Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-01

The W11oBsdAle Markets. y
1ZauR uKcHANaRDsTAz0RRs HOLDING BACK Hay
+ FOR HIGHER fRm1-D0lAND FOE GOOD Bu1TBn-
+ DG0s scARcE-AH9ANoR m PRICES OF CHIRsB-
FRUIT PLINTTFUk AND ORAP-vx0ErADLIs PLEN.
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The condition - the market remains I'm.
changed since mo last report, except In
some instancesss ahssonr ID . slight fall in
prices There Ia - chnge in Hour. Not much
new Hour has appsaredE In market. owing to the
long drouth. which has, prevented the country
hour mills from tuoing ont new hour. change
Is anticipated whGEthesmills shall have become
busy In the meaneime-1our Il in good demand.
for choice family and extra Wheat Is In active
demand, with corn and oats steady.
~; The hay market Is nrm with supplies moderate:
s14 to SIC per tom clover Is to $40 and mixed SIC
to sla Rye straw is steady at IS. Ear corn ssas
per barrel the farmers appear to be holding back
The receipts Of butter have been light with in
Tor Choice grades but no change in price
doun and other Virginia kinds seem to be Of better
quality and rather scarcer than formerly and are
buffers compose the principal stocks Of mer-
chants, the Virginia butter is also growing in
are dull at IL to 10 per
dozen are the ruling Jobbing rates A slight ad.
vance in cheese IS also noted, only for the good
grades -, The skim milk cheese is OF slow sale and
Inquiries are being made for dried fruit, such as
cherries, Dlackberries and raspberries. No dried
apples or peaches have as yet been offered.
FTesn fruits are plentiful, both domestic and
foreign. The Messrs Coleman, on B street. quote
bananas at $3.50 s. per bunch, oranges at IS per
Dox. lemons at S to $3.50. cocOanuts 81 per hun
dred and pine apples {fne) at $16 per hundred.
MeSSrS Cleary Schafer quote lemons at g 80 to
$4oU per Dox, oranges $ to So The quality and
condition seems to somewhat govern the values.
Domestic fruits continue to arrive plentifully and
OF good quality. Watermelons range from IS to
80 per hundred: culls, 81 to So. Cantaloupes are
unusually fine this year, and cheap. Peaches are
also JUST In season, and are probably cheaper now
IMAM they Will be again this season; the Jobbing
rate IS II TO 81 per box. Pears are also cheap,
ranging from 81 to s. so per box for the Bartlett,
ana other kinds from 81 to 81 so per barrel First
class table apples are selling from 81 50 to g by
the Darrel and cooking from rs cents to 81. so per
The trade is generally fafr.
vegetables are abundant In season and sales
pretty lively. Potatoes urish) are $3.50 to sl75
per barrel r sweet potatoes, $3.50 to $3.50, and
plentiful nor so cheap as usual at this season of
the year, the drouth having kept back their
grown: they range from "a to s. per hundred.
COIn, 10 IL cents per dozen. Tomatoes, 80 cents
10 w cents per box. Onions are worth g. so to
$275 per BARREL and lima beans 1S to Is cents per
dant. pp''0'
The fresh meat market stands about as follows:
Hlndquarter best beef, to II cents; fOrequarter,
10 " cents best dressed lambs II to 12 cts. best
dressed veal, 10 to IL cents by the carcass. The
% cents: veal calves. to cents; lambs, to 81
Genus, and Old sheep, to AZ cents.
me markets have, as general thing, been well
supplied with all kinds of commodities