New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-29
HOME INTERESTS.
PRICES IN THE MARKETS.

vrGFTA A ITs ABUNDANT AND CHnAP-FlNE plsfLAi D
OF FRUIT-FIsH AND MEATS.
Washington Market presented some queer pictures
last week. The market proper Is topsy-turVey anu
butchers lstalls and the booths OF the vegetaoie
vendors are scattered along Vesey Fulton and Wash
inqton streets and adjacent thoroughfares Millinery
teas POINTS of meat hard poultry and vegetables
are mixed up IN indescribabe confusion. 10 add 10
il all the stock of provisions in the market was
never more abundant All night long the vegetable
wagons pour across the ferries from Long lsland
and New Jersey, and those who attend the market
at early daybreak can secure fresh vegetables for
mere song Green corn can be had for 10 cents a
dozen string beans for 20 cents peck. garlic Tor
cents a bunch, green okra for 20 cents
hundred. green peppers for 10 cents dozen
and green peas for 40 cents peek
Rhubarb and radi-hes are worth only 2 cents a
bunch, new Irish potatoes % cents peck. beets
cents bunch, new cabbage 1 and cents
head caulIhower 20 cents head, carrots
cents a bunch and chi ccOry cents a bunch.
Cucumbers are slow sale at 1 and 2 cents each and
tomatoes bring only 10 cents quart. Egg plants
are % cents each, soup celery cents bunch,
| herbs such as sage sweet maTjoram and thyme, ~
| cents a dozen lunches horse radish root 10 cents
| pound and lettuce 3 cents head. Locks are WORTH
| cents a bunch while red onions are sold Tor %
\
| parsley for 8 cents bunch, summer squash for
| cents each. red peppers for Genus ouuch anu
white turnps and water ior = GEMS q pu''i
| Russian turnips can be had for 20 cents peck -,
| Fruit of the best quality is coming now from an
parts of the country Hudson liver aprcots are dls
PLAYED by the fruit stores at 80 anu oocents Hl a
| Southern peaches which at present the hncSf,
| are sold for 81 a dozen. Each peach Is carelulIy
wrapped 10 tissue paper. Small, half-ripe pescnes
from Virginia and Delaware can be had Tor 10 cents
| a neck. Hot-house grapes worth $3.50 pound;
California plums, 40 and 30 cents dozen; reorgia
| beach plums 10 and 25 cents quart; I am r1a
pears % 10 10 cents dozen; apples oo Cehls q
! neck and bananas % and 80 cents dozen, berles
are still exposed for sale in profusion ana the pce5
cheap Strawberrles hqweyer In nnEe Oh cents
a quart blackberrIrs 10 and 10 cents, ana whortie-
| berries 10 cents a quart. Curranis are worm ~
| cents a pound pneapprs - to 30 cents each,
| oranges 25 and 90 cents dozen. watermelons 70
| and 80 cents and muskmelons from NoriolK III anu
| 20 cents each. -, -
| Fishermen report that the unusually large num-
| beers of sharks now in the Dor ana along the
| coast are interfering with tne nShlng
| Especially have they frightened oil the weak-nsn
| from their favOrIte biting ground on the homer
| Shoals With the exception of young alligator
| which crawls around Fish Commissioner BiacK-
fords marble tank, there IS little to note n ,r
| Market Tne prices of fish have not altered from
| the cheap figures quoted last Sunday Cod, hukes
founders and poTges are selling Tor cents, hau-
dock and small-sIzed fresh mackere can De hah LOT
| 0cents and weaK-fsh, live Holsters and the larger
| mackere are worth 10 cents pound. Sea pass ana
dressed eels worth IL cents striped pass ~ ~
QeItT =
| cents and Spanish mackerel, 10 and 80 cents a
| pound according 10 their SIZE. fonpln0s can De
had for 40 cents King fish for 20 cents, sheepshead
for 20 cents, large white perch Tor 10 cents, ana
brook trout for 30 cents to 81 pound. Hard era =
are worth 50 "A hundred. soft crabs 40 cents 10 -
| dozen and frogs legs 30 cents pound.
! The retail prices of meats are about as cheap at
present az they will be during the year. Porter
houSe steak u selling for 22 aud ~ cents srloln
| steaks Is and % cents. round steaks 10 ana ~
| cents roasting beet II and - cents. stewing pieces
| 4 and 10 cents and cOrned beef 10 and II cents
pound. Fore-quarters 81 spring lamb can ne oougnt
| for | q and cents, headquarters Tor 20 ana ~
| cents mutton fOre-quartcrs for and 10 cents
| bnd-quarters for II AID II cents and mn ton
! chopsSi or II and % cents pound fote-quart'rS
OF veal are and Ii cents, and headquarters IL ana
! 20 cents a pound
Spring chickens and spring ducks are each to be
had for 20 and - cents pound; turkeys are ~
20 cents "a pound. The prime variety OF lows
known in thC~trade as Philadelphia roasting chck-
ems are qnOted 81 anu 30 cents and Philadrlphla
spring chickens 80 and 30 cents pound.
The best table butter can be bought
for % cents am an a ~ c.ct El a and,
good cooking butter for - and 20 cents pound.
| Common mix cheese Is worth 10 cents, ana hnglsn
DAIRY cheese % cents a pound. Eggs are - cents
dozen The price Of butter ~ this city or BROOKLYN,
outside of Washington Market. ranges from 10 to
| - cents higher than these hgurfs.
| There has been some complaint among the market
| men that "banco" stccrcrs have been At work
| among their customers. They say The police. VINO
| know these men, snOud not allow them 10 make
| Washington Market tuer field OF operations.
MENU.
Green Pea sOlp.
Spanish Macserel Cucumbcrs
| Roast Veal New 20 atOes Boiled. ESg Plant.