Evening journal., 1888-07-25
TRE MARK ETS.
Plenty of Provisions selling at
Fair Prices.

Plenty of Provisions selling at
Fair Prices.
King and Madison streets markets this
morning were well filled with country
produce Of all kinds. Buyers are more
plenty than on Wednesday last and the
sales and prices obtained were fair. Jersey
products are somewhat backward this
year. The quotations for this morning
we're as follows;
VEGETABLES.
Egg plants from Jersey are beginning to
look finer than those last quoted; they sell
at l2 to l5 cents apiece, bus Ia about one
wesk more they will be cheaper. Cucum-
bers are large at ~ cents dozen. 25 cents a
basket There are some very fine new po.
tatoes shown. J. d. German has about the
largest. They are called Beauty OF Hebron,
Delaware potato, and sell at wholesale at
sS.25 barrel The retail price OF new po-
tatoes ia 20 cents half peck. Old potatoes
ara small and few In the hill; none were
noticed along King street Onions,
Bermudas, the finest grown, sell
for rs and so cents basket, or 40 cents a
half peck; 10 cents q rope. The price of
tomatoes has fallen whllo the quality of the
same has taken a rise;all Of them come from
Jersey at present, but Brandywine hundred
will probably be heard from next week.
To-day's prices are so TO 75 cents basket,
or 25 cents 8 half peck. Squashes are
growing somewhat, and can be bought for
3 to 5 cents piece. Cabbage ia looking up
and with lettuce sells at TO cents a head.
Bsets OF good si1e and flavor, are cheap
enough at cents a bunch. String beans
are selling &C IS to 20 cents half peck
Corn Is unsatisfactory at 20 conts dozen
sweet corn will be due later. Carrots are
l cent bunch.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Fresh golden sountry butter as good as
can be bought is sold freely at rs to 80 cents
pound. Tub butter Is about the same as
usual, good quality for 2s cents a pound
Eggs keep an even price with fair profit
at 20 to % cents dozen. Full cream cheese
best to be had, sells at IA to TO cents a
pound; skim milk cheese brings 5 to 10
q pound. Poultry is scarce. Spring chick
ems sell for 25 cents pound and are in
more demand than the old ones at 10 6cents a
pound. Live chickens are few cents
cheaper.
FRUITS AND BERRIES
Pesches had the list, they are the great
fruit for the present buyer, and the
prices are certain to ht his pocket.
Although scarcer than yesterday, the quail
ity is good and Il is becoming better aud
more mature every day. Prices arc 80 to
65 cents basket; retailing at 20 to 25 cents
half peck. Apples are growing with the
summer. Red Harvests, Pitman's aud
Astricens are the varieties. BY the basket
they are 30 cents, by the half peck, IL to
IS cents. Bananas sell at 10 to 25 cts same
as usual. Oranges are too high to quote
and too scarce to find. The season is over
from the middle OF June until the fall
when they again start to come. Hasten
the fall Blackberries are cheaper and
COOK at to cents quart, with Wilson's
the preference. Huckleberries. high
grown. are 10 cents box. Mountain
cherries are cents box. Lemons, sour
as wanted, large and juicy. sell at 20 cents
dozen.
MEATS AND FISH.
The dealer reported slow meat market:
he said that most of his customers were out
of town and that things weae quiet
Another dealer 10 thessame article reported
fair market with good prices. Verify the
ways Of the meat dealer are strange
Prices are; Beef-Best cuts, 25 cents 9
pound; roast, 1915 10 IA cents; stewlne
pieces, 8 to 10 cents; soup pieces, cents
shins, Is 70 90 cents; liver, 10 cents pound
kidneys. 10 cents each; round steak. II
cents. Veal-Cutlets, 20 cents a pound
roasts, 10 cents; stewing. 10 and H. Lamt
-forequarter, 16 cents a pound; hind
quarters, 20 and 25 cents; NUT.
ton, forequarters, s TO 10 cents pound:
headquarters, l6 to Is cents; ham. whole,
Is cents pound; sliced, 20 cents; shoulder,
IL and l2 cents; lard, 10 cents; bacon, IL
cents, fitch, l2 cents; dried beef, Clipped,
2S cents. Fish are scarce as scarcs can be-
Thereare very few kinds to quote, and the
prices OF those are high. They sell as fol.
lows; Catfish, Spanish mackerel and blue
fish, IS cents pound each; trout and cod.
nsh. 2 pounds for 25 cents: balibut, q
cents. The scarcity is caused by the large
nuantitiaa of fab uuad hv the xVafariro o