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Show The BSuilwisy IViir. New York, , 1. The mil road con-j trovcrsy is continued and manufac- t hirers and shippers arc expressing 1 their dissatisfaction with the freight lines. Benj. J. Sherman, Vice ! Chairman of the Committee of Seventy Sev-enty and president of the New York Sugar Kellning company, states that unfair discriminations of railroad companies in favor of Boston, Philadelphia Phila-delphia and Baltimore against Now . York were the principal ground of 1 complaint on the part of the New York merchants, and that, they are determined to put an end to such unfairness. un-fairness. He says the railroad cor- 1 porations must no longer bo permitted permit-ted to water their stock three or four times and then charge eight py cent. As soon as cool weather begins, pub- ( lie meetings will be held and the subject sub-ject bo presort! upon the attention of ; the people. Other heavy shippers say the contest is a continuation of the fight of hist yearaud has been brought up at this time in anticipation of the 1 fall trade. Agents of railroad and 1 forwarding companies state the rates than they have been for a long time. First-el a -;t; freight is now charged jsevoniy-live cents per hundred pounds . to Chicago, and proportionately to till I other parts, Chicago being the basis. : |