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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. General Baldrich has again assumed the Captain-Generalship of Porto Kico. Thiers' terms of peace are that Paris shall lay down its arms and the municipal muni-cipal franchise will be granted to the city. The credit asked of the German parliament par-liament is 120,01X1, UUO thalers. General Gen-eral llerwarth von Bittenfield has been made a Field Marshal of Germany. Ger-many. It is said France will restore to their owners all German ships captured by French cruizers and not condemned as prizes. President Grant has nominated Fred. Douglas one of the members of the Territorial Legislature for ihe district dis-trict of Columbia. The war department, at AVashiug-tou, AVashiug-tou, is slill without advices of the reported re-ported trouble in Texas between Mexican Mex-ican and United States soldiers. An extension of time is asked to show cause why Campbell, of the 3rd Ohio district, elected in place of Schenck, should not have the seat iu Congress. The sheriff of Rochester, 1S Y., received re-ceived on Thursday fifty executions against the Xew York Central K. lh, reaching an aggregate of $90,000, and levied at once upon the locomotives. The National Photographic Association Associa-tion will hold its annual meeting and exhibition in Philadelphia, commencing June Oth. A hundred and fifty thousand thous-and photographs are expected to be put on exhibition. Edwin Booth has been served with a writ of mandamus, to show cause why admission to his theatre is refused to the editor and proprietor of a theatrical the-atrical paper in JS'ew York, who lately published a severe criticism on Booth's theatre. The LTouse of Representatives has adopted the following Senate amendments amend-ments to the deficiency appropriation bill : $30,000 for expenses of the .Southern investigation committee; $30,000 for the branch mint at Carson, Nevada; $200,000 for the subsistence of the Arapahoe and other Indians; $200,000 for more effectuully preserving preserv-ing life and property on the coast of New Jersey, amending it to include Long Island; and $6,i56 for completing , the court house and post office at Des Moines, Iowa. |