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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Chancellor Ferris, of New York, is dangerously ill. Cholera has made its appearance in the English army in India. Yesterday afternoon Gould resigned the presidency of the Erie road. About 20,000 shares of Erie stock changed hands in New York yesterday. yester-day. The news from the seat of war in north eastern Mexico, is mixed as usual. Matts' Hour mills at Columbus, Ga., were destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss $75,000. It is charged against Jay Gould that ho swindled Fisk, and tried to swindle Kisk's widow. Judge Barnard has granted a stay of proceedings in tho case of Foster, the car hook murderer. The Moridcn iron works, Conn., were damaged by fire on Monday night to the extent of 15,000. Yesterday, the house of representatives representa-tives refused to tabic the Goat Island bill by a vote of 73 to 94. Yesterday the French assembly went wild on a proposition to censure and prosecute two members for libelling the chamber. The Gould and the Dix parlies still maintain a divided possession of the grand opera house, Fifty policemen are on guard. A Boston grand jury have indicted the Eastern li. 11. company for causing the dcatb of one of the victims of the railway accident at llevere. Jay Gould has issued instructions to all of tho clerks and employes of the , Erio road to obey no orders but what come from him as president. The senate has adopted a resolution I askiug the President to furnish an ac-1 ac-1 count of the cost of government tele-j tele-j graphing for the past three years. I The grand opera house in New York ! is in tho possescioD, one end of it, of Gould's henchmen and the other of the forces of the new Erie directors. The grand jury of Hudson county, N. J., on Mouday, returned 183 indictments, in-dictments, including presentments of nearly every official in the county and Jersey city. Emanuel Shaffer has bscn convicted of murder in the first degree at Harris-burg,Pa., Harris-burg,Pa., for killing his first and second wives, and a man named Sherlock, by poisoning them. The New York World reports the perpetration upon tho Russian government govern-ment of an immense amount of forged i securities, by an organized band in this I department of swindling. France is endeavoring to effect an ar-j ar-j rangement to pay before maturity the ; balance of the war indemnity due Germany, Ger-many, so as to accomplish the evacua-j evacua-j tion of French territory by the German forces. The New York Tribune of yester-iday yester-iday says that Leet, Stocking & Co., ; have not been disturbed in tho enjoy-I enjoy-I ment of their general order business, as j announced by it prematurely. The old i business is conducted under a new mode. 1 A dispatch dated yesterday at Parts saya that a number of .Russians are : there negotiating with Polish refugees, and that tho czar proposes to declare a general amnesty to the Poles, and appoint ap-point the grand duke Alexis viceroy of Poland. Jay Gould wrote a letter to the new board of Eric directors, offering to place his resignation in the hands of I Horace Greeley, on condition that they would do the same, and have a new election, but they decline the offer. A case is before the superior court of New York, in which Wm. Tweed, jr., was receiver in a suit in which $oS,S7'. was collected, upon which his fees were $:;8,')')l, which were brazenly al-1 al-1 lowed by judge McCunn, from whose order an appeal was taken Garvcy, the Tainmanyite, says that he made nj arrangements with the district attorney to turn Slate's evidence, evi-dence, that he returned to New York to h: with his family, and that he ii willing to refund the money he stole 1 from the city, and repent cf'his sins. |