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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. First snow storm of the season at London yesterday. Fall light. The public debt increased four hundred hun-dred and six thousand last month. Nothing has been yet learned, at Marysville, of the missing child Cummins. Cum-mins. Rain still continues in California. Prospects of the grain crops were never better. Engineers and stokers of tho Porlu-gueso Porlu-gueso railway on strike. Freight trains ouajjeuded. Sj New York weekly bank '. statement shows a decrease of specie of a million and three-quarters. Letters from Massachusetts represent repre-sent Dawes' chances for senatorship as improving. Boutwcll's friends admit this. Minister Sicltcls telegraphs that no steps will be taken to abolish slavery in Cuba until tho insurrection is suppressed. sup-pressed. Nchcmiah Bushnell, one of the most prominent lawyers of southern Illinois, died at his house in Quincy on Friday, aged 50. Library of the Royal Military academy acade-my at Wooiwich burned on Friday night. Also part of the clock tower. Loss not state J. Ex-governor Joel A. Matte;.on, governor gov-ernor of Illinois from 1853 to 1857, died suddenly Friday noon, at the house of his son-in-law R. E. Goodell in this ci:y, aged 65. It is said that Bismarck has demanded deman-ded an explanation from the Russian authorities concerning the chooting of a Prussian by certain custom officials ot Russia m Upper Silesia. Wm. P. C.Stcbbins, building superintendent super-intendent of the San Francisco new branch mint, died yesterday, after a brief illness. F'lags over public buildings build-ings at half mast in honor of his memory. Disturbances apprehended in the 1 districts surrounding Prague becauso tho meeting of Teck delegates "in the , Bohemian district, to rrotest against : direct elections was prohibited. Troops sent to suppress disorder. An affray occurred at Yuba city, California, on Friday, between L. Bot-ler Bot-ler and Leopold Kuhn, during which Kubn was stabbed three times in the left side. Bottler is said to have boon drunk. He was arrested. In the Wilson committee yesterday Snyder, tormerly eeneral superintendent superintend-ent of the Union Pacific, testified that he knew no government directors or commissioners who were paid anything besides their mileage expenses, except Cornelius Wendell who asked and received re-ceived twenty-five thousand dollars. Tho police war presents no new features. The mayor has. removed two captains who refused to oocy the orders of superintendent Washburne, supended by the bioru oi police commissioners, com-missioners, and has appointed a sergeant in the place of one of them. The sergeants of the district, however, refuse to recognize his authority, and continue to act under the orders of trie deposed captains. The Chicaeo Journal's Washington special says Ben Butler has commenced commenc-ed acitatinff for an extra session of . concress. His object is to secure a reorganization re-organization of the house chairmanships chairman-ships under the credit mobilier excitement. excite-ment. He openly says that credit mobilipr criminals like Garfield, Dawee and Kelly must be destroyed. It is understood that Maynard'a friends consider the March session of corjgress will favor his chances for speakership. |