Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-08-05

PLENTIFUL sUPPLY OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
SOMETHING ABoUT THE FROG BUsINEss-FREsH
MEATS STILL HELD AT HIGH PRICEs-OTHKR FEAT
UREs OF THE WEEK.
The supply OF vegetables has been very abun-
dant the past week. The wet and sultry weather
increases the supply, and not only the boats and
barges come up the river ladened with produce,
but the country wagons, for miles away, come In
twice or three times week with the same kind of
truck. street, from 18th as far 18th street, on
both cufbs, is packed with country people almost
every day, selling from wagons backed up to the
sidewalks.
Good new Irish potatoes, uniform In size and
mealy when baked or boiled, can be had for 40c.
per peck; fine close-headed cabbage, from 5a10c.
per bunch, tomatoes, 3Oa40, per peek; cueumbers,
l5a2Oc: per DOZEN: string beans. 20a30c per peck;
Una beans, new, aoI95c per quart; carrots, Base.
per egspant ii 10 oe eaeh spTr her
co mo asP n IN the markets. Green corn is
is selling for 15a2Oc. per Dozen The sugar corn is
selling Tor 2oa25c. per dozen, and is very much
say there is promise OF q very abundant Weld and
the prospect is that it Will be much cheaper.
THE FRUIT MARKET
now abounds with excellent products at reason
able prices Watermelons are now retailing for Is
to 25 cents, and some OF them are well developed
selections, as the season Is rather early and some
are apt to be found unripe. The peach crop In
tereStS everybody, and 1t will be good news to
state tnat the crop is more promising than was
expected earlier in the season. the retail price is
81 10 bo cents per peck and some few lots, not so
good. are worth 40 cents; the wholesale price by
the box Is 81 TO 81 so; cantelopeS plentiful and
good at to 10 cts. each. Pums-Iarge blue ones,
sell at the stalls at 81 per peck and damsons for
preserves or stew, IS cents per peck; large Cali
1 I plllms. so cents per dozen. Pears-Bart-
nnal do en,cna
and cooking, 30 TO 40 cents per peck grapes (Con-
e0rds), 20 cents per pound. Apples also promise
bought at retail for 40 cents per peek. and good
ones for cooking for 20 to 30 cents; blackberries
III 10 10 cents per quart for cultivated. and to
cents for wild; huckleberries, IL to Is cents per
quart; g0osaberrics, 10 cents. or course both
vegetables and fruits can be had cheaper than the
prices name me-, by taking large quantities: Toma-
toes are selling by the box at wholesale for 60
cents to 81 per box; string beans are quite cheap
Ds the Garre and onions can be bought for 81 3
per puSneL Egg plants are IS cents to $1.2o per
doZ when so many are taken.
THE sUPrLY OF FISH.
There has been good supply OF fish Of the var1-
Gus kinds taken from the Potomac the past week
The fishermen and the dealers say the warm
weather does not affect the quantity OF fish
caught, and that they seem to be more plentiful,
especially in the lower river. The hotels Of this
city require great many fresh fish this year. as
Washington has been favored with throngS of
people, owing to the sitting of Congress SO late.
Ihls Is The reason that the prices keep so high;
besides, the demand for them ct the hotels and
different summer resorts through the country are
for high prices is the continued high prices asked
for the best fresh meats The catches in the Poto-
mac the present season have, fortunately. been
unusually abundant. Fresh caught Spanish mack
erel is 20 cts per pound; sheepshead 20 cts; rock
fish in punches OF to TO- sell for IS to 40 cts eacn;
perch 90 to 50 cts spots, IS to 40 cts; tailors,
large. 20 TO 3 cts. each and small tailor by the
punch at - cts. Sturgeon Is cts. per pound;
fresh Holsters from New York and Boston, Is cts.
Calr lie IN
according TO quality: trout, 10 to 12 cts. pound
crocus, 30 cts. per bunch; halibut, fresh from
Boston, ~ cts per pound; fresh Goldfish, 10 cts. per
pound; haddock 10 cts; sea bass Is to 20 cts per
pound: turtles, IL cts. per pound. alive; catfish,
dressed 10 cts; bluehsh, 10 to IL cts. per pound.
very scarce price. So to sig Der dozen Frog, are
worth $3.50 per dozen pair. The frog business is
pretty extensively carried on in this market, and
netted from $50 to SIS per month. One man has
cleared as high as 500 per month, but this is not
often done.
