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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. General Spinner will leave Kurope for home on the i?8th. The Emperor William is nearly re- covered from his rheumatic attack. The general report of the cotton I crop oi'tht Doited State is favorable. John M.Dow, a formor New York ! millionaire, committed auicide in that , city on Wednesday night. The Prince Imperial of Germany, and his wife, the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, are in London, Professor Stuart E'dridge, of Wis-aonsin, Wis-aonsin, goes with Horace Caprou to Japan as a member of the scientific expedition." An explosion from an unknown cause in the Union hotel, Cohoes, N. YM on Thursday morning, caused the burning of the hotel and lour dwellings, with a loss of $16,000. The jury in the celebrated Ticheborne case, now being tried in London, privately pri-vately informed the judge that they were ready to return s verdict that the pUintiffwas an impotor without hearing hear-ing the defence. The judge ordered the trial to proceed. I A slay of proceedings has been j granted in the case of Foster, the New Yoik street-car murderer; and Monday next is set by Gov. Hoffman to hear the petition and argument for a commutation com-mutation of his sentence from death to imprisonment for life. |