New-York tribune., 1883-03-18

to their appearance and they have not become
abundant enough to tempt the many
by their cheapness. The Strawberries
continue to come with provoking slowness though
they are conauering place after place upon the bills
OF the hotels and restaurants However. it Is COM
forting to those whose enjoyment of them is yet
mere pleasure of the imagination to know that the
best that have appeared far are suggestions
of The luscious fruit that is to come. They can be
bought for from so to rs cents quart.
Prices of vegetables do not show a material
change from last weeks quotations. The supply of
cabbages has had to depend upon imporations from
Europe, and one dealer is said to have received
$4,000 heads from Denmark last week. The prices
range from 20 to 35 cents head. Brets are 20
cents half-peck. carrots 10 to 25 cents a dozen,
tumips 20 to 80 cents half-peck, caulIfiower 90
cents to 81 each French artichokes % to 80 cents
potatoes so to 60 cents half-peck.
Poultry is growing scarcer. owing it is said to
the high prices which prevailed last summer
and which induced the farmers to bring
their stock TO a very low ebb. Capons are
chickens for roasting. 80 cents pound. for br0il
ing SO pair; scalled chickens 20 cents pound,
domestic ducks 25 cents pound mongrei ducks
2S cents pound. Boston geese 20 cents pound.
wild mOngrel geese 80 cents pound turkeys 20
and % cents ponno Philadelphia fowl 22 cents
to the game list have been few fresh English
snipe at 81 a dozen, and few brant from South
Bay. l.. l.. which are selling at 20 cents apiece
Other prices Of game are as follows: Plovers 81
dozen, grass povers 10 cents each, English pheas-
ants 81 so each. wild geese 81, teal dncks
so cents, wood ducks 90 cents, mallard
red-heads 75 cents. black ducks so cents, wdge0ns
80 cents broad-bills 80 cents, wild pigeons II 90
dozen, tame pigeons So 25 a dozen. Philadelphia
SQUAD sell for SIS so per dozen.
There has been change in the shining heaps on
the fish count,rs at Fulton Market; The. cold
weather, and the ice have deferred the coming of
shad, which are unusually backward and
there is a continued stringencv III the supply
of Holsters. Nothing new has made its appearance
and the prices have fuctuated but slightly. Market
cod was selling yesterday at 10 cents pound. had
dock at cents. white halibut at 22 cents, largo
bass at 80 cents cells which are very scarce at 20
cents dressed, HOLSTERS at 20 cents, frozen
salmon at 80, cents, founders at 12la
Spanish mackerel at 35 cents white perch at ISs.
small red snappers at 90 large at 10 cents Long ISL
and smelts at 20 cents, Canada smelts at 10 cents.
OF Southern shad the bucks sell for go cents each
pound The variety of fresh-water fish IL the mar
ket is great Black bass worth % cents salmon
trout Is cents whltefsh 22 cents pickere Is cents
cisco 1212 cents. Green turtles very and
the price IS now Is cents pound. Terrapns range
from $40 tn $36 a dozen. The fact that the storms
of week ago threw myriads of clans upon the
shelltish They range from 40 cents to 81 per 100.
Crayish are 81 so per lOO hard crabs 81
a hundred, and frozen scollOps 81 90 and green
scollops S2 so hundred.
The retail prices of meats in Washington Market
are unchanged though there have been slight finc-
tuations III the wholesale list which may be felt
hereafter The butter market IS showing in
dicstIons Of increased tirmness, but fancy
grades of creamery the only ones that have sold
Tor 80 cents per pound and q cent or two above.
The other grades range down from that price to ~
cents Eggs have felt the influence of Casters ad-
vent Jersey eggs are now 27 cents dozen. or III
for 25 cents State eggs sold for 25 cents with
prospect of a slight advance during Holy
Week. Fruits were selling in Washington Market
yesterday az follows Apples 80 to 70 cents half
peck, bananas Is to 40 cents d,zen, lemons 10
to 25 cents dozen, oranges 20 TO 10 cents
dozen, pears so cents to 81 dozen, lady apples
90 to 70 cents a dozen.
MENU.
Julienne Soup.
Baked salmon Trout.
Lamb Outlets with French Beans.
Braised Rib OF Beef with Macar0ni.
HarIcot Beans IL BreOnne.
Roast Duck. Currant Jelly.
Lettuce. Mayonnalse Sauce.
Fromage de Br1e Crackers.