Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-09
AS TO TABLE VIANDS.
Grapes and Apples All That Remain
Of Domestic Fruits.
ORANGES DRIFTING DOWNWARD.
An Upward Movement of Eggs and Choice
Grades Of Butter
QUIET TRADE IN FLORAL OFFERINGS
ORANGES DRIFTING DOWNWARD.
QUIET TRADE IN FLORAL OFFERINGS
OFFICE or PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
FRIDAY, November S. ISS9.

FRIDAY. November s. 1859.
The features of interest developed the
past week concerning market basket-flling
are the advance in tomatoes and eggs, and
decline in tropical fruits, particularly
oranges, which begin to come in freely from
Florida. All else remains at about the
same figure as last Saturday
Outdoor tomatoes were nipped by bit
ing frosts last week, and their day is nearly
at an end. They are still, however, to be
found on the stalls at prices nearly double
those which ruled last Saturday.
Of domestic fruits, grapes and apples are
about all that are left and for these prices
are the same as last Saturday. Another
week will probably leave this field to the one
line of apples. Tropical fruits are in better de-
maud, and oranges are to be had at lower rates
than week ago.
Fish, Oysters and Poultry.
At the fish and oyster stalls quiet weeks
trade was reported. In some choice grades OF
fish supply is still inside OF demand, but mar
kets are much better stocked with all kinds OF
fish than at any time this season. Consumers
of fish and oysters have evidently not gotten
fairly DOWN to their work.
POI ry is in better supply and lower, turkey
being the exception TO this rule. The latter
ale. SO far, scarce in our markets, and the
Thanksgiving bird bids fair at this date to be
more expensive than usual Countrymen
through Pittsburg's bailiwick report an un-
usual scarcity of turkeys and our supplies this
season must come chiefly from the West.
Lovers OF game will have little trouble secur-
ing everything in this line that is desired.
Eggs Still Scarce.
There is great scarcity of good fresh eggs,
and retail prices are higiher than last Saturday.
A sure article of hen fruit brings Soc per dozen,
and is much cheaper at this figure than the
best cold storage eggs at Csc per dozen.
In floral lines trade is quiet. Society has
done no big things this week to call out floral
displays. Next week promises much better in
this line. Chrysanthemums are now at their
best. Next week Philadelphia is to have its
great annual display of chrysanthemums,
which for dozen years past has been the great
floral event of the year.
Following are the retail prices of market
basket materials as furnished by leading
dealers:
Meats.
The best cuts of IenderloiD steak range
from 20 to 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloln, best cuts from Is to lSc;
standing rib roast, from 10 to 2Oc; chuck
loast. 10 to I2c; best round steaks, I5c; boiling
beef, to Sc; sweet breads, 20 to Soc per pair;
beef kidneys, l0c apiece; beef liver, &c a pound
calf livers, 25c apiece: corned beef from to l0c
per pound Veal for stewing commands lee:
roast, l215 to 15c; cutlets 20c per pound; spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 TO 12c; hind quarters,
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l2112c; fore quarter, Sc; loin of
mutton, l5c; giblets, &c per pound.
Vegetables and Fruit.
Potatoes. I5c per half peck; Jersey sweet
potatoes, 25c per half peck; tomatoes, 4Oc
per half peck; cabbage, 5 to IOc; bananas,
80 Eoo hv,,,o lar,
to 35c per dozen; oranges 5505Oc; lettuce, Sc per
bunch, 6 for 25c; Tadishes, Sc per bunch; beets,
8 for l0c: caulifiowers, 15 to SOC head;
string beans, S5c half peck: onions, 70
to 35c a half peck; new Spanish onions. to
1Oc each; pie pumpkins, 10 to 35c, according to
size; CataWbas, lOc; Concord grapes, to &c
per pound: California, Tokay and Muscat
grapes. 2Oc per pound; turnips, ZOc per half
peck; cranberries, 15c quart
Butter, Eggs and Poultry. i
Choice creamery butter, S5c. Good country
butter, S5c Fancy pound rolls, 4Oc.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is SOC.
The range for dressed chickens is SOC to
81 90 per pair. Turkeys, 2Oc per pound. Prairie
chickens, 81 90 pair; ducks, 81 90 to 81 25 per
pair; reed birds, 81 90 per dozen; jacksnipes.
s. 25 per dozen; partridges, S. a dozen; squir-
rels, Soc pair; plovers, s. % dozen; rabbits,
Soc pair; pheasants, 81 25 pair
Fish in Season.
FOuoNAnB dI0 0A0 dIuClSS III buIs uno Oh
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon 1217c; Cali
fornia salmon, 40c per pound; white fish,
l275c; herring, 4 pounds for 25c; red snap
pers, Is to zoe per pound; Spanish mackerel, SOC
to 35c a pound: sea salmon, 40c a pound;
blue fish, 25 to 30c; perch. I0c; halibut 25c;
rock bass 30c; black bass 2Oc: lake trout, l215c;
HOLSTERS, 25c; green sea turtle, 2Sc; Inackerel
2Oc small, l0c large. Oysters: n. Y. counts
81 IS per gallon; clans, 81 25 per gallon; seol-
lops, SOC a quart; frogs s. 90 per dozen;
soft shell crabs, 75c per dozen; devil crabs, Sc
per dozen.
Flowers.
La France roses, 81 256l so per dozen; Bride
roses 81 25 per dozen; Perles, 81 90 per dozen:
Niphetos, 81 90 per dozen; Bennetts, 81 so
per dozen; American Beauty, 35c apiece: Mer-
NETS, II 25 per uozen; carnations. soc a dozen;
Maiden Hair fern, soc per doz. fronds: gladiolus
SOC per dozen; lily of the valley, 81 per dozen;
chrysanthemums, SOC to S4 dozen.