New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-24
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PRICES IN THE MARKETS.

PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
| EFFECTS or THE sTORM-sTAGNATIoN OF BUSINESS
GAME sCARcE-FRUIT AND VEGETABLES
The rain which has fallen for the last few
day has made marked the general stagna-
tion which seems to pervade business The weather
has had the effect Of raising and lowering the mar
ket price of produce and provisions az the supply
and demand varied; but generally the shrewd
country dealers have kept back all their market
produce which they were able TO till better weather.
Fish is very scarce owing to the storms which
have stopped all fishing at sea. BluePont oysters
are now in season. but are poor ID quality. Soft
crabs are abundant but the present week will prob
| al ly wind up the supply the cold storms soon
affect the delicious shelliish. Goldfish is 10 cents
had 10 cents halbut 20 cents, bass -
cents. striped bass 30 cents cells Is cents salmon
frozen 30 cents; founders 1C cents, Blacklist -
cents, buttertsh 10 cents. and pOrgies 10 cents.
Weakish Is 10 cents, Spanish mackerel - cents,
large mackoIel 20 cents pOmpano 80 cents, king
fish - cents. and sherpshead 30 cents. White
perch are 10 to - cents smets p cents, and blue
fish - cents Salmon trout are Is cents. whitelsh
Is cents yellow perch o cents, wal-eyed pike 2
cents. and small green pickerel IL cents Green
turtle is : cents; crayfsh e 30 hundred,
/ scollops ~ p. HOLSTERS are 12l2 cents pound.
Blue Point oysters - cents hundred, Saddle Rocks
/ - 30. Freeports - cents East Rivers and Mill
ponds 81 30 Hard crabs are - a hundred, and
soft crabs 81 a dozen. Smokeu haddock is ] > cents
and smoked salmon % cents.
There is no change in the price of beef, mutton
| lamb veal. Salt provisions quoted the same
~, last week.
Poultry is little higher. Philadelphia broiling
| chickens are 2S to 81 cents fowls 23 to - cents
| scailad chickens - to = cents fowls Is to 20
ceats. State geese are 20 to - cents Boston
! % - cents young ducks - to - cents, turkeys
| - cents. scaded turkeys IS to - cents. Game Is
] scarce The weather Is too warm for venisOn.
! Partrdges are ~ 30 a pair, and prarlc-hens
II 30. Woodcocz are still scarce - cents to II
| each Wood or summer ducks are - cents pair.
golden plover are II -, grass poyer II 80 each.
English anipe are hardly in season, though there
| are few fresh killed birds in market at S3
dozen and few frozen supe from last years stock
are sold which are unfit for use In few weeks
English snpe may be expected fat and fine and in
abundance. Sora OF rail birds from Virginia
| ~ 80 Il dozen; and reed-blrds are - 90 dozen.
lie Teed-blrd is much more delicate IN flavor than
the rail- but it i hardly yet IN prime condition. In
! a few weeks, when they reach the Ilce-Eelds OF
! Carolina, they viii be especially priced by the
epcure The brown little morsels then oftcu burst
after they are cooked from superabundance OF tat
Queer mud.hens from Long Island, which are sold
| at any price they Will bring call 10 mind the SIM
guar habits OF this bird, which have gwen rise TO
| the superstition among the negroes az the south
! that the bird buried Itself in the mud during the
| winter and emerged full pumaged IN the following
| spring The birds by singular instinct remain
! north till INST before the first heavy snow storm.
| vi hen after sunset they Will all leave In hOck,
| and in a section Of country where they have been
| abundant nots one mud-hen viii be found in the
! morning The birds Teappear the sDrng as sud
| denly as they have left. The mud-hen Is coarse,
ishy food. It's eggs however are valued by the
country people, twelve or fifteen being sometimes
! found in a nest. Tame pigeons are - - to - %
a dozen. squads - and Wild squads - to - -.
| sand snipe are - cents dozen.
There Is no great change in the price Of yege
! tables. Handsome striped squash are - cents each
! Boston marrow squash > to 80 cents. Celery i
| cheaper and coming into market in good supply.
| Fine table celery is > to 20 cents bunch. Iona
toes are - cents 70 ; a crate. Green tomatoes
| - cents. Corn is 20 to 80 cents dozen. Dried
herbs sold by street vendors at cents bunch,
including sweet marioram, summer sayory and
! thyme
Pea, hes are CHER. The rains have bindered the
picBers aud the New-Jersey peach season Is already
/ on the wane. Large baskets OF white Heath or
Mulagatoon peaches are 81 - each; small peaches
are > 80, and pony baskets OF good fruit sell at
| 81 each. Concord grapes are nne and abundant at
| To 10 cents a pound Delaware grapes are 30
! cents and Npscat ard Iokay grapes from California
| 30 cents. Seckel pears are very abundant
Large baskets of these delicious pears are 80 cents
! 10 = eucn. Ounces are 81 TO y 90 4 hundred.
! CTab-appes 90 cents a peck, anu plums 20
| cents to ~ 80. Foreign fruits come in slowly,
being kept back till the season of domestic fruit is
| past. JmaaIca oranges are % cents a dozen
! Bananas are 30 to 80 cents " hand which con
! tams from fifteen to twenty bananas Good lemons
are scarce and high There Is an abundance OF
poor fruit in market az 81 to = 30 a box, but good
! lemons are - to - d box. The green Malaga
/ fruit Is now in market This Is the "thck-
skinned lemon. which is Justly detested by house
keepers the fruit after its heavy rnd penetrated
! being dry and tlayorless. The fruit Is picked
across the ocean while it is still green. TO meet the
dearth in the market which usually occurs at tins
] time. The lemons after they arrive are sweateI,
| anC the riud turned by this artificial means
! bright canary color. The lemon Is line aud large,
aud readily deceves person wno Is not accustomed
! to t. Green Malaga lemons are now freely mingled
! with almost all the good lemons sold.
MENU.
Clam soup.
Boiled Fish, Plain Boiled Potatoes.
Veal Pot Pie. Lima Beans. Baked eggplant.