Connecticut western news., 1880-05-19
sells now licensed, however, lSnot be distl1rhed rnfil their 1arasanf Ecansas ax.

sels now licensed, however. will mot be disturbed until their present licenses ex- pire.
 The Post-Ofice Appropriation bill, as reported to the Senate, is accompanied by amendments recommended by the Appropriations Committee striking out the requirement. for reletting expedited Star service contracts, and the clause authorizing the Postmaster General to remit in favor of New Zealand and New South Wales the charges for the over s land transportation, of the Australian mails. The committee adds the follow ing amounts to the House items : $350,- GOO for railroad mail transportation; $50, 900 for steamboat mail service $25,- 900 for pay of mail messengers, and $75, 900 to provide new mail locks
 The Postmaster General has in- formed all postmasters that the depart ment has no fund to pay for supplying post-offices in Government buildings with light, water and miscellaneous items after May 12. :. .-.l-. ,.s !. It MT. Augustus Morris, one of the Commissioners at the Sydney Exhibition, reports that our exhibitors have been very successful in obtaining awards. In all cases our manufacturers have either excelled all others or stood in thegfirst rank. The result will be large sale of American articles of several kinds that have heretofore been unknown in Aus , tralia. ..-....r ss..-- STE .gs, s,i .E,.ss The National Board of Health before adiourning adopted a resolution urging the importance of properly vaccinatihg European immigrants who may arrive at American, ports.
 Minister White reports that the Ger man Government is about to increase the circulation of silver coin 20 per cent
 that is, from 10 marks per head to. 12 marks s4 A 8 ,N A@
 A bill was introduced in the House by MT. Newberry, of Michigan, granting an extension of six years to the Northern. Pacific Railroad and containing a pro vision that actual settlers upon the land grants shall have the privilege of pur- | chasing a quarter section at ss2. 50 per acre, provided it shall not apply to lands already earned by the company. When the company mortgages or sells any of its lands, except to aid initheF construc- tion, such lands are.to be subject to tax. ation, and the company is, to make re- turns every six months to the Secretary of the Interior of all such sales, and also l of the actual cost of construction when ever each twenty-five miles are com-i pleted. When the entire line is finished lands remaining unsold over and above the amount required to aid m the con- struction are to revert to the Govern ment.
 Our Consul General at FranHort-on- ] the-Main announces that collection ex- hibition of the bath and cure industries, 1 of Germany will take place at Frankfoft from May to October, 1881. Among the 1 articles will, be minerals, stalactities, salts, jugs, corks, labels, bath-tubs, towels, gloves, sea-bath chairs, invalid chairs, electrical machines, gymnastie apparatus and costumes, with llustra- tive literature, history of baths, plans of bath houses, meteorological apparatus and systems of drainage
 MT McCord, of Iowa, presented in the House bill providing that every railroad company engaged in commerce among the States shall on March l. 1881, publish acomplete table of charges to be, except in extraordinary cases, invariably adhered to-. These rates are to consist. of one uniform charge for handling, load ing, unloading, billing and switching, and one fixed mileage rate for hauling per car, whether the cars for each shipper are lone ior more. The cardinal legal principle in the construction of the legality of 8 company's acts is to be whether the railways are being operated impartially for corporate profit from honest public service. Any contracts, discriminations poolings sor extertions I against public policy and in violation Of this principle are forbidden under penal ties. Any company is allowed to change 1 it's schedule Snpon thirty days notice. Each Congress is to appoint comlni nittee i of nine, one from each judicial crcoit, to examine and advise whenevers more: efficient legislation is deemed necessary:
 The House Committee on Ways and l Means perfected the Tariff bill and the chief points of the bill as it now stands are published to-day. The Sugar bill as agreed to provides considerable re- l duction in the duties. Wood pulp, duty I reduced from 20 per cent. to 10: per cent. :; salt is stricken from the bill entirely, the I duty on 1t, therefore, remains as at pres
 ent. Upon screws of all descriptions
 the duty is placed at five and seven | cents jute butts from $6 to $3 per ton ]; manufactured flax, and all other flores or hbrous material for the manufacture
 of paper, from $2O and $25 to the uni
 form rate of $10 per ton; sized or glued 4 paper for printing from 25 to 20 per cent. /; Eunsized, for books and newspapers ex-
 clusively, from 20 to 15 per cent; manu-
 factures of paper or of which paper is a
 component part, not otherwise provided
 for, from 35 to 25 per cent; blows, har-
 rows, spades, shovels, hoes and other l like articles, of which iron or steel is g
 component material, used for agricultu-
 ral, miningor mechanical purposes, from 25 tn 25 per cent 1d anL0real1