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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Stanley arrives at London on Tuesday. Tues-day. The Geneva board held a session on Friday. Don Carlos ha3 arrived at Lausanne, Switzerland. Christine Nilsson was married in London yesterday morning. Daniel Chaso, a prominent merchant of Baltimore, died on Saturday. A Washington telegram says secretary secre-tary Boutwell has gone to Graton. The mass Republican State convention conven-tion meets at W orcester, Aug. 2Sth. Paris reports say theDticdo Aumale intends resigning from the assembly. Specie shipments on Saturday were over $3,000,000. Total for the week over $4,500,000. Sir Roundel Palmer and family have gone on an excursion across Geneva lake, from Geneva. The post office department was closed on Saturday, in honor of the late ex-postmaster-general Randall. Some 600 shoemakers of Lynn, Mass., comprising thirty-five shops, have struck against a reduction of wages. At Kalamazoo, on Friday, Charles Reticker, the California boy, rode 100 miles in four hours and forty-five minutes. min-utes. The contract, for supplying the post office department with dead letter envelopes en-velopes for four years, has been awarded award-ed to Geo. H. Ray, of New York. Gov. Baldwin, of Detroit, declines renomioation and Spaulding has withdrawn. with-drawn. This leaves the course clear for John J. Bagley, the tobaceo king. A landslide, Friday, on the Mount Cenis railway, obstructed the passage of a passenger train. Passengers were obliged to walk three miles. No lives lost. A fire at Joliet, 111., destroyed the Mason io hall, which was the finest in the State, also two stores and several offices. Loss, $80,000; partly insured. in-sured. A Jefferson city, Mo., dippatch reports re-ports heavy frauds on the State and county by Chas. R, Berry, oircuit clerk of Livingston oounty. Leo. Goldsby, former clerk, has absconded. Postmaster general Cresswejl was to go to Michigan last night, where he will reply to the recent speeches of ex-! ex-! governor Blair, which attacked his j administration of the post office department. de-partment. I The Japanese embassy left Washing-' Washing-' ton Saturday for Pennsylvania. On i Tuesday they leave Boston for Europe, j where they will be joined by the mayor ot ieddo. ihey are muoh graiihcd with their visit, A Washington dispatch says the consular con-sular agent of the Starrings reports the case of consul-general Butler sustains sus-tains most of the charges against him. , His whereabouts is not yet known at the State department. The New York Times says the attorney at-torney general of New Jersey has proofs of the connection of governor Randolph with former Erie officials, one allegation being that he received $30,000 for his servi:es in removing taxation from Erie. In the Barnard trial yesterday Thos, , G. Sherwood testified that at the elcc-1 elcc-1 tioo of New York pier warehouso directors di-rectors he was released from order of , arrest on Barnard's learning that oer-tain oer-tain stock stood io the name of Ancet Packer. Fred Lowe opposed the ro-; ro-; lease. Since the publication of the Jacob J Thompson letter, a number of persons , have applied to the U. