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he 1 16 BUFFALO WEEKLY COURIER, APRIL 23, 1879. 5 of the value of four dollars, about equal the eight-florin German piece. The object is to make this coin unit of invoice bills of this country and Europe. Mr. Wright introduced bill authorizing loan of twenty million doilars to be divided in sums of five hundred dollars each to parties who have not the means of settling on public lands.

It provides that the louns shall be repayable at the end of ten years at three per cent. interest. Mr. Delamatyr filled the place of chaplain of the house to day. A majority of the bills introduced to-day in the house are old ones and include all the impentant and most of the unimportant measures that failed in the last congress.

REDEMPTION OF BONDS. The treasury will now redeem called bonds embraced in the eighty and eighty-fifth calls, paying interest to date of redemption, or it will redeem at once bonds included in said colls with interest to date of maturity and apply the proceeds to payment of subscriptions for four per cent. bonds. TEN-FORTIES CALLED IN. The following 10-40 bonds were called in today: Registered-50 dollars, No.

1,451 to No. 1.578, both dollars, 11,101 to 500 dollhrs, 7,101 to 1,000 dollars, 29,301 to 5,000 dollars, 10,301 to 10,000 dollars, 24,701 to 27,570. The above constituted the residue of those issued nnder the act of March 3d, 1874. SUPERVISORS OF INTER-STATE RAILROADS. The bill introduced to establish a board of supervisors of inter-state railroads and commerce as a bureau of the interior department provides that three supervisors shall be appointed by the president to hold office one, two and three years respectively.

PROVISIONS OF BILLS INTRODUCED. Fernando Wood's bill requires one hundred million dollars aside from the general revenues each year, out of which is to be first paid the interest on the public debt, the balance to be applied to a sinking fund for liquidation of principal. Another bill by Wood provides that in determining the dutiable value" of imported merchandise instead of adding to the original cost costs of transportation, brokerage, export duty, charges for packing and packages, commissions, there shall be added simply five per cent. of the cost or actual wholesale price of the goods at time of exportation in the principal markets of the country whence they were exported. The bill authorizes the establishment of a bonded manufacturing warehouse by providing that foreign merchandise may be entered in bond either at the port of original importation or elsewhere in the United States for manufacture into articles to be exported from the port of original entry, without payment of duty or internal revenue tax, within a year from date of entry.

The bill also provides for free admission of wearing apparel to the amount of three hundred dollars and other personal effects not exceding five hundred dollars sand of works of art, scientific apparatus, books, maps and charts imported by, states or corporations for their own 1190 and not for exhibition or sale. The secretary of the treasury is empowered to consolidate customs districts and with the approval of the president to change location of the principal ports of entry in the respective districte. Mr. Wood introduced seven measures in all affecting commercial interests. Representative Bliss introduced a bill authorizing the Canada Southern Bridge company to construct a tunnel under the Detroit river.

Representative Newberry introduced a bill providing for the rival project, namely, a bridge across Detroit river. The bill introduced by Representative Cook proposes to refer private claims against the United States, not barred 'by the statute of limitation, to the court of claims for investigation and subsequent report to congress for payment. A DENIAL FROM GERMANY. The German director of posts writes to the post-office department here denying that either American or other letters have been opened or delayed in that country as reported, intentionally and from a political motive. THE GENEVA AWARD.

The Frye bill to distribute the Geneva award is a copy of the measure passed in the house January 18. It makes provision for the payment of war premium claims. McCook also introduced a bill to provide for further distribution of the Geneva award. It authorizes claimants to sue in United States court of claims within one year. Morton introduced a bill for the correction of errors and amendment of the customs revenue laws.

It la a copy of the bill which the ways and means committee authorized Sagler to report favorably February 28. It provides for the refunding of erroneous collections. O'Niel's bill is an old bill authorizing the return to Japan of $785,000 paid to the United States under provisions of the convention of 1864. Goode's bill to restrict immigration of Chinese is the same measure vetoed by the president last session. There were a number of bills introduced for enforcing the eight-hour law for government laborers.

IMPORTANT LEGAL DISCISION. In the United States supreme court to day the case of the town of Lyons, plaintiff in error vs. Edgar Munsen, in error, to the circuit court of the United States for the northern district of New York was decided. This was a suit upon bonds issued by Lyons in payment for railroad stock subscribed for by its proper authorities. The court hold recital in bonds is stopped.

The bonafide holder was bound further and the obliger cannot go behind it. Judgment of the lower court is affimed with costs and interest. PERSONAL. Fernando Wood was in his seat to-day for the first time in a fortnight. He has been ill with rheumatism.

