Show REASONS FOR THE RISE the rule of all newspapers is to reject communications when the authors fail to furnish their names not necessarily for publication but as an evidence of good faith exceptions are sometimes times made A com communication aaion signed citizen but unaccompanied by the real name of the author has been received by THE Weare we are asked to give a reason for an alleged rise in the price of sugar citizen alleges that whereas the retail merchants formerly sold twenty pounds of granulated sugar for 1 they now charge 1 for fourteen pounds for an article of the same quality he also asks whether the change in the retail selling felling price is owing to the MCKINLEY bill we understand the present advanced price of sugar to bo be caused first by retail merchants who having become tired of selling sugar at an actual loss are now charging a profit secondly there lias has been quite an advance in the wholesale price of sugar caused by a reduction of supplies on liand hand and the threatened embar embargo 0 o against imports by reason of the cholera our kew new york exchanges tell us that a great many cargoes of raw sugar have been quarantined probably the ogden post would charge it all to the MCKINLEY bill but we cannot see it in that light wo we recollect that last list fall good potatoes were sellin selling g at retail in this market for 15 to 20 cents a bushel we know that the same quality of spuds are selling now at retail in this market for 60 cents a bushel Is the KT bill responsible for the advance in the price of potatoes |