OCR Text |
Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Reported epeciaUy for tb Salt Lais IUrua by Western Union Telcrapb. Cholera is increasing in Cuba. The Seine is patrolled by gunboats. The Prussians have occupied Colin Col-in 'ir. Liege is active manufacturing arms for Russia. The Republic has been proclaimed iu Strasburg. "Death or victory'' is now the cry of the Parisians. Civita Yecehia is occupied by the Italian troops. The telegraph cable is laid between Cuba and Jamaica. The people of Paris demand the expulsion ex-pulsion of the Jesuits. There are now six millions of pounds of gunpowder in Paris. Distress and sloom have led to outbreaks out-breaks iu East Prussia. The Badens and Bavarians are preparing pre-paring to cross the Rhine. It is said Thiers has received further instruction to treat for peace. The Porte has withdrawn his objection objec-tion to the Khedive's last loan. Eugenie and the Prince Imperial have left Hastings for Torquay. A batteiy of mitrailleurs is placed on the Arch of Triumph, Paris. An alliance between Russia and Austria Aus-tria is said to be consummated. The English parliament, it is reported, report-ed, will be convened next month. New York proposes great honors to the remains of Admiral Farragut. The formal opening of the Reichs-rath Reichs-rath at Yienna took place yesterday. More French steamers have passed eastward through the English Channel. General Cluseret advises the French to decline mediation and fight it out. Gen. Ripley of the Confederate service, ser-vice, and two artillery officers of the U. S. army during the late war, have commands under Trochu. The advance guard of the Prussians before Parts ou Thursday numbered 45,000. A fight is reported on Thursday four miles from Fontainbleau, between Prussian cavalry and French sharpshooters. sharp-shooters. The cavalry were repulsed. The English and French fleets in China waters are to co-operate in avenging the late massacres. The Indu-trial Exposition at Cincinnati Cincin-nati will be inaugurated next Wednesday. Wednes-day. G. F. Finklen is renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the second district, Missouri. Stven thousand dollar' worth of tickets to hear Christine Nilsscn were sold in New York on Thursday. Metz was bombarded 'all Wednesday night. A demand fur surrender was decisively refused. It is said Garibaldi will assume command com-mand of an Italian legion at Lyons to fight the Germans. Thiers is said to have delivered to the Due d' Aumale an important letter from Trochu. The British government is said to have suspended all contracts for building build-ing turret ships. The Yienna Prctrt says the Empress Em-press (Eugenie escaped from Paris through the exertions of Prince Mct-ternich. Mct-ternich. The Spani.-h government is making great preparations to check the designs of the Republicans. Yesterday Paris expected to be completely com-pletely i.-olated from all parts and surrounded sur-rounded by the Prussians. The gates of Paris are clo--d. Seventeen Seven-teen bridges over the Seine are destroyed. de-stroyed. Half a million men are said to be under arms in Paris. Cluseret, Flour-ens Flour-ens and Ahnillier form the central committee of war. The members of the St. Louis bar have adopted resolutions relative to the death of Miss Anna I'arkalow, the young lady attorney of that city. Fight millions of acres of the best land in Kan-as arc opened tip to settlers set-tlers by the late O-aire treaty. Samuel Dickey and Georre Fleming shot each other dead with shol-euns at Shelby station, Tennessee, on Wednesday Wednes-day evening. The third annual fair of the Kansas Agricultural and Mechanical Association Associa-tion is in progress at Learenworth, and is largely attended. W. P. Ly in, of Pa-inc, Wis., it the Republican nominee for Congre.sH I'rom Milwaukee. Diplomatic circles in London believe the Oilcans family will be restored to the French throne. C'nmpte dc En, general-in-chief of the Bni.illian armies, is in Europe. Shops arc closed in Paris, masters and workmen alike drilling fir the le-I'cti-e. The national guards of Paris hnvo made another demon dralio. i in honor of Minister Wnsil,nrne. Lord Lyons has warned the Knyli.sli rc-ideiils of Paris to leave while tin y 'nil. A Pi'll-'ian w.is ilin.'oveied iu a sc-eli'ded sc-eli'ded place in I'.ui-, on Thursday, firintr at on ol' lie1 nl. ci vution l.ii loon l I e was iirre led. The f rt at Lyoni are completed, t !e: fins mounted and tumps lire arri t, mi' daily. A -p l.il li -patch to London I'roin Si , I i.-iim el,,.,, hi Pin in, on Wc'lncs-(Jay, Wc'lncs-(Jay, - lid I lie 'i u hi wen: crowding 'III I lie c.ll'il d 1 ' I' ,1). HI I pill '. I I'iL , i I . line, i ,,, , IV'.i which ftro said to dwarf Niagara. One is 770 feet deep, the other 50 feet ; and the fall of water is 78 feet thick and a hundred hun-dred yards broad. An address to the Emperor of Austria Aus-tria has been carried in the Chambers at Prague by a largo majority. Those who voted for the Germans left the hall before the voting was finished. The French forces which recently erossed the Rhine into Baden will remain re-main and operate there. Reinforcements Reinforce-ments have gone to them. A tremendous cannonading all along the ramparts woke the Parisians on Wednesday night, who thought the attack had commenced. It was the gunners practicing. At a democratic meeting to be held in London, on Monday, Gladstone will he called upon to recognize the French Republic. A Prussian authority says the national na-tional defense government in Paris, though existing in fact, is of no validity de guerre, and Prussia cannot treat with it. After peace is concluded, the Prussians Prus-sians say, Eugenie can return to Paris and Napoleon will be released, when the French may chooso their own form of government. All the English and Germans in Lyons are ordered to ieave, the Red Republicans are in the ascendant, and a terrible spirit is said to be growing among the people. The third parallel around Strasburg was completed on Tuesday, and a breaching battery maintained a terrible tire for forty-eight hours against the walls. Sedan has been placed in a state of siege, the mayor imprisoned and the peopel expelled. The Prussians dread Bazaine's approach, his escape from Mctz being again reported. A dispatch from Bouillons, dated 10.50, a.m , Thursday morning, says part of Bazaine's army has cut its way through the Prussians at Metz, and is now marching ou Paris. Trochu, in complimenting the national nation-al guards on their appearance in the late review, says Paris is ready to s ic-ritice ic-ritice all in order to five time for France 1 1 organize ior an irresistible defense. The Osage Indians have agreed to the sale of their lands and the transfer of the Ind an territory. The chiefs were eloquent in their demands that the present treaty should not be broken bro-ken like previous ones. An extreme ritualistic Epi-copal church has been opened in 12s. Broadway, Broad-way, New York, by Rev. Jo.-hua Bad-ley, Bad-ley, one of the leading ri'uali-ts ot England. Eng-land. The difference from the Roman Catholic service is scarcely )erceptible. Many German siege guns are said to be imbedded in the mud of the Canal de Lalatcrne au Rhine, by which they were being transported, the French having suddenly let the water out of the canal. This has delayed the sit ge of Paris. The PemociHtic State Convention tf Illinois has made the following nominations nomi-nations : For Con.-re-s, W. 15. Andersen, An-dersen, of JctTer-ou ; for Stale treasurer, treas-urer, Charles liidgiey, of Sangamon ; for superintendent of instruction, Chas. FcniZ'-c, of Peoria; for penitentiary coniini sinners, Thomas Redmond, of Adams, and P. Sherman, of Cook. |