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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Chief Justice Chase is recovering. An amnesty has been decreed in Mexico. Cambriel has :JG,0UI) French troops at Besancon. New Orleans had a -oO.OOii burglary on Sunday night. An attempted revolution in Costa Rica has been crushed. ! The Polish Jews openly manifest strong sympathy for France. Small-pox is raging at Amiens, taken there by fugitives from Paris. The jealousy of the French general it said to cripple Garibaldi's efforts. The Cuban insurgents have suffered another defeat, with nineteen killed. . The Prussian government will not grant an armistice except for an election. elec-tion. A new cabinet has been formed for Portugal under the presidency of Avila. Snow fell in various parts of New Hampshire and Maine on Sunday night. Tho siege of Pfalsburg continues, the Prussians expecting to starve out the garrison. Prussia has promised Denmark to fulfil the stipulations of the treaty of Prague, relative to North Schleswig. Tho persecutions of Christians have been revived in Damascus, and a general gene-ral massacre is feared. Jacob Hill, hotel proprietor of Camden, Cam-den, N. J., is under arrest, charged with the murder of his wife. Heavy Prussian reinforcements reached the besieging forces at Paris on Monday. A quarter of the entire crop of sugar cane and half of the fruit crop in Cuba were destroyed by the late hurricanes. An attempt was made at Versailles on Sunday to kill King William. He was not injured, but a general standing near him was wounded. Garibaldi has summarily expelled the Jesuits from Dijon, and the Alsace "free companions" are so indignant that they refuse to serve under him and threaten to shoot him. Many shipping disasters have occurred occur-red on the eastern lakes during the late severe storms. Political matters arc growing warm in Chicago. Jerome Wentworlh will be candidate against C. B. Farwcll, on the regular Republican tickel. The registration iu New .York on Monday was I'.ljiji, making a total up till then ofl 18, Con. The' total for the lirst three davi last year Was I u.-:!17. u.-:!17. Tho ( . I'. It. I!. Co. is milking arrangements ar-rangements for i In; irrigation of its lands aloiv; the J 'latin, Lodge I'ulo, Crow Creek nnd l.aroinio rivers. The Sinuv. nnd Clicy.'nncs havo :i large war party out against Washa-kee's Washa-kee's Snakes, in Wind River va'ley. The Snakes are to be put under the protection of troops. Garibaldi is said to be bent with rheumatism. His force consists of 5,000 men, Spanish, Italians and French; and he has command of the ( department of Jura. Bourbaki, in view of the surrender of Metz, has issued a proclamation urging increased energy and patriotism. patriot-ism. If the Prussians succeed in cutting railroad communication with the north, French war vessels will carry the mails between France and England. : The opposition party in the Spanish : Cortes is to present a proposition of; censure against the government, in the matter of the Aosta candidature. ' The Supreme Court met at JWasli- : ington on Monday, ail the J udges being j present except Chase and Nelson. j Several lives were lost in New York j bay on Sunday, by the swamping of! some boats in a severe gale. j The suit of the Erie R. K.' (.'o..toj recover iO.OuO.OOO from Vandcrbilt, has gone over until December. I Tho colored, cadet Smith has beou honorably aeqaUtcd by the court martial mar-tial held at West Point. John G. AVhitticr is nominated for congress by the liquor prohibitionists of the ith Massachusetts district. The Southern transcontinental railroad rail-road company is organized, with Marshal Mar-shal C. Roberts President, Fremont having declined the nomination which was unanimously tendered him. The Germans around Paris held solemn religious services on Monday j the bombardment was to commence yesterday. The following numbers drew figures in the San Francisco Library Gift Concert: Con-cert: 154,077 the 100,000; 110.150 the 50,000 ; 7.0SS the $25,000 ; 10,-511 10,-511 the $19,000; 16.2S4 the $1S,000; and 120,021 the $17,000. |