tinwafs and dry goods, bat
these things had not half The Interest 10
the reporter that bis breakfast had, and 10
which he Immediately adjourned, to the
great financial loss Of bis esteemed and
worthy landlady.