He says hostility to his chairmanship of the ways and means committee came only from one of the new members who is an old personal enemy and he soon dropped the matter. Amnesty Accepted, NASHVILLE. April Seven hundred violators of 1 the revenue laws appeared before the United States circuit court to-day. One hundred and seventy-five accepted Devens': amnesty and all the rest will follow suit. A large number of witnesses summoned were dismissed.

Death of General Dix. NEW YORK, April -General John. A. Dix died to-night at half-past eleven o'clock. THE OLD WORLD.

RUSSIA. ANTI-NIHILIST PRECAUTIONS. ST. PETERSBURG, April 31. -Gourto, newly appointed governor-general of St.

Petersburg, has ordered all gun-makers to send a list of their stock to the city commandant and sell only to persons presenting special authoriza tion, under penalty of confiscation of stock and prohibition of trade. Private persons possesing arms can only retain them by special permission. Porters must be kept at the doors of all houses day and night to prevent the posting of placards and scattering explosives in the streets. US THE NIHILIST CRAZE. A correspondent at Berlin says: Simultaneously with Solovieff's attempt on the czar's life three policemen were shot in Kazan.

Among the assassins were an educated girl, aged seventeen, and a nobleman. ITALY. PAPAL AFFAIRS. ROME, April was a great Catholic demonstration and display of sacred relics yesterday in honor of the Virgin Mary as a protest against alleged sacrilegious action of the Protestant Minister Ribetti, who had posted handbills announcing a discourse entitled Glory to God only." Pilgrimages to three great basilicas of Maria Maggiore, St. John Lateran and Santa Croce in Jerusalem in response so to special invtiation of the cardinal vicar, were very numerous and enthusiastic, embracing all classes of society.

The denionstration is described as most imposing in its proportions and solemnity. GARIBALDI. Garibaldi goes to Albano April 27th. ITALY FOR GREECE. A Rome dispatch says Italy has pledged herself to support the claiins of Greece to the utmost limits of the frontiers assigned by the treaty of Berlin.

GARIBALDI'S SENTIMENTS. Garibaldi, at the meeting of republicans, declared Italy must be armed and ready to claim her unredeemed promise. REPUBLICAN AGITATION. A meeting was held to- day of representatives of republican associations pursuant to the of Garibaldi, who presided. It was resolved to agitate for universal suffrage and for abolition of the deputies' oath of allegiance.

The meeting sent greeting to their brethren in Italy unredeemed. TARIFF CHANGES APPROVED. A council of ministers has. approved of the changes in the customs tariff proposed by the finance minister, affecting coffee, pepper, petroleum, from which an increase in revenue of £170,000 annually is snticipated. GREAT BRITAIN.

NOT SANCTIONED BY THE GOVERNMENT. LONDON, April the commons Northcote, chancellor of the exchequer, said it was possible there had been an advance of troops in Afghanistan but the government had not sanctioned an advance upori Cabul. In the commons Stanhope, under secretary of state for India, said very likely a portion of the army had advanced in the direction of Gundamuk but that was quite a different thing from an advance on Cabul, being sanctioned by the government. THE GREEK FRONTIER. He also said the government had received no information that the sultan had decided to refer the Greek frontier question to the decision of Europe.

A STRONG VOTE. Durham mines finally resolved, 22,638 to 224, to continne the strike. PEDESTRIANISM. Five -Hazael, 101 miles; Brown, 93 Corkey, 91; Weston, 78.. Hazael is sufferin; from diarrhoa.

LONDON, April -Three o'clock, in the morning--Hazel, 137; Brown, 127 1-2; Corker, 127 1-4; Weston, 111. DERBY'S REPLY. Lord Derby in reply to an inquiry as to whether the recent letter implied his severance from the conservative party, writes: I don't see that my withdrawal from the Lancashire conservative association requires any explanation beyond the facts already made public. I have openly and strongly dissented from the foreign policy of the goyernment. That policy seems in the main to be accepted by the party calling itself conservative and it is expressly vindicated in the last report of the association from which I retired.

I don't see how it is possible consistently to support in Lancashire what I have opposed in parliament and for the present at least I wish to hold myself free from all party organizations. GERMANY. OPPOSING THE TARIFF MEASURES. FRANKFORT, April meeting was held here to-day of the German social political asso ciation. Two hundred and fifty delegates from all parts of the empire were present.

Debate on protection generally was adjourned, but the meeting, by fifty-two to fifty, adopted a resolution opposing the proposed duties affecting agricultural interests. A NOTE OF ALARM. BERLIN, April Post declares a widespread conspiracy exists between Russian, French and German revolutionists and suggests common defensive action. CUBA. THE ELECTIONS.

HAVANA, April 21. -Elections for deputies to the cortes was held yesterday throughout the island. Liberal conservatives have a decided majority in the city and province of Havana. RELIEVED FROM DROUGHT. Rain has relieved the drought which has been aggravated by south wind.

