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Show NEW YORK NOTES. WANT TWEED RELEASED. Now York, 4. In the board of aldermen this afternoon a resolution 1 was adopted, declaring that greater benefit could be gained for tbe city by the discharge of Wm. M. Tweed from imprisonment than by his longer long-er detention, and recommending tho attorney general and the corporation counsel to release him from imprisonment, imprison-ment, after securing for the city such property as he now possesses and taking means to secure his testimony necessary in any suits which might hereafter be brought by the city. FATAL DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Two men were killed and a third probably fatally wounded at Glend&le, L. I., by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge while preparing a blast. TELEGRAPH SUIT. In the suit of the Western Unioo Telegraph company tu. Geo. Harrington, Harring-ton, T. R. Eiisou, Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph company, Jay Gould and others, trustees of the Automatic Telegraph company and Automatic company. Judge Freedman granted an injunction restraining the defendants defend-ants from bringing or prosecuting any suits in relation to the patents which csrrer the quadruple! instrument, except tbe Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Tele-graph company's mil now pending belore Jude S.inford and excepting two suits by Harrington and Edison in the District of Columbia, to test tbe title to the patents, on condition that they stipulate in ten days to allow the Western Union to put in its equitable delence to those actions. The order also enjoins the transfer, etc., of tbe patents which wre the subject of action. ANTI BDTTER ADULTERANTS. The butter merchants met to-day and passed resolutions forming a national association for the protection of dairy products from adulteralioo.tbe enforcement of the state law relative to the sale of OUumar-jai trie, and to procure uniform state laws regulating the Bale of the same. Tbe name will bo Lhe National Association for the Prevention of the Adulteration of Butter. |