Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-15
Buy Gas Fixtures Of Browne.
The Retail Markets,

just at this time there is a general
tendency toward cheaper prices for
provisions and other nocessaries, and
there is room for it. Values at pres
ent are nearly up to war times, and it
costs heavy to live. :
In the line of vegetables there are
more abundant offerings than three
weeks ago, when the drought was so
severe. After the fine rain showers
II days ago, gardens took a fresh
start, and their product is in market
now in liberal quantities. Sellers,
however, are rather steep in their ask
ings, and it takes a we'll filled purse to
buy a market basket full Of truck suf-
fcient to supply a good Sunday dinner
for a healthy family Of five or six.
For example;
A chicken costs at retail in the
market or from the hucksters % to
35c, the lower sum for a poor, scrumpy
looking thing, and a good fat hen viii
cost 4Oc. They are worth from 81 80
to So so per dozen among the whole
sale dealers. A choice cut of beef or
a fine steak will cost 129 to 15c per
pound. If a man could use a whole
beef round and would butcher it him
self it might be had at from 3 to 4c
per pound on foot. Lamb or mutton
costs equally high at retail. Veal is
also steep, and hams are away up in
the pictures. retailing at from IS to
zoe per pound, inferior or boarding
house qualities going a shade less.
Eggs are worth 25c per dozen in a
small way, if fresh, or FIVE dozen for a
dollar. Wholesale men sell at tic to-
day and quote the market weak.
Garden vegetables are selling at Sc
a bunch of about eight roots for
radishes; lettuce, one to two punches
for a nickel, according to size; egG
plants, apicayune apiece; butter beans
l0c per pint; sweet potatoes, Zoe per
quart; Irish, ditto; snap beans, 15c
per quart; tomatoes, the same; fresh
peaches, 7!c per quart from wagons
and loo in the market and so on.
There are a few watermelons and
cantelOupes etc., yet to be had at
moderately reasonable rates, and
though late in the season are freely
purchased. Cabbage at retail are
high. They come mainly from Chica-
go and are worth 15c per head by the
hundred, and the retailer cuts a head
into many pieces and makes il
bring him from % to 4Oc according to
its size. Western New York apples,
the only kind now here and worth
using, sell at So to S. per barrel, and
in retail way are higher.
But little game has offered for some
time past, the weather being too bot
and summerish. A young bear sold q
few days since, the hunter getting 10C
per ID. and the retailer nearly double
that. Squirrels are worth at retail
about Zoe each, and quail 3 for half q
dollar. A little v%enison has beer
coming in and selling at 10 to zoe pei
ID, according to where a slice is carved
off. Fish have not been in very active
demand during the warm weather
Gulf and northern lake species sell a
l21 to l5c per ID. Oysters have alst
been in very light demand, people
caring little for them while the sum
mer heat continues. They sell at 81
to 60c per can, SOC per quart key, ant
s1.75 per hf gal do. for New Yorl
shipments. 1t is understood that tn,
oyster crop is a good one, and whel
the weather cools the demand will b
as heavy as it was last year, with bu
little difference in prices.