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Show LAST NIGHT'S FLASHES, The Italian elections favor tJie government. gov-ernment. Washington is brushing up for the meeting of Congress. Aosta's acceptance of the Spanish Crown reached Madrid last Thursday. Thurs-day. French products, fabrics and wines are selling at fabulously low prices in France. It is rumored iu Washington that Ben Butler is to be appointed Secretary Secre-tary of State. Newfoundlanders, residing in New York and Brooklyn, intend to agitate strongly for annexation. Cox handed the report of the interior in-terior department to President Grant before his retirement from office. By'the burning of the Star linseed-works, linseed-works, New Brunswick, on Sunday night, the loss was over $140,000. The Yacht Camhria has reached England after'licr racing in New York waters. She had a stormy passage. There are only two successful gold banks in operation in the United States, one in Boston and one in San Francisco. Lockwood, a defaulting paymaster, has been guilty of falsifying his -accounts in his own handwriting. His defalcations amounted to S30,OOO. The Postmaster General, in his report, re-port, will urge the adoption of a penny-postage penny-postage card similar to that in use in England, and will devote considerable space to the mail steamship question. |