Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-06
VIANDS FOR TABLE.
Retail Prices Of Filling for Saturdays
Market Basket.
FISH AND FRUIT MOVING SLOWLY.
An 0ver-Supply of Tennessee Potatoes
Cheapens Rates.
CHOICE EGGS FIRM, BUTTER QUIET
FISH AND FRUIT MOVING SLOWLY.
CHOICE EGGS FIRM, BUTTER QUIET
OFFICE OF PIrTsBURe DISPATCH, |


FRIDAY. July 5, 1879.
Market basket materials have undergone
few changes within the past week. Straw
berries are out and whortleber-ies are in.
New potatoes, in a jobbing way, have
seldom been as low at this season of the year
as they are now. Markets have been glutted
for q number of days with Tennessee potatoes,
and in carloads sold as low as 81 Is which is
about double the freight price.
Watermelons and cantaloupes keep improv-
ing in size quality and quantity but fail to fall
in price Dealers in fruits and vegetables re-
port a quiet weeks trade, but have large hopes
and great expectations for Saturday. il the
weather prophet will but smile on them as he
promises to do. The time is here when the
products of lake and ocean are at their
quietest. From now till the latter part of Au-
gust tsh markets are quiet The trade with
fancy restaurants, which is the principal source
of demand at this season, slackens up as the
time comes when patrons begin to fit to noun.
tain and seaside. One of our leading florists
speaking of his trade, said to-day: THE
Fourth of July is he only holiday of the year
which makes no demand on our business.
Christmas. Thanksgiving and Decoration Day
are uniformly great days with florists, but on
the nations birthday flowers are always at a
discount This is the only holiday that florists
are permitted to celebrate. Our trade this
week has been confined mostly to funeral
ing place demand will be showing up. In
q week or two we will be having orders for
floral decorations from Cape May, Atlantic
City. Cresson and other popular resorts"
Country butter is in over-supply. Cows are
emphatically living in clover. and the result is
seen in the fact that country butter goes a
begging. Spring chickens are in better shape,
and lower prices than last week. Following
are the latest retail prices of market basket
filing as furnished by leading dealers:
Meats.
The prices called for at the Diamond Markets
remain unchanged. The best cuts of tenderloin
steak range from 20 to 25c, with the last figure
for very fancy which are very often no bet
ter than the 2Oc article; sirloin, best cuts,
from IL to 2Oc; standing nib roast, 15 to zoe;
chuck roast, 10 to l2c; best round steaks, l5c;
boiling beef, to &c; sweet breads, &c to Soc per
pair: beef kidneys, l0c apiece; beef LIVER, SC
pound: calf liVers. 25c apiece; corned beef
commands l0c; roast, l21< to l5c: outlets. 2Oc
per pound; spring lambs, fore quarter, Is 10
2Oc; hind quarters, 20 to Csc. A leg of NUT
i25Sc; fore Quarter, Sc; ioin Of mutt: mutton, T i5c;
giblets. &c per pound
Vegetables and Fruit.
New white potatoes. 20 to 25c per half peck;
egg plants, 10 to l5c: new onions 25c per quarter
peck; tomatoes 25c per quart box; new cab
Dage, to l5c; bananas, 20 to Csc a dozen; new
homegrown carrots, &c bunch; California
peaches, 25c per quart box; lemons. 25 to 3Oc per
dozen; oranges, SOC; lettuce, SC per bunch, 8
TOR 25c; radishes, SC per bunch; cucumbers, 8
beets, SC bunch: cauliAowers, Is to
Soc head; homegrown string beans, zoe a
quarter peck; homegrown golden wax beanG,
25c quarter peck; new Southern onions Csc a
quarter peck: homegrown squashes, 10 TO zoe;
homegrown potatoes, Csc half peck; home
grown peas, 2Oc per half peck: sweet and sour
cherries, l5c per quart for Csc; gooseberries,
nQr 2. 70 q
for 2oc; wstermelons, 35 to 60c; cantalOups. 40
to 75c; red raspberries, Is to 2Oc quart; black
raspberries L to l5c; huckleberries, 20c quart;
Whortleberries, 2Oc quart
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Choice creamery butter, 25c. Good country
butter. Zoe. Fancy pound rolls, 8oc.
The ruling retail price for eggs is 20c.
The range for dressed chickens is 9Oc to
81 25 per pair Turkeys, l5c per pound. Spring
chickens, 75c to 81 per pair; ducks, 81 to 81 &
per pair; geese, SO to 75c each.
Fish IN Season.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, I21<c Cali
fornia salmon. 40c pound; white fish, l21Sc; her
ring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mackerel, 30c
20 35c a pound; sea salmon, 4Oc a pound;
blue hsh, 25 to 3Oc; perch. l0c; halibut, 25c;
rock bass, Soc; black bass 20c: lake trout l216c:
lobsters, 25c; green sea turtle. 2Sc; .mackerel,
zoe small, 40c large. Oysters: n. Y. counts
u 70 per gallon; clans. 81 25 per gallon; scol-
lops, 50c quart: frogs 81 90 to 81 90 per dozen;
soft shell crabs, 75c per dozen; devil crabs, S5c
per dozen.
Flowers.
La France roses, 81 O0@l so per dozen; Bride
roses, 81 90 per dozen; Perles, 81 90 per dozen;
Niphetos, 81 90 per dozen; Bennetts, 81 90
per dozen; American Beauty 25c apiece; Mer-
NETS, u 90 per oozen; carnations 35c a dozen;
Maiden Hair fern, SOC per doz. fronds. Bermuda
Easter lilies. So 0O per dozen; Jacquemiaot
roses. 75c to 81 so dozen; peonies 81 O6a dozen;
moss roses, 81 90 a dozen; June roses, 81 90 a
dozen: forgetmenots. 25c dozen; water lilies,
6ec dozen.