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Show MEW YORK. It r cent Fnilurps t talliii A 'o.s SuiiiuulioK Wilit The Itiblo in (hu lublie ScIiooIm. New York, 21. leanc T. Meyers & Co.. dry goods iniportfM-n, fnihul ye&terdrty, and made an rtsuiyniuent i for the benefit of their creditors. B. G. Smith, jr., t-tock broker, lus given notice to Lho stot'k exchange of his inability to meet his ennt.Koments. Strauss, Lemon &Co. , importers in dry goods, who made an iissitioment, have filed thoir schedule. Thitir whult 1 liabilities arc So'Jy.Ho, gld, and ilir assets $174,031, also guld TIito ia due in England 67,000; 05,000 llurinn to a German banker, and $00,000, gold, in this city. In the suit of Jose Schmidt it Co., tobacco merchants, against Fred. Feltea, the aheritl hits seized several thousand dollars worth nf tobacco and other merchandise, at Fettee's house, Brooklyn. It is alleged that Fcttee has fraudulently purchased urout $100,000 worth of coods on credit in several1 difltivnt cities, and the suit of Schmidt ifc Co., against them, itt to recover the payment of certain prom issory notes given by him for tobacco. The argument on the demurrer to the indictment charging II. B. 01;if-lin 01;if-lin it. Co. with dealing wilh smug- , glers, has begun. Mr. Evaitj, ot Hum counsel for Claflin it Co., in hits argument said the statute under which LhLi itidit tnient was found pro- J vidts ihal whenever any one ahull hi found to have possession of smuggled goods, knowing ilium to he smuggled, he shall be convicted, unless ho ex-plain ex-plain such po cation to tiio satistac-tion satistac-tion ol tho jury. Tnis i wholly confined con-fined to dealing , with smuggled goods, and not goal's which have passud through ilio cuaU)iu house. The courts treat smuggled gocds as not introduced through the custom house, but in the evasion of it. if ho buvs and eel s $50,000,000 worth of gootls every year, it is hut jui-.t that it ; should have some information as to where and when the silku they are charged with dcaline in were smuggled. smug-gled. Without sui-h information the linn should be considered culpable. The great hall ol the Cooper Union was tilled last night with enthusiastic ; men and women, who desire that the i biblo should be read in Die public l schools, and that the school fund snail not be used for sue- j tarian purposes. On tho bust ; of Gcorgo Washington was a cape of bright red, over which was folded a bluo necktie, ornamented with whito stars. Henry Clay wore a blue vett cut rather short, Daniel Webster a waUtcoat red bound with white, and the audience sang an opening ode to the tune of the "Star spangled banner." One of the speakers, Kev. Dr. Miller, noticing the garb of Washington, said when he entered the hall he turned to ask a (riend whether the bust was one of Cardinal McCloskey clothed in the scarlet of his ollice. The blue and the white above the red, continued ho, ,i!or:o spare Georgo Washington the pro-fan pro-fan ily now tashion;ible among the women of New York. You sc them everywhere badged with a rose He of scarlet, or wearing a sash of red, ami wearing it because it i tho color of the cardinal. Men wear scarlet cock-adfs cock-adfs and children scarlet ribbons. Rev. J. S. Willis pleaded for the continued maintenance of the bible in the public schools. It is inseparably insepara-bly woven into the warp and wool of the public schools. Asa matter of policy the bible should be retained to instruct the youth in '.hose principles of morals that the liberal system of education lays before him. Priests can't be depended on, nor can the churches. He said he was willing to accept Prince Bismarck's compromise compro-mise and allow the Catholics to be taught from the Donati bible the Protestant from the St. James' bible, for there ij not much difference any way. |