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Show usenl religion as a means to promote good government, and therefore the exclusion ex-clusion of all religious Instruction from public schools wan contrary to the provisions pro-visions of the constitutional bill of rights. Judge Story concurred and the injunction was ma!e perpetual. Judge Taft dissented. Col. Thompson Mom, of the U. S. , army, was buried this morniu.s; at St. Paul's church, with military honors, lie had been in the service since 22, at which time he graduated at West point. Cincinnati, 13. There was a meeting of importers this afternoon, to taka steps to secure the passage of the hill making Cincinnati a port of entry. Resolutions were adopted providing for a committee to visitW ashintrton and urge the passage of such bill. The same committee is to coreiond with Chicago and St. Louis, in order to secure concert of action. The meeting was more like business than anything else yet done in connection with this connection. PENNSYLVANIA. Earnings or the Pennty 1 vaula Ceatral, A Veto Vetoed. Philadelphia. At the annual meeting of the directors of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Central Kailroad, a report was submitted showing the gross earnings of the road for the past year to be seventeen seven-teen and a quarter millions. The expenses ex-penses were over twelve millions; leav-iug leav-iug the net prolit at live millions and forty-seven thousand, exceeding any year previous by seventeen thousand. thou-sand. Harkisbibo. The Henate to-day, passed over the Governor's veto, a bill to allow writs of error to the Supreme court, in criminal cases. The bill is intended in-tended to govern the (Schieppe case. NEW YORK. Cuban Bellitrereney lo be Urauletl I.nat NutI vor ol Lake Krte Imiicet wuxly I It Arrival vf )lrrenwalil's ltody itreu X Duel. New York. A Washington dispatch say that Banks, from the House committee com-mittee on foreign h Hairs and relations, will report; a resolution on Thursday next iu favor of the belligerent rights of Cuba. The body of Oreenwald, the American Ameri-can who was killed ut Havana, arrived to-day. The funeral will take place tomorrow, to-morrow, when a large doiuonstration is expected. All the relapsing fever patients have been transferred from liellevue hospital hospi-tal to lilackwall's Island, where temporary tempo-rary pavilions have been erected. The Nassau oiljworks and O'Connor's ice house were burned at Astoria, this morning. A man named Dorsett perished per-ished in the llauoes. A bar adjoiuiug the Union race course was burned last night; a man named Libctz was burned burn-ed lo death. A duel was fought with swords in a house in this city on Saturday night, between Francisco Deporto, the Cuban who recently fought the Spanish editor edi-tor in Canada, and George Prorde, an Englishmen; both were severely injured. in-jured. Buffalo. Commander Sthepen Chaplain, last surviving.ollicer of the battle of Lake Erie, is dangerously ill. MINNESOTA. orltieru Pacific Kailroad aurtey. Minneapolis. The preliminary surveys sur-veys of the Northern Pacific Kailroad are being pushed forward with all possible pos-sible dispatch. J'ive parties are now in the field, another loaves next Thursday. Abill ha-s been introduced in the Legislature Legis-lature proposing to give State lands in payment of repudiated.!? tate bonds. ;siT.CIAI. TO THE HESKRET NEWS. AFTKllNOON DISPATCHES. WASHINCTON. 4iiiiriiieil-.'l'lie lcWarrnlian tflip. Wasiuni: ion. Heury Wells was con firmed as Secretary to New Mexico. The i-'eimle judiciary committee, by one majority, have agreed to report fa-v.Tahly fa-v.Tahly on the notuiuationsof liradley and Strong as Justices of the Buprenie Court. Much of tho time of the executive ii ssion to-day, was devoted to the dia-j cu-sion of the iuestion of considering all treaties in open session. Hades, chief of the examining department de-partment of the PatentOlhce hasdecided aitainst applications for the extension of the lSessemer steel patent in this country. A final decisiou will be made on Saturday. The President, to-day, sent to the House all the information he has received re-ceived in reference to the late assassination assassi-nation of Americans at Havana. Iu the Supreme Court, to-day, an opinion was j;iven in the famous Mc-tiarahan Mc-tiarahan casein favor of the (Secretary of the Interior, reversing the judgment of the Supreme Court for the District of Columbia. j OHIO. 1 Jleetiiiir il importer Judgement Rend. rrrrl in the uchllon ol the llille In 1'llllllC SclKftOlK. i'is inna 1 1. The Judgts of the Hup-( Hup-( : ior Court have rendered a decision in tbe case Involving the reading of the Hibie in puVdic schools. The action was to dissolve the iDjunctiou heretofore hereto-fore planted, restraining the operation of the resolutions of tne school board, providing that the reading of the Bible and all religious instruction in publie schools shall not be permitted. Judge Hagans held that the provisions of the Constitution recognized the religion of Christianity and acknowledged that religion re-ligion and morality were necessary to good goverument; that the State i |