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Show Telegrams. LIGHTED FLASHES. The Sjianish Cortes, by a vote of lOo to is, has virtually defeated Mont-pensier's Mont-pensier's priispects for the throne In th" Fre;:ch leg:.-!a;ure on Saturday, Satur-day, iivk-r rcl'twe.l th- i iUts of the ''Left" die r'ht of ho! l:ng public meetings during the ekction for council coun-cil generals. He was sustained by a majority vo'e. The British Admiralty are about, to have three new ironclads built at Chatham, one to be called the h'nhiyh of olH'O tons and carrying a broadside of '11 guns. --mall light-draught steamers for coast and harbor service are also to be built. The new funding bill will prohibit banks selling gold or purchasing bonds. The clause requiring national banks to exchange their present bonds for the new four per cent, bonds is stricken out. The river Crows of Montana are suffering badly from small-pox- A Senate bill has been introduced authorizing the Pacific railroad to take up coal lands necessary to operate the road. A bill to encourage the construction of an international railroad in Texas has been presented in the Senate. It contains no land or money grant. The bill to reduce taxation takes effect ef-fect from December 31. ''Hamlet" is to be performed in New Y'ork this month for the benefit of the dramatic fund, with Booth and Fechter, both of Wallack's daughters, John Brougham, Jefferson, Shewed, Rarnev Williams, Miss Leclerq and Mrs. j. W. Wallack in the cast- The Cuban expedition from Nassau has landed suf.dy, and the Spanish are placed on the defensive. Yalurazeda lost 400 men in a recent engagement. The California School teacher party leached New York on Sunday. A bill to remove the disabilities of over 0.000 persons residents of eighteen states was introduced into the senate on Saturday. Wayne McVeigh is confirmed minister minis-ter to Turkey. There was a two hours' discussion without action, on Saturday, in the senate over removing Ashley and confirming con-firming B. F. Batts, of Ohio, governor of -Montana There are heavy fires in the Canada woods; should the drought continue much destruction is looked for. Buring a thunder storm in Chicago, on Saturday, three workmen on North Avenue were killed and lour shocked by lightning. Very little rain has fallen during the last sixty days in western Illinois. Cincinnati distillers are excited over seizures by collector Williams for alleged al-leged violation of the reveuue laws of LSr7-S. , , The Richmond, Ya., grand jury has indicted ex'mayor Cahooil for forgery. He is under forty thousand dollars bail. A coffin factory was burned at Patterson, Pat-terson, New Jersey, on Friday night; loss twenty-five thousand dollars. The French troops have been defeated de-feated by the tribes in Morocco, and a rising in Alger. a is feared. Reinforcements Reinforce-ments are being sent from Toulon. The prince imperial of France is reported re-ported engaged to a daughter of Isabella ex-queen of Spain. The belief is that congress will not act this session on the reconstruction question. It is proposed to construct five new steamers tor the revenue service, and to have twenty steamers and th ee sailing vessels for the Atlantic and Gulf, three steamers and two schooners for the Pacific and four steamers tor the lakes, with 18-f officers and STS crews, at an annual expenditure of $74!,G2'J. Large quantities of arms are reported report-ed sent to Cuba. Kx-United fetates Marshal Jonah died at Hoover ou Sunday. An Austrian decree announces that a universal exhibition will be held iu Vienna in IS 73. A violent scene occurred in the Ecu meifcal Council last week while di.-J cussing infallibility. Bishop Maret, a Gallican prelate, and Cardinal Belio had a hot passage at arms. Bancroft, minister to Prussia awaits instructions from Washington beloie proceeding with the naturalization negotiations. ne-gotiations. Before the French high court of justice, jus-tice, 47 persons have been indicted for conspiracy atainst the life of the emperor; em-peror; '21 for conspiracy against the state; three for pillage; one for attempted at-tempted murder; one for assassination; two for inciting an attempt again-tthe emperor's life, and one for complicity in the same. The report of the House foreign a(T irs committee on Cuban m tters is 1-Dgthy, strongly favors the Cu au c inse, an l recommeiids that the revolution rev-olution be treated as a civil wur in accord mce wit'i the laws of nations, and tae belligerency of the Cubans recognized. |