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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. . Thiers has gone to Versailles. Trade in Paris is improving. Trochu is going to Bordeaux. Paris is shouting for a republic. It is feared Summer will not recover. Five hundred more Spanish soldiers have arrived in Cuba. Ic is said the armistice has been prolonged pro-longed until March 1st. The Washington typographical union has admitted a colored member. The Fenian exiles have gone to Washington to attend the carnival. The difficulty between Italy and Tunis Tu-nis prumises to be peacefully settled. "A Prussian corvette has captured two rich French prizes in the Pacific. The French 25th army corps is going go-ing from Dunkirk to Bordeaux by sea. The Japanese minister and suite left San FVaucisCo on Sunday for Washington. Washing-ton. The Washington government has been officially notified of Thiers' election. elec-tion. Small-pox is raging in the north of France, beiug especially violent at Lille. The Palais lloyal, Paris, is selected as the future residence of President Thiers. . The Paris police are searching for arms and grenades in the disturbed districts. There is an estrangement" between the leading Orleanists and Bourbons in France. Citizens of Alsace and LoTaine protest pro-test against annexation to Germany as an act of infamy. Paris is beginning to resume its former for-mer appearance, and in a few days gas will be again used. The Bordeaux assembly was tumultuous tumult-uous on Saturday, the opposing parties iusulting each other. Two hundred and fifty workmen were discharged from the Brooklyn navy yard an Saturday. Deputies at Birdeaux say they wish peace, but if the teruls are too exorbitant exorbi-tant they will do their duty. It is said a majority of tho French Assembly are in favor of peace on the best terms that can be got. The last bodies of the New Hamburg horror have been recovered by the diver from the bottom of the river. The total war cmtribution demanded of Paris by the G innans has been ad van :ed by the bank of France. Enertretic measures were adopted in Paris on Sunday, to prevent a collision collis-ion on the entry of the Germans. The exasperation is sa'd to be intense in-tense in some parts of Paris, against the Emperor William and Bismarck. The Chinese on the I,c:fic coast are having a huse time celebration the beginning of another thousand years. Germany refused to receive Earl Granville's last letter, ditcd Jantiin 20th, proposing intervention, for peace. James B.iyd. a Canadian sheriff, mad carri- r and reveuue odk'-T, is in prison fjr wholesale traffic in bogus money. A Swedish bark cleared from New York on Sa'unliiy, f.r II ivre. with 5 211 barrels of flour for the French sufferers. It is said the d:ffi?u'ties between Spain and the Uni'el States, arising out of the Cuban war, are satisfactorily arranged. Napoleon has received notification not to again overstep the privileges of a prisoner nor meddle with poiitics. He is closely watched. A fire in Bjffalo. N. Y., on Sunday morning, de-troyed a bl:k of bindings, bind-ings, including the Buffalo Courier office, with a lo-3 of 2iJ0,t)iW. W. B. Wiggins, ex-mayor of Wilmington, Wil-mington, Del., has been arrested by the freedmen's bureau, for alleged frauds in colored bounty claims. Generals Chanzy an 1 Bellicrt have testified before the Bordeaux assembly that, if nece-sary, France can successfully success-fully prosecute a defensive war. The display of the new German imperial im-perial flag in the city of Mexico, caused acolli-iou between the French and Germans, Ger-mans, in which many were wounded. Lord Lyons has notified the British government, that as '1 biers was chosen chief Executive of France almost un.in imou.-ly by the assembly, he has recognized recog-nized him'. The Prussians demand the faxes that have been paid in Sedan for the last quarter of 1870. The municipality, municipal-ity, under threats, contracted a loan to pay them. The examination of Captain Pea-body, Pea-body, of tlie ship Neptune, and his mates, in New York, has revealed the most revolting tortures practised on the crew. Nova Scotia views. with alarm the appointment of a joint high commission commis-sion to settle the fishery question ; and pro'ests against the fi-h-ries being tran.-ferred to the United States. Two hundred Prussians crossed tho Swiss frontier in pursuit of the French military cbct. The Swiss troops commanded com-manded them to lay down their arms. Fil'ty complied; the rest escaped. The French f'recs in the field now are: Wiih Chauzey, 12(1.000 well equipped and armed; with F.iidliorbc, l.'io.OOl); at Cherbour,', 70,OUi; and 10, at Havre in bad condition: The late anneal from ,Cw York, for aid to the suffering Fr"iich, h n been rejponded to already wiih. .'.r,000. Another appeal U the cle.riy and farmers farm-ers of the country will bo foun 1 elsewhere. else-where. Rev. Chas. E. Cheney, of Chicago, has been suspended from tho Episcopal Episco-pal church, f"r his tcachini'H on regeneration. re-generation. He pro'estH and appeals to the judgment of Protestant Christianity. Chris-tianity. lie Kay's statement to the New York Tribune, that the alleeed abandonment, aban-donment, of the Lower (,'al foinia (migration (mi-gration cehciiin was "a lie," 'H characterized charac-terized by a Sari Francisco dispatch im "another. " l'nding f'ntnilieH in I'nris propose to remove the pavement, of tho streets pav-, , vi:r by tiir; Germans, after their march tlirounb tlio city, lliiil, nothing may remain which wiih polluted by tho tread of the invaders. A terrific hurricane passed over a portion of Arkansas on Saturday, destroying des-troying the greater portion of Helena, blowing down and unroofing houses and churches, uprooting trees, and doing do-ing a vast amount of damage. Miles L. Hansen, a Chicago policeman, police-man, was shot dead on Saturday night, at the corner of Noble street and Chicago Chi-cago Avenue, while talking with another ano-ther policeman and a citizen. The whole affair is wrapped in mystery. The North German Gazette thinks the election of an Oi leanist (Thiers) to the chief power of France, implies a speedy renewal cf anarchy, and will prevent a reconciliation with Germany, of which the Orleanists are sworn enemies. |