Show A CRYING evix EVIL WE have heard numerous complaints from various quarters about the manner in which wood mood and coal are vended bended in our miar market ket we have alluded to this subject before in our columns butas but as the evil still exists we touch upon it again the price of fuel has been extravagantly high through the winter and there have been many times timed when citizens have been glad to purchase wood and coal at almost any price those who have dealt in these articles have had bad every thing their own way their principal everi everd difficulty has seemed to be to know what to ask I 1 for the price has not been regulated in the least by the time and expense that have been devoted to the procuring of wood or coal but by the necessities of the people we have heard other classes who have taken the course that wood and coal haulers have done during this time of scarcity of fuel suel frequently censured the advantage they have taken of the peoples necessities in such cases has not passed mut ou of remembrance very quickly but dealers in n wood and coal coa are nat so much id td blanie blame for the prices that thai ira are charged for these articles at present as the contrast between these prices and those of former days would seem to indicate teamwork team work has hasteen been much h higher this winter than it has ever been k known before in this country this is partly artl arti y 0 owing wing to the demand there has E been en for teams toworu to work on the railroad and hud partly to the extravagant prices at which all ali forage haye have been aid mid ald the price prid of fuel has been submitted to as a necessary consequence of the enhanced rates at which whick everything ilas lias has been bold sold this we have nob not heard jacard about but the com corn a are re that when h en a el citizen efti I 1 to bux buy gulka load p of coal or wood woo ii ariy d many maffy instances the mancho man has bas ig the article reicle refuses to have his coal ei ghea 0 measured the pur purchaser chack must either elther take the coal at the weight he asserts it is island and the wood at the measure he declares it to be or go without fuel this evil hus has been so long and often complained about that it must have some foundation can not tb the e city council devise some plan to remedy this any aty measure that thab could be effect effectives effectively ivel y adopted to accoo this object would be satisfactory to purchasers and it certainly would be beno bano wron to sellers they would soon acquiesce in 14 the arrangement and good feelings a ings would bep reserved reer ved ti mesas as thing things are at present there are arg heart sense of injustice f iw |