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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES, i i Howeii's case will he called up next ' Tuesday. Cook's paper mill at Ballston has been burned. Win. J. Brook, of Washington, suicided sui-cided on Friday. j More trouble is growiug in tho Methodist Me-thodist Book concern. j The Senate on Friday evening was, scarcely able to preserve a quorum. Washburn telegraphed on Friday, " Americans and their property all safe." ;' The attendance at the great Metho- i dist camp meeting on lhursday was small. I Mayor Estis has tendered Jefferson : Davis tho hospitalities of the city of ; Augusta. j Fires are raging arouud Pembroke, j Chelsea, Buckingham and Gatinean ; l'oiut, Canada. i The country arouud Ottawa is; threatened with a repetition of the ter-; rible tires of last year. i Ben Sawyer, colored, convicted of . the murder of hL wife, was hanged at Lvansviiie, Iud., on Friday. i Surveys for the new Overland Hail-road Hail-road from Davisville, Cab, northwards, will be commenced immediately. . Greeley has announced that he will speak upon no other topic than farming farm-ing on his present visit to Texas. A number of tho board of Indian peace commissioners will be sent to feed the starving Apaches in Arizona. Jefl'ersou Davis arrived in Augusta, Ga., on Friday evening, and received a serenade at the Planter's House. The San Francisco county Republican Republi-can committee have adopted a resolution resolu-tion to hold old fashioned open primaries. pri-maries. The coal miners around Piitston have resolved to resume work on the same terms given by the Pennsylvania company com-pany to their men. A wealthy Englishman, brother 'of the American consul at Maracaibo, has been placed in irons, thrown into prisou, and, it is believed, will be shot. Mary Davis won the second, third and fourth heats in a trot at San Francisco Fran-cisco oa Thursday for sf 1,000; it being the lirst race she has won for twelve years. Gov. Scott, of S. C , tells the President Presi-dent that there is a gex.d-seated feeling among the better class of citizens, and there is no neccssity of martial law in that State. The United States Senate has rati-tied rati-tied an additional treaty between the United States and Great Britain, denning denn-ing mere clearly some provisions of the naturalization treaty. A convention of State Insurance otai-eers otai-eers is ia session at New York, with the object of sceuring the passage of laws that whi place insurance business on a ttrui and sure basis. The opposition journals of Halifax are urging the Canad.aa government to convene the legislature, in order that the Treaty of Washington, as b:ar;ng upon the fisheries, may be dis-c.tssect. dis-c.tssect. . |