New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-10
HOME INTERESTS.
PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
ABUNDANT SUPPLIES OF FISH. MEAT AND VICE.


| ABUNDANT SUPPLIES OF FISH. MEAT AND vEGE-
| TABLES-LOw PRICES GENERALLY RULING.
The cool pleasant days of the opening week of
fall find the markets crowded with abundance of
fish meat vegetables and fruit. The closing of
many of the summer hotels has caused temporary
fall in the price OF fish and meat while the album
dant harvest Of fruit that is now being gathered IN
Delaware, New-JerSey and the gardens of the
Hudson has made prices at the fruit stalls also
low.
All varieties of fish are cheap and abundant, ex
cept striped bass and smelts and during the past
week prices Of fish touched the lowest mark they
have reached his season. Scalops are very alum
dant aud oysters promise 10 be better than they have
been Tor several seasons past Goldfish is cents,
paddock cents, halibut rs cents, medium-sized
striped bass 80 cents, sea bass 10 cents, salmon 80
TO - cents, ShccpShead 30 cents. and
pOmpauo 90 cents. Founders are 10 cents. lukes
. cent. blacktsh l2l2 10 II cents Spanish mack
crel from the Chesapeake 12l2 cents. and from
Lond Island % cents BOnlto, a coarse variety OF
mackcrel is 5 cents, butterish cents. weaAfsh
cents smells 30 cents porgles 10 cents and blue
lah Z cents Choice black pass are 10 cents
| pound; salmon trout 10 cents, whIiehsh Is
cents. and small green plckeIeI Is cents.
Green turtle is > cents 4 pound. Small CLANS
from Little Neck are 30 cents hundred, and large
| clans 81. Oysters are from 70 cents 10 20 nun
drcd, and scalOps I'll q gallon. Crayish are % %
Il hundred. HOLSTERS 10 cents pound, hard crabs
- 30 hundred and soft crabs, which are more
abundant than they have been for eight years are
10 cents Il dozen.
The price of prime beef has fallen several cents.
Prime rib T0asts are 20 cents pound, sIrOln roasts
rs cents chuck IOdsis lG TO IS cents, aud round oi
beef 20 cents POrtrIhouse steaks ar 80 cents and
sriOin steaks 20 cents. COrned Tump OF beef Is ~
cents and plate and brisAet cents Beet tongues
- cents each. Suet Is II cents pound,
and maintains thS high price owing 10 the immense
quantities that are sold TO retail dealers IN inferior
Texan beef, who mus give, according 20 custom,
lump OF suej win each STEAK they SELL ana Mho are
unable 10 meet this demand with tho sc&nt lat ON
the scraggy meat which they sell. There has
been no marked change N the price OF other
meats since last "ock. Inc following prices OF
prime meat are given by ~ j. u c. W. Sturges,
Washington Markcti Whole lambs are Zig cents,
forc-quartcrs II cent, hind quarters ID cents ana
ION, Is cents. Lamb chops are 20 cents and racks
Oh llmD 20 cents. Mutton Is Il cents ny inc
hind saddle, and cents by the tOre-quarler Legs
OF mutton are II cents, lOins ii cents,
shoulders cents soft blade racks 10 cents, hard
blade racks If cents, ana breasts cents. The best
quality of milk veal Is scarce and high. Whole
| calves are - cents, headquarters 20 cents, fore
quarters II cents. Racks 20 cents, legs II cents,
aud IONS 20 cents. Calves heads are 80 cents. and
sweet breads - tOFl.
Philadelphia broIling chickens are % to 81 cents
a pound, fowls - 10 - cents spring ducks ~ to
- cents, spring geese 20 10 % cents. There are
10 wild ducks ia market. the Southern game now be-
ILg protected by law. cartridges are 81 30 TO -
par pumatcd grouse prairie hens IL 70 TO 81 90,
and WOUdchucA - 70 to 81 30. FreSi-dllieG Eng
fish snIpe ~ % dozen, fresh golden plOver
80, tame pigeons - % 10 - 30, squads %, and
reed birds II.
All varieties of autumn vegetables are offered in
the stalls except cduil1iOWer, when Is promised III
market soon IN huc condition. Mushrooms are I'M
usually abundant and shall white buttons sell at
20 cents quart. ngy plants are to 10 cents
each; tOhatOp, > 20 10 cents quart and III %
a crate. Iney VIII be cheaper III lew weeks when
the late crop comes IN. An excellent pre-
serve Is made OF ripe tomatoes, which moro nearly
resembles an East Indian preserve III mayor thanany
other truit put up III this latitude Allow three
quarter OF pound 81 sugar 10 Il pound OF lrult.
>cal ANA peel the tomatoes, and put them IN the
preserving kettle with the SUGAR 10 boil.
IL
begins TO COOK and the seeds rise freely.
A. the principal shImmIrg Is over allow
three lemons to hall peck OF tomatoes ana ADD
the grated peel and Jcc Of the lemons, lttle GIN
ger tIcI, In a muslin bag. 10 the fruit. Cook The
hole gently until tne Juice begins to grow thick,
thea remove from the 1llc and seal up when II Is
cold.
Peaches are now in the height of their season. The
supply from Delaware Is already fahAg oil, and the
trult from NtW-JcIsey ~ taxing It's place. NnOice
pracnes are sod III fancy Iut stores IOr from ~ 10
% Il basket. Preserving peaches are now IN market.
small white Heath peaches go cents 10 81 "A
basket Large white peaches, which as yet are
scarce, bring - Il basket Excellent medum-slzed
peaches sold ut 20 cents a basket.
There are some ine Delaware Bartlett pears III
market at 81 apeck. Seckcl pears are the same price
Bartlett pears from the uud5On itlVer are 100 green
yet for table use. There is variety OF cheap PIuHls
which are sold for from 90 cents peck upward.
These are excellent for sweet pickles OK ToserVcs.
Green gage axe scarce and are pioDaO.y - cheap
now thcy Will be- They are ~ - Il Pl % peck.
DlaEum-DOnum plums are ~ cents a quart
aud German pruncs from hudson KiVer saioeh5 ale
30 ats quart. Concord grapes are me aiI dDuh-
dant, selling Tor from TO 10 cents pound, whiie
Delaware grapes ale so cents, RobeccaS ~ cents,
and winc-tlnted Iokay and white Muscais
from California are 81 30 to ~ - fOur-pound
box. Hoth0usc grapes are 30 cents 10 II a pound.
Jamaica oranges are 80 cents Il dozen, Medlterra-
fruit 80 to 70 cents lemons are 20 TO 40 cents
dozen, lines 90 cents a hundred. ana bananas 20
to 80 cents dozen. Alligator pears, IN demand as
d salad by Cubans and navy officers who have lived
il the tropics, are 10 TO 20 cents each.