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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The carl of Mayo is to have a monument mon-ument erected to his memory. A treaty between China and Japan has been published in St. Petersburg. Telegraphic communication is established estab-lished between Franco and the island of Guadalupe. The petroleum producers of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania aro trying to "corner" the transportation of oil. The amount subscribed in England for the relief of the sufferers by the Chicago liro is (0:2,000. The federal republican club of Madrid Mad-rid has adjourned its sittings, but maintains its organization. The upper house of the Herman diet has passed a bill for the government govern-ment supervision of schools. David Dudley Field testifies that ho never met judgo Barnard outside of court, until at the funeral of h'isk. President Grant attended a banquet given to J. W. Forney, by his Philadelphia Phila-delphia friends, on Friday evening. Juarez has $2,000,000 in gold in the treasury, so says a Mexican dispatch. If this is true, he is safe lor some time yet. , . A terrific hail storm visited Helena, Ark., on Friday, smashing window panes, unrooting houses and doing other damage. Troops are bcingconcentrated around Paris in anticipation of danger on the ISth inst., the anniversary of tho insurrection insur-rection of the Communists. The number of persons injured by the recent railroad accident near Springfield, Mass., is fifteen, all of whom will probably recover. Chas. H. Banking shot his wife and himself in St. Louis, on Thursday night. Her condition is critical and he is certain to die of his wound. Scranton, Peon., is afflicted with an epidemio called the "black or spotted fever," and the public Echools have been closod in consequence thereof. Connolly is said to bo living in New Jersey. Tweed's privato office is advertised ad-vertised for rent, and this Tact has set afloat the rumor that the "boss" has vamosed. At a mass meeting of the "Canucks" in Quebec, on Thursday, the -Dominion administration was severely denounced, and some of tho speakers advocated annexation to the United States. Two men have been convicted at Versailles of firing churches in Paris during the reign of the Commune. One is sentenced to death, and the other to penal servitude for life. There are 300 prisoners in the Tombs, New York city, an average of three to a cell, and the number is increasing at the rate of twenty per day. it is feared that a pestilence may effect a jail delivery. The suit brought some time aco by B. C. Galvin against secretary Bout-well, Bout-well, to recover $J,u00,0u0 on account of some financial scheming, has'been removed- from the United States to the State court of New York. " A party of Cortina' s bandits Ja?t Monday crossed the Uio Grande to the Texas side, stole 1,0-0 head of eattie acdrecrossed into Mexico. A debt of damages is rapidly accumulating against Mexico, with which to pay for some of her northern States, A Matamoras dispatch dated the I 7th inst., says that the revolutionists j have abandoned the siege of San Luis ! Potosi, are being pursued by general i Kocha with 13,i00' men, have evacu-j evacu-j ated Aguas Caiientes, have been defeated de-feated in several cogaccments, and are j sadly demoralized. So they sce-aw ' in Mexico. The U. P. K. K. Co. has petitioned the New York legislature to appoint a committee to investigate the tacts in the matter of judicial proceedings instituted in-stituted against the company by James , Fisk, Jr., and one Poiurd, by which the company was obiited tCKmove its . e-mce from New York to Boston; and j to take such action hereon as may le , proper. , , I Girvey, the Slate's evideuee witness ! I 2in:t the TamniiDMEes, is ociy vi-ibie ' whdn in court.kccpiog hinijeii' secluded : at o:ber tim-:;. A iiimmons has tctn served upon him in a suit brought to i recover money of which the city wis . defrauded. The suit is supposed to i be pressed at the instigation, of the j ringites in revenge for Garvey's be- , trayalof them, . ! |