Disastrous conflagrations resulted from the drought cane fields in- several districts. Over fifty plantations are reported to have suffered. THE EAST. THE BULGARIAN ASSEMBLY. TIRNOVA, April 21.

-The Bulgarian assembly has concluded discussion of the constitution. It rejected the first clause providing for revision of the constitution at the end of five years. The assembly meets Thursday to read protocola. Its labors will then be concluded. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD OF THE WEEK.

MONDAY, April the senate Mr. Carpenter's bill to amend the reyised statutes with regard to the election of senators was referred. The bill is designed to remedy the defect in the existing law recently brought into prominence by the New Hampshire case. The army bill was taken up and Mr. Blaine made a characteristic harangue charging that the democrats were endeavoring to force an issue on the country to make it appear that the republicans want to ruse the elections with the bayonet.

It could not be shown that there was the least danger from the army of this country, and therefore the pretended alarm was for ulterior purposes. Mr. Withers argued against the presence of troops at the polls, saying it was incompatible with a free government. Withers said nobedy on the democratic side. had laid down the proposition that the president should not exercise his.

constitutional power to veto a bill. Democrats did not propose to shape their course as to what may or may net be the position of the president. Mr. Wallace, in reply to Blaine, said this bill was from the committee and not from a secret consultation of democrats. He also argued that the presence of troops at the polls was a menace upon the right free elections, andy said the legislation of 1865 WAS first instance of the mail-clad hand of the federal goverament at the In the house Ladd introduced a bill for the pur-1 pose of putting coinage of gold and silver on the same footing.

A point of order was raised by Conger and while the question was being debated the morning hour expired and the bill got Do further. -Mr. Monroe moved to suspend the rules and the following: Resolved, That in the judgment of this house the business intereste of the country require no legislation changing the law in regard to currency or tariff be undertaken at the present session." 'The motion was defeated, 108 to Mr. Young introduced a bill to increase the efficieney of the national board of health and to prevent the introduction and spread of contagious diseases. Referred.

The measure is similar in its provisions to the bill already published and agreed upon by the senate committee on epidemic diseases. TUESDAY, April the senate a note was received from the vice-president stating he had been summoned home on account of the dangerous illness of his sister. Mr. Thurman W88 elected to preside in his -Mr. Logan made a long speech on the army appropriation bill, denouncing the proposed legislation as bad in itself and as being attempted by unparliamentary methods.

His speech lacked argument but abounded in rant and declamation; many republicans were disgusted with the -Mr. Beck of Kentueky, made an able and logical speech in answer to Mr. Blaine's effort of the preceding day, citing former opinions of -Secretary Evarts, Stanley Matthew and Wm. H. Seward, relative to the danger to be apprehended from military interference at the polls.

-In the house the legislative appropriation bill was considered. Animated debate: ensued upon Mr. Bragg's amendment repealing the law creating the southern claims com-mission, the republican side of the house not only defending commission, but also the payment claims, even where lovalty is sustained by merely ex parte evidence. The amendment had not been disposed of when the house adjourned. WEDNESDAY, April the senate debate on the army bill was continued.

Mr. Beck concluded his great speech in a manner creditable to himself and the cause he advocated. At the conclusion very sharp controversy arose between him and Hoar. The latter persisted in perverting the meaning of and misrepresenting Beck's utterances at the last session, upon which the republicans of both house and senate have based their cry of Hoar, prompted by Blaine, Dawes and other republican senators, persisted in chatechising Beck as to what he would do in case the president should veto the bills in dispute. and accused him of declaring that in the latter event the democrats would stop the wheels of government.

Beck became thoroughly aroused and literally flayed the Massachusetts pettifogger, who he showed had garbled his utterances and made false -Mr. Dawes made a bitter partisan speech, charging the South with having broken its promise, if left to itself, to restore peace and harmony within its borders and protect colored men in their rights. Charging, also, that the south had obtained control of affairs within its limits under false pretenses, and instead of seeking to harmonize the relations of the races the ultimate object was to deprive the negroes of the right of suffrage, while taking every advantage of their numbers to secure for the south representation in congress sufficiently large to acquire control of the dominant party, with the sinister design of slowly but surely bringing back the state of things existing before the war. -Bills were referred-To provide for the establishment of steamship mail service between the United States and Brazil. To prevent fraud in the entry of lands.

-In the house Mr. Stephens introduced for the interchange of subsidiary coin for egal- multiples thereof, money and in sums of such ten coin dollars and making legal tender for all sums not exceeding twenty dollars. The morning hour expiring the bill went over. -The legislative bill was taken up and the amendment to abolish the southern claims commission was rejected. Brief debate ensued upon the political features of the bill when the house adjourned.

