CJaus Spreckels and the Eastern Sugar Trust are engaged in a bitter fight, and prices for sugar have been cut down so that granulated is now four cents per pound in Philadelphia on which 2 per cent 13 allowed off, making the net cost price 3.92 cents, the lowest on record. The price named by the trusb is 416. In August, 1889, after the formation of the trust, sugar sold at 82 cents per lb. The curious feature of the present fight is that in the raw sugar market both parties are urgent buyers, and the Sugar Trust bought on August 4th raw sugar at 3 5-16 th cents. This brings the profit of refining down to a very low point.
San Diego, Cal., has been made a port of call for steamships on foreign routes to and from San Francisco.
The Musical Union of New York has pro tested to the authorities against the admis sion to the United States of a ballet troupe engaged in Europe by Walter Damrosch, a music conductor.
The rendezvous of the vsterans of the Grand Army of the Republic at Detroit, Mich., August 4th, is said to have been the most inagnificant yet made. Forty thou sand old soldiers were in line.
