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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. ' The grand duke regrets that he has no time to visit California. The tires at Portland, Me., and Ilaertown, Md., destroyed properly ; amounting to about 4M,nuu. Two churches, several houses, barns and telegraph lines at Prince Kdwards island were destroyed by the late gale. PrObidentThicrs has demanded of the Pope, at the request of Bismarck, the recall of the prince de Chizialbatti as papal envoy at Paris. The grand jury of Dublin, Ireland, have failed to liuJ a bill against Kelly for dischan-niK a pi-ol at officers Crimes and Mullins. The board of health of 2cw York have information that various occupied basements and cellars are untenantable, . aud they arc to be vacated. Republican meetings were held at i Birmingham and Reading, Enghnd, ; yesterday. The proceedings were disorderly, dis-orderly, and at Heading were broken up in a row. P.M. M:trs.h-n, chief of ihediwMon of accounts of the lr. S. treasury, has been arrested and held lor trial for ( stealing over is 12. ow from the govern-j govern-j ment. The loss falls on treasurer Spin- ncr. A committee from Cape Cod, Ply-i Ply-i mouth aud Clouccstcr have memorial-! memorial-! ized congress for protection to the j fishery interests, which arc disast-' disast-' rously e fleeted by the treaty of Washington, Wash-ington, The case of Ceorge Chorpenuing against tho United States, for services in carrying the mails in California, is ' before the U. S. supreme court on an , appeal by plaintiff from the decision 1 in a district court, which had overruled over-ruled tho decision of the court of claims in his favor for $17(1,570.37. The Roumanian government has received re-ceived a protest from Constantinople against tho conclusion of its treaty with Russia relative to consular jurisdiction, juris-diction, which it is alleged is a violation viola-tion of the treaty of Paris. Tho I stigated by Bismarck as a part of his ' I diplomatic gamo against Russia. Instigated by tho opposition to the ' appointment of Judge Picrrepont as j secretary of State, most of the Republican Repub-lican senators havo signed a paper requesting secretary Fish to reconsider his determination to retire from tho I cabinet. It is said that the president I and several members of tho cabinet would bo pleased to have Pish resign. |