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Show LEGHTNING FLASHES. New York was quiet on Friday. j General Spinner's health is steadily improving. The Delaware peach crop is the largest for years. Six more of the New York wounded died in the hospitals on Friday. Cochiz, the great war chief of the Apaches, is expected in Washington. Tho magazine of Fort Vincennea, Paris, has exploded with fearful loss of life. It is expected President Grant will come west before returning to Washington. Wash-ington. Twelve buildings were burned in Mason, Ma-son, Ills., on Friday morning; loss, 315,000. . The Metropolitan hall, Jersey city, was burned on Friday morning, with a: loss of S50,0u0. "Longfellow" ran a mile at the Saratoga Sar-atoga races on Friday in 1:40; and I "King Fisher" in 1:41. j There have been riots in Nice against the French authorities, the mob erring i "Death to the French." Lord Derby has astonished the Tories To-ries of the British House of Lords, by denouncing the army purchase system. John Iliso, of Ottawa, Ills., committed com-mitted suicide last Monday, by jumping jump-ing off a bridge into the Illinois river. The Connecticut legislature has adopted the resolution appropriating $500,uuO for a State house in Hartford. One Hibernian lodge turned out in New York on Friday, in full regalia, to bury one of their number killed in Wednesday's riot. Five persons have been poisoned, one fatally, at Cerro Gordo, Ills., by driuking bitters in which aconite had i been put by mistake for snake root. Officer McCoy was dangerously wounded in Newi ork on Friday morning, morn-ing, while patroling his beat. It is supposed his assailant was a Hibernian. Hiber-nian. Three- hundred and five cities and i towns of Massachusetts refuse to per-', per-', mit malt liquors to be sold ; thirry allow al-low it ; and five have yet to be heard from. Lieut. Grant, who graduated at West Point last month, will spend his leave of absence oa the U. P. Ii. B., turning his attention to practical engineering. en-gineering. - Thcro was a terrible hurricane at St. Joseph, Mo., on Thursday night, which unroofed and blew down houses in all parts of the cuy. Several persons per-sons were killed by the h'ghtniDg. Governor MeDou trail, late minister nf public works in Sir John A. McDonald's Mc-Donald's Canaditn government, but now in the opposition, his published a Inter to his constituen-.s supporting the treaty of Washington. It is feared there will be more riot-intr riot-intr in New York to-d.17 over the: funerals of Hem y C. Pace and Serge, j Wyr, of the Ninth, killed onWednes- i dsy. The military are ordered to carry their muakats loaded in the funeral 1 procession. |