THURSDAY, April the senate Mr. Morgan introduced a bill to regulate the appointment of United States marshals. -The appropriation bill was taken up. Mr. Voorhees made an able speech calling attention to what he feared was not generally realized, namely, that federal interference extended not only to congressional but to all state and local elections.

American citizens, by thus Erving overseers put over them, were reduced to the condition of slaves. He detailed the system of federal elections laws and pointed out what provision is dangerous to a free ballot. The usurpers always appear and take advantage of such bad laws, and already our people had seen them used to defeat the popular will. sent emissaries into the provinces to create disturbance, which gave him an excuse to use his army to keep peace. The same thing might be done, and has been done by the president of the United States.

Improper use of the federal judiciary was still more dangerous than military abuse. The mere contact with political subjects is fatal to the judicial mind, but under the existing laws the judiciary is at the beck and call of the execntive to be used for political purposes. He avowed his readiness to vote for the repeal of the jurors' test oath and deputy marshale law and for the modification of the election law if these measures were presented Mr. Teller followed Mr. Voorhees.

He said the democratic party had heretofore sustained the exercise of the veto power by democratic presidents. This law had existed fourteen years without being objected to by the opposite party. If it was unconstitutional he thought it a strange fact that it had just been discovered. He quoted judicial decisions supporting the constitutionality of the law. The only question was as to the expediency or policy of retaining He himself deprecated the use of the army to enforce civil processes except in extreme cases, but the democrats had not always been 80 afraid of the military power as they now were.

Mr. Beck had yesterday quoted, from a speech made by Seward in 1856 protesting against the use the army, but Teller proposed to show that on that occasion Seward WAS combatting the democratic plan to send the army into Kan888 to enforce certain odious laws of the territorial legislature. Seward had denounced those laws as subversing the right of free speech and free presa but not a democrat voted with him to keep the army from enforcing them. Teller said all the frauds on the ballot for the last thirty years emanated from, or had been to the advantage of, the democratic party. He reviewed at length the testimony before the committee of which he was chairman and 'declared that even white democrats in good standing testifled to the lawlessness and intimidation at elections to prevent colored people from voting as they desired in Lonisiana and South Carolina.

-The senate went into execntive session and afterwards -In the house Mr. Carlisle of Kentucky made a very able constitutional argument in favor of repeal of the test oath and election laws. He held that whatever might be the propriety of insorporating substantive legislation in appropriation bills, it had been so frequently done during the last quarter of a century as to become the rule rather than the exception. To say that the practice had been established and now existed, but is not to be exercised, because the president might not approve legislation incorporated in the bill, was to say the president was master of the representatives of the peopie, and that vongress was to abandon an admittedly justifiable practice and surrender a right at dictation of the executive. Carlisle favored repeal of the test oath and of the election laws.

The latter was a question affecting the north more than the south. Out of sixty-nine cities to which this law applied, only fourteen were in the south. He longed to see the time come when the patriotism of public men and fraternal feeling of the people would be broad enough to acknowledge that but one border limits this broad Union Mr. Kelly said he proposed at the regular session of congress to submit amendments to the constitution; one was that laws on no two subjects should be embraced in the same bill, so an appropriation bill would be unconstitutional if a rider were put upon it. The other proposition was to give the execttive the right to veto particular of apin propriation bills.

FRIDAY, April 18-In the senate debate was resumed on the army bill. Mr. Randolph argued that it could not be revolntionary to refuse supplies to the Army because the constitution expressly forbade army appropriations to run longer than two years, a provision evidently designed to place the existence of the army in the hands congress. He also referred to the improper use of troops in Louisiana and South Carolina and told how he was rebuffed by President Grant It whom he brought a message from Wade Hampton requesting that troops be removed from the state house of South Carolina. -Mr.

Morgan said the questions involved in debate should be discussed soberly. Southern representatives regarded these 48 constitutional questions rather than matters affecting recent disturbances between the north and south. They had equal interest with other sections in development of the true glory of the Union and were desirous of assisting in the management of the government. They did not attempt to repeal war measures for the benefit of the -Mr. Groome told how in 1861 Governor Dix and in 1863 General Schenck issued orders to prevent disloyal persons from voting in Maryland and claimed the matter was carried so far 88 to become an outrage.

Groome inveighed against such interference by United States The senate went into executive session and adjourned until -In the house debate on the legislative bill was enlivened by two extremely violent speeches made by McKinley of Ohio and Burrows of Michigan, both republicans, who appeared studiously intent upon stirring up bad blood. The methods adopted were personal attacks upon southern members and wholesale charges against the south. The most fiery, passionate passages were loudly cheered by the republicans. Burrows was particularly bitter and extreme. His remarks were carefully prepared and he deliberately charged that the action of the southern democrats in supporting the pending propositions was little short of treason.

