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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Yellow fever is reported dying out in Charleston. Queen Vietoiia is still sick and confined con-fined to the house. A student, name nut given, has been killed climbing tho Alps. I Gladstone rejoices that ho can now! look upon tho Americans as friends. A general strike of coal miners io; Northumberland, England, is immi- j neut. ! i Patal cholera eases havo occurred at .Bantzie, Elbin, Altoua, Coblentz, Lcip- 1 sig and Vienna. j Lt is expected that "Lady Thome," the famous trotting marc, will regain her former speed. ! The orcan-grinders and other itinerants itiner-ants of New York are talking of an Italian labor bureau. The Prench Assembly will not have vacation bcibro the cvaouation by tho Germans of the four departments around Paris. Almost the entire business portion of Pnerta Plata, San Domingo, was destroyed by fire on Aueust 21st, with a loss of $bO,000. Tho brig Peacock was capsized off Shields, England; and tho bark i-mcnilt'ne has also been capsized. Both crows wero lost. j Alexander Stephens denies that he is tho author of "How the Lost Cause may bo regained and independence eocurcd for "the South." A mass meeting of eight thousand ongincers, at Ncwoastlo, England, on Saturday, resolved to insist on fifty-four fifty-four hours for a week's work. All Roman Catbolio teachers have boon dismissed from the Long Island city schools by tho superintendent, and Protestants appointed in their places. Tho Assistant Treasurer of tho United States, iu Now York, will buy ono million of bonds each Wednesday, and sell two millions of gold each Thursday, during September. Margaret Ilickey and Mary Biernc arrived at Jersey city from Cincinnati, intending to tako steamer fjr Liverpool, Liver-pool, when ouc of them was discovered discov-ered to be insane and was arrested. The decree prolonging Thiers' powers, as the Chief Executive ot France, provides for a vice-president of the council of ministers, who will occupy the chair in the absence of the PreBidcnt. Sisteou Ku Klux are reported arrested ar-rested iu North Carolina, by L". S. troops, and some Bixty more arc to bo arrested and taken to Washington. One of those in chargo is said to ho a member of the State Legislature. General Early declined to servo on a committee in tho Virginia Convention, because he thought ho saw a disposition disposi-tion to suppress freedom of speech in it; though he said ho would be with them when the political light commenced. com-menced. Amadeus has been well received on his royal trip through Spain. Addresses Ad-dresses of loyalty were presented by deputations, to which he gracefully replied; and he spoke even with the poorest, receiving petition-! usul making mak-ing friends on every hand. General Kawley say Ben Butler is the most recreant, unscrupulous and dangerous demagogue this country has seen since Aaron Burr, and Uiat he might succeed in Paris as Robcopiorre and Roehlbrt succeeded, but he i.s a mons troty in New England. The West Chester, N. Y., Grand Jury, on investigating the recent escape es-cape of prisoners from Sing Sing, were surprised that a greater number of convicts do not escape when they learned that by law only forty guards , aro allowed to watch tiio movements of jtue prisoners, of whom but twenty-five are available at one time. |