National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-05-08


Baltimore Produce Market, May
COTTON quiet and steady; middling, 1910.
FLOUR easier and quiet; Howard street and
western superllne, s3509s3e5; do extra, $500
@SL37; do family, s.. 509S5. 25 city mills super.
fine, s35O@i375; do extra, s40Q9i25i do Rio
brands, $500; Patapsco family, $780, do super
latiye patent. s6.25.
WHEAT.-so firm for choice; western
q shade frmer, and quiet southern red, .sl,oi
sl.06G9l 0612; No. 2 western winter red, spot,
1905 July, 81, o2IS@l,6211s,
C0RN.-Southern steady and firm western
about steady and dull southern white, 500
60c; do yellow. 5695sc; western mixed, spot
Csc bid, fresh; May, 651ac asked; June, $3.50
55}4c; July, 55Hc bid.
OATS firm and quiet; southern, 42@45c;
western white. 43@i5c; do mixed, 4l942c;
Pennsylvania, d2Gtl5c.
PROVISIONS nominally steady. Coffee lower
and nominal; Rio eargoes, ordinary to fair,
'|sGGiR-Copper refined firm at lO2%Sllc.
WHISKY steady at 81, 2O@L2l.
Other articles unchanged.
Center Market Quotations.
The ruling prices for the Center market are
fixed on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each
week. The quotations yesterday were os fol-
lows:
BuTTER,--Best prints. So to 40 cents pc.
pound; best creamery, 40 cents fresh New
York. 80 TO 30 cents; roll, % TO 80 cents Eggs,
10 to 10 cents per dozen. Cheese, Is 10 20
cents.
PoULTRY-sprng chickens, 90 cents to 81. %
per pair; fowls, 81 90 per pair turkeys, is to
% cents per pound; SQUADS, 81 10 10 cents per
pair,
GAME,-Green turtle, 20 cents per pound
Jacksnlpe, $3.50 dozen. Frogs, 800 dozen.
FRuIIs.-Strawberries % 10 10 cents per box;
prunes, 10 cents pound pickles, TO IL cents
dozen; jellles 10 TO 10 cents per pound;
mince meat, 10 cents per pound; preserves,
10 cents per pound; honey, 20 cents per pound;
bananas, % 10 80 cents per dozen; pineapples,
% TO IS cents apiece,
halibut, 10 cents per pound Goldfish, 10 cents
por pound; white perch, % TO 40 cents per
bunchi pickerel, 10 cents per pound; roe shad,
fresh mackerel TO 10 cents apiece; Holsters,
10 cents perpound; crabs, 20 cents per
dozen; soft crabs, sl,60 per doReni clans, 10
cents per dozen. Smoked aud sailed fish
smoked salmon, 20 cents per pound; sailed
salmon, 20 cents per pound; smoked mackerel,
| to cents apiece; dried herring, 20 TO 90
cents per dozeni cells, 10 10 20 cents per pound
sturgeon, 20 cents per pound Scotch herring, 10
| cents per DOZEN smoked paddock, l215 cents
per poundi smoked shad, 10 cents per pound
salt shad, 1873 per pound. No mHckerel. 81
| to 20 cents apiece.
VEdETABLfs,-Old potatoes, 20 to 80 cents pei
| peck; new potatoes, 50 cents 10 81 per peck;ap
pies, 40 TO 90 cents per peck asparagus
s TO 10 cents per bunch; rhuDaTb, . TO b cents
per bunch; lettuce, . 10 cents bead
| cabbage, 8 to 10 cents per head; kale IS 70 90
cents per peck; old onions, go cents per peck
new onions, 81 per peck; oranges, 20 TO 40 cents
per dozen; spinach, 40 to 80 cents per peck
green peas, 90 to 60 per peck; toma
toes, 10 70 10 cents per basket cabbage
sprouts, 40 TO 30 cents per peck bunch
onions, 3 cents; yams, 80 cents per peck;
parsnips, 30 70 40 cents per peck; string beans,
60 cents to 81 per peck; parsley, cent per
bunch thyme and sage, each . cents per
bunch; lemons, 10 10 % cents per dozen; celery,
10 to II cents per bunch new 6oets, 10 to 20 cents
per bunch; egg plants 10 to % cents per piece
dried apples, o cents per pound dried peaches
nom 10 TO 20 cents u pound dried cherries, %
cents apound; soup beans, Ocents quart; lima
beans, 10 cents quart; carrots, o to 10 cents a
bunchi hominy, cooked and raw, cents n
quart; oymlings, 3 to . cents eachi radishes. Z
TO cents II bunch; oyster plants, 3 cents per
bunch cucumbers, 5 to 20 cents piece
sauerkraut, % cents per gallon,
MEATS, best roast beet, 10 to 20 cents per
pound, tenderlOn steak, 9OtO - cents. slrlo!n ~
cents; round steak, 10 cents; tough roast ~.
cents; corned heot to ~ CENTS; lamb, 20 Ia
25 cents; mutton, 10 to 10 cents, mutton chops
20 centsi veg, 10 10 % cents veal chops. lhts2 q