Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-08-04
The City Markets.


9HE INJURIOUS EFFECT or THE WET WEATHER ON
sUTTkR-AsI0Ss IN ABuSDANGE-oTHER FEA-
TURES OF THE WEEK.
The general state OF the wholesale and 1obbing
markets has changed very little since the last
report made The receipts of flour are gradually
Increasing and fully ample to meet the demand.
which Is also on the increase. Minnesota process
stands at s. to $50. The grain market is uuiet
and all arrivals readily sold at 81 to $112 Corn
by the barrel is s. IS for the best Sheled 60 to 6S
per husheL Oats, 81 to 40 cents per busheL The
nay market Is dull, though the offerings are un-
usually liberal just at this time There Is a de-
mani for cool old timothy at si3 per ton: clover
Is dull 40 '''""
THE EFFECT OF WET WEATHER ON BUTTER
In butter the receipts seem to be falling of. The
statement made last week, to the effect that the
BEST brands do not hold out good as usual is re-
Heraied again by the dealers These brands do
not possess the solidity and firm character that IA
expected This is attributable, the dealers say to
the excess OF wet weather. which always affects
the character OF butter more or less Common
E Cru, are In demand. many consumers stating
fancy creameres are selling by wholesale at q to
20 cents per pound. and lower grade, in proper
tion virginia receipts are falling off In quantity
as wei as quality, and the market may be re-
gafded a. quiet Eggs are scarce and higher, and
are also growing TO be OF poor quality Poultry is
not so plentiful, and prices average at 10 cents for
spring chickens and IL to IL for old fowls Sales
are not SO active the last few days as formerly.
THE VEGETABLE MARKET
continues active. potatoes ranging at wholesale
from 81 - 10 sl7 per barrel and OF good quality
Alarge potato cropf expected this year Tomatoes
are abundant and sell from so cents to 81 Der box
string beans are plentiful and cheap; cabbage
abundant and selling from "a TO $40 per hundred;
sweet corn for 10 10 1S cents, and new sweet pota
toeS Tor 80 TO $3.50 per barrel Cantaloupes are
abundant, the best kinds appearing to be those
growed In the neighbornood OF Norfolk and Cone
river Waterm Ions are also plentiful; they are
the very fpIvh
productions having appeared. The Georgia pro.
auctions are most sought after at present.
PEACHES AND APPLES.
reaches are growing better in quality, but the
crop Is failure generally, from blight. They sell
from 81 TO $3.50 per box. Pears are or better prom
ise than apples, and some very good ones are oc-
casiOnally brought into n ,rket. The nearby pro-
'luction or apples OF better quality than any
brought here from the far-on states, and the apple
aeason In our own neighoornood promises better
d. T. Coleman quotes foreign fruits as follows:-
Bananas. s275 To $3.50 per bunch; oranges. So ner
box; lemons, $50 70 81; pine apples, IS per hun
died; cocoa nuts, s. per hundred.
Strang q fuckers Quotations are:-Oranges.
80 so 10 $3.50; lemons, 81 so TO S6: pine apples IS
per hundred: bananas, 81 so TO $3.50 per bunch:
caiforah pluIns, g per box.
oranges, IS.
THE NEAT MARKET
IS qulet,w quotations as follows: Hind quarters
beef, TO 11H cents; fore quarters 5 to cents:
10 IL cents. In cured meats, the market IS re.
ported 10 be weakening, and lower prices are
looked for. Sugar cured hams are, however, ad-
vancing little, and lard and everything else of
the hog production Is quiet Sugar cured hams
are Is 10 IN cents, slight advance from last
week Western hams and shoulders, bulk meats,
&C., are low, with millions OF hogs through the
western states yet TO bring into market The
market for cured meats is dun and quiet.
FINED SO FOR AN AssAuLr.-A young man
named Edward Sweeney arrested by Officer
j. j. Smith yesterday on the charge OF seriously
assaulting an elderly man named Elias Basha.
In the Police Court this morning he pleaded
guilty to the charge and was defended by Mr. W.
A. Cook. The complainant stated that he was
knocked down In front OF his store and beaten by
the defendant He showed some severe injuries
On his head In confederation OF his statement of
the severity Of the assault f1ne OF $40 was Inn.
posed.
DIED FROM THE EFFECTS OF AN OLD WouNp-Mr
Franklin X Harkins, who formerly lived In this
city, died at his aunt's home in Baltimore Thurs
day, from a cancerous affection superinduced by a
gunshot wound received In the late war. Mr.. Har.
kins left this city last February for the Warm
Springs OF Arkansas TO seek relief. While on his
way TO the springs some one In the cars appropr1.
ated his satchel containing his ticket and other
valuable papers He then sought out his relatives
In Baltimore ana had been confined to his bed
there since. He was a native OF LAUREL Md, and
served with distinction In the federal army. hav-
Ing enlisted as drummer boy when only Is years
ol age.