The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852Casseday, Ben
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The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852
Casseday, Ben
Louisville (Ky.) -- Description and travel; Louisville (Ky.) -- History
The _Market Houses_ of Louisville, five in number and all located upon
Market Street, are profusely supplied with every production of this
latitude. Markets are held every day, and prices are much lower than in
Eastern cities. The Kentucky beef and pork which is everywhere so
celebrated, is here found in its true perfection. The vegetables and
fruits peculiar to this climate, are also offered in excellent order and
in great abundance. Irish and sweet potatoes, green peas, corn, cucumbers,
lettuce, radishes, asparagus, celery, salsafie, pie plant, melons,
peaches, apples, cherries, strawberries, and many other vegetables and
fruits are plentifully supplied. The Irish potato is sold at from
twenty-five to forty cents per bushel, green peas command about twenty
cents per peck, strawberries fifty cents per gallon. The choice pieces of
beef can be had at from six to eight cents per pound, less desirable
pieces bring three and four cents. Pork is bought at about five cents per
pound. Turkies bring fifty to seventy-five cents each. Spring chickens,
from seventy-five to one dollar and fifty cents per dozen. Ducks, fifteen
to twenty-five cents each. Eggs are sold at four to eight cents per dozen.
Butter, fifteen to twenty cents per pound. The lamb and mutton sold in
this market, cannot be surpassed in point of quality in the United States.
The extreme fertility of the country around Louisville, and its perfect
adaptation to the wants of the gardener and the stockraiser, must always
give to this city the advantage of an excellent and cheap provision
market.
The following is a list of all the publications issued from this city:
Journal Daily and Weekly Whig.
Courier " " "
Times " " Democrat.
Democrat " " "
Beobachter am Ohio " " "
Louisville Anzeiger " " "
Union Daily Neutral.
Bulletin " "
Sunday Varieties Weekly "
Presbyterian Herald " Presbyterian.
Western Recorder " Baptist.
Watchman and Evangelist " Cumb. Presby.
Christian Advocate " Methodist.
Kentucky New Era Semi-Monthly Temperance.
Christian Repository Monthly Baptist.
Indian Advocate " "
Bible Advocate " Neutral.
Theological Medium " Cumb. Presby.
Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery Monthly.
Transylvania Medical Journal "
This review of the social statistics of Louisville will be concluded with
a notice of the number of persons engaged in the various avocations of
life, as shows in the following:
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