The Critic and record., 1891-05-08
LOCAL MARKETS.


the slightest appreciabe change in
prices anywhere in the list, except in two
favorite articles of spring diet. These
items are strawberries and spring chick
ems. The Norfolk berry now rules, and
can be had from Is to % cents per quart,
as against % to 10 cents on Wednesday.
The article is iirst-class and tempting, too.
Spring chickens are cheaper by about 10
per cent, bringing from 80 to 40 cents per
pound. Other poultry is the same as last
reported.
1t is a twice told tale to say that first
class beef and mutton remain the same
that is, high and scarce. IL there is any
thing to be noted about the market it is
that prime cuts are in demand, and the
butchers, who have been complaining
little at the very small margin Of profit
youchsafed, are at least encouraged to be.
lieye they may come out nearer even
than expectation of prices had lately
heretofore warranted.
Butter, which to-day's reports show the
last summing up of the situation was
correct, is still high, with no symptom
of q change to please the economical
housekeeper. Eggs are the same.
The list of vegetables furnished by The
CRlTIC-RECoRD, embrace the best the
market affords and consequently range
to the maximum prices. There is not
seller who reads TIE CRITc.REcoRD's, who
does not testify to its fairness and ac-
curacy.
OTHER articles of the list for to-day's re-
ports are not at all changed.
A glance at the fish market shows an
abundant supply and evidences of an
animated trade.
Groceries and everything incident to the
business, steady, at last quotations, with
| moderate trading.
FIouR-Best family $3.50 toS per barrel;
| $3.50 per sack Quarter barreD; best Min
nesota $3.50 to SSper barrel; Sl.75 to 81
per sack; Graham, 3 cents per pound;
| entire wheat 81 per barrel.
| MEAL--I per bushel, 25 cents per peck;
| hominy, 80 cents per peck; grits, 20 cents
! per package; flakes, 10 cents per package,
cents per pound wheatlets, 10 cents per
package; oatmeal, cents per pound
| Hecker's cracked wheat, 6 cents per
pound; Farina, 10 cents per pound; sage,
10 cents per pound; rice, Z to 10 cents per
| pound; tapioca, 10 cents per pound; split
| or green peas, 3 cents per pound lentils,
| 10 cents per pound
BtTTER-Elgin creamery, 80 to 40 cents;
Pennsylvania, 30 to 40 cents; fancy print,
% to 80 cents per pound
EGGs-1G to Is cents per dozen.
CHEEsE-Cream, Is to 20 cents per
pound; new English, % cents; old Eng
fish, 80 cents; Camenbert 80 cents; linn
burger 20 cents Rouuefort, 80 cents;
pineapple, each 60 cents; sapsago, 10
cents per cake; Fromage de brie, 90 cents
per pound; Schweitzer, IS cents per pound;
English pineapple, GO cents each; Eidam,
Sl.15 to l.25 per piece; parmesan, 30 cents
per pound; neufchatel, to cents per
cake.
Observation-Disclosures 81. 80 to 81 go per
bushel; new, so cents to 81 per peck; sweet
so cents per peck; cabbage, 5 to Is cents
per head; cauliflower, 20 to 40 cents pei
head; beets, new Florida, IS cents to 81 pei
peck; home grown, 90 cents per bunch
string beans, 81 per peck; Florida toma
toes, 20 cents per pound; cucumbers, q
cents each, Southern new peppers, 81 pei
dozen; new carrots 10 cents per bunch
lettuce, so cents to 81 per dozen; aspar
agus 10 to 30 cents; homegrown, II
cents per bunch; celery, 10 to 90 cent!
per bunch; onions-Bermudas, 81 pc
peck; spring onions, . punches for
cents; water. crosses, 10 cents per box; pie
plant, cents per bunch; eggplant, IL t.
% cents each; snap beans, 40 cents / peck
IS cents per peck very scarce); cab
bage, 5 to 10 cents per head; parsnips, g
cents per peck; cucumbers. 10 to Is cent
each; home grown, 10 to 20 cents each.
FRESH MEATs-Beef. S to % cents pc
pound; steaks, IS to 30 cents; roasts, II
to 20 cents; veal, 10 to 90 cents; roasts
| lZ3 10 " CclllSi CllJlelS, ~ W 70 CclltS
mutton, s to 20 cents spring lamb, 90 t.
80 cents; corned beef, to 124 cents pc
pound.
CURED MEATs-Hams, 10 to IS cent
pound shoulders, 10 cents pound; bacon
10 to II cents pound; picked pork, /
cents pound; lard, 10 cents pound.
FRESH F1sH-Shad, 25 to so cent
J each; bucks or melts, % cents each
rock bass, Is cents per pound; pom
N | Db ppnfc nnrph In pnntg
string; strawberry perch. 10 cents pc
pound: founder, 10 cents per pound
/; Spanish mackerel. 80 cents per pound
imported white bait, 50 cents; German
! carp, 124 cents; salt water trout. II
to 10 cents per pound; white perch,
cents per string; hard crabs, 40 to )
cents per dozen; cells, 10 cents each
: legs, $3.50 to So per dozen, 25 cents eacl
| red snapper, 10 to 20 cents per pound
blue fish, 12l cents per pound; halibu
(chicken), 20 cents per pound; snappin
: turtle, 12l cents per pound; sea bass, !
l cents per pound; poige l5cents per pounC
/ PoUITRY.- Chickens, roasting, 18 to
! cents per ID; spring chickens, 80 to
e cents per h.; turkey, % cents per pount
duck, 20 cents per pound.
FRUITs.-Apples, rs cents to 81 per peel
. Massena oranges, 80 to 40 cents per dozer
Floridas, 80 to IS cents per dozen; India
G River oranges, 81; Shaddock, Is cent
7 each, two for % cents; pineapple
' 20 to 25 cents each; grapes 40 TO
cents per pound; strawberries, 10
: 25 cents per quart Coming in large
shipments); lemons 25 cents dozeI
V bananas, 20 cents a dozen; cranberrie
Is cents per quart; mandarins, 10 cen
y per dozen.
e CANNED GooDs--Lobster, 25 cents pr
can; tomatoes, 10 cents per cal
salmon, 20 cents; Caviare, 35 cen
per can; condensed milk, 10 to
cents per can; French peas, Is to % cen
: per can; American peas, II to 20 cent
C mushrooms, 20 to 30 cents per can; corr
e 10 to 10 cents per can; peaches, % to
: cents; asparagus, % to SO cents per can.
J. NUTs-English walnuts, II to 20 cen
= per pound; new Brazil, 10 cents per poun
S pecans, 10 cents per pound; almonds,
cents per pound; tilberts, ID cents p
pound.