Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-12
THE SUNDAY DINNER.
Choice EdibIes md Prices Mt which They
ReiaiI-Melops Cheaper and Berries
Higher Eggs and Butter
Slightly Advanced.

At the Diamond Market fruit and vegetable
stalls q fair weeks trade is reported. supply
of raspberries and blackberries has fallen be-
low general expectations and prices are shade
higher than last Saturday. The first huckle-
berries of the season have put in an appearance
this week. Melons are In full supply and
should be bought at q shade lower prices than
last Saturday. Currants are scarce and firm.
The housewife who fails to secure the needful
supplies OF berries and currants this week has
missed her opportunity. The lowest prices this
season are thing OF the past. and by another
week the berry season VIII be nearly over IN
ut their best, and the yield IL not likely To reach
general representations In Jobbing way,
butter, eggs and poultry are shade higher
than last Saturday, but the advance has not
been sufficient to make much impression on re-
tail markets.
The supply Of ocean products has not boon
up TO demand the past week. Eastern hBh arc
very scarce II II utterly impossible to meet
demand for frogs. There arc scarcely any In
the market. Soft shell crabs are also very
scarce and prices have advanced. Florists re-
port quiet weeks trade. with no change In
prices. Staple meats rarely change, whatever
the fluctuations OF live stock. Our tenderloins
and fancy RIB roasts ,s are as expensive when ss
The benefit of lower priced beeves Is enjoyed
by those who indulge In boiling meat. Fancy
cuts have not varied In the past two years,
though cattle have dropped In that time ~ per
no.
Following are the latest retail prices of mar
ket basket materials:
Staple Meats.
The best cuts OF tenderlon steak range
from 20 TO 25c, with last figure for very
fancy; sirloin, best cuts, from 10 to l8c;
standing rib roast, from 10 to zoe: chuck roast
10 to l2c; best round steaks, l21S to I5c; boiling
beef to SCI sweet breads, 20 to SOC per pairs beef
kidneys l0c apiece; beef liver, DC pound; calf
livers 25 to 35c apiece; corned beef from Toto I2c
per pound. Veal for stewing commands l0c;
roast, l211 to l5c; cuGlets, Zoe per pound spring
lambs, fore quarter, 10 to l2c; hind quarters
l5c. A leg of mutton, hind quarter, of prime
quality, brings l21dc; fore quarter, &c; loin OF
mutton, l6c; giblets 90 per pound.
Garden STUFF:
Cabbage, 10 to zoe; new potatoes. 25c per half
peck; choice tomatoes, zoe quart box;
bananas, 10 to zoe dozen; carrots sc bunch;
lemons. 20 to SOC per dozen; oranges, S5
TO Soc; caullfower, homegrown, 10 to 2oc
head; lettuce. sc per bunch; beets. &C per bunch,
Soc per dozen; green onions, 2 punches for sc;
cucumbers, to 10c apiece; asparagus, 6c a
bunch; peas, 30c half peck; beans. 25c
half peck; black raspberrles, lSc, Tor Zoc,
red, l5 to zoe; blackberries. 15 to zoe quart;
huckleberries, 15c a quart; currants, l5 to
zoe quart; gooseberries, 10 to zoo
quart; pineapples, 10 to l5c apiece; eggplant,
10 to 15c apiece; squash. B to l5c apiece; water
melons. 20 to soc apiece; cantaloupes, 10 to 400
apiece; California apricots and peaches, Soc a
quart box.
Choice creamery butter, 2oc., Good country
butter IL to 14c Fancy pound rolls, 10 to zoe.
The retail price for fresh country eggs is 2Oc.
The range for dressed chickens Is Zoo to 81 %
per pair.
Ocean Products.
Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon, 10 to 1211c;
California salmon, 35c per pound; white fish,
1211c; herring, pounds for Yc; Spanish mack
erel, 25 to Soc pound; blue fish, l5c; halibut,
zoe; rock bass Csc; black bass, 15c; lake trout,
l21dc; Holsters, zoe: green sea turtle 20 to 2oc.
Oysters: N Y counts, 81 75 per gallon; clans,
81 25 per gallon; frog legs, Toe pound; soft
shell crabs, 81 Is to 81 so per dozen; frogs, 81
dozen; brook trout, 75c pound.
Flowers.
Jacks, 81 25 per dozen; La France, 81 25 per
dozen; Mermets, 81 25 per dozen; Brides. 81 25
per dozen; yellow and white, 75c per dozen;
Bennetts, 81 90 per dozen; Beauties, Csc apiece;
Harrison lilies, 25c apiece; pansies. lOc per
dozen; heliotrope, 5Oc per dozen; carnations. 30c
per dozen; peonles, 81 per dozen; Madame
Plantler, Toe per dozen; Gabrielle Luizet, 2Oc
apiece.