HOW FROGS ARE CAPTURED
The manner OF catching them is to drift about
at night In a skin among the swamps which line
the Potomac and Its creeks with BULBS eye dark
lantern. When the frogs begin their loud, gut
tural conversations with each other, the hunter
throws the intensely reflected light from the bus
eye directly upon the frog, which appears to have
the effect OF completely paralyzIng him. Once the
suffer themselves to be bagged without a murnur
One expert stated TO a STAR reporter that he took
a dozen from off one Old rotten log in Hunting
creek, but big mOccaSin snake struck out for
MN, ana In getting away he lost nine Of them.
the frogs are particularly plump this year, and
their saddles tender as SQUAD meat
Good live turkies are Is to IS cts per pound. the
pest spring chickens IS cts to 81 per pair to 20
cts per pound ducks IS cts to sla per pair. or 10
to 20 cts per pound; Old chickens II to is cts per
pound geese 81 to ST. % each, or 10 TO 12H cts per
pound squads s! 20 - so per Dozen or 10 to so cts
per pair; Old pigeons p cts per pair plovar5 are
tad
sizes range from IS cts TO 81 per dozen. sgs sell
or Is cts in large lots and 20 to % Cts at retail for
Butterranges about the same: Philadelphia print,
4O ct5 per pOund western creamerieS, 35 to 40 cts
New YORK, best tubs 30 to IS cts; roll butter, Is
to 30 cts cheese, II to 90 cts per pound according
to quality. at retail. The wholesale prices for
creameries range tom % TO % cts: New York
state from - to % cts; Western, 10 to 81 cts Viz
ginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland, % to 25 cts.
FRESH MEATS
are still high at retail, though they seem to have
found about the bottom prices at wholesale. Sir
ioin steaks. the best cuts, are 20 to 25 cts. per
pound; porter-houSe, 25 to so cts; rib roast Is to
20 cts: round, 1879 to 90 cts: corn beef to 70 cts
AT wholesale choice hind quarters sell for ~ to l3
cts; poor hind quarters, to 10 cts choice fore
quarters, $ to cts; common, to 7 cts per pound;
Lamp, spring, 20 TO % cts. at RETAIL veal, 12 to 20
cts per pound; mutton, 10 TO Is cts; pork
IL to 10 cents; sausage, 12N to II cents
Inc wholesale price OF lambs and other fresh
dressed, are 10 toll cents; common, Z to cents
veal. choice dressed, 10 to II cents; common z to9
cents Mutton. choice dressed, to 10 cents; d.
common. TO cents per pound.
IN" offerings OF hay have been pretty liberal the
past week. Old hay ranges from SIS to SO per ton
and new from Sic to SIS. Old hay Is scarce Rye
straw, IS to $40, and oats in straw $13 TO $14 per
ton.
Foreign green fruits are rather scarce Lemons
are 81 to IS per box; oranges, S tOs6.
The flour market Is quiet, with tendency to
We kneSS; no new In the market. The -four mills
are reported to be engaged in grinding old and
new wheat mixed, which produces an excellent
quality OF flour. The best patent process is s. rs
To 50 per Dbl. farniiy patent process, 5 to s.15
at wholesale. The same Kinds sold I'm bags at the
stores to consumers are 50 TO $40 per bb, or 81 Is
TO 81 so per sack.
IT WILL BE SEEN by the advertisement elsewhere
that Walter b. Williams & Co., auctioneers, will
make the closing sale OF Slver-p plated show cases
shelving, gas fixtures, awning, balance
OF goods uncalled for and the remaining stock on
hand in store No 924 18th street northwest, on
Monday, August 18th, at 10 O'Clock.
THE Music AT THE WHITE House GRoUNps-
The program TO be rendered by the Marine band
at the White House grounds this evening Is as fol-
lows: March, esprit de Corps" SouSa; grand
fantasia. " Meph cstOfele," BOltO; waltz, "Gaettn
Waldtenfel; "reminiscences OF MendelssOhn'n
G0alrey Mosaic Ye Olden Times" Boyer; galop
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