He said they had thrown down the gage and he would have them understand that republicans were prepared to make the gage good, even on the field. These violent declarations were loudly applauded by the republican side who thereby proclaimed as their sentiments the assertion that every right of a citizen in the south was broken down and every wrong to' a citizen upheld. This was boldly flung in the faces of southern members. That the latter should be indifferent to such attacks would be unnatural, yet they continue to bear with remarkable fortitude and self-restraint all these wanton charges and were ordered for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights next week for debate only. SATURDAY, April the house the subsidiary silver coins bill was, taken up.

Mr. Garfield's amendment to increase the amount at which coins can be presented for redemption from ten to fifty dollars, was rejected. His amendment to substitute the words "lawful money of the United States" for "legal tender was agreed to. -Mr. Springer's amendment making subsidiary silver coins legal tender to the amount of twenty dollars was agreed to-123 to 103.

SUMMARY OF STATE LEGISLATION. MONDAY, April the senate bills were introduced-by Mr. Oakley, amending the general manufacturing law. Mr. Sessions, to authorize the laying of pipes in streets, avenues and public places in various cities, towns and villages of the state for heating and other -In the house bills were passed--To provide method for payment of state taxes into the state treasury.

To provide for the keeping of accounts of overseers of poor and filing the same with the town clerk. To preyent ice gorges In river St. To abolish weigh-locks on canals. Amending the act to promote medical -The bill amending the act to facilitate the construction of the New York Oswego Midland railroad was lost, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the table. TUESDAY, April the senate Mr.

RobertsOn introduced a bill providing that where the county treasurer or his executors or administrators shall refuse to deliver official papers or moneys to his successor, the person refusing shall forfeit $1,950. It is made the duty of the succeeding county treasurer to sue his predecessor for any official papers or moneys which the latter has refused or neglected to deliver. -Bills were passed- Consolidating the school districts Island. coufirm the proceedings and to incorporate the Fillmore loan association Buffalo. Amending the act in relation to the gnrollment of militia.

To regulate the examination of reports on fire and inland navigation insurance companies. To amend certain sections of the code of civil procedure in relation to the acknowledgement by married women of written, instruments. The resolution that the senate meet at ten o'clock hereafter was adopted-15 to 9. To preserve the rain fall of forest trees. Amending the laws requiring mortgages of personal property be filled.

To authorize the formation of town insurance companies. The resolution that the senate meet at 10.30 and adjourn at two o'clock daily was -In the house the bill providing for employment of female physicians in female wards of insane asylums was ordered to a third A bill was introduced by Mr. Knowles to amend the civil damage act, It changes act so as to strike out the part which holds the owner or lessee of premises jointly liable with the seller of intoxicating liquors for damages caused by a person intoxicated on the -The bill supplemental to the code, embodying the new nine chapters, was passed, 88 to -Bills were introduced -by Mr. Hayes, authorizing the use electricity for illuminating purposes in cities; also, amending the act for the incorporation religious societies. Mr.

Van Valkenburg, amending the charter of the Lockport Catholic Literary Union. WEDNESDAY, April 16. -In the senate bills were introduced-by Mr. Hicks, to amend the law relative to corporations. Mr.

McCarthy, to amend the constitution relative to the powers of supervisors. -Samuel R. Wells, Waterloo, and Francis 0. Masson, Geneva, were confirmed trustees the Willard In the house bills were passed- amending the New York charter. It legislates out of office within fifteen.

days after passage the present fire commissioners and provides for four commissioners appointed by the mayor, nop-partisan; amending the act providing for protection of primary meetings, caucuses and conventions; amending the act authorizing the trustees of. incorporated cemetery associations to pose a tax on lot owners; amending the act allowing graduates of low schools to practice; relative to the incorporation of villages, which provides that incorporation shall not be declared invalid by reason of the territory being less than a mile square; amending the act for the disposition certain lateral canals; repealing the act to abolish imprisonment for debt and to punish fraudulent debtors; authorizing tunneling in villages and les for transportation purposes. THURSDAY, April the senate the annual supply bill was taken up. The following items were added to the bill: $15,000 for expenses curred by the committee who revised the statutes during the recess of 1878, and $2,000 for removing obstructions in Chautauqua Lake outlet: $5,000 for the compensation of counsel and printing civil and criminal code; $500 additional to Hon. Daniel Patterson for services as counsel in contested elections for the 8th assembly district; $325 to Fulton Paul for expenses in coming from Trinidad to attend the Phelps trial; $8,500 additional to the state normal and training school the purchase of grounds; $3,500 to the adjutantgeneral for the purchase of lands in Oswego for state arsenal; Oneida and Stockbridge Indians traveling expenses, $500; for removing structions in the Saranae river, for pairs to state' bridges in Indian reservation, county, $500; for repairs, to roads in Indian reservation in Onondaga county, $1,000.

