Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-02
WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET.
Eggs Lower and Scarce-Visible Effect
of the Drought.

| OF the Drought.
| While it appears that butter is some
| what weaker today's quotations in the
| local wholesale produce market show that
| 1t remains unchanged in price, and that
| eggs are but trife lower. There is some
| accumulation of butter. but good eggs are
! scarce. The supply of poultry Is on the
| increase. and butcher cattle is in some
| what better demand. New potatoes are
| more plentiful and slightly lower. The
lcng-continued drought is visiby affecting
| other vegetables, and the matter is be-
| coming serious.
| pound; choice IN; firsts, II; seconds, 16;
bakers stock, IL to 10; other grades, ID to
| 16
Cheese-New York state, full cream.
| large, 91sc.; flats, 10c. pound; ponys, 10la.
Eggs-Nearby. fresh, 13c. dozen; west
| ern, 13; southern, 10.
Poultry-Chickens Spring large, live, per
| h., 16 to IL medium live per h. Is to 16.
| small. Is to IA. Old fowls: Live per Ib.,
! 9lac.; ROSTERS, live, per h.. 5. Ducks: Live,
large, per h., old, Sc. Geese: Live per
| h., 10
Vegetables-Asparagus extra, doz. bum.
81 to $1.5o; asparagus, prime, doZ. bun, SOC.
| to Toe; cucumbers, per box, 81 to $1.25;
| peas, per bbl., 81 to $3.50; celery, fancy, per
| doz, 4Oc to SOC; celery, medium, per doz.,
| 15c to &c; celery, common, per doz, Zoe
| to 15c.; squash, per box, 75c.; spinach, per
Dbl, SOC. to 81; beans, per box, 75c. to ST.;
lettuce. per Dbl, 40c. to Toe; potatoes,
fancy, new, per bbl., 81 to 1928: potatoes,
choice, per bbl., $1.75 to 81; tomatoes per
crate. Fla, Toe. to $50; egg plant, per y
Dbl. box, s1.25 to $50; beets, per 100
lunches 81 to So; cabbage, new, per Dbl,
15c.; onions Bermuda, per crate, 81 to 81. 10;
| onions yellow, per Dbl, 81 to s2.25; onions,
N. Y, mediums. s1.40 to 1.JO; beans, n. Y.
pea, $40; beans, marrow, $1.7O to $1.75;
beans, Virginia, white, soc. to 81; beans,
white, mixed, Soc; beans, colored, COO. ;
black-eyed peas, per bu., soc. to 81; lima
beans, per h., &c. to &c.
Dried fruits-Evaporated apples, choice
to 10 cents; apples. sliced, fancy, cents;
sliced bright, 3 cents; quarters bright 9
to cents; peaches. choice, to Z cents;
fair to good, ) to cents; halves, unpeeled,
to cents; quarters, unpeeled = to 3
cents; evaporated, to 10 cents; evaporat
ed, sunpeeled, g to cents; cherries, pitted,
dry, crop SO, cents; sugared and wet 6
to cents; blackberries, per h., 49, cents;
whortleberrieS, per h., cents; raSpberries
dry, 10 to II cents.
Green fruits and nuts-Apples, new per
box, rs cents to 81; peaches fancy, per car
rier, 81 to $3.50; medium. per carrier, 81 to
s1.5o; Seeding, per box, 1925 to So; cher
per qt., to 10 cents; blackberries per at,
to cents; pineapples. to II cents
Live stock-Cattle, extra, per cwt. 81 to
So; butcher, per cwt, $3.50 to 81; common,
per cwt., $3.50 to So; rough, per cwt.. 81 so
to 50; hogs, fair, per cwt., gross, So so to
$3.75; ordinary, per cwt., net, 1925 to So. 80;
sheep, per cwt, So to $3.50; lambs, spring,
choice, cwt, SO to $3.50; medium, $3.50 to
Sc; common, 81 to $780, calves, prime, per
eewt;c, 50 to $3.50; common, per cwt., 81 to
$3.50; grass, per cwt., So to So. so; cows
prime, each, $25 to s35; common, each. SIC
to SIS; old and dry, So to S.
An old gentleman, speaking to a young
lady and commenting upon her freshness
and good looks, remarked: "Ah, my dear,
may you long retain them. Yours is a
happy period of life. You know nothing yet
of the jealousies. the heart-burnings. the
contentious, the rivalries that beset the
pathway of existence
Don't 1, thought she interrupted Il
want you to understand that I belong to
church choir.
The Phoenix was the name Of the first
fire company in England, and it was estah
lished in 1862. At that time in the towns
squirts or syringes were used for extin-
gushing fire. and their length did not ex-
coed two or three feet, with pipes of leath
err Water-tight seamless hose was first
made in BethnalaGreen in 1870