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Show GENERAL. New York Xews. New York, 25. The directors of the Panama railroad met this afternoon after-noon and authorized the president, Mr. Park, to enter into a new tarifl arrangement with the Pacific Mail company and also to extend the loan of the latter company which falls due on Saturday, The Western Union directors met business. The joint committees of the Westurn Union and Atlantic and Pacific will not meet for some days, owing to the absence of several members. mem-bers. The daily increase in customs shows the preparation of importers for the fall trade which is expected to bo active in September. Judge fhipman, of the U. S. circuit cir-cuit court to-day confirmed the recent re-cent sale of property and franchises of the Northern Pacific railway company, com-pany, and their purchase by the committee com-mittee representing the bondholders. The company will now be reorganized by Iho issue of preferred stock to holders of bonds. A temporary injunction was granted grant-ed to day on the application of Sheridan Sheri-dan Shook and A .M. Palmer, of Union Square the.t'.ru, and Ernest Blum, author of th- play of ' Rose Michel," hy Judge Friedman of the superior court, agoiiot Augustin Daly of the Fifth Avenue theatre, to prevent pre-vent tho production ot the above named play. The o.derU returnable September Gth. Joseph Louder, the upholsterer, who libelled Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, was to-day .idmitted to bail in $2,500. Notice of trial are filed with the clerk of the city court in Brooklyn, in the Biiits of Theodore Tiltoo i. Henry Ward Beecher, Tilton vs. Thomas Kinsella, and Tilton vs. the Brooklyn Eayle, by the attorneys for tho pl.iintifl. The cominusioners if charities at Flatbush, Long Island, to-day, rendered ren-dered a decision in the case of Nelson Magee, who accused tho nurses in the lunatic asylum ol cruelty, discharging discharg-ing twoof the nurses and ndnntinir rules looking to a bettor government of the institution. |