The appropriation for the new capitol was creased $100,000, making $600,000. For removing obstructions in creeks in Washington county, $300. The bill was ordered to third reading $5,000. For school house in Seneca county, then In the house Mr. Fish offered concurrent resolution that a committee of three senators and five members of the house be pointed to tender the hospitalittes of the state General Grant on his return to this country.

Laid were passed To consolidate societies of Buffalo to prevent cruelty to children. Amending the act relative to elections other militia, and for town officers, which provides regulating the selection of clerks of the poll. thorizing historical societies to hold real estate. In relation to married women, which permits them to enter into business contracts the same if unmarried. Amending the act courts, officers of justice and civil proceedings which makes all trials public, except those for divorce or other immoral cases.

-Bills wefe introduced--by Mr. Willis, to increase the revenues of the state abolish tolls on the canals. Amending the act ascertain by proper proofs who are entitled to elective franchise, so as to make it apply to cities except New York and Brooklyn and villages of above five thousand house considered the bill concerning the tates of insolvent debtors, the distribution thereof and to prevent fraud in same. Mr. Sheard the bill would put a stop to dishonest failures.

the first failure the debtor must pay fifty cents the dollar; on the second seventy cents, and on third one hundred cents. These payments be made or the debtor cannot be released from obligations. Progress was reported and the left in general orders. FRIDAY, April the senate bills were ported- -Amending the act for the drainage farm lands; for the protection of human life watering and bathing places; providing for better charter collection of taxes in Bufalo; amending of Buffalo; to provide for the formation county aud town co-operative insurance -Bills were passed- To provide for better support of the poor of different counties and for the appointment of three commissioners; to regulate processions and parades in cities; provide for the distribution of acts passed by legislature to town clerks' offices; amending to provide for the support and care of paupers, destitute and delinquent children; amending act to facilitate the construction of narrow railroads, amended by exempting the counties and Kings; to punish disorderly duct in public conveyances; to extend the for the redemption of lands bids in by comptroller at tax sale of T. relating to the care of mals; in relation to public buildings and grounds in -Bills were introduced- by of Payne, amending the act for the preservation moose, wild deer, birds and fish; Mr.

Pierce, secure or protect bequests of a charitable or to lic character: Mr. Marvin, to render town and bonds issued in aid of construction of railroads within the state taxable in the towns by or which they were issued; Mr. Murphy, providing that the owners of hotels, tenements and manufactories shall provide appliances for protection against fire, to be approved by the fire commissioners or mayor, in default of which the authori- NEW GROCERY FIRM. I desire to inform my old Customers and Friends that I have now associated with me in interest my sons for the purpose of continuing the General Grocery Business. The firm name will hereafter be known as C.

P. CHURCHILL SONS, Where may at all times be found a large, fresh and well selected stock of every variety of the Choicest Family Groceries, OF WHICH THE FINEST TEAS and COFFEES WE MAKE A SPECIALTY. Also Green and Dried Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Canned Goods of Every Kind, Also Farm Products, And everything usually. kept in a First-Class Grocery House at Wholesale and Retal at the Lowest Market Prices. C.

P. CHURCHILL SONS, No. 120 Seneca Street. ties named may erect such appliances and the owner cannot collect rent while in such default. In committee of the whole the following bills were ordered to a third reading: Conferring additional power upon the trustees of the village of Leroy; in relation to anditing the expenses for the support of the poor except in New York, Kings, Albany and Wyoming counties.

Adjourned to Monday -In the house the supply bill was received from the senate as amended and a conference committee -Bills were passed -relative evidence in criminal cases; amending the act relative to the powers and duties of supervisors; in relation the collection of taxes in Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties; amending the act authorizing formation of railroad corportions so as to allow companies to construct narrow gauge roads; in relation to oil wells, requiring them to be plugged when abandoned, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars; amending the act relative to state prisons by making further provision for commutation of time of service for good behavior. Adjourned to Monday evening. THE PRINCIPLES OF HOMEOPATHY. Favoring all Health-Giving Laws, but Upholding the Motto of the School. N.

Y. World, April 13. A report has been agreed upon by the committee of five appointed Medical Society to consider the resolution offered by Dr. E. S.

Fowler, of this city, and adopted by the society at its twentyseventh annual meeting in Albany in February, 1878, and which declared that although firmly believing the principle similia similibus curantur to constitute the best general guide in the selecting of remedies and fully intending to carry out this principle to the best of our ability, this belief does not debar' us from recognizing and making use of the results of our experience, and we shall exercise and defend the inviolable right of every educated physician to make practical use of any established principle in medical science or any therapeutical facts founded on experience so far as in his individual judgment they shall tend to promote the welfare of those under his professional skill." This resolution caused so much dis-, cussion that a committee, of which Dr. John J. Mitchell, of Newburg, was chairman, was appointed to consider the advisability of rescinding it. The report declares that the resolution does not express the "views of our school." The report goes on to say: 44 We clearly and emphatically distinguish between a therapeutic law' and the laws of chemistry, physics and hygiene; and while in the treatment of disease their formula, causa sublata tollitur effectus, is often to be remembered and used with advantage, yet such laws and action in way infringes upon or invalidates the therapeutic law, similia similibus curantur. We have not in the past, ncr do we now.

yield one tittle of our rights as physicians to use any means or appliances of the general profession to aid in the treatment of our patients (under the homeopathic law,) or in the palliation of their suffering through the application of any physical, surgical, chemical or hygienic law, leaving the question of such use to the individual judgment of the practioner, assured that they will be least used by those who are the acquainted with our materia medica and best able to wield its immense armamentarium. In relation to the dose of the simillimum proper to be exhibited, we discover the most brilliant triumphs of have been achieved by the use of attenuated medicines; yet as a matter of fact. we find that even the crude drug in minute doses will exhibit power to become a remedy under our therapevtic law. But as we as yet have not been able to deduce a law to guide us in determining the amount of a drug to be used, or the attenuation to be exhibited in order to meet the demands of any case most accurately, this society, while on the one hand it refuses to join with those who decry attenuated medicines, on the other hand will not refuse to recognize as brethren those who, governed by their honest convictions, can only exhibit crude medicines or the lowest attenuation in the treatment of the sick." CHESS WITH LIVING PIECES. A Novel Entertainment on the Stage in the New York Academy of Music.

New York Sun, April 17., A contest at chess, with living pieces, marshalled on the one side Capt. Mackenzie, the Chess chempion of America, and on other by Mr. Eugene Delmar, occurred in the Academy of Music last evening under the auspices of the Manhattan chess club. A tableau, representing Mephistopheles and the prince at play, opened the entertainment. On either side of the stage, which was covered with squares of black and white, the were drawn up in their places, and in the centre of the stage sat the two players at a table bearing a smaller board.

On a raised platform, overlooking the games, sat Caissa, the goddess of chess. The costumes of the pieces were both handsome and tasteful, those on one side being of red and gold, and those on the other of blue and silver. The kings were stalwart men, with flowing beards, wearing crowns and long, rich cloaks. The queens wore handsome robes; the knights wore armor; and the bishops wore mitres and full priestly attire. The pawns were girls in the attire of pages.

All the pieces were personated by members of the club and their lady friends. THE GAME between Captain Mackenzie and Mr. Delmar had been selected from a number played by them especially for this occasion, and it had the merit of being brief, and ending in a handsome and picturesque mate in favor of the captain, with queen and bishop, after the sacrifice of a rook. The opening was the Evans gambit. During the game Mr.

Delmar sat at one side of the stage at a table on which was a board and pieces, and the captain sat on the other side, similarly equipped. Each had a herald, who called out the Mr. Logeling of the Cafe Logeling, where the chess club has its rooms, was master of ceremonies, and on either side of him was a herald, who, as move was called, stepped forth and led the pieces to the squares named. Whenever a piece was captured, a note was sounded on a cornet, and the herald led the prisoner away. Two new and interesting problems by E.

B. Cook, in which the mover that mated produced the letter and one of the seven games simultaneously played by Morphy in Paris in 1856 while he was blindfolded concluded the entertainment. WE believe the cause of the wonderful success of our Murray Lanman's Florida Water may be found in the fact that the principal aim in its preparation has always been to give the simple natural perfume of flowers, without any chemical addition whatever, and to avoid by all means, the great error of making a heavy, sickly sweet perfume. THE GREAT NORTHWEST. Advantages of the Red River, Valley as 'a Wheat Country.

Mr. C. C. Dana, of Rock Island, Illinois, writes the following to the Lake Superior (Duluth) News of the the 10th instant: "Before going north I made a trip to the southern part of Minnesota, for the purpose of being better able to compare it with the wheat fields north. The comparison stood in favor of the north about as follows: Nearness to the market- about the same; yield per acre about twenty per cent.

more: quality of wheat -worth 10 to 15 cents more. The yield of wheat per acre can best be shown by comparison: Red River Valley. Other regions. Greatest yield per bu. 35 bu.

Smallest bu. bu. Average yield per bu. 15 ba. The state of Minnesota will average in her best years 17 bushels per acre, heretofore been regarded as the finest Wheat ing country in the United States.

The quality of the wheat produced in the Red river valley makes a a a a a a still better showing. Of the wheat marketed at Chicago during the year, the proportion which grades No. 1 will seldom be 5 per cent. The last season it WAS only three-tenths of one per cent. The receipts at Duluth, the principal market, for northern Minnesota, showed last per cent.

of No. 1 wheat. The preceding season showed 85 per cent. But a still better idea may be formed of the quality coming exclusively from the Red river valley, in the fact that the total product of wheat from the Cass Cheney consisting this last season of 112,000 bushels, all graded ed No. 1.

Nearness to market is the next point of importance. Reference to the map shows Duluth to be just as near commercial centers, by way of the great lakes, as Chicago is, and is therefore as good a market. The following table shows the distance by rail from Red river valley to Duluth, as compared with the distance of other grain centers from Chicago: Miles. Red river valley to ...254 Burlington, Iowa, to ..207 Quincy, Illinois, to 263 Rock Island, to ..185 Vinton, Iowa, to Chicago. .135 Omaha, to Chicago.

.500 St. Joseph, to .500 Kansas City, to .570 Lincoln, (central .542 Cheyenne, W. .723 Des Moines, (central .857 Ellsworth, (central Kansas)-. ..793 The above figures show the Red river valley to be as near to market as Iowa, and much nearer than Kansas and Nebraska." MERRITT AND PANCHOT. N.

Y. Herald, Saturday. If he (Merritt) would get that brakeman's cap off him, and come in looking sleek and tidy, with every hair laid in its own pigeon hole, as does the handsome and tasteful little Panchot, it wouldn't hurt his popularity with the spectators one whit. The back ends of his shoes have holes in them and must soon let in the sawdust, and so impede him seriously. Feet sore?" "A few blisters," he replied, but his walk suggested tired legs rather than blisters.

He took a little rest about supper time, and so did Panchot, but the former was not fairly out of his tent before the relentless little Buffalo man was after him. walks now. Merritt jogs. So does Panchot. David and Jonathan could not have stuck closer together.

And the little fellow never in front, but always at the other's heels. Poor Merritt, with his ten mile gap still in front of him and his. bad shoes bothering him. How this relentless Sancho Panchot must haunt him even in his dreams. Evidently meaning to stay on the track till eleven rings out night can be ever wipe out these ten terrible extra miles? Nothing looks like it now at half-past seven, at least, for plenty of go as he yet has in him his little master at his heels has at least as much, and apparently more too.

"Do your feet trouble you any, Mr. Not at all, sir," comes the ready and courteous response, for there's nothing of the rough in this gentlemanly, bright-eyed, handsome little fellow at all. Shod in his white pumps, a long, black shoestring binding them snugly to the feet after the fashion of the ancient sandal or the modern skate strap, he skims along around that track as lightly and gracefully as could any dancing master. There's nothing heavy about him. His face does not look especially tired, indeed, no face on this course begins to look as sunken as did Harriman's at this hour of his race.

Mr. Panchot, you're seven miles ahead of Ennis's time?" As he gets the word his face lights up, and evidently, the word arouses a welcome train of thought. He has, indeed, fought a good fight, and gives every promise that he will finish his course. The only noticeable defect of importance in his work is that he steps too short. -The Rev.

A. B. Kendig, pastor of the Trinity M. E. church in Worcester, in his prayer, just before his farewell sermon, asked the Lord "to bless the one who, although hidden from sight, yet contributes so much to the musical part of our worship," and then, as if fearing he would be misunderstood, added: "0 Lord, I mean the boy who blows the organ." Deaths.

-In this city on the 21st THOMAS, son of Wm. Robertson, aged 5 years, 10 months and 30 days. Funeral from the family residence, No. 107 Broadway, this (Tuesday) afternoon, at 3 o'clock. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend.

Jersey City papers please copy. ELLIOTT In this city on the 20th MARIA wife of the late BERNARD ELLIOTT, aged 48 years. Funeral on Tuesday the 22d inst. at 2 P. i from the family residence, are 415 Sixth attend.

street. Friends and acquaintances invited to SCHAFF-In this city, April 21st, 1879, ANNA MARY, wife of John Schaff, aged 24 years. Funeral from the family residence, No. 45 Delaware Place, Thursday morning at 8 o'clock. WREN-In this city on the 21st ROBERT CLARENCE, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Fred R. Wren, aged 5 years, 8 months and 8 days. Funeral from the Fillmore House, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend.

M. GUSKE, Merchant Tailor 192 East Seneca Street, Buffale, N. Y. All orders promptly attended to,.