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Show Telegrams. LIGHTNING FLASHES. President Hrant sees nothing in the condition of the Cuban struggle to jus tif'y the recognition of belligerent right-, and condemns the atiocious manner in which the war is conducted on both sides. He has sent Congress a special message on the subject. Red Cloud has had bis final interview inter-view with the secretary of the interior He declines the presents offered, and only wants horses to carry his party home from the railroad. A senate bill is introduced to regulate regu-late the manufacture of brandy from grapes, apples, peaches and other fruits. Bills granting lands for the construction construc-tion of a railroad from Brownsville, Nebraska, to Denver, and for a railroad rail-road through Daeotah, have passed the senate. A majority of the senate committee on the Paeilie railroad report the Memphis Mem-phis and LI t'aso Pacific railroad entitled en-titled to sixteen sections of land to the mile. An amendment, increasing the number num-ber of representatives from 275 to 300, has passed the senate. Cholera is abating in Bombay. The infallibility discussion still continues con-tinues at Rome. Seventy-two fathers have signified their intention to speak against it, fifteen of whom are French. Gen. Robert Anderson is sick at Tours, and will go to the Pyrenees. The members of the French international inter-national society of working men, charged with complicity in the late plot, will be heard on Saturday and released on giving bail. The Irish national journals say the government ueed not exult over O'Neil's defeat, and that the lesson he learned will ensure victory next time. What fools ! The Havana police have arrested a number of foreign residents for a meeting at the masonic lodge three months ago. A Cuban rebel fort has been captured cap-tured on the Maximora river; fifteen rebels killed. A Spanish gunboat is said to have captured important correspondence addressed ad-dressed to Cepedes- Daniel Murphy, accused by the burglar bur-glar Lemerne of aidiDg in robbing a a safe in 'G6, publishes a card denying it. One Williams shot one Wooden and crushed in the skull of a man named Mason, on Sunday last, in Kansas city. The latter died, the former is in a critical state. At the same place on the same afternoon, after-noon, Jim Hall stabbed Timothy Ilar-len. Ilar-len. This is the eighth stubbing affray Hail has figured in. St. Louis dates say that on Sunday nieht George 0. Campbell, from Knox-villc Knox-villc or Dalton, Iowa, was murdered by some unknown party, his body placed on the railroad track and run over by a train. A terrible tornado of wind, rain and hail passed over a large portion of Mississippi on Friday last, and repeated repeat-ed itself the following day, utterly destroying des-troying the corn and cotton in its track, and leaving a scene tf desolation. desola-tion. Major Woodruff, editor of the Little Rock, Ark., Gazette, is committed five days for contempt of court, for refusing to retract or apologize for an editorial in regard to the White county circuit court, Charles Dickens is buried in Westminster West-minster Abbey. The British gunboat Sfacey was lost in the Chinese waters, and her commander and forty-three men were drowned. One of the English captives in the hands of the Spanish brigands has been rescued anl three of the brigands have been killed. Montpensier is going to Seville and not to England. The minority opposing infallibility in the Ecumenical council, will retire if it is successful. Senators Anthony, of Rhode Island, and Cragin, of New Hampshire, are re-elected. The Senate committee on commerce will report a bill to subsidize a line of steamers between San Francisco and Ausnalia, witn svjoo juO per annum. The Senate reconstruction committee has struck fioui the Geoigia bill the proviso "'that nothing herein contained shall be construed to forbid the election elec-tion of members of the legislature next fall." The Georgia bill has a provision for the organization and arming of the militia. mi-litia. A bill is proposed to relieve coal from all taxes, internal and external. Senator Cole asks congress to take ! some action to prevent the importa-' importa-' tiou of Chinese females of immoral character; and fir an appropriation to improve Wilminutuu harbor, Southern South-ern Cahfornei. The senate has adopted a resolution re-iuestinsr re-iuestinsr the President to tran-mit to it all information in the possession of L'-ivernnient. showing if during the , Cuban hostilities anv American citizen i has been executed without proper trial, any American vessel seized on the high seas, or the property of any American confiscated or embargoed, with full particulars in each case; and to state what steps, if any, have been taken in reference thereto. A reduction of !?4.'.t5 is made on each through ticket for all points west of Chicago except Sacramento and San Francisco. The freight' to the Pacific coast, from the east, is reduced ten per cent. The Massachusetts legislature has passed the law excluding the sale of wines and allowing that of ale and lager. The secretary of the treasury estimates esti-mates the decrease of revenue by the house tariff bill at twenty-five millions, and the internal revenue portion of the bill at nearly fifty-two m llions. The commissioner of internal revenue reve-nue is preparing new regulations rela tive to distillation from fruits. The amount of tax will be reduced. The body of Charles Dickens was taken by train on Monday from Gods-hill Gods-hill to Charing Cross, London, and thence escorted to Westminster Abbey, where it was laid in the "Poet's corner, cor-ner, " between Macauleyand Cumberland. Cumber-land. The funeral was unostentatious. Thousands crowded the abbey during the day. His coffin bore the inscription: inscrip-tion: ''Charles Dickens; born February Febru-ary 7th. 1812; died June 9th, 1870." Red Cloud was in New York on Monday night. Negroes voted in Philadelphia on Monday, for the first time since 1837, when they were disfranchised by an amendment to the state constitution. A west side citizen of Chicago shot and killed a burglar on Teusday morning. morn-ing. The scaffold of a new building in St. Louis fell on Tuesday, killing one man and terribly crushing another. Soon after the fly wheel of a flour mill flew in pieces, killing one man and nearly demolishing the milt. It is believed the bill providing for the transportation of imported goods from the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, in bond, to interior cities will be passed as an amendment to the tariff or tax bill. A bill was introduced into the House . on Tuesday granting certain public lands in Utah and California in aid of the construction of canals and irrigating irriga-ting ditches. The New York Schutzen corps held a graud festival on Tuesday and yesterday. yester-day. The Beethoven festival opened in New York with a chorus of 2,500 voices, an orchestra of 600 instruments instru-ments and Parepa Rosa. The Rink, which holds over 20,000 persons, was filled to overflowing. .Parepa sang "The Star Spangled Banner" with a chorus of 300 voices. Massachusetts is to have a separate prison for female convicts. 'Ihe Indiana republicans have nominated nomi-nated M.F.Down, of Lawrence co.. for congress. The democrats will renominate re-nominate Voorhees. The south branch K. P. railroad is completed 184 miles south from Junction Junc-tion city, Kansas, extending about half a mile into the Cherokee nation. |