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Show I LIGHTNING FLASHES. Tho Venezuela revolution is gaining ground. Tho sham Kiug of Chili has (led to Buenos Ayrcs. Diplhuria and diarrhea are epidemic at Granada, West Indies. ! Garibaldi telegraphs from Caprera I to London that his health is better. England is raising subscriptions for tho relief of the surlerinj; in Persia. Seven persons were killed iu the late riot against the Protestants in Mexico. English journals aro pitching into the British navy und administration. administra-tion. Religious reform measures have been intoduecd into the Chilian Congress. Con-gress. President Marino, of Ecuador, has been captured and shot by the revolutionists. revolu-tionists. The proposed dissolution of the French Assembly is abandoned for the present. A testimonial to John Bright is contemplated con-templated in the the pottery region, England. Tho English armor-plated Rtpuke went ashore at Shcerncss, but was got off again. Tho Bishop of'Brasscterre, is making mak-ing great exertions to raiso means for the sufferers by the Guadaloupe fire. Tho re-election of Juarez is now more doubtful thau ever, and Mexican Congressmen are freely offered official position and money lor their votes. Anothor two-penny revolution, against the State government, has broken out in Oaxaca, Mexico, Diaz having taken I the tiold with several hundred men. Tho African cannibal, who recently killed a boy in Jamaica, roasted his lips, gashed his abdomen and drank his blood, has been sentenced to death. The Iron and Steel Institute of Dudley, Dud-ley, Worcestershire, England, has sent a commission to America to report upon tho management ol' blast furnaces. furna-ces. The Steamer Java, from Liverpool for New York, ran down the Norwegian bark JJuit, on the night of August 23, and eleven out of twelve of a crew were drowned. The Pope, when receiving the homage hom-age of the papal guard, said: "lean not namo tho day of deliverance, but the time is not remote when wc shall issue together from our prisou." A local revolution over the late gubernatorial gu-bernatorial election is imminent at Monterey. The present governor has imprisoned Gazaiuela, the successful success-ful candidate, on a charge of perjury; aud the latter, who cannot obtaiu trial, has appealed to the people. Tho action ac-tion of the Legislature, in September, is awaited by all parties. |