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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Richard Adams Locke, the litera-teur, litera-teur, is dead. The District of Columbia is likely to become a Territory. Congress is working away vigorously at the appropriation bills. Tho Tennessee is pnpposed to have been seen on the 2nd off the cast end of Hayti. Favrc will return to Paris with representatives rep-resentatives of the Assembly to negotiate nego-tiate peace. The surrendered Cuban insurgents report that Ccpedes is making efforts to leave the Island. The Germans will reckon the contributions con-tributions collected by them in Franc-, except penalties, in the war indemnity. There was a very excited debate in Congress over the army appropriation bill, on Friday, and the bill finally went over without action. A Berlin imperial decree suspends the proclaimed stale of sicgo during election movements, that they may be free and unfettered. An opinion has been freely expressed in the English Houso of Commons, that England's position with regard to France wai one of selfish isolation. The utterances of President Grant and other prominent U. S. olTiciuls, concerning Canada, have been severely criticized in the Dominion parliament. .J. E. liluck, of Wyoming, has been confirmed surveyor general of Montana, Mon-tana, nnd (Jul. ly Sl.'ickpolo, prismas-ter prismas-ter of Moor Jjodgn, in tho suine Territory. Terri-tory. Ono of the I'rcni-h deputies snirl in the A ifoinbly: "To gel, hen- I have been obliged to pirns thnmi'li several lines of armed men. I nlmll, (hero-dim, (hero-dim, in future come aimed myself " |