The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-06-30
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1t was ave O'Clock in the morning yes
tsrday. Down Market street, in the yicin.
Of Twelfth, floRtsd on the bllmy air
odors Of flowers and = sort Of q
smell Of vegetables and things.
The reporter was on his weary way home.
But he was attracted toward the Second
Ward Market HouHs, and thither he
wended his way.
You would be surprised, gentle reader,
or those OF you who don't get up until
eight O'Clock in the morning, to see the
or the Purchasers, rather, who
frequent the market, Lawyers, doctors
and business men whom you would not
suppose, to meet them in the afternoon,
that they ever thought OF eating, lug their
market baskets on their alms and pause
here and there to price peas, or to have a
peck Of potstoes delivered. Ladies', also
those who grace social gatherings; who can
talk art, literature and music, and per
haps are writer's, painters and can dis
course sweet sounds ON the piano, here
gather to show that the road 10 Q mans
heart lies through bis stomach.
The first stand that the reporter ap'
preached, and 1t was below 18th street,
was laden down with sweet.smelling bo'
austs. "0nly fifteen cents apiece" said
tho flower pirl who stood behind them,
She was at least sixty years Of Sge, and NO
one would think OF her, separated from
her flowers, but that she was fitted more
for the matTOn OF an orphan asylum,
Farther on were a couple Of buxom dam.
sells from Ohio, with boxes Of potatoes and
wooden crates Of peas and beans before
them. "PeRs 40 cents q peck; beans the
same" they simultaneously and laConiC
ally answered tho reporter, seeiDG
that he had no basket on his arm, and
viewing him III rather a suspicious man,
ner.
"Most vegetables come from Ohio, dom
they 7" was asked,
I've should remark, Ohio has hel
share in this ere market
Some Iadishes were exposed as big al
August CuCumbsts, and only 10 cents fol
three punches. Onions which looked like
gooRe eggs we're quoted at the same price
A demuTe female In q clean calico quo
sd butter at twenty Centa a pound, II wal
the 4 pound roll variety in a linen ral
with u butcher kniie In close proximity
Some semi red %CurrRnts were quoted al
ton cents y box or three for y quarter
''ThGY hold about q pint, don't lhey2
nskGd the reporter, land you put the big
gent c%urfants on top. GyeP" The lady
reached both hands around to her revol
yer pocket and answered with no unmis
taxable infection, mo 81 Each bon
holds y quart, and III measure EN- II you
want TO-"
Measure for measure was not In his line
however, and he passed on to where aoml
"~overhCGd" turnips were on exhibition
This variety is used for soup and sell ioI
the low price OF i've cents per bunch
They are Rs hig as a small Child's heat
and II the qlslity ID equal 10 their sizt
they are the cheapest vegetable eve
grown In this section OF the country. Let
tuCe Is marked down TO ten cents PEI
peck.
Strawberries arc SORT OF peLerlng out
The late rains not 0Qly destroyed the HS
yor, but also ruined the growth. They
arc quoted from 8 to is cents q box ant
mostly come from GAINESVILLE and Mar
lin's Ferry. No very nice onea were seen
however, although the entire stock wa
inspected aud invariably priced.
A lady who dealt In BmearCase quoted
that iCs.Cfeam like looking article At IL
cents q quart. She also had punches oil
tansy and mint oil hand with 5 cent rates
Aft Xed to each.
Raspberries, Of the black variety, were
uumerously quoted at 10 cents q quar-
hox or three boxes for rs cents. The red
raspberries we're scarce and readily found
purchasers ct 10 cents q box.
Rhuharb, which looked like elongated
asparagus, sold for 10 cents a bpnCh-po
specified number OF pies guaranteed per
bunch, however.
Radlshes are now mostly oyergrown
SOME specimens seen looked like q quar-
funnel, but yet only brought 30 to &C
cents per dozen punches.
whats cabbage this morning, Col
onel2"
The bland tone Of the inquiry brought
out the best qualities Of the dealer, and
with ~pardonablo pride be picked up o big
head and said: "Feel Of that, will you
and only:ten cents a head.n
The cabbage man also had peas, and
said the crop was nearly 'rlinated" BY
tho food.
"Peas come In on the railroads though
don't they?"
"Yea; but I dom! deal In no such trash
| don't think they are safe eating. They
are picked too soon and get heated Ii
travelling. Then they are raised In hoI
beds. Mines natural, grown out in thu
open air, and / picked 'em myself"
Some lettuce that .ooked like Emerald
boguets was quoted at two heads for Evt
cents.
An ancient girl, who claimed Bogg'
Run for a residence, said that when tht
b. o. Railroad came through there tina
she was going TO send her "~raisings" X
Baltimore and attend market there.
"You read the papers then, and the re
ports OF COnncilY"
"No l didn't, nuther, but ! hear folk
talkin', and what everybody says must b.
ttuo.n
OAuliaower, according 10 its develop
tnent, brought either ten or fifteen cents {
head. Asparagus, three aud four bunChet
for a dino.
A man who made cabbage a specially
said there was quite a demand for II, anC
that he had shipped two hundred Darrell
that morning at 81 90 a barrel. The price
he quoted pUr head was from five to ter
GENTS A barrel holds about thirty head
His name was A. Ii. Garden, and he live:
b short distance above Wheeling.
There was some honey In market al
twenty-five cents q pound The honey
man lad Bome cherries which he set down
in the bond at ten cents a boz. "Quart In
them, Of Course7" said tho reporter. lie
also wanted 10 measure them, but wal
restrained.
The reporter noticed, after asking The
price Of new potatoes at twenty different
places, that the prices varied from 40 10 81
cents a peck. Il was perhaps oCCAsioned
by Il difference In The variety. The same
was RlsO noticed with respect 10
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