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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. James M. Mason, ex-Confedcrate minister to England, is at the point of death. A'ictor 1'aee, thi French consul-general consul-general at New ork, denies the charges: made against him. An order has been granted requiring Jay liould to show cause why he does uot produce the Erie books. Five hundred claims, amounting to $.jtiii.uuu, have been hied with the Southern claims commission. The wife of Rev. Thomas Hill, of Snith lKidham, Ma-'s., drowned her self while temporarily insane. ' Dr. Seudder, of Sarj Francisco, has been installed pastor of the Brooklyn Central Congregational church. The English ministry have withdrawn with-drawn the import tax ou matches and the increase ot'duty ou legacies. , Rothschild's three-year-old filley, ; 'Tlauch," has won the thousand guiu-1 guiu-1 eas stake at Newmarket. Seven horses ' ran. Delegate Garfield, from 'Washington 'Washing-ton Territory, has been lecturing in ; Baltimore ou the climate and resources of the great north-west. A fight took place on Wednesday, in Robinson Co., North Carolina, between a sheritf s posse and a party of outlaw negroes. Tivo of the posse were killed i and one wounded. Several important cases argued be-1 be-1 fore the L. S. Supreme Court, including includ-ing the constitutionality of the civil 1 rights bill, will be held under advisement advise-ment untd October. The International Workingmen'ts Association has pledged its moral and material aid to the Pennsylvania coal miners ou strike; aud expresses sympathy sym-pathy with the Paris Commune. Governor English assumes that he is re-elected Governor of Connecticut, and will accept the usual honors next Wednesday, the 1st regt. Conn. N'a-tional N'a-tional Guards being ordered out that day for escort duty. Dr. Albion Cobb, principal of the Welton, Maine, Academy, aged fifty, eloped with one of his girl pupils, aged 1 eighteen, leaving a wife ani four chil- i dren, aud was caught on Thursday! morning by the Niagara frontier police' (;i route for Canada. Two colored graduates of the Howard j University, District of Columbia, have been refused permission to practise in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, until they pass an examination before a committee appointed by the Supreme Couit of the State. The decision ot the IT. S. Supreme Court, in the legal tender case, will , not Le given until the adjourned term which c mmenees October 3 6th. An elaborate opinion will be read on Monday, Mon-day, sustaining the validity of gold contracts made since the passage of! the legal tender act. j F. Smith, forooeriy chaplain of the; 104 Ji New York volunteers, charged1 with defrauding government by means j of cctitious bounty claims, has turned State's evidence, several others have 1 been arrested on his statement, and over a nihlion dollars in fraudulent claims have teen discovered. |
