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Show I LIGHTNING FLASHES. Holiday in New York to-day. Stokes' trial is adjourned until Monday. Mon-day. A new Spanish ministry has been completed. Chas. Francis Adams ha3 arrived : from Europe. The Ohio River Improvement con- I vention is in session. j The Kansas Republican convention Ls unanimous for Grant, j Congress keeps up a discussion of 1 the salt and iron duties. . j The steamer Russia from New York, j took $22j,s7 specie to Europe. Congress and tho department at ! Washington have a holiday to-day. The national labor reform conven-! conven-! tion is in session at Columbus, Ohio. I Another mysterious murder has been committed in Indiana, near Tcrre i Haute. ' Tbo drug store of V. K. Merrill & , Co., in Cincinnati!, has been destroyed j by lire. Lord Northbrook has been appoint-jed appoint-jed by the English government viceroy . of India. j Three and one quarter millions are asked for tho construction and repair of fortifications thia year, j The three upper stories of Sweet's 'hotel at (Irand Rapid, Mich., were j destroyed by tiro on Tuesday. ! A conducta,withSl,yOO,000, guarded ! by 5uO revolutionists, has arrived at 'tho Mexican frontier near Camargo. j The last bids for government gold in j New York ranged from 9i to 10.51. . One million sold at the latter figure, j A. S. Stewart, a Republican, has I been appointed assistant district attorney attor-ney Jul" New York vice young Tweed. An oil manufactory and adjoining buildings in Cedar street, New York, was burned on Tuesday. Loss $00,-000. $00,-000. The government is still anxiously awaiting tho text of Granville's letter in relation to the Geneva conference imbroglio. The congressional committee on . banking, have reported adversely to tho proposition to increase the circulating circu-lating currency by $JO,000,000. The London Telegraph of the 20th, violently denounces the American construction con-struction of the treaty of Washington and talks of swords' points, etc. The last span of the bridge across the Missouri river, at Council Bluffs, was completed on Tuesday, and tho U. P. trains have commenced crossing. Tho Tammany society met in New York on Wednesday, installed Richard Schcll as grand Sachem and decided to maintain the organization of tho tribe. Representative Sargent offered a rosolution calling upon the attorney general for information relative to civil and nriminal cases in the U. S. courts in Utah. A rich gold discovery is reported on Ice creek that empties into White Earth river, about 200 milos above , Fort Randall in Dakota Territory. Specimens very rich ha ve been brought into Sioux city, Iowa, and prospectors are preparing to move. Fourteen delegates, half and half, j black and white, have been olected by the South Carolina Republicans, to represent that State in the National Republican convention. They have resolved to oppose tho renomination of Grant unless ho changes tho federal officials in that Stato. |
