The Republican journal., 1897-07-22


like sheep.
April II. Potatoes sell at S1.OO per
quart, chickens $35 per pair, turnip greens
81. 90 per peck. An ounce of meat, daily,
is the allowance to each member of my
family.
April 10. Corn is selling at 81 25 per
bushel in Georgia and Alabama; here at
$40.
May 2. To-day Congress assembled
! and the Presidents message was delivered,
although he buried his youngest son yes
terday, who lost his life by an accidental
fall from the porch on Saturday.
May s. A COW and calf now sell for
$500. My friend Dr. Powell has just
sold one for great price; he would not
tell me what.
| May 20. There is an excitement at last;
| but it is sullen rather than despairing No
one seems to doubt our final success al
though the enemy have now some 200, 900
in Virginia and we but little over half that
number
May 13. l direct my wife to lay out all
the money about the house in provisions.
She got bushel of meal and pounds of
bacon for about 800.
May Is. The following prices are now
paid in this city: Boots $780, coats $3.50,
pants 800, shoes S125, flour $275 per bar
rel, meal $50 to $50 per bushel bacon 80
per pound. n beef in the market, chick
ems $50 per pair, shad $40, potatoes S25
per bushel, beans (white) 81 per quart,
butter SIS per pound, wood $50 per cord.
May %. Flour is selling as high as
S400 per barrel and meal $125 per bushel.
May "a. Peas were in the market on
the 18th inst, price SO half peck.
| Straw berries $40 per quart. There has
been no meat in the market for long
time, most of the butchers stalls being
closed during the last 3 months.
! May IS. For 5 days the government
has been selling meal by the peck for S12 !;
and yet those who have been purchasing
have endeavored to keep it secret and
the government turns extortoner; making
S45 profit per bushel out of the necessities
of the people!
May 30. Flour at 81, 60 per pound, and
beans 50 per quart, government prices,
which are only about 1-2 charged in the
shops.
June 4. 1t is suspected that Sherman
will be ordered from Georgia to reinforce
Grant 1t seems Lincoln would give up
his hopes of heaven and plunge into hell
for the presidency.
June 7. A man from New Kent Co.
coming through the lines reports that
Gen. Grant was quite drunk yesterday
and said he would try Lee once more and
if he failed to defeat him 1.-THE Confeder-
acy might 90 to hell" 1t must have been
| some other General.
June II. New potatoes sold to-day for
500 per quart, s160 per bushel.
June 25. No, the war must end and is
now near it's end; and the Confederacy
will achieve it's independence.
June 26. Flour fell yesterday from
$500 to $500 per barrel.
| July 1. We were paid our salaries yes
terday, and Gusts, after his campaign
| and his sickness, resolved on little in
diligence so he had couple of small sau-
| GERS of ice cream, one for his mother,
costing 5000, IA pound coffee and 2
| ,Ioc o,,I 10 loxr ~
ding, pounds of rice, 500; pound of
sugar 1000, 2 quarts of milk 800. Total
| 51.0O
July 6. We had corn bread and gravy
for dinner, with tremendous dessert, the
susjes, of Gusts, consisting OF whortle
berry fritters with butter and sugar sauce,
costing about SIG.
July Q. GUSTS walked with Lieut.. Bell
| last evening a mile from Hanover June
ton to the battlefield of last month Gust
a month ago) and beheld some of the
near our breastworks.
| July 81. This morning a large, fat
chicken was found in my yard, picked
and prepared for cooking, brought hither
| by cat which had stolen it from SOM
kitchen. A portion of the breast only
had been eaten, and our cook seized upon
the remains for her own benefit. To such
straits are we reduced by this cruel
war;
Aug. g. Watermelons have sold at $40
each. Corn, SO per dozen ears; and
everything else in the markets in proper
ton.
Aug. 10. 1 do sincerely hope that
Grants raiders will keep quiet until can
get something to eat
| Aug. A. Bacon has fallen to S. and So
per h., flour S175 per Dbl.
| Aug. 19. To-day we had distribution
of meats, ETC., brought from North Caro-
lima by our agent. Custis and invested
5000; we have received 26 pounds of ba-
con and "a smoked herrngs, worth here
about 5000.
Aug. 21. One meets no beggars yet,
although we have been suffering famine
for more than & year.