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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The emperor and empress of Brazil have left Lisbon for home. A $50,000 fire occurred at Monroc-ville, Monroc-ville, Ind., on Thursday night. The Dodsworth distillery near Hamilton, Ham-ilton, Ohio, was burned yesterday. A delegation of the Japanese have left Washington on a tour of inspection. Lloyd Garrison has sued the Eastern railroad for damages by theKevcre disaster. dis-aster. The Southern Improvement Extension Exten-sion oil monopoly matter has got into congress. The murderers of the Billings family fami-ly at Windsor Locks, Conn., have been indicted. The Juaristsj have defeated the rebels reb-els and rotaken Zacatccas, and are jubilating ju-bilating over it. An anti-Grant convention is to be be held at Parkersbui g, West Virginia, on the ISth inst. A London dispatch says that Senor Zagosta has smothered a contemplated revolution in Spain. j The hark Sarah Shane., of East-port, East-port, Me., has been wrecked and all hands lost except two. The New York Herald publishes a statistical acoount of Erie frauds under the administration of Gould & Co. Senator Sherman says that the tariff amendments proposed by the committee, commit-tee, will reduco duties $50,000,000. A school teacher named Green at Centralia, Pa., was set upon yesterday by three ruffians, and dangerously cut. Fish's reply to Granville has been discussed in tho house of commons without eliding any particular demonstration. demon-stration. A revolt in the Missouri penitentiary at Jefferson city was attempted yesterday, yester-day, but was promptly suppressed by tho guard. The paint and color manufacturers have, of course, held a meeting to protest pro-test against a reduction of the duty on these articles. There is to be a change of base by the prosecution in the trial of mayor Hall, by summoning new and discarding discard-ing the old witnesses. On Wednesday last Michael Shaeffcr was shot and instantly killed by his brother-in-law, Peter Smith, in a saloon sa-loon in Cross county, Illinois. An attempt was made to poison a family of eicht persons at White Plains, New Y ork, by putting arsenic in the well from which they obtained water. The governor of Connecticut has appointed ap-pointed Sunday the 24th inst. as a day of fasting and prayer. This does not interfere with the performance of the regular sis days work in a week. A youog man named Sowers and a young lady, Miss Longuard, were run over Thursday night by a train on the 8. k 0. K. K. near Hawesvillc, Ohio, bv which the former was instantly killed. Greeley says in yesterday's Tribune that he only turned against Grant, when Grant turned his back upon himself him-self and removed good officers in New York and supplied their places with bad ones. The Patriot of Washington of yesterday yes-terday has an article favoring the liberal libe-ral Kepublican movement, wbich it is thought was inspired by conferences in that city between the liberal Kepublican Kepubli-can and Democratic leaders. |