Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-11-22
washington Markets The Ruiing
Prices To-day.

Prices To-day.
4sn: s PGEss5a ss's a. ps;s
A@1e de- lsorned,l @slssse; pors, " sss; d9.
S@s1e dried beef so 4 hams t~R LEI i4sc
DO, sliced, 11sc shoulder twholel, l0c., eus loc
s sSSsa.s @ .aoS ars Mi o sS to i beef
FsE.-Roek ss9He. 2 buoch; perch, t9c. tbJnch;
hsh, isass; q p; large 6ius S.b, lSs I'm.
pair; .niee, sc. each; pIoysr, ,ss. each; pheas:
s;.s f. Bts 'is ..sn s .saTrs. ns e
Z aF5 EIti;h peck sxses
quart; cabbage, 59l0c head; beets. tasc. baneh;
snspip.: pc; peck; carrots &C. 2 bunch csiery,
FEuITs:-APples, teatisgJ so@1c. ? peck; do.
scS;c iouad G ess.pSss. i5s aS1 sasrt grapes
,, dep Ia 5o e. aasrt peaches
Ice e' Cherries $50 iS o0' oackOsrre''
ri4s, !ss;s. sS5 print. ts1 e. n New
o5 RSSSsssScsdcf1s se !iTs g is
I rs I. pair; Turkeys, 2o935e. = 10
wHoLEsALE MARKET.
FLOUR AND FBED.-Beyans 4 Shaw commission
merchants and wholesale dealers in flour, feed, IL
northwest: furnish the following quotations Of oar
and ICED Eiour-Family -four, 80 70 $3.50 2 bbl.;
s7[s@ss .2s; super, So to- $50; rye So Corn u
white; Sc 2 eu.hoi; DO yellow, s5c.. Corn meal.
!Oc. z bu:hel. KIddlines, Is&sOc : bnshel Prices
hrmer, with inward tendency.
Luttrell sedwick, general commission merchants,
W. Louisiana sys between 9h and 10Th streets
Sis Pbgs6sl dried peaches, iO sii dr i%iO se
si ssfsi P ss@ss fa6ss saS Szs Lambs
chickens, s2cO$ 90; ducks, $50 81 geese, 6Se
S Sassr MN. ss&iS; 40 igpP,Sas6sd' a
bage s3aS = bnnarod. ennIs. Txss, zsg-ysi eso
eating sIr apples, s2ss4; sweet potatoes s25 0@8
SO barrel. BussShast 0FFii oar ss ESQ
81, .tS ssss P Ssis ss E.
29 tons OF hay and straw were sold during the past
% per snSad ir0o s9Ssss have b sGa
freer and prices UNCHANGED.
The washed stamps Case Dismissed
In the Police Court yesterday, after our re-
port closed, the case against McCooey, charged
with violation Of the United States postal
laws, by restoring cancelled stamps and selling
them for use second time, was continued
MIR. Fuller was recalled, and testified that il
was the custom ofthe Post Office department to
exchange good stamps for those which have
been accidentally stuck on envelopes or paper
and not cancelled.
Prof. VIM. NJ. New, chemist in the Surgeon
Generals office, testified that he had made
several experiments in the removal of can
celled stamps. With some he had been yery
successful, with others not so much so; he found
NOHOuuCu very uuCn ON the nature of the
ink used In cancelling. He exhibited some
specimens which he had used, and his concIu-
SONS were that 1t would require the knowledge
OF chemical expert to successfully restore such
stamps, and the length of time required to re-
move such marks precluded the possibility of
making remunerative business of it. He de-
scribed In detail the process he had EN- Dloyad
in his experiments. The time employed in
soaking one stamp which he pointed out was
ten minutes, and even then he had not been able
TO make II as perfect as it had originally been
as to color. Several of the stamps alleged to
have been washed by defendant were shown
him, some of which he designated as perfect,
and others not.
DIR. Edward NJ. Shafer, of the army medical
museum, surgeon generals office, testified that
he had subjected some of the stamps to a thor
0ugh examination by microscope of one hun.
dred to four hundred lens power, and could not
discover any marks of cancellation; some had
fOreign-looking substances or marks which he
could not say showed any well-defined signs of
having been used or Cancelled. After critically
examining three of the stamps he could not saw
that there were any signs of having been can.
celed' lie cOrroborated the testimony as to the
stamps being allowed as requisites of office.
The judge said he had listened to the case
throughout carefully, and sufficient evidence
nad not been adduced to convince him tn At tn
defendant was guilty of the offence charged,
ana ne therefore discharged him.
ALLEGED DEsERTERs FROM THE UNITED
STATES SIGNAL SERvICE.-John Daugherty,
charged with being a deserter from the Intel
States signal corps at Fort WhiFple, Va, was
yesterday arrested Dy Sergeant Schimp and
locked up in the middle station house. DIR. j
ii. Penrod, the observer at Baltimore, who or
dered the arrest, received dispatch last even
ing stating that guard would be sent from
Washington to-day to escort Daugherty back
There are several more deserters from the sig
nal service now in Baltimore Young men en-
list as privates in the service, thinking their
promotion TO the post of observer will be rapid
90 to the instruction school at Fort whippe
and finding they cannot pass examination, and
wearied perhaps with the mOnotony, and dis
appointed in their expectations resort to deser-
ton. The term of enlistment is five years
Bdltigl0Te San.