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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Heavy snow storm in Maine. Richmond, Va., has small pox. Weather cold and rainy in Chicago. Weather at Boston clear and picas-ant. picas-ant. Five thousand dollar fire at Albany, N. X. Horse cpidemio nearly over, in Jersey Jer-sey city. Forty cases of small pox at Lexington, Lexing-ton, Ky. Weather in New York clear, cold anH braeiog. The inundation of tho river Po is still extending. Highwaymen are reported about Savannah, Ga. Fifteen nt-roes havo small pox, at Frankfort, Ky. Incessant rain in London during the past four days. Chicago reports horses on tho streets scarce curiositiee. The horse epidemic is rapidly abating abat-ing in New York. Central Kentucky reports small pox in noarly every town. Horse disease is reporteJ, at Wash-incton, Wash-incton, in a mild form. Philadelphia is to havo a $2,000,000 bridge over tho Schuylkill. Joseph Ames, a welt known artist of New York, died on Wednesday. Charles Francis Adams sailed for home in the "Russia" yesterday. An attempt was made to rob Andy Johnson's house a few uights since. Nearly all tho horses in PhiladoP" nhia are down with the distemner. A Mississippi sheriff called to arrest a judge, changed his mind after having hav-ing four bullets put through h:m. Jaa. C. Webb charged with the murder of James Fowler, at Marietta, Ga., threo years ago has been arrested at Atlanta. Three highwaymen in Memphis, robbed Thos. Wesson of four dollars and missed a thousand dollars in another ano-ther pocket. Rev. Wm. H. Hare, of the Episcopal Episco-pal church, new secretary of the foreign committee, has been elected as bishop to tho Indians. Tbo Hall jury say they disagreed on the point of wilfulness or neglect. They 6tood seven for conviction and five for acquittal. A red and wbito spotted doe was lately killed at Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Ken-tucky. It is tho only one known to havo been seen in that State. Mrs. Woodhull was arrested yesterday yester-day on charge of slander. Warrants for libel were also issued for herself and partners by several parties. A train at the Toronto and Bruce 1 railroad, of Canada, ran off the track yesterday, near Owen Sound, killing two persons and wounding four others. The coroner's jury, on the late railway rail-way disaster at Seabrook, Conn., ex-honerate ex-honerate the oompany of blame, as the turned switch had been tampered with i by persons unknown. Havana advices state that 50 houses were burned and a small detachment of Spaniards captured, during tho ro-cent ro-cent insurgent attack upon the village of Guisa, near llayomo. Limpkin, an engineer on the Mobile and Ohio road, killed an engineer named Jones and attempted to escape on bis engine He was followed with another engino and captured. John Francis Maguire. a well known Irish member of parliament, from Cork, proprietor and principal editor of the Cork "Examiner," died on Friday Fri-day night. He was 57 years of age. Two hundred people were precipitated precipi-tated twelve feet hy the falling of the courtroom floor in Dcrry county, Ireland, Ire-land, on Saturday. Several were instantly in-stantly killed and forty severely injured. in-jured. A London letter says Gladstone opposes op-poses raising the "Alabama" money by a loan as it would increase the public pub-lic debt It is probable bonds will be ; issued for a part of the sum so as to ; extend the period for payment. The English municipal elections, on Friday, resulted in heavy conservative gains. This is attributed to the licensing licens-ing net- The new ballot system proved slow and tedious. In many places but a part of the vote was polled. Much dissatisfaction is expressed. Abont a hundred and fifty persons, on Friday, attacked Octrair Stodin, at the town of Besseges, Franco. A number num-ber of gens d'armea wore wounded and were forced to use their firearms. Several Sev-eral of tho assailants wero killed and wounded. Troops havo been called out to ptcvent more trouble. John A. Griswold, of Troy, N. Y., rcoently deceased, was one of tho prominent pro-minent capitalists in tho building of Ericsson's first "Monitor." He with others assumed all of the risk of failure, fail-ure, government only consenting to aooept the vessel when proved a euo-cess. |