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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. . The Germans have occupied Tours. There is terrble suffering through n ' r ranee. " V on Werder defeated Bourbaki on Wednesday last. : French refugees are flying to the Island of Jersey. - Longwy is in flames from the effects of its bombardment. ' Kudolphe has beaten Gamier at billiards, bil-liards, in New York. Fifteen deaths are said to occur daily in Paris from the bombardment. King William of Prussia is .now the Emperor Wilh'elm, Kaiser of Germany. Ger-many. ... ' It is said Gambetta has asked Pala-dines Pala-dines to resume command of the Loire army. The garrison of Mont A alerien made a sortie in force on Friday, but were repulsed. . . Judge W. H. Shelton, grandmaster of the Grand L)dge of Free Masons, of Alabama, is dead. . - - - . The Prussian minister at London is ordered to retire from the Conference, if the war with France is discussed. Fort Issy has been abandoned by the French, after mining around it and covering the ground with torpedoes. Thirty unwounded mobiles were ibuud frozen to death in the woods ia front of Meudon, near Peris, a few days ago. The German loss was heavy from the cannonade of Mont alerien, under un-der which the sortie was made en Fri day last. The German forces are said to be pursuing Bourbaki, and a general advance ad-vance is ordered along the whole German Ger-man line. It is said Troehu has decided to commence com-mence a series of sorties, to be continued contin-ued incessantly- until something decisive is effected. Tho illicit stills in the mountains of Tennessee have suffered from a raid by mounted troops. The raid occupied eight days. A Saturday's dispatch from London" reports severe fighting somewhere in France, in which the French clnimed the advantage. The Gciman frigate Aiifu'n run into and sunk a French gunboat off igo, and captured lour officers and twenty-six men. A message came out of 1'aris to the German headquarters, on the 13th, and a secret answer was returned on the day following. American and English capitalists are traveling through San Domingo, making mak-ing investigations in view of the annexation annex-ation being completed. A general attack on the Paris forts was to be made with great force on the 18th. Twenty-two batteries were in position available for the bombardment. bombard-ment. Col. Clark, tried aud convicted in New York for having a quantity of counterfeit money in his possession, has been sentenced to tbe penitentiary for five years. |