New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-24
A PEEP AT THE MARKETS.

Grapes and peaches are now decidedly cheap. To-
matoes and potatoes. whitehsh and game are about
the same in price that they were last week.
VEGETABLES.
Asparagus sells for 40 cents bunch; Boston let
tuce. cents a head; chives, 10 cents buncn; egg
plant 6 to 10 cents each: caulifower. 20 cents
head: cucumbers 5 cents each: French artichokes.
20 cents EACH greer peas, 80 cents q peck; jersey
corn. 10 to 25 cents dozen ears kohrabe, 10 cents
quart; knob celery. cents a knob; new POTATOES,
cents q quart; new beets. cents a bunch: musn-
rooms. 80 cents a pound; mint. cents bunch;
okra so cents hundred: old potatoes. 81 barrel;
parsley. cents a bunch: sweet peppers. Is cents
dozen; red. white and yellow onions. 8 to u cents
a quart radlshes. cents a bunch; red. white and
savoy cabbage. to IL cents a head; Russian tur-
nips, l2 cents a quart: ROMAN salad cents
quart; rhubarb. cents a bunch: string beans 70
cents half-peck; spinach. 30 cents peck; sorreI
10 cents n bunch: sweet potatoes cents O quart;
shallots. cents a quart: tomatoes. cents quart
or 60 cents a box; table celery, 30 cents bunch;
tarragoR, cents a bunch; wax beans. 80 cents a
haf-peck; watercress. cents bunch. and yellow
squash, to cents each.
FRUITS
California Tokay grapes sell for % cents pound;
on street wagons. 10 cents a pound; bananas. %
cents a dozen; Bartlett pears. 80 cents dozen;
black currants. 10 cents n pound; cooking apples.
% cents a half peck; Concord grapes. IS cents a
basket: cocoanuts. cents each; California peaches.
- dozen; California pears. 80 cents dozen;
Delaware grapes. 20 cents a basket; Delaware
peaches 60 cents a basket: grape fruit 10 cents
each: dollhouse nectarnes. 40 cents a dozen: Ha-
vana and jamaica pneapples, 60 cents each; native
pneapples, 10 to q cents each; Jersey peaches 60
cents basket; japanese plums, 10 cents basket
Kersey pums 20 cents basket; lines, 10 cents q
dozen; lemons. IS cents a dozen: Malaga grapes. 80
MSSMa < een,s
melons, TO 20 cents each; Niagara grapes. 10
cents basket: oranges, g cents dozen: piums,
basket: strawberries are scarce and are selling az
q cents dozen, and watermeons. % to 80 cents
each
POULTRY
In the game stalls Philadelphia capons sell for %
cents pound: Philadelphia spring roasting chick
ems 30 cents; State spring roasting chickens. ls
cents: Philadelphia spring broiling chickens. 81 Is
a pair: State spring brong chickens 30 cents q
pair; breakfast broilers. scalded IS cents pound
spring duckllngs II cents; Boston spring goslings.
% cents; wild mongrel geese. 20 conts spring tur-
turkeys, i cents Philadelphia fowl Il cents; state
fowl. Y cents; salad fowl. 10 cents; venis4n. ~
delphia dark squads. 81 % a dozen tame pigeon,
81 80 dozen; quail, SO dozen; English snipe. " %
a dozen; bIackbirds 20 cents a dozen; reed birds,
81 % a dozen; prairie chicks and grouse. 81 90 a
Ps' pa TGo? rSddy ducks pair! msara ducks
head ducks 50 . a pair blockhead ducks % cents
a pair; blue teal ducks, - cents pair, ana roast
ing pigs, 81 each
In the fish line green smeits now selling for
20 cents pound large bass. p cents: medium bass.
is cents black bass is cents; large bluehsh
cents: small bluehsh 10 cents; large blackfsh. lHs
cents; small backhsh. cents; butterfsh, 10 cents
carp 10 cents; freshcaught ciscoes 10 cents; mar
ket cod cents: Goldfish steak II CENTS lafayettes
cents large dressed eels IS cents; English sole
Is cents; large founders 10 cents; dukes. 10 cents
large fresh mackerel 30 cents each; small fresh
mackerel IS cents each: large sea bass, 10 cents
pound: small sea bass cents: sole. 10 cents; had
dock cents; chicken halibut. 20 cents Long ls.-
and knghsh IS cents, large live Holsters IS cents
pompanO, Is cents. porgies, 10 cents; Western
salmon. y cents large native Spanish mackerel, 81
cents each small native Spanish mackerel lG cents
each: Southern sheepshead % cents pound frosh-
caught salmon trout. Is cents: weaklsh cents
whitebait. 8 cents: white perch. ID cents; green
turtle. ~ cents: crab meat. ~ cents; soft-shol
crabs. ~ cents dozen: large scalops 70 cents a
quart; large frogs legs. 10 cents. and small frogs
legs. 81 cents pound