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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. I Memphis, Tenn., was visited by a j small earthquake. , Fires are raging among the pines of I Jersey, doing great damage, i The Texas Pacific railroad bill has . been beaten iu the senate ou a tabling j vote. The New i'ork banks show a larpe , increase of reserves and specie for the 1 past week. j The bill to- reduce the stock of the P. M. S. S. company, has passed the : New York senate. ! A dispatch from Rome says that the I Italian government opposes our claims for indirect damages from England. The testimony in tho case of the rev-, rev-, erend Dr Huston shows that worthy; ! worso than his accusers charged him. with being. I Anna Dickinson spoke, Friday night,. in New York in opposition to Grant,' : and Horace Greeley was chairmau of the meeting. Governor Hoffman was expected in S New York city yesterday, to consult ; eminent lawyers as to the const itntion-! itntion-! alii v of the city charter bill. John Graham, the counsel of Sickles j and Stokes, lias written a letter to the j jV. K World demanding au apology for ' a criticism, on paiu of a libel suit. At Aurora 111. on Thursday a Mrs. j Frank locked herself up in her son-in- law's house and set tiro to it. She aud j the house were saved with difficulty. A London dispatch of yesterday says that by the tailing of one of the walls of a building being erected in the town of Kirkaldy, in Scotland, nine men were killed. Miss Nellie Grant has led Leamington Leaming-ton for London. The railroad station was decorated with flags, and the young lady was greeted with boquets and cheers. She soon leaves England for the continent. An editorial in the Ar. Y. Times of yesterday indicates the intention of the government to abandon tho claim for indirect damages. It represents that such abandonment would be of great advantage to our government. Evidently Evi-dently tho adniistration is preparing to flop on this question, a course which considering the buncomb character of the claim, is fully authorized. |