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Show LAST NIGHT'S FLASHES. New York had a regatta on Monday. A dozen yachts contested. Joe Jefferson Jeffer-son took the first prize. Rhode Island and Quebeo have incorporated in-corporated societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals. About two hundred newly anrived emigrants, mostly Irish and German, enlisted within the past few days and were sent to Governor's island. Nat. L. Hazen, a young Cincinnat-ian, Cincinnat-ian, was found dead in bed yesterday morning with a bullet hole in his head. Indiana w 11 have two congressmen-at congressmen-at large under the new congressional apportionment bill. It was hot in central Illinois Monday and yesterday, thermometer 96 to 98 in the shade. Rain is needed, but crops are not suffering much. Two printers of the Council Bluffs Times office, named Austin and Bell, got quarreling on Monday. Bell shot Austin, it is believed latally. General B. F. Shaw, of Dixon, Ills., is an applicant for the secretaryship of Utah. Another man put in a claim an hour after Crowes death was announced. an-nounced. The senate judiciary committee will report in favor of Ackerman's confirmation. confir-mation. It is expected that the session of congress will have to be extended beyond be-yond tne loth of July, to get through the absolutely necessary business. Jerome Napolean Bonaparte was privately buried in Baltimore on Monday. Mon-day. Reverdy Johnson was among the pall-bearers. The governor of Massachusetts has vetoed the Hartford and Erie railroad aid bill. A tremendous hail-storm yesterday did great damage to fruit at Troy, Al ! bany and other places in New York state- The Chinese are returning to New York from Boston, because they can't get work. Disraeli replies sharply to the Blackwood Black-wood s Mapaz-ne critic, in the second edition of the same periodical There was a 825,000 fire in Northampton, North-ampton, N. II , yesterday, by the burning of Winston & Mitchell's tannery. tan-nery. Several large stocks were burned at Binghampton on Sunday ; loss heavy ; insurance $40,000. The franking bill abolishes the use of the frank from tbe 1st of next October, except that newspapers are to get their exchanges free and country newspapers will circulate freely in the county where published. The new English iron clad Inconstant Incon-stant is generally admitted to be a failure. |