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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Joseph Mazziui is dead. I The count de Cham bord has gone to Cologne. I The prince of Wales and wife have I arrived in Paris. , The marquis of Lome and wife are ! visiting queen Victoria. The Lafayette bouse in Defiance 1 Ohio, was dc.-troyed by tire yesterday. 1 The French minister of finance re- j ports -lOo.tJOO.DtKJ of francs in the ! treasury. I Gov. Wariuoth, of Louisiana has pronounced against Grant and in favor of Davis. Congress has adopted a resolution to investigate charges ugain.H secretary Uobeson. Lowery, tho leader of the North Carolina Car-olina bandits, is said to be yet alive aud rubbing. The Geneva conference flurry has about subsided. Fish aud Granville both coo gently. One of the jurors in the Hall trial is very sink from nervous prostration, and the case is adjourned until Friday. Mexican cattle robbers are continually continu-ally makine raids across tho It io Grande into Texas, and return laden with booty. The monitor Mahupac took lire while lying at the dock of the Gosport navy yard, on Sunday, and was considerably consid-erably damaged. The lumber interest of the lakes still tights the Chicago relief bill, which provides for the introduction of building build-ing materials free of duty. Gen. Longstrcct has resigned the New Orleans aurveyorship, upon the ground that lie cannot support the President's policy in Louisiana, A witness in the investigation of the New York harbor masters affair, testified testi-fied that he would give $125,0U0 for the privileges enjoyed by one harbor master. Washington city is overrun with ruffians. ruf-fians. Yesterday sergeant Bullock of tho police was set upon by a gang of them and beaten until his life is en dangered. At the trial of mayor Hall yesterday, the crowd pressing for admittance into the court room was so great that the police were required to interfere and maintain order. The Catholic and Protestant clergy have just adjourned a public controversial controver-sial discussion in Rome, as to whether St. Peter ever was in Homo or not. What's the odds I Seth Wilbur Payne, proprietor of the Albany Bee, has been convicted of libel on judge Poolittle, and sentenced to imprisonment in the Albany penitentiary peniten-tiary lor four months, A coalition of all of the opponents of tho government party of Spain, has been effected, by which they are to unite upon the same candidates for the cortes at the coming elections.- Wm. H. Cook, of voucher notoriety in connection with the Tammany frauds, is said to be on his way from Europe to New Y'ork.and it is expected that he will turn State s evidence. . Tho reform committee of Brooklyn report that at the recent election in that city, in fifteen wards nearly 7,000 fraudulent votes were cast, and 1,729 doubtful. Bad for the purity of the ballot. The principal charges against judge Barnard, relate to his course in the legal proceedings by which Fisk and Gould were enabled to capture the Erie, and Albany and Susquehanna railroads. Near Areola, Ills., ono day last week, Henry Sanders was Bhot three times by his son, and is supposed to be fatally fa-tally wounded. The old man was very violent and had driven his family out of the house. The French government is apprehensive appre-hensive that the preparations being ! mado on tho Genoese coast by the Italian government, are intended to attempt the recoveryof the provinces 01 Nico and Savoy. Tho Vvjashington cabinet is in a quandary "about the reception of Don Palo as the Spanish minister to the United States, upon the ground of his hostility to this country as expressed in his public speeches. The report that the pope is preparing prepar-ing to leave Rome is false. On Sunday Sun-day the pope said to the audience that the misfortunes of the church during his pontificate, date from 1S4S, and that the co existence of two powers at Rome is impossible for the safety of the church. The Unionville, South Carolina, Times, says that in Marion county, .where everything has been quiet and rjcaceable for a long time, the United ! States marshal last week arrested1 many citizens on the charge of Ku Kluxism, and that, in consequence thereof, business is suspended, the laborers are abandoning the fields, and farmers decline to put in cropa. Near Dayton, Ohio, at a farm house a horrible tragedy was enacted on Friday. Fri-day. A woman and her three children were found murdered. The woman found in bed, naked, and supposed to have been strangled, two of the ohil-. dren, six and eight years of age respectively, re-spectively, on the bank of a creek, in whioli they appear to have been . drowned and then -taken out of the water, and tho third one, an infant, had its skull fractured. The murderer is supposed to bo the husband and father, Leonard Marguard, who has been arrested. |