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The sunday Beer Question.

This Sunday beer business Will have to
be settled on the basis of common sense,
sound law, and public necessity. The con-
fict of authorities is throwing everything
into confusion, and bringing about n state
of affairs which cannot be tolerated for
any length of time. The courts are with
out any fixed or ineligible principle of
action; the wagering policy Of Judge
DoNoHUE and the opinion of the Corpora
ton Counsel have increased the uncer-
tainty of the situation; and the charge of
Recorder HACK EFT to the Grand Jury is in
opposition to the orders Of the Police Com
missioners. Tho whole matter must be
brought TO a proper decision as soon as
possible.
The scenes witnessed yesterday were not
as lively as those of some previous Sum
DAYS. The arrests were comparatively
few. The beer vendors were on the guard,
but the beverage was dispensed at hum
dreds Of places TO which entrance was OBJ
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surprising that we should see considera-
bic revival in the building interest. A.
movement in that direction his already
set in, and promises to assume very i'm
portant dimensions. Before the close of
the summer the plans for new structures,
dwellings, stores and tenements, fled with
the Superintendent of the Department of
Buildings Will from present indications,
exceed In number aud importance any
thing we have seen since the summer of
1871.
Let those who are unfamiliar with tho
amount of building now in process,
stroll through the uptown building
district and they will be surprised.
Fifty-eignth street on both sides between
Fifth and Sixth avenues. is alive with
building aud preparations for building.
Madison avenue on the east side, between
Ffty-fifth and Fifty-sixth streets, is to he
built mp. On the north side Of Fifty-sixth
street, between Madison and Fourth NV
enues. prcpara tons for Immediate improve
ments are likewise In progress. In Sixty
fourth street, between Fourth and LeNing-
ton avenues ten brown stone houses have
been started on the north side. In sixty
fifth street, between Fourth and Madison
avenues, ten others are 10 be put up. On
the southeast corner of Madison avenue
and Sixty-eighth street five flrst-class
houses are well advanced. On the north
east corner of Madison avenue aud Seventy
fourth street Ave houses are to be imme-
diately erected, and three on the northeast
corner of Seventy-ffth street, the fouuda-
f,, f,.b ta,,. laid Va haa
likewise of negotiations now pending for
the purchase of land i'm this district. which
will no doubt result in other enterprises.
1t Will be noticed that while comparatively
little building is going forward on the high
priced Fifth avenue lots, Madison avenue
and the adjacent streets r1nning over to
Lexington avenue, and even beyond, seem
ut present the favorite localities.
The building interest is second to none
in importance III this city. A revival
In building means steady employment
for large class of our laboring popula-
ton, who have been idle during many
months. 1t is one of the most cheering
signs we have for long while been able To
record. 1t betokens confidence in the
future, and indicates belief among those
who have been anxiously watching tho
market for the last three years, that land,
labor, and materials have fallen to point
which warrants the recommencement OF
building. and holds forth solid induce
ments of profit.
There is no danger of New York losing
her commercial supremacy, and this 1t Is
which gives value to her real estate. The
total imports aud domestic exports of the
port of New York in 1874 were $685., i03, S9l,
being an increase of s231.5OO,OOO since 1870.
During the same period her rivals. Phila-
dclphia, Baltimore, and Boston, have in
tbs aggregate gained Ell, 500, 900, standing
relatively thus;
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We would suggest to our colored brethren
that II would be well for them to exercise more
dis Elimination In the choice Of their ministers
than they seem to do at present. Ii Is but few
months since a colored pastor In New Jersey
WIS caught with bag full Of his neighbours
poultry, waiting for an early train to take him to
market; and for the theft he subsequently suf-
fered a prolonged imprisonment. This mis-
guided shepherd began his criminal career by
preaching other ministers sermons, passing
them OF IS his own. Again, within few days
proceedings in a police court In Jersey City dis
closed the fact that the Rev. JouS LEE, another
coiored clergyman had been In the habit Of adj
ministerug corporal chastisement to his wife.
which was certainly unbecoming In n gentleman
OF his CLOTH evto though he used his white
wash brush upon his spouse In the hope of
making lady Of her. the motive he alleged In
excuse OF his unclericsl conduct. In the South
ern States, since reconstruction, the colored
clergy have been active In politics. and we
sorry to say that they have gained the repute Of
being the most INSCRIPTIONS politicians south
OF MASON and DIXOS's line, which Is saying a
good deal 1t Is with regret that we record such
facts, but we trust that calling public attention
10 tbs subject may have the effect Of awakening
the really deyout religionists Of African descent
TO the necessity OF establishing a higher stand
ard Of fitness for the ministerial calling than
now prevails among them.
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Such weather as we are experiencing
starts in the minds OF those fortunate people
who can lie We town for The country during the
summer heats the idea Of packing up their traps
aud hieing them away to rural scenes. But IA
yet the watering places are empty or next
to empty, for the exodus % the country
does not really begin until after the Fourth Of
July. Newport nils up as to ITS cottages sooner,
but August is reached before its hotels contain
large numbers Of visitors. The indica-
tions are that watering place landlords will
make fair terms with guests this season. II
they don't do so, they will not have many OF
them. Yet the people who must stay in New
York, II they wisely order their lives, can get
through the summer very comfortably. The
city has many attractions in the months when
those who desert It imagine that all JOY Of living
has gone with them. But it looks as II the Cen
tennlal summer was TO he a very warm one,
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SS, Cbisc,;sS, ltSsi fas 5s"S ssgsy is!s Mf daLD;
d'd nm great Jaror. Sincerely Yours. n m. ,vr
"w FIsuER, Jr., ESQ., No. "a Inoia street, Boston,"
On the same date, he wrote second let
ter reiterating the service and claiming q
share in the spois. A very material part
OF this letter was suppressed III the Con-
g'esstondl Record, which IL here supplied;
.uu "Auo!sTA, Me- oc,. 4; 1902
part OF TIC Conoress5noi ~ Of Apn con anng the
point 20 winch referred Ut some lem IL n prcvi us
letter OF to-day You viii nnd II Interest 10 r. AZ u
Sr a s ,t 11 e ss w S ny "f I
duty to mlse tho ruling when The point s2nce raised.
II The Arkahs's men had not. how ev,r h,bnct @ to
sM ,s9nM unantisg havs been ,ot or at least post
pnea iof year thon n, thc p9. w1Sa
Of y uengagod III the cntcrpilso: ...,,. .u...
oiee ne courtesy Wh ~nlcn goH haze irsa.d ,ae N
% S% s iva y9 sD '@ndS ~ sT unSa
nDeraty IN pasi atsi aud oi tOurse huge hmtm1"g
Yon urge M to make as mucn tairiy can out 81
The arrangement mtg which we nay" entered u ~. rs
oolncree by only oae as and tns, T. d"'e g"a e.
9 gssisg c s pn d1nSt
set d'hnlte understanding WIN hio, as have wth
lrih Mr.. CALDWELL must rcdug be done t,ronch you.
"w. p, in, Esq"
ting in the Speakers chair, BLAINE shaped
the legislation for the Little Rock job, and
subsequently urged that fact ms n reason
why he should be allowed an interest in 1t.
He succeeded finally by this pressure In
compelling CALDWELL TO como to terms
through FIsnER, aud, for the large sales of
Little Rock bonds effected by him in
Maine he received at one dash $l3O,OOO
The language of these letters is that of q
professional lobbyist, extolling his influ-
encc and his actual service, and demaud-
ing consideration for what he had done.
He is a confessed broker of wildcat rail-
road bonds, issued by the carpct-bng
thieves, then divided among patriots of
the CALDWELL and BLAINE stamp, and
finally foisted on the community rs the
Emma mine was In London by ScnENCK,
PARK, and Baron GRANT. From the hour
he entered Congress until now, BLAINE's
business has been legislative jobbery. No
large scheme passed in which he did not
participate, and his wealth to-day is the
result of that scandalous venality.
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Morton Sound and Strong.

One OF the Washington jobbers, famil-
iarly known as DR.. CuNDURANGo BLISS.
who was recently detected in having re-
helped to award rs a member of the Board
of Health, has certified that Senator Nor
ton is in good condition and able to run as
a candidate for the Presidency.
THIS same BLISS certified that cundu-
range was an infallible cure for cancer
set up a shop in this city through n conied-
crate to sell the remedy" and ran il I'M
I'll the public revolted at the cheat The
late SCHUYLER CoLFAX gave n certificate
for the cundurango, and BLISS recipro-
Gated by giving him certificate when he
was shamming sickness, aud seeking TO
attract public sympathy.
This is n novel form of recommending
candidates TO popular favor. Instead of
calling in quaoks for a clean bill OF health,
examination, rs the applicants for admis-
sion to West Point and Annapolis have TO
do? Then we should feel assured about
the vigor of our leading statesmen who
aspire to the Presidency, and not be tor
tured with anxiety concerning their
physical defects.
MORTON is pretty sound from the waist
up, and his head is Gear and always fun of
mischief. But otherwise he is rather fee
Bile. In these respects the Oneida eagle
overtops all rivals, and is worthy to wear
tho white plume of chief born to COM
maud
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In the investigation now going on be-
fore a United States Grand Jury in relation to
alleged frauds In the building OF the ~. Louis
Custom House, District Attorney DYER seems
to be urging the inquiry with the same yiRor
which characterized his prosecution 81 the
whiskey Ring. In the whiskey prosecutions
DAncoCK and several other intimate friends OF
GRANT we're implicated, and some Of them are
now In the penitcntiary. MuLLETT, another
fav rite Of the President, and the inevitable
ORvIL GRANT are among the most prominent OF
those who are Interested In the results OF the
pending examination. The nature OF these
frauds was exposed in Tue SUN long ago, but
from the rumors that have attained circulation
about the evidence given before the Grand Jury,
1t would appess that their extent was consider
ably moderated. The st. Louis Times says that
II has been proved that prominent Republican
OF that city was offered $4,000 to secure
granite contract, and that he secured It through
an arrangement with MULLErT, but never got
hts money, being forced to compromise for
5000 10 cash, and 5000 more In notes which
have never been raid. The late Supervising
Architects peculiar system Of making contracts
IL undergoing investigation by the st. Louis
Grand Jury. One SCHNEIDER was given con-
tract to furnish granite, but the Government
paid all the oilIs 1t furnished means to get out
Tue htoue, phNluR lot Ill uldlefldl, laDOT. anu
other necessares, and then allowed the con-
tractor for superintendin, the work n commits.
sion OF fifteen per cent. on the gross amount ex-
pended, although there was Government agent
whose special dutyit was to exercise the same SUI
pervision. Mr.. DYER did not hesitate to assert
that this arrangement was made for the express
purpose Of swindling the Government. and de-
handed the production OF SCuNEIDER's books
for the avowed purpose OF finding out who
shared IN the money realized from this fifteen
per cent. commission. SCHNEIDER stoutly re-
sisted this demand, and the matter was carried
into open court. where the District Attorney
was sustained. There the books were produced.
and 1t was found that they had been muiilated
10y ensures Of the names Of persons to whom
money had been paid.
while MIR. DYER Il thus manfully doing hts
duty in st. Louis, we should DC pleased to sec on
the part OF the House Committee on Expendi-
lures on Public Buildings a similar deternina-
ton TO get at the facts In relation to MUILETT's
enormous expenditures In other places. and
likewise those relating t. the disbursements Of
MeasuTer BAnCoCK, who has been permitted TO
make avery tree use Of public funds.
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Revival IN Building.

For very nearly three years we have had,
In all branches of industry connected with
the building trade, an almost unbroken
record of reductions in wages and falling
values. In the beginning Of 1874 there
were in the market large number Of
brown-stone houses built by spectators
for sale, and these properties were for the
most part heavily mortgaged. During tho
decline established in the price of land,
labor, and materials, a very considerable
number of these properties were sold UNI
der foreclosure sales, and came into the
hands of the mortgages, at largely re-
duced rates. Perhaps one-half of the
speculative builders disappeared or went
into bankruptcy; a few struggled along
with the semblance Of solYencv, as repre-
sonted by equities OF doubtful value.
Meantime building cam almost TO stand
still. The result, as might readily have
been foreseen, has been the gradual alb
Borption Of the greater part OF the uptown
houses; they have been sold, let, or traded
off; in word, they are occupied and out
Of the market
The number of new houses now for
eale in the upper part of the city, is ao-
several years. New York has increased
I'm population during those past years
people continue TO eat, drink, and be
clothed very much as before; every one
must have roof over his head families
cannot enoamp on the public squares or
sleep like the savages. Most of the choice
uptown building lots, say between Sixty
Fourth and Eighty-sixth streets. and Fifth
ana Third avenues the region most IN favor
with builders can, when offered for sale.
be had, on an average, at thirty-three and
one-third per cent less than three years
ago. The foreclosure sales in this region
are comparatively rare, weak holders of
vacant lots having been pretty much
weeded out
While land has declined thirty-three and
one-third per cent, the average wages of
day laborers have been lowered TO one
dollar or one dollar and twenty Ave cents
per day; there is no standard rate for
mechanics wages, which, however, con-
tinue TO be lower than in any OF the pre-
Vious years. Materials, likewise, are UNI
preoedentedly low and money on mort
gage In abundant.
Under all these circumstances 1t 10 not
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The evil example OF such Christian states
men a. SCHUYLER COLLAR, who make pretend
ed re tor religion the cloak Tor dishonest lie,
mas had It's legitimate effect In leadngr seals Of
lower degree TO conceal III cir dopredatiOns upon
the public bv similar devices. During the in
vestiRation into the affairs OF the Freedmdn's
Bank by select committee OF the House OF
REPRESENTATIVES, some curious testimony bearing
upon this point was ehcited. DIR. G. H. PURvIs,
oolored gentleman, who Is a Professor In How
ard University, and was one of the trustees OF
the bank. testified that most OF the cashiers OF
the branch banks were scoundrels and thieves.
~ mean particularly those at Beaufort, jack
soDville, Mobile, aud VioksDurg," he said.
"They were all thieves and scoundrels, but they
were all pious men, and some Of them were
ministers. The cashier at Jacksonville Is n min
lister, and to-day he has a large Sunday school;
almost all OF them are ministers" The preten-
sions OF public plunderers to piety which they
do not possess would be OF little account were
II not for the faulty OF a certain class OF church
members who, instead OF repudiating detected
hypocrites, act as II they thought that the good
name OF their several UNCONVENTIONAL bodies
required them TO sustain all who profess
their faith, regardless OF their actual prac-
tices. 1t ia this disposition to condone the
crimes Of church members which brings more
reproach upon religious bodies than the mis-
deeds OF unworthy professors; II Is the desire
manifested to shield transRressors Of this Kind
that renders their example so pernlclous. Who
knows but that the favors extended to CoLFAx
by Young Mems Christian Associations, Sunday
school superlntendeuts, and Methodist Con-
ferences, after the disgraceful exposures OF the
Credit Mobllier investigation, may have hardened
the heart Of BLAINE, who makes religious pre-
fences at home IN Maine, and led him to believe
he could safely defy the evidence which has
been produced against hlm2
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Interesting to pen.ioner. aud Others.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-ST; In
Ohio no pensloner or applicant for pension
ever pays any fee whatever to any officer for GER
tifyng his or her pension vouchers quarterly or
FOR any affidavit relating TO any pension claim
whatever. They used TO pay 80 cents every time
in ohio more than $4,000 per annum By Ohio
laws, PIP. l9S. 49, passed April s. 1876, Of which
was the author and advocate In the Legisla-
ture, IL was enacted to I've unlawful for any
officer hereafter 20 charge pensioners or pension
claimants any fee whatsoever for certificates
relating To their pensions. believe ohio II the
only state that 10y law exempts this poor and
deserving class Of persons from this oppressive
taxation. II Is In the hope that my comrades
may take this matter strongly in hand, and see
that the Legislatures uf their several States are
brought to a vote on a similar law next winter,
that sound this note of alarm and caution, OF
suggestion and advice. II would save over
S2UOv,0vO in the aggregate II every State adopted
~ PRIVATE DALzELL.
CALDWELL. Ohio June q.
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Gov. Tilden not an Old Man.


from we hWUod HHes'
New YORK, June S.-Mr. Bryant is twenty
ye r. older than Gov. rlden, whom many per-
sons have fallen IN the habit of speaking Of as
nm old man. But the Governor Is not an old man
at all In fact he seems to be Younger man
than when heard him speak IN Tammany Hall
on The night Of hts election. met him strolling
through Central Park last sunday afternoon aud
was surprised at the why elasticity Of his step.
lie was climbing w to the lielyidere at the time,
and no mounted the ascent rs actively as TOY.
People VINO imagine that GOV. Iiiden 10
feeble or IN danger Of breaking down are very
much mistaken. His physique Is OF tho Kind
before prOstration comes. Besides. the Governor
has always been careful In his living, and made
IL rue to take as much exercise as posi- bic.
AS TO his being AN old man, that Is all nonsense.
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Mr.. +. RocKwooD HoAR OF Massachu-
sets classes BLAINE with BRIsTow reformer.
Either Mr.. HoAR's opinion OF BRIsTow must be
very low and his idea OF what constitutes a re-
former IN uolitics must be very degraded, or he
sees nothing inconsistent with his duty in pub
lie mans going into partnership With railroad
jobbers. The difference between the two men,
though Mr.. HoAR fails to see 1t, is that BRrsTow
is regarded rs On honest man. and BLAINE has
proved himself dishonest one. Fortunately,
the peoples moral discernment Is clearer than
Mr.. HoARs IN this matter.
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Brother BLAINE exercises a wise discriu

Brother BLAINE exercises q wise discrim-
inatIon In regard TO his private letters. lie re-
fuses TO place his business correspondence
before an lnvesiig iting committee to prove the
innocence which he blusteringly asserts hut
when New jersey editor writes him con1d,n-
TALLY that he would probably carry New jersey,
though In order IN make II sure, he had better
;on secret order which had been potent
factor" In carrying the previous election, the
letter mysteriously appears in the newspapers,
Brother BLAINE cannot say how. At that time,
however, he did not know that he would soon
enjoy sufficient notoristy without scheming
for II.
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Mr.. MULLIGAN goes again to Washington
10 explain more about those letters Of BLAIHEs
which the writer keeps 20 carefully concealed,
and vi ich he read In way TO suit best his case.
Perhaps MIR. MUILI0AS will be able to say what
BLAINE suppressed or altered in the reading.
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Scandal About washburne.

CINCINNATI, June 10.-I had an interest
ing conversation few minutes ago with Major
A. W, Edwards of the Illinois delegation, and
he tells me that Washburne may be nominated,
but not with the approval Of Illinois, which will
protest most emphaticaly against his nomina-
tion, for the reason that there is enough private
scandal aaoat in Illinois At this moment against
our distinguished Minister TO France TO drive
any ordinary man out OF the country.
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TIMED by side doors. The police got the
mastery of GnMoRE's Hippodrome. A
large crowd followed and cheered beer
vender while he was taken through the
streets to the station house.
Let there be an end to this confusion, so
that Sunday shall be n day of order, and
the personal rights of citizens shall be sus-
taiued, and the action of the police shall
be In accordance with the matured iudg-
ment Of tho courts, and with the prinoi-
pies laid down by Reoorder HAoKErr.
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We are not surprised 10 hear Of the sen
sation thai has been made In Cincinnati blythe
appearance OF the Grassland deputstion from
this city. Such 1ne looking body Of stalwArt
men was never before seen in the Queen City of
the West. but when their intellect makes itself
visible, the real occasion for surprise will have
arisen.
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Among the Republicans waiting to be
nominated at Cincinnati there are two Ms, Nor
GAN and MORTON; two Bs, BRIsTow and
BLAINE; two VS., wAsHBuRNE and WHEELER;
two lis, HAYES and HARrRAsrr; but there Is
only one {, and II stands for CoNKLING.
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Thipa5 are very mixed at Cincinnati,
and the IN AN hazards much who ventures o pre-
dict the result. hut CoNELIsG's chances cer-
tanly look to-day as good IA anybody's. His
cam paieu has been cleyerly managed, and he
has strong helseTs.
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Why She Kept Her window sha de. Up.

A young lady carried some gifts to
small hospital, nearly opposite her own house,
In this city. She soon found that two OF tho Ia
valid women took comfort In looking into the
ing all the pleasant family life there, and were
sorry when the shades sh ut out the sight. After
that, all winter long, the shades were left up
until the hospital patients were IN bed.
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they may destroy the very object which they
are trying to subserve bv their visit to Cincin-
natl. Let them call upon Deacon SMITH for
confirmation Of these views, but let them avoid
his wicked partners, who would take delight In
leading them astray.
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Not long ago GRANTS kitchen organ In
Washington was almost exclusively devoted to
abuse Of BLAINE because he had shown dis o.
stion to Kick against party discipline but since
BLAINE has proved himself to be the chief "
jobbers IN Congress. the organ has CHI nged its
tune. and IL now lavish in its praises " the man
from Maine. Boss SHEPHERD and Measurer
BABCOCK are almost forgotten In the organs de-
light over the discovery II an equally SUGGEST vi
but a more accomplished rogue than they.