Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-08-31
Fruit in Now Y0fk.

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Ninety-two car loads of peaches were
poured into West Washington Market
yesterday morning. Each car load con-.
sisted of 400 or 500 baskets, and each bas-
ket held half bushe. The fruit ran into
the market between O'Clock and sunrise:
Then the tide turned, and by O'Clock it
had all run out. 1t found its way for hun
dreds of miles in oil directions. It touched
oil tho watering places along tho coast from
the eastern extremity Of Maine down to
Cape May, and reached far iuto tho in
terror. All the hotels and all the small
markets of New York and Now jersey and
New England made drafts upon it. aud
about 4O per cent. of it was absobred by this
city tor its rcfrcshmeut
| But tho markntmon said that this was
nothing. This uas only the trife that the
undersized State OF Delaware could do.
Just wait, they rc.u.rked, until the State
OF New Jersey began to wboop her up.
When New Jersey orens fair estimate of
tho amount of peaches that she drops into
the market is said to be 200 oar loads a
day. Yhc market men arc now waitirg
with somo Interest for this dull season to
end and for that busy ono to begin.
But the watermelon trade in West Wash.
ington Market is fairly booming. The
long brlghtly-stripod melon that lie piled
IN hills on every hund come from MARYLAND
and the dumpy green melons, STYLED
"nigger heads" in tho market vcrnaoular.
are tho product of New Jersy. Tho Marys
land melons overshadow their homoly
nelghbors just now, but the others will
have their day later in the season. Yes.
tcrday twelve schooners were unloadinm
melons in tho dock back of the market at
the foot of Vesey street, four werc unload
ing as the foot of Murray street, and eigh.
teen were lying off the Jcrsy fats awaiting
an opportunity to unload 10 their turn.
| All of these schooners had arrived from
Maryland within ten days. Esoh carries
cargo consisting Of from 5000 to 10000
melons. In addition, the Maryland pro-.
pelcr at Pier 7 has brought 10000 mel
ons within eight days, and within ten dayg
~ car loads of from 1000 to l,5OO melons
each have been poured into market by rail.
These mclous, like the peaches, 20 cvery
where. They may be seen sliced opcn.
blushing, and ay-laden on every oity cor-
ner, and they aro despatched to all poiutg
for hundreds of miles round about. Those
who handle them in West Washington
Market do SO on commission, getting ten
per cent. for selling. The melons bring ir
tho market from SIS to S1S hundred.
The vessels unloading yesterday at Vesey
street chokcd tho dock, living four abreast
The fruit was sent flying from hand to
hand like huge, elongated, highly ooiored
base balls. Bandy-lcggod Maryland
darkics 10 amazing clothes took part in the
game and the fruit was counted in sing
song as it came up from the hold.-N. Y
Sun, August Gath.
The New York Tribune says: "So little
has been said during tho last six months
about tho condition of the oolored refugees
in Kansas that tho people in this part Of
the country have settled down into tho
comfortable belief that their destitution has
been permanently relieved. But such
does not seom to be tho fact. Ex-Judge'
James DcLoog, of Independence, Kansas,
Is now upon trip through tho Eastern
States for the purpose of convincing as
many persons as possible that 'thore arc
over 10000 Of these people now in ata
solutc poverty in the State of Kansas,
eating nothing but corn bread, water and
green's, and somo arc dying of want
Judge DeLong, brings letters from Cover.
nor st. john, Judge Wagstaff, and many
others guaranteeing his integrity and
knowledge Of tho subject. Ho explains
the dostitution which he hopes to relieve
by saying that these 10000 refugees
have no money to pay for tho Govern.
ment land they are occupying and no
appliances for cultivating It; that it is
almost impossible for them to obtaitY q
days work oven in tho short busy season.