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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The senate have passed the bill to bridge tho Missouri at Nebraska. The Carlists arc bobbing around the French and Spanish boundary line. The New York Republican convention conven-tion will meet at Klmira, May loth. Senator Fenton wrote a letter to (he Cooper institute meeting in New York last night. Tho French trans-Atlantic telegraph company intend laying a fourth cable across the ocean. On Thursday a family of fivo persons were murdered by gypsies in tho department de-partment ol'Gironde, France, A joint resolution passed the senate yesterday (o open negotiations with the Colorado Indiana to acquire title to their lands. A Liberal Republican convention is called to moct in Baltimore on the 2t)th iust. Fx-govornor Bradford heads the movement. Senators Trumbull and Schurz left Washington on Thursday for New York to attend the Cooper institute meeting last night. The Michigan senate is holding an extra session for tho trial of land commissioner com-missioner Kdmuuds, for irregularities and frauds in cilice. The Germans on Thursday arrested the editor of a newspaper at Vitry, France, for publishing articles offensive to the military authorities. The State Republican convention ol Florida I ave elected four whito and two colored delegates to tho Philadelphia Philadel-phia convention all for Grant. The American Jt Atlantic telegraph company will issue stock next week to lay a cable direct between the coasts of England and New Hampshire. It is reported that lord chief justice Cockburn and Kussel Gurney connected connec-ted with Geneva arbitration and Washington Wash-ington commission are about- to back out of the muddle. A party of Mexicans crossed the Rio Grande to Endonberg, Texas, on "Wednesday "Wed-nesday night, released three cattle thieves in jail at that place, and then returned to their native heath. The fifth session of the Dominion parliament met iu Ontario on yesterday. yester-day. The governor-general orated at length in a patriotic strain, and recommending recom-mending various schemes of improvement. improve-ment. It appears now that the court at Montreal before which Conklin, tho New York Market bank robber was interviewed, decided that his caso was not within the limits of the extradition treaty. Ilumbue ! i Early in the evening on Thursday a gentlemen walking with two ladies on Madison street, Chicago, was robbed and shot by four ruffians who made their escape although tho street was well lighted and crowded with people. Castillar the ablest man in Spain, and recently elected to the cortes, said in a speech in Seville on Thursday night, that his party aspired to found a United States in Europe and to the formation of a universal republic. |
