New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-23
PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
AMPLE VARIETY OF GOOD THINGS FOR THE
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HOIsEKEEPERs TABLE.
The provisions and fruit markets yesterday had
many varieties Of fine Southern fruits and vegetables
OF all sorts: fish and poultry were also plenufui'
neaches and cherries are still expensive Injuries Dut
vegetables getting cheaper
In the fruit market pineapples are selling FOR from
IS to 40 cents each, peaches 90 cents dozen Cali
fornia cherries 80 cents pound; FLORIDA cnerrles'
30 cents pound red bananas. 40 cents dozen; yell
low bananas. 20 cents a dozen; this years crop OF
maple sugar 20 cents pound; Florida navel oranges
co cents dozen: Messina lemons, 20 cents dozen;
Malaga grapes 90 cents pound; grape FRUIT % cents
each; huckeberries. 80 cents quart; Strawberries
20 to 40 cents quart Easter Beurre pears. 20 cents
n dozen; Winter Nes pears. IS cents Dozen hot
house grapes 50 a pound; table apples. 80 cents
small measure cooking apples. is cents quart, and
cocOanuts. 10 cents each
Porterhouse steak sells for q cents pound porter
house roast 25 cents; siroin steak 20 cents; Delmo-
leo steak 80 cents round bone steak. IS cents; fiat
bone steak 20 cents; fresh rump beef IA cents hep
roast beef IA cents leg OF beef. cents fet OF beef
GO cents: plate corned beef, 10 cents rump corned
beef "A oXtas, u cents, beef liver 10 cents
beef kidney, IS cents each: veal chops. % cents
pound sweetbreads 30 cents pair calves liver. 70
cents each and calves heads 90 cents Philadelphia
capons sell for 80 celts pound; Western capons. %
cents; slips 70 cents; Philadelphia spring roasting
chickens. % cents; Philadelphia spring broilins
chickens. 81 20 a pair State roasting chickens. IS
cents; State brOling chickens, 81 . a pair; small
breakfast broers 50 50 a dozen breakfast brOilers.
large size So Dozen frozen ducks, 20 cents pound;
spring ducklings. % cents; frozen geese. % cents.
Boston gosings, % cepts: wild mongrel geese, 40
cents; boiling turkeys IL cents roasting turkeys, 20
cents; wild turkeys % cents; Philadelphia fowl. IA
State fowl. 10 cents and salad fowl 10 cents
Philadelphia white squads cost 81 ~ a dozen and
dark squads s. % a dozen. partridge 81 80 pair,
ptarmiean 81. quail s. a dozen. English snipe 50
dozen, corn Snipe 10 cents golden pOyer 81 %. grass
Power 50. snowDird ~ cents, reed birds 81 p Egyp-
tian quail y % dozen. German partridge 81 ~
pair. blackcocks 81 10 a pair and English pheasants
). 70.
Roasting pigs worth s. 20 each.
In the line Of vegetables sweet potatoes may De
had for Y cents a quart. Jerusalem artichOkes 10
cents a quart. asparagus 10 10 % cents bunch,
French artichokes 20 cents each. string beans II
cents Il quart, beans ~ cents. new beetS u
cents bunch. red and white cabbage 20 20 cents
a head, cucumbers 10 cents each carrots 10 cents
ouncn ChiVes D cents, cranberrieS u cents quart
cau.itower IS 81 head celery 80 cents to 81 .
bunch chicCry - cents corn salad II cents quart
NdtercrcsS cents bunch. dandelon ~ 70 l. cents
a quart. eggplant 10 cents each. southern tomatoes
il to - cents "a quart, turnlps 10 cents d doIeh
spinach II cents IA quart radishes 4 cents punch
rhubaro IL cents bunch garlic II cents a Dunch
leeks cents, lettuce cents. mint cents a bunch
mushrooms 10 cents pound, oysterpant cents
Okra cents dozen.
In Fulton Market North River shad bring 20
cents each and the bucks % cents; North Carolina
shad are 40 cents each ana bucks - cents each;
Spanish mackerel costs y cents pound, salmon .
70 cents Southern sheepshead 10 cents sole 10 cents
large green smets ~ cents small green smells Is
cents. Long Island smells IL cents. Long Island
knsnsh % cents. white perch 10 cents, soft-shell
crabs 80 cents a dozen, hard-shell crabs Is num-
dred. striped boiling bass ~ cents pound and blue
fish