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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Sume disturbances at Bordeaux have been repressed. The Tennessee has been formally put out of commission. The English census shows a large increase in the cities. The British House of Commons reassembled re-assembled on Tuesday. It is said Anna Dickenson is to be married to W. B. Allison, of Iowa. The negotiations for the settlement of the French frontier, progress slowly at Brussels. The Oo'inici and City of Paris steamers are having an ocean race across the Atlantic. It is a common practice in Brighton, Mass., to dress and send to market the carcases of cattle that die in the cars. Sumner had a speech ready on his relations with Fish and the State department, de-partment, but he has been persuaded not to deliver it. Governor Hoffman has signed the Xew York bills amending the new charter and allowing supervisors to fix the salaries of judicial officers. The steamer Virginia has brought from Liverpool to Xew York 113 soldiers who fought in the Franco-Prussian Franco-Prussian war; the majority of them being be-ing iVmericans. A thief who stole $35,000 in government govern-ment bonds from W. L. Whittmore, banker, of 55 Pine St., IN'ew Y'ork, has returned them through tho post-office, as they were not negotiable. A change in the treasury department at Washington is again on the tapis, but Morton, it is said, will not be the man to take Boutwell's place. It is expected Boutwell will be appointed minister to Austria. The Union Hotel, a large new hotel, of Galesburg, Ills., was burned on Tuesday Tues-day afternoon, loss $$5,000, insured for $05,000; and the stock of a hardware store adjacent was destroyed, loss $12,-000, $12,-000, no insurance. Gladstone is opposed to discontinuing discontinu-ing the telegraph and postal service in England on Sundays, because it would deprive many of employment; and he succeeded, in the Commons, in defeating defeat-ing a vote of sensure on the administration adminis-tration for the loss of the iron-clad Captain. |