The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-02-23
THE LOCAL MARKET.
What Edibies Cost Yesterday at Hout
toms big Market.

tons Big Market.
On account OF the bad weather yester-
day afternoon the market was not very
well attended. Csuliflower, tomatoes.
Swiss chart and radishes, scarce ana in
cabbage, lettuce, sheriots, tur-
nips. celery. khol rabi and beets in fun
supply. apples, oranges and lemons pleh-
titul. straw berries stopped coming In on
account OF unfavor able weather, chickens
and turkeys In rIll supply and cheap.
The following shows what things cost:
VEG ETABLES.
Carrots. 10 cents bunch.
Beets, 10 cents bunch.
Cabbage, 5 to 10 cents a head.
Thyme, 10 cents bunch.
Radishes, cents n bunch.
Celery. 3 head for IS cents.
Marjoram, 10 cents huncn.
Pumpkins, Is TO 20 cents each.
Lettuce, heads for 10 cents.
Mustard greens. 5 cents "a bunch.
Swiss chart. scarce, none In market.
Parsley. cents bunch.
Green or dry sage, 10 cents buncn.
Sweet potatoes, J cents quart.
Tomatoes. 20 to 30 cents a dozen.
Soup bunch, 5 cents.
Lye hominy 10 cents quart.
Turnips, to 10 cents a huncn.
Cauiflower, scarce. 20 20 50 cents eacn.
Sherlots. D cents "A bunch.
onions, 10 cents a quart.
Horse radish, 3 for - cents
Irish potatoes. 10 cents measure.
Green peas. none in market.
Garlic. 20 cents Dozen
Spinach, cents a quart.
Dried okra, 10 cents u pint.
Curley lettuces, cents a head.
Esq plants, for Is cents.
Red cabbage. 10 to g cents a head.
Apples 80 cents a peck
Cranberries, Is cents n quart.
Dates. 10 cents per pound.
Malaga grapes. 20 cents per pound.
Washington navel oranges. is to 40 cents
a dozen; seedlings 10 10 10 cents dozen
Mixed nuts, Is cents a pound.
Pecans. 10 cents a quart
Cocoanuts, and 10 cents each.
Lemons, 10 cents n dozen.
Bananas, plentiful, 10 and Is cents
dozen.
California grapes, none in market.
japanese pluns. none in market
Dried figs, 10 cents per pound.
Catawba grapes, none in market.
Pineapples. 20 to % cents each.
Strawberries, none IN the market.
PRODUCE.
Eggs, 10 cents dozen.
Butter, country, % cents pound.
Butter, Western, Is to 80 cents a pound.
Butterine, 10 cents pound.
Cheese, 10 to 20 cents a pound.
Candy. 10 cents a pound.
Peanuts, roasted, cents a quart.
Popcorn balls, ) cents each.
MEATS.
Beef, roast S to 10 cents a pound.
Beef, round steak. to 10 cents
pound.
Beef. sirloin steaks, 10 cents pound.
Beef, porterhouse steaks, 10 cents a
pound.
Beef tenderloin steaks, 10 cents a
pound.
Pork, roast, 10 cents a pound.
Pork, chops, 10 cents a pound.
Veal. roast, 10 cents a pound.
Mutton, 10 cents Il pound.
Bologna sausage, 10 cents a pound.
Nienerwurst sausage, 10 cents a pound.
Tripe, 10 cents a pound
Pork sausage, 12ia cents pound.
Liver. cents pound.
Pork and beef sausage, 10 cents pound.
Fresh leaf lard. 10 cents pound
Beef tongue. Is to 90 cents each,
Calf tongue, 10 cents each.
Hcad-cheese, 10 cents a pound.
frankfurt sausage. 10 cents a pound.
Liver sausage 7 cents a pound
Blood sausage, s cents pound.
FISH.
Trout, 10 cents pound.
Buffalo, . cents a pound
Reddish, 10 cents a pound.
Black bass, 20 cents a pound.
Perch, Is cents a pound.
Drurnish cents n pound.
Seapike none In market
Catfish cents a pound.
Redsnapper, 10 cents a pound.
Sheephead, 10 cents pound.
iamrano. 90 cents a pound.
crabs none in market
turtles, none In market
oysters Galveston 40 cents per hundred
Berwicks 10 cents per hundred
GAME.
Ducks, mallard 20 to Is cents pair.
canvasbacks 81 pair, teal s. to 40 cents
pair.
Coons, none In market.
Quail. % cents a pair
squirrel l2ia cents each.
khhhits, 10 to - cents each
possum, % to 30 cents a piece.
Plover, none In market.
Prairie chicken. Ia 10 zoe per mir.
POULTRY.
Chickens % to 20 cents each, drcssoo
81 tn 80 cents each.
81 20 TO $50 each ''
Ducks, 50 10 - cents each.
Geese. - cents to 81 90 each.
Dressed geese, so cents to rs each