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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The Pruiau war loan is a success. New 1 ork received 1,046 immigrants last week. The British Parliament will meet February nd. ' - ' ' French successes in the north are reported. Pennsylvinia is excited over new .ras welis in the vicinity of Erie. The Senate has laid over Schurz's amnesty resolution for further discussion. discus-sion. Havre has 35U cannon and a strong garrison, and if attacked wdl be stoutly defended. It is again reported that the Loire army is advancing on Paris, under four Generals. The Prussians occupied Yendotu on Friday, capturing six guns and one metrailleuse. Some minor engagements lately are reported to have resulted in favor of the Germans. . Commodore W. H. Gardner, U. S. Navy, died in Philadelphia on Monday, Mon-day, aged 70. ,. The Mayor of Wdreestor, Mass., wounded in the gas explosion on Friday Fri-day last, is dead. Covington, Ky., has had a monster demonstration of Catholics, to express sympathy with the Pope. " . The military commandaut of Tours has been removed for his precipitate evacuation of the place. The Prussians are said to be concentrating con-centrating at Yvelot, fifteen miles from liavre, to attack the latter place. The Fenian prisoners in England will be released on condition of remaining remain-ing five years out of the kingdom. Russia thiuks that Prussia has a right to annex Luxembourg, if the charges brought against it are proved. Stewart's resolution, asking information informa-tion about the protection of the overland over-land route was adopted by the Senate. Two men were suffocated in the burning of the centre market, Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania avenue, Washington, on Sunday. Sun-day. London journals say the triumph of the peace party in the cabinet has signed England's abdication as a great power. Thirty thousand dollars have been appropriated by Congress to collect the Apaches of New Mexico and Arizona on a reservation. A bill has passed Congress giving soldiers of the war of 1312 aud the Mexican war the same rights to homesteads home-steads as the soldiers of the late war. General Jordan is reported to have sailed from New York on Saturday night with a Cuban expedition of three hundred men. Jules Favre's secretary has escaped from Paris and is gone on a diplomatic mission to Vienna, St. Petersburg and London. A Protestant meeting will soon be held in London, to denounce Glad stone's recent declaration concerning the Pope. A railway collision near Bolton. England, on Sunday, caused the death of an engineer, and the severe injuring of a fireman and twelve passengers. Peter Richings, the veteran theatrical theatri-cal manager, and father of Caroline Richings. was thrown from his carriage car-riage on Monday and badly injured. Bismarck has ordered the arrest of ixo prominent members of the North German parliament, on a chaige of bicrh treason, for their anti-war acts. Jones, of Kentucky, in the House of Representatives, offered an amnesty resolution, with a preamble justifying secession, which was rejected by 142 toll. . Robert Tombs and Clinton Stephens have published a vindictive card to the people of Georgia, denouncing the election law, which is expected to make trouble. , , A French committee of inquiry is to investigate the surrender of Strasburg and Metz. to see if Uirieh and Iiazaine deserve dcth. . In Ullrich's case it is a mere matter of form. ' . An embankment on the Syracuse and Chenango Valley R. R., between Lebanon Hollow and Earlville, caved in on Monday morning, burying fifteen men. Of nine- taken out three wcr dead and two fatally injured.. A quarrel between two German generals gen-erals is now given a-t the reason why the bombardment of Paris has not yet commenced. One would not spare horses to drag the guns into position, and horses have had to be brought from Germany for the purpose. Where was the Commander-in-chief' A conference of Ambassadors of neutral neu-tral powers, held at Vienna, propose the following terms of peace: the annexation an-nexation of Luxembourg to Germany; King William to bo recognized us Km-peror; Km-peror; France to cede Alsace to Germany, Ger-many, raze the two principal frontier fortresses, and pay an indemnity of 1,200,000,000 francs. |