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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Bismarck is again sick. Thousands of Buurbaki's army are said to have died of starvation. California is looking forward to au immense wheat crop next year. Congress is manifesting a fueling to stop granting public lauds so freely. .. Marquis e Availa has succeeded in reconstructing the Portuguese cabin-''. The delcnsc of Postmaster-General Cresswell is the In -l novelty by telegraph. tele-graph. It is .-aid that i'avre was much broken down in spirit in his la-t interview inter-view with Bismarck. ' The northern departments of France have already nominated candidates for the Constituent Assembly. The Emperor of Germany ha. .sent into Paris six million rations ot' fod and fifteen thousand head of cattle. The entrance of Bourlaki's army into Switzerland is reported a- the result re-sult of a convention with the Sw,m authorities. The new census enumeration of Xcw ork shows an increase of 1 7.7s-, the population on the l-t of .Tune la-t being 944,1:2!'. Congress, by a vote of hrl to bl, has refused to recommit the .Northern Pacific railroad bill, which, in rcaiiiy, kills it this Congress. The Democrats in the U. S. Senate oppose, to a man, the gianting a subsidy sub-sidy for a mail between .New Orleans, and the coast of .Mexico. The Bo.stonians have rai.-ed I j i j T -M, and will give it to the French, if the L. S. Government will furni-h a vessel to carry the provisions. The :21th French corps, forming a portion of the army of the east, escaped es-caped the gra-p of the Germans under Gen. Manteuffcl, tend arc moving toward to-ward Lyons. "Sunset" Cox declared in Cone-iCss, on Thursday, that if the Republicans -continued giving away public lands the Democrats would put an anti-land-grant policy in their platform. The Chimahuivcs and Mohave In dians bad a pitched batt c a few Java airo, on the Colorado, in which the I latter were rout-d, having lost thirty-j six braves. 'J he Chimahuive.s lost their head chief, "one of the ablest I thieves ever bom," and 'wenty braves. |