Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-15
EIANDS FOR TABLE.
Retail Price of Filling for Saturdays
Market Baskets.
FRUITANDYEGETABLES ARE DOWN
Meats, Fish, Butter, Eggs and Poultry
Steady at Old Rate.
A QUIET WEEK IN FLORISTS GOODS
,DFFrcr OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH.
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FRIDAY, June Il, 1879. !
Diamond-market dealers do not report a
very active trade this week, but the reverse.
The constant downpours have had a
danpening effect on trade in market
basket materials all along the line.
Butchers complain that close, damp weather
spoils enough stuff to wipe out profits.
OF the new things that have appeared in the
fruit and vegetable stalls for the first time this
week, are sweet cherries, red raspberries and
carrots. Prices of fruit and vegetables
are steadily drifting to a lower level Home
grown strawberries are now at their best
and will continue so through another week.
After next Saturday the season will be prac-
tically over. Red raspberries from Maryland
begin TO show up, but sell in a wholesale way at
20c a quart. New potatoes are in full supply
at lower prices than a week ago. In the line of
butter, eggs and poultry there are no changes
Country butter is in supply beyond demand,
and the drift is toward lower prices Creamery
in job lots is &c off this week, but retail prices
remain as before.
There has been some difficulty getting fish
from Eastern markets since the Pennsylvania
Railroad failed to come to time. Shipments
have been by way of Buffalo to this city for a
week or two past and stock has not been in as
good shape as 1t generally Is, by reason OF lts
long journeys and delays. This trouble is now
virtually past. Adams Express has resumed
operations and since Wednesday manages TO
get stuff from the seashore through TO THIS
Florists report that their trade is little good
Continuous Iwet weather and the calamities
which have befallen our neighbors have served
to upset many plans of social festivity and the
effect is felt by florists. June is usually one OF
the best months in this line. Thepresent is ex-
ceptionally quiet June roses are in full sup
ply, but demand is uncomfortably slow. Fol-
loving are the latest retail prices OF market
basket filling, 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 Is to 2Oc; standing rib roast, 10 to 2Oc;
chuck roast, 10 to l2c; best round steaks, l5c;
boiling beef, 5 to SC; sweet breads, 20 to Soc per
pair; beef kidneys, l0c apiece; beef liver, sc a
pound: calf livers. 25c apiece; corned beef
from to lOc per pound. Veal for Stewlng
commands l0c; roast, l2116 to l5c: outlets, 2Oc
per pound; spring lambs, fore quarter, l5 TO
2Oc: hind quarters, 20 to 2Sc. A leg OF NUT
ton. hind quarter, of prime quality, brings
1214c; fore quarter Sc; loin of mutton, l5c;
giblets, &c per pound.
Vegetables and Fruit.
New white potatoes. Csc per a peck; egg
plants, 10 to 25c; new Bermuda onions, 10c per
quart; tomatoes, 35c per quart box; new cab
bage, to l5c; bananas 20 to 35c a dozen; new
homegrown carrots, &C bunch: California
peaches, S5c per quart box; lemons. 20 to 25c per
dozen; oranges. Soc; spinach, l5c per half peck;
lettuce, &c per bunch, 6 tor 25c; radishes sc per
bunch; cucumbers. for 25c: asparagus, 6
punches for 25c; new beets, &C apiece; strawbeT-
ries, homegrown, 10 to 2Oc; caulifowers, 10 to
SOC head; golden wax beans, 30c quarter peck;
green beans, 2Oc quarter peck; peas, 10 to 25c
q quarter peck: homegrown peas, 25c per half
peck; sweet and sour cherries, l5c per quart 2
for 25c.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Choice creamery butter, 25c. Good country
butter. 20c. Fancy pound rolls, 30c.
The ruling retail price for eggs is 1Sc.
The range for dressed chickens is 90c to
81 25 per pair. Turkeys, l5c per pound. Spring
chickens, 81 TO 81 % per pair; ducks, 81 to 81 %
per pair; geese, 50 to 75c each.
Fish in Season.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls with prices: Lake salmon I219c; Cali
fornia salmon. 4Oc pound; white fish, l275c; her
ring, pounds for 25c; Spanish mackerel, 45c
TO 50c pound; shad, 60c apiece; sea salmon.
SOc a pound: blue fish, zoe; perch. l0c:
halibut 25c rock bass, SOC; black bass, 20c: lake
trout 1215c: HOLSTERS 25c; green sea turtle, 2Sc;
s. 20 per gallon; clans, 81 Is per gallon; scol-
lops, Soc quart; frogs, 81 80 to g so per dozen.
Flowers.
La France roses, 81 OO7l 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, 25@50e apiece;
Mermets. 81 90 per dozen; carnations. 35c dozen;
Maiden Hair fern, SOC per doz. fronds. Bermuda
Easter lilies. So 90 per dozen; mignonette, 75c
per dozen; pansies, 25c dozen; Jacquemilot
roses, 75c TO 81 so dozen; peonies 81 OOa Dozen;
moss roses, 81 90 a dozen; June roses, 81 90
dozen; forgetmenots, 25c dozen.