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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Ex-Governor Silva and Arteza have left Havana for Spain. Dr. E. T. Fitch, a Yale College professor; pro-fessor; died on Wednesday. The Apaches are attacking reservations reserva-tions in Arizona hitherto considered safe. Joshua Hill, senator elect from Georgia, was admitted into the Senate yesterday. Alonzo Hill, for about forty years clergyman in Worcester, Mass., died yesterday. The Senate confirmed Willis Drutn-mond Drutn-mond Commissioner of the General Land Office. Smallpox has broken out at St. John's, N. B., and is c iusing considerable con-siderable alarm. The armistice did not go into kefl'ecl in the French department of the east until Feb. 1st. The lower California Company's colonization scheme has been practically practic-ally abandoned. The Fenian exile- have declined a benefit tendered them hi the A'ladeniy of Music, N. Y. Dr. Galleutiue, convicted of manslaughter, man-slaughter, was s-ntenced yestuidy to ten years in the penitentiary. A committee has been appointed in the House, on a bill to abolish the offices of-fices of admiral and vice-admiral. The San Francisco HidU'in says the claims on the Presidio military reservation reser-vation are purely an infamous ,-windJe. The assets of the New York ai:d Western Book Concerns foot up to $2.701. 52"i. and the liabilities 205. Leading lawyers and parliamentarians parliamenta-rians are of the opinion that the Sena e had a right to propo.-c the ineoine-U.x repeal. Commissioner Ploasanton has relieved re-lieved the American Board of Commissioners Commis-sioners for foreign missions from liability liabil-ity for taxes. Tweed, at the reoue.-. of the working work-ing men in New lork, introduced a bill into the Albany Senate prohibiting the employment of Chinese or cooley labor. |