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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. F'aidherbe is receiving reinforcements reinforce-ments daily, and is advancing. The Senate on Monday dUcusscd the amnesty question at some length. In the election contest in Congress, from the sixth district of North Carolina, Caro-lina, Shoeber, tho sitting member, retained re-tained his scat. A white man named Fletcher, married mar-ried to a squaw, was killed by Indians of the Crow Creek agency, Dakota, last Monday, in a family quarrel. The trial of Dr. Linahan, for the Methodist book frauds, ban excited a great deal of interest generally, ba-ides that confined to the Methodist society. Senator Edmunds, from the committee commit-tee on pensionhas reported favorably to the U. S. Senate a bill to increase the pensions of disabled soldiers, the widows and orphans of deceased soldiers, sol-diers, and the orphans of sailors. |