OCR Text |
Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. It ht now a.-ertrd that judu'' Cur doza will probably e-cape impeachment. impeach-ment. Several dea'hs are repnr:i-d in Yir ginia tis rp-riiung from the extreme cold. The icmoeratJ have elected their municipal ti'et in Troy, N. Y., by 1,U"U majority. A $70,000 tire oecured at Marone station, Ky., on the Murfreesboroujfh It. li. on Tue.-day. In the storm of Saturday, at Fortress iMonnte, the wind traveled at the rate !of seventy-eight miles per hour. Information has been received in London of the lo-s of the French bark At- raiulrr. Nine persons perished. The Japan e were received by the house of representatives yesterday, with the uju:il speechifying and ceremonies. cere-monies. A di-a-Mrou- lire occurred in Frankfort, Frank-fort, Ky., on Tuesday night. One life was lost, and a large amount of property pro-perty was destroyed. On Mouday Cnl. J.orhum, a prominent promi-nent lawyer of Paris, 'J'enn., was shot and in-lantly killed by a man with whom he had a difficulty. The testimony of generals 1'orterand Babeoek dcniei emphatically the complicity com-plicity of the While House in the New York custom h.me frauds. A London dispatch, dated ve.-teiday, says that the claimant to the Tiche-borne Tiche-borne estate has withdrawn his ease, and has been arrested aud committed to Newgate prison. Qneen Victoria has presented her groom, John lirown, with a told medal and granted him an annuity of L',OoO for his promptness in urreating O'Connor when he assaulted her. A meeting of the New York city bar on Tuesday cvoning passed a resolution denouncing the exorbitance of the fees charged in the sheriff's, register's and clerk's oQicc. Nothing was said of the exorbitance of the lawyers Ice's. Yesterday a spirited dicu-sion took place in the lower house of congress, noon the bill to cede half of Goat island (Ycrba Buena), in tbc Bay of San Franclseo, to tho Central Pacific 11. It. Co. No vole was had upon the bill. The New York Tribune says that Elias, of the German watch company, is also interested in a swindling concern called tho Protective emigrant association. associa-tion. This institution protects immigrants immi-grants by robbing them, under a pretence pre-tence of philanthrophy. A Raleigh dispatch reports the kill-ing kill-ing of 11. 11. Lowcry, the leader of the gang of outlaws, by his brother Stephen, Steph-en, who charged him with betraying tho band to the authorities. Tho Roanoke Himes reports the arrest of souie of the leaders of the outlaws. Yesterday, Morrill, of Vermont, had a document read in the senate which was addressed to all leading railroad men, requesting them to uuito tn demanding de-manding an advance of fitly per cent, for carying tho mails, notwithstanding present contracts. Yandcrbilt, Jay Gould and Tom Scott agreed to this I plan of compelling a bonus upon prca-jent prca-jent contracts. |