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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Morrill is re-elected to the U. S. Senate from Maine. Several prominent Cuban in.-uigenu have voluntarily surrendered. Nye will address the Senate on Friday Fri-day on the Sutro tunnel project. The House of lleprescntatives has passed the Military Academy bill. Fifty thousand French troops have left Cherbourg to re-iuforco Chau-zcy. Chau-zcy. Some new French batteries have been unmaske'l on the south side of Paris. ., The Connecticut Democrats have nominated for re-election the present state officers. No trains arrived at Chicago from Omaha from Saturday night unfil Mon' day, owing to the storm. The friends of F'ilkins, accused of ihc Albany express robbery, publish seven affidavits proving an alibi. A Massachusetts' schooner has been seized in British waters, for using a Uritish flag and register to evade the law. The Dominican coin mission will proceed pro-ceed direct to the capital of San Do mingo, outof respect to the Dominican authorities. The Senate has concurred in tho amendments to tho House bill authorizing author-izing the-i-suing of t'JOO.OOUJO'J fivo per cent, bonds. Chauzey attributes th0 loss of Mans to an inexplicable panic. He considers a supremo effort necessary to save tho country. Wcrdonwas attacked near Belfort by four French corps. Gorman reports re-ports Bay tlmy wero repulsed after a nine hours' liht. A permanent railroad bridgo is to bo built across tlio Mississippi river at Winona, at a cost nf tl3(l,(Xi, to bo completed early in May. Pinion, tho self-acouucd murderer of Mr. Powers, now confesses ho told a he. lie wuH prisoner in the Tombs at the time of the murder. Twenty thousand prisoners, four locomotives lo-comotives ami four hundred wagons wero raptured by thu Germans as a ro-sult ro-sult nf !.h(i battle nf I,n M,,n Tho ways and means committee of the House of Representatives favor a uniform tax of two dollars a gallon on imported whisky, brandy, gin and rum. Ben Butler has introduced a resolution resolu-tion into tho House, authoriziug a commission to inquire what aid has been extended by government" to the Pacific and other railroads, and who have been benefitted by it. Yates has introduced, into the Senate Sen-ate a ' joint resolution, proposing an amendment to the Constitution, making mak-ing elligible for the Presidency all persons per-sons who have reached thirty-five years of age and have resided fourteen years in the United States. |