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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The coal famine continues in New York. Chicago had a heavy snow storm on Sunday. The Queen of Spain is rapidly recovering. re-covering. Passenger trains are now running betweeu Dieppe and Paris. The colored conrention of Tennessee asks Congress for protection. The U. S. treasury will sell seven millions of gold during March. Attempts are being made to end the Pennsylvania coal miners' strike. England demands a fresh investiga tion by Greece into the Marathon massacre. mas-sacre. The steamer Worcester has finished loading at Boston, with supplies for France. Bismarck is said to have been pitiless piti-less towards Fiance in the peace negotiations. Railroad service from Havre and Dieppe to Paris was to recommence on Sunday last. .-The U. S. government will purchase two millions of bonds each Wednesday during March. The meeting of the German parliament parlia-ment is postponed, by imperial decree, until March 10th. II. F. Rice has been nominated superintended su-perintended of the branch mint at Carson, Xevada. An important democratic coneress-ionl coneress-ionl caucus was to be held in Washington Wash-ington last night. There is said to be difficulty in negotiating nego-tiating the commercial treaty between France and Germany. There is trouble in Albany to secure a jury on the case of Filkins, charged with express robeery. A fire at Great Falls, N. II., on Friday destroyed a block of buildings with a loss of $25,000. Five members of theWooster, Ohio, "rrlief fire committee'1 have been arrested ar-rested lor incendiarism. Two vessels, carrying 14.07G barrels of flour dmiated by A.T. Stewart, have left .New l'ork for Havre. More British ships have been seized by the U. S. reveuue cuiter Vigilant, for a breach of the revenue laws. The U. S. paid $165,000 last year for freight sent to the Pacific coast other than by the Pacific railroad. - Spain and Egypt are snarling at each o'.her, and ta.k of war, because a clerk of the Spanish consulate at Cairo was insulted. A boder exploded at an oil well, near Barker's Lauding. Pennsylvania, on Sunday evening, killing two meu and badly scalding one. Ihe striking coal miners of 1 ennsyl-vnnia ennsyl-vnnia hav-j thrown several coal train? from he track, and have thus done considerable damage. The Senate has n fused, by a vote of twenty-seven to twenty-four, to print the Au-trilian stea'ii-h'p line a -n'osidy of $JtX,UUl per annum. Tl e sympathetic words in President Grant's late me-.-age, towards the Gir-man Gir-man empire, is said to be painful to the French democracy. Amiens, France, is excited over a report tiiat Eng'aud has interfered with regard to Metz, saying it lnuit not be ceded to Germany. Seventeen "hundred agene'es have been tendered for the U. S. government govern-ment loan. Nine hundred have accepted ac-cepted and fifty hjve declined. The Geiman Monitenr, publ shed at Ver-ailies, denounces the arro.'ance of the French, and their charges air.iinst German officers of pillage and robbery. Telegraphic messages for Frunce will be accepted over the French hne, Lu. the government will not be responsible for tneir delivery in the invaded provinces. prov-inces. The House of Representatives had a long a.'d warm debate on the omnibu-appropriation omnibu-appropriation bill on Saturday night. tud adjourned without reaching a decision. de-cision. Six hundred and two field pieces be longing to the army of Paris have been delivered to the Germans; and Li."i7 cannon in good condition were found in the forts. The Federal Sena'e has agreed to prohibit any engraving, lithographing or other printing on .-tamped envel opes, except the request to return it to the writer if not called for. A suit between the American and Overman mining companies, mvelrin title to four hundred feet of the best ground cl-iinied by the iat.er. has been decided in lavor of the American. Spontaneous cornbustien among oiled rag-,u cd for Cleaning scwng machines, caused a destructive fire in tne work .-hups connected with the Suffolk Co., .Mas.s., bouse of correction on Saturday. The naval paymaster at San Francisco Fran-cisco calls for aid for the lamilies oi the meu woo pen.-hed in the gig ol the U. S. steamer Saginaw, whiic fiui;ig iioiu Uceau J-.land to llorioiuiu to secure assistance for the wreck. There wrm strong debute in the Canadian Parliament, on Saturday, ovci the fishery que -tion, mid considerable consider-able dread was lnanilested let ( annda slmmd bo abs'rbed by too Limed Slates as u icsiilt of the joint high commission's deliberation!!. |