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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The gale on the lakes has ceased. Dishop Loquin, of Syracuse, died at Saratoga yesterday. General Espanola has resigned bis Eent in the Spani.--b senate. Many disasters are reported f.om the gale on tho British coast. The loss by the late fire at the Mcri-dien Mcri-dien oar works, Conn., was $50,0(X). Tlio Paris Conservative papers condemn con-demn Gambetta's speech at Grenoble. Four vessels were beached Saturday night during a severe gale on lako Krio. The Sultan has sent a special mes sencer bearing a firman to the viceroy of Egypt. The Republicans of Algiers have nominated Victor Hugo for tho French assembly. The London " Times" oonfirms tho reported resignation of lord chancellor Ilatherly. The foundries of Lisbon aro closed , by a strike said to bo supported by the Internationals. Tho Rev. Francis Vinton, assistant rector of Trinity parish. New York, died on Sunday. Two hundred feet of tho Buffalo breakwater were carried away by the storm of Sunday. Reports from lako ports show that the storm of Saturday and Sunday night was extremely severe. Calcutta dispatches report a cyclone, on tho 21st ult., by whioh $2oL,000 damage was done tho jute crop. A large number of Washington department de-partment clerks aro en. route homo to register for the October elections. A severe rain and wind storm prevailed pre-vailed at Chicago all Saturday night. Many disasters on the lakes are feared. E. K. Smart, cx-ooogressman from Camden, Me., and Democratic candidate candi-date for governor in 1S70, died last night Sir Roundcll Palmer is reported to havo accepted tho lord chancellorship of England, lord Ilatherly having resigned. re-signed. Upon tho arrival of 500 regulars at the beseiged town of Puicerda, Spain, on Saturday, tho Carlists fled to the mountains. Spain will submit to other European powers the question of damages claimed against the United States for Cuban expeditions. Bishop ErmeLnd, of Prussia, adheres ad-heres to his position opposing secular authority on the question of excommunication. excom-munication. A warehouse at Albany fell in yes terday burying two men in the ruins. The building was entirely destroyed. Loss $:i0,000. The ship "Nazarene" was wrecked off Formbey, England, during the heavy gales of last week. All on board were drowned. Two vessels were beached during a eevere storm at Milwaukee, on Sunday. The crew and passengers were rescued by a revenue cutter. Tho official canvass of Vermont Elves Converse, Republican, 41,9-16. Gardner, Democrat, 16,613, with fourteen four-teen scattering votes. Patrick Quino, a laborer in the New York navy yard, was found dead Sunday Sun-day morning. He had evidently been murdered and robbed. Michael Turnbull was on Saturday convicted of the murder of a cell companion com-panion at the Easton, Pa-, penitentiary. peniten-tiary. He plead insanity. Wm. Smith, a veteran actor of Boston who diod in California recently, was buried with imposing ceremonies on Sunday at the former place. The New York athletic base ball club played a match with the Bald-mores Bald-mores on Saturday. A drawn gamo was the result, after nine innings, Ex-governor Curtin spoko at Belle-fonte, Belle-fonte, Pa., Saturday night in favor of Buckalew, but gave no indication of his preference for presidential candidate. candi-date. The New York assistant treasurer has been directed to buy a million bonds each Wednesday, and sell a million mil-lion of gold each Thursday, during October. Oc-tober. London railway employes held a meeting at Hyde Park, Sunday, to take measures for the emigration of a large portion of their number to Canada and the United States. President Grant's return to Washington Wash-ington has given the White House an animated appearance. Much dcluyed business has been disposed of and a number of appointments made. The Ward's Island insane asylum investigation shows bad feeling between the warden and chief physician. Numerous Nu-merous abuses in the management have been made known. Testimony s still being taken. The oil producers of Oil city, Pa., will suspend all pumping for thirty days. Three-fourths of the wells in tho oil region stopped at mignight on Saturday night. The object is to advance ad-vance the price of oil. Patrick Leary, of New York, recently re-cently discharged from the insane asylum, asy-lum, was seized with a tit of insanity yesterday and horribly mutilated his wife and daughter with a meat saw. Both will probably die. The night passenger train for Montreal Mon-treal was thrown from the track by cattle cat-tle near Lancaster, N. H., Saturday night. Three passengers wero fatally injured, and the conductor, a brake-man brake-man and three ladies slightly bruised. Three cars were wrecked. A train of railway employes, on the Booneton brarch of the Delaware, Ijackawanna, and Western road, collided colli-ded with a coal train near Patterson, N. J. Tho cars were completely wrecked, two men killed, and eight seriously injured. The accident is to be investigated. Tho "Patrie" reports an interview with Thiers in which he declares all Europe desires peace. Germany weakened wea-kened herself by annexing northern territory. Russia is friendly to France. Austria sympathisos with her, and Italy remembers the past. France has nothing to fear. Her revenge will come by works not arms. At Jerscyville, III?., Saturday night, i city marshal McKinney, in attempting i to arrest Jones, ticket agent of Forc-I Forc-I paugh's circus, fur boisterousness in a saloon, shot Jones, mortally wounding him. Great excitement followed, and it was feared tho town would be burned but quiet was finally secured and tho circus left town. |