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Show TELEGRAMS. Reported specially for tlie Salt Lake IIerald by Western Uuion Telegraph. LIGHTNING FLASHES. New York had eleven sunstrokes on Tuesday. Nine hundred French surgical students stu-dents have gone to the front Napoleon keeps a telegraph wire occupied oc-cupied talking to the Empress. Foreign correspondents are rigidly excluded from the Prussian lines. The citizens of Woodruff county, Arkansas, shot two horse thieves the other day. Nine Protestant and three Israeli-tish Israeli-tish clergymen are among the French chaplains. The Republicans of the 7th district, Ills., have nominated J. II. Moore for re-election. The textile fabric exposition opened at Indianapolis on Tuesday. The display dis-play is very fine. Ed. Hoag has been arrested at Detroit De-troit for the murder of Mrs. Phillips and her daughter. The English cabinet agreed on a supplementary appropriation bill after a warm discussion. The Choctaw Indians have voted, by a large majority, against the allotment allot-ment of their lands. Gladstone is determined not to yield to the growing feeling of the people against the ministry. The central bank of Brooklyn has suspended payment- The failure is considered a bad one. The women of France are sending an immense quantity of bedding and hospital hos-pital furniture to the army. Two hundred Germans have left New York this week for fatherland, to serve in the Prussian army. News from Berlin till-noon of Tuesday- reported frequent skirmishes but no engagement of importance. The Pall Mall Gazette estimates that the Prussian army on the frontier numbers half a million of men. The Cincinnati "Red Stockings" made $7,000 by their last eastern tour. They now have $4,000 in the treasury. The Oriental powder mills, No. 3, at Portland, Me., exploded on Tuesday Tues-day morning. Two men were badly burned. Granville favors telling France and Prussia plainly that the independence of Belgium and Luxembourg must be maintained. A mass meeting of St. Louis Irishmen Irish-men to-night will consider the propriety pro-priety of petitioning President Graht to pardon the Fenians now in prison. London intelligence eays the evidence hourly accumulates of the superiority of the needle gun over the chasscpot, which is causing deep concern in France. The New Lowell flouring mill at Jeffersonville, Indiana, was burned on Tuesday, with 15,000 bushels of wheat and 300 barrels of flour. Jxiss $S5,000. Extreme activity is noticed in the English ports and dockyards; and extensive ex-tensive preparations are being made to put the coast defenses in a condition to resist attack. King William's departure for the army was a scene of intense excitement at Berlin. The people were enthusiastic; enthusi-astic; and the King and Queen embraced em-braced repeatedly, she weeping as they parted. The Republican convention of Cul-lom's Cul-lom's district, Ills , bad another meeting meet-ing on Tuesday, and balloted all day without any change. L. G. Minier (?) is the prohibition nominee for Congress for that district. The principal newspapers of the Pacilic coast, except the S. F. HvUrtin and (Jail, with the book and job offices, have yielded to a striko of the printers and advanced composition from sixty to seventy-five cents a thousand. The (Jail and Jitdldin have telegraphed east for printers. LAST NIGHT'S FLASHES. The New York World says Secretary Fish will soon resign. The brokers of Frankfort-on-thc-Rhine now deal exclusively for money. It is reported that the Catholics of the neutral countries strongly favor France. Some fervid Catholics view the French advance as a crusade ugainst Protestantism. The fund of the Lord Mayor of London, Lon-don, for the Canadian volunteers, has reached .'1,000, A discussion in the House of Com liioii.-. on Tuesday night revealed a i-lroiij: war spirit. There was a canard circulated in I 'aris on Tuesday of a serious breach in the Prussian cabinet. The King of Prussia arrived lit. May-f-nce on Tuesday morning and was enthusiastically en-thusiastically received. At the Brighton, England, races, on Tuesday, the Brighton stakes were won by "Border Knight" The United States demands from Spain indemnity for American citizens illegally expelled from Cuba. There was a hard wrangle on Tuesday in the English House of Lords, between be-tween Granville and Russell on the war question. All the British regiments, except one in India, are armed with the Snyder rifle. Some of the militia and volunteer volun-teer regiments have breech-loaders. There have been 200 applications received by the comptroller of the currency cur-rency for banks, principally from Illinois. Illi-nois. The Opinion, of Florence, says Italy declines to enter into an engagement with other powers for the preservation of neutrality. Russia indignantly repudiates the design de-sign with which she has been charged, of taking advantage of the war in Europe Eu-rope to invade the Danubian principalities. principal-ities. . . Five hundred Chinamen have been engaged to complete the Lewis tunnel, near White Sulphur Springs, Va., to the disgust and aversion of the niggers. The governor of Georgia iecom-mends iecom-mends the payment in gold, principal and interest, of the bonds issued before be-fore the war. . , . The meeting of the Spanish Cortes and the proclamation of an amnesty are postponed, the latter in consequence of the Carlist agitation. ; Five hundred more men have been engaged on the several navy yards, by order of Secretary Robeson. There is great activity in fitting up war vessels. ves-sels. . - . , Two Memphis lawyers named Freeman Free-man had an "onpleasantness" on Tuesday. Result: one Freeman shot in the arm and the othef Freeman cut with a bowie knife. Negotiations to keep open the ports of Hamburg and Bremen during the war are rumored. The new revolving cannon has been tried at Valence and is said to be a terribly destructive weapon at five thousand yards. Several houses in Versailles have been given up for the deposit of ammunition. ammu-nition. There was an explosion at a powder house in Versailles on Tuesday causing caus-ing a fire which threatened to burn the city. Boston news says a planing mill and block of frame buildings were burned at Ilvde Park, with a loss of $120,000. Twenty-two American yachts have entered for the Queen's cup. The Treasurer has sold a million of gold in New York. The liabilities of the Brooklyn Central bank are stated at from $SOO,(mhj to $1,000,000, against a capital of $200, 000. |