Show HIGH PRICES prom some of our exchanges wo we ica rn that the cost of articles of food is advancing in the east which makes males the prices prides of living an from fifteen to twenty five per cent more this ali is year yeat than it was lat last year but rent is no higher and clothing r ia is not dot any adif dearer the N y Y sun reporter who w ho started out to inquire into the rm reason son of ibis tin s diange change fir first fira A visited a gr grocer who attributed it to the drought which had bad prevailed during the pa past t e I mer he ile sold anid it was impossible to get got food in the market that was fit for his patrons to cat the bt boot vegetables et abla he lie could procure for his customers tol liers were very small they were dry and looked very sickly another dealer said raid that while drought and consequent scarcity had influenced the upward tendency of prices in ill food he looked at the AV matter from a still wider stand point the hard times which followed the panic have hive pass passed cd and every f body has employment and plenty of money which they spend more liberally they purchase more food aban than they did previously and in ill cz consequence nc quence of that the demand has been greater while the crops have deer decreased and cau caused ea the higher ve prices this year last year said the de dealer aler I paid 95 cents a doen for tomatoes chii year I pay from to forthe for the same brands Lasty last year carI I paid for canned corn and now I am paying A dozen cans of peaches last year cost me but this year they cot cost from to a dozen dried beans are staple stanle all over the land I paid per per bushel for them last year now I have ha vo to pay for the r ame rame quantity dried peas cost per bushel latt year and now cost prunes he lie continued have gone up tip in cost coet from 41 cents a pound to cents a pound and oatmeal tile al from 65 a barrel to 87 a barrel bartile flour has risen 62 a barrel in cost in the last twelve months and buckwheat has gone up to from 62 sugar is higher byli by hilf alfa a cent a pound but tea and coffee cc remain as they were were a year ago owing to the scarcity of the corn crop starch is higher in price and iny which last year could be obtained bied for three tin cc dollars and eighty cents per barrel now costs six dollars lars wholesale rice lias has risen a dollar per hundred pounds dried fruits have gone up from three to four dollars per hundred and many other commodities are aroi from a ten tell to fifteen per cent dearer than hey ney were a it year ago ago how high the priced of these articles of necessity will bo be before nest next sea ions crops aro are gathered of N course no ono one knows supply and hamand will continue u to rule the markets if tho the former h 13 but meagre in aagre g it is very probable that prices will vill take an upward tendency cabbages which were last year four to five dollars a bund hundred are to eighteen dollars dollar A they arc are brought from albany boston and other places around mcw N cy york 11 potatoes and apples are very much uch higher than they were a year a ago potatoes sell for a barrel wholesale this year and last year they brought only they may be cheaper soon for big loads arc are coming from nova scotia and prince edwards island I alie be market ket was glutted with apples last year and baldwins baldvins Bald wins and groenings green ings sold for and this year they fetch and red onions sold eold for a barrel last year but are now selling for to turnips Turnip arc are very scarce and fetch to they have been fetchin fetching 83 wholesale lately they sold for and a year ag ago 10 sweet potatoes have gone up from to more per barrel tb than an they were sold for last year at this time there tero is scarcely a product of the farm or r garden gorden in new york but r is is much dearer deafer than it was this thi s time last year in ili some places egg are ar reported a failure in others scarce and dear the meat markets are similarly a affected acted to thoc of the vegetables ayi st 17 TT I amite and proal meef anil and pork have ri rin wil considerably and ven veal I lifts gone up it froni vj to eight cent cents with lipa reul of a reduction various causes arc ire assigned for the rise in the prices of these antry y articled articles of consumption but we are tire fully aware that tb ere has been beca great elior shortage tage of numerous crops in many of tho statch and in sonic ins instances Lances that which lias has been spared from the drought lins has been destroyed by subsequent heavy storms and atah ii has been and still is supply supplying ingin portion of the eastern eastorn demand for various various agricultural cultural and poni products product |