Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-07-27
MARKET MENTION.
Retail Prices In Our Market This
Morning.

The market was well supplied this
morning with variety of vegetables
and everything To make the heart of
man glad. Market wagons were stand
ing along on both sides and in front
of the Space all well-iilled with the
products OF mother earth, including
tempting fruits and golden butter, eggs
and poultry. Buyers. with welllilled
market baskets were from all parts of
the city, and the c0nntryman's heart
was made glad for once, in week. Sat
urday is our principal market day
although there is market every day
but saturday il the day of all the week
and the supply is unusually large Many
persons come to market on saturday
that do not go oh any other day in the
week, and the same can be said of the
marketman He waits until Saturday
and then brings his store TO market aud
at the same time laying in his week Is
groceries. Take it all in all Saturday
is an all round busy day for the mer-
chant rs well as the marketer. As the
| season advances and produce becomes
| more plentiful, prices decline aud pur-
chasers are more liberal. Prices this
morning ruled about us follows
Vegetables and 9its.-Tomatoes.
which up to within the past few days
quite a tumble this morning and ins tead
of retailing at Is cents quart OF five,
could be bought to-day for 10 cents
| quarter of peck, and so cents basket.
The quality is not so SO good as former
seasons, which is owing to blight, To
the vines, but the later crop is said will
be up TO their usual standard. Fine
roasting ear corn retailed at 10 and II
cents per dozen; cymblings, 10 and II
c9nts per dozen; cucumters. 10 and II
cents per dozen; beets, and ) cents
bunch; egg plants, 5 and cents piece;
potatoes, 20 cents u peck: green peas, 40
cents peck; string beans, 20 cents Il
peck lima beans, 20 cents quart ;oniOns,
cents quart; cabbages, from To .
cents head; cauliflower, s and 10 cents;
lettuce, and cents head.
Fruits and BerrieS.-There appears
TO be a prolific growth of berries of all
kinds and the market is well supplied.
Blackbcrries retailed at aud cents IA
quart; cultivated, and 10 cents; huck-
cherries, 8 and cents quart; raspDer-
| ries, 10 and 15 cents quart: apples, 20
cents peck, 25 and 80 cents a basket;
pears, 40 cents peck; peaches are scarce
and inferior and retailed for 10 cents a
quart, 10 and 20 cents quarter peck.
Fresh Meats.-The butchers had "a
good supply of fresh meats on sale, which
made tempting display on their marble
slabs. Prices ruled about as usual and
are as follows Beef, rib roast, IL and
10 cents; chuck, 10 cents; best porter
house steak, 16 and Is cents; serloin, 10
cents; round, IL cents; veal, s, II and Is
cents; lamb, 80 cents to 81 per quarter,
IL and Is cents per pound pork, 10 cents
per pound: calf liver, 80 and 80 cents
| each; beef liver, 10 cents per pound;
smoked sausages, 10 cents per pound;
podding, 10 cents per pound.
Fresh FSeh.-There has been scar
city of good fish in market for several
days, but the supply this morning was
very good. Rock and perch sold at %
cents bunch of six to eight fish; bay
mackeral, 2 for 25 cents; trout, 2 for 25
cents; cats, 10 and Is cents a bunch;
German carp, 25 to 80 cents each; hard
crabs, 10 cents per dozen, three dozen
| for % cents; soft crabs, 35 and 40 cents
per dozen. Everything almost is album
dant and within the reach of all, and
the poor AZ well as the rich can in
dulge III many of the luxurles which
our market and climate affords, at a
very small outlay. Few people in this
country are blessed with the advantages
that the people of Annapolis have in
the way of living and pleasure.
1--WE had an epedemic of dysentery in
this vicinity last summer, says Samuel
S. Pollock, of Briceland, Cal. Il was
taken with it and suffered severely until
some one called my attention TO Cham
berlain s Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. Iprocured a bottle and felt
better after the first dose. Tefore one
half of the bottle had been nsed i was
well. recommended it to my friends
and their experience was the same. We
all unite in saying it is the best.'' For
sale by Feldmeyer Bros. City Drug Store.