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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. 'I ho '"home rule" candidate ha beei: elected to the lirili.-di parliament, from Kerry, Ireland. Kelly, who ki.led the policeman Blcnneibasset, in Dublin, has been sentenced to fifteen years imprison mcnt. The Canadian minister of works and other Dominion authorities deny the rumor of the separation of Britain and Canada. The Methodist book oncer 11 ha-one miliion eight hundred thousand dollars of assets, and seven hundred thousand dollars liabilities. Mayor Hall's bail, on the indictments indict-ments found against him, is fixed ni three thousand dollars; and his trial u set lor Mondav week. Of five new indictments against Tweed, two charge him with forgery ; in tho third degree, one with grand larceny and one with larceny. The attorney general of Indiana has dismissed the civil suit against It. J. Bright, late Stale printer, the State to receive liU.OUU oveidrawn by Liiight. Mayor Hall, of New i'ork, appeared in court yesterday to auswer to the indictment in-dictment against him. He gave a general gen-eral denial to the charges, and asked for an early trial. The steamer Elect ra was run into by the ship 1). JJolcron, oil D jngcucss, in the English channel and sunk. The captain, Bruce, and seventeen of the crow were drowned. The New York grand jury yesterday ; presented a bundle of indictments in court, and were discharged. They say thoy have acted on lour hundred auti sixty cases, aud that tho city has lost twenty millions by frauds. The London Timet has au editorial on the Caiaoazy affair, sayiug he got himself him-self into trouble by presumptuously interfering in-terfering with tho negotiations between America and England. It sustains Fish in his ooursc in the matter. The attorney general of Indiana, it appears, has bupplied himself with stationery enough at the expense of the State, to last him six years, though he is only elected lbr two. It being so small a "steal" the wonder is that iL was telegraphed to the press. Arcward of fivo hundred dollars is offered by the liockford, It. 1. & St. L. li. K. company Jor the apprehension apprehen-sion of Baker and Halpinc, the conductor con-ductor and engineer of tho freight train which ran into tho passenger train near Alton on Wednesday. The New York custom-house con-' grcssional invcttigation committee, during dur-ing its five weeks' session, examined 16o witnesses, summoned fifty-six who were not examined, and had thirty-seven thirty-seven on the list who were never summoned. sum-moned. The total expense of the investigation in-vestigation is about $0,0U0. A Washington dispatch says the answer of the United States government govern-ment to Granville's note on tho Ala bama question will be as severe, as terse and as little to the purpose as Granville's communication; yet naively adds that the latter document has not yet been received in Washington. |