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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The Mississippi river is frozen at Winona, Minn. Nine lives were lost by the burning of the steamer City of London, Tho prince of Wales continues indisposed, indis-posed, with symptoms of typhoid fever. The voucher thieves, it is said, will reveal the names of those instigating the theft. Richard Tweed retires from Lho New York Metropolitan Hotel on December De-cember 1st. Bales, tho conservative candidate for parliament in Plymouth, Englandj bne boon elected. The Phconix mining company of Nevada has levied an assessment of fifty cents a share. At a mass meeting in Bristol, Eng., the denunciation of monarchy was carried car-ried to a groat extent. The steamer Franldin has introduced intro-duced cholera into Halifax and three deaths have occurred. The total subscription received by the Chamber of Commerce for the relief of Chicago foots up 900,310.07. Very cold weather in the lake country. coun-try. At Chicago yesterday morning the mercury stood at 10 degrees below zero. Minne Hanck, (he American prima donna gave a matinee in Vienna, Austria, Aus-tria, for tho benefit of the Chicago sufferers, which realized a large sum. . The malt house of Peter Ballentine & Sons of Newark, N. J., was totally destroyed by fire yesterday. It contained con-tained 750j000 bushels of mall; loss $ 1 75,000; insured for $100,000. Dr. Robert A, Christian, acting assistant as-sistant surgeon in tho United States army, shot and killed himself at Eort Hayes, Kansas, on the ISth instant, while laboring under despondency. A barber of Lynn, Mass., has been arrested charged with treating his wife in a brutal manner, then pouring kerosene kero-sene over her, and setting her on fire. She was literally roasted to death. It is said that Ceo. Butler, Henry Wilson and Thurlow Weed profess to know nothing of the formation of an anti-Grant party, and it is believed that Charles Sumner is not engaged in the movement. Tho failure of several savings banks in New York had created quite an PYeitfilVtfinh wliicli Iiaq nn-irltr cnhcioVd The poorer classes wcro large depositors. deposit-ors. Stock speculations and political investments arc given as the cause. The books of the Boston firm of W. i Field & Co. have been seized by the government on suspicion of large frauds by collusion with the custom house weighers. The senior partner of the house is said to be the richest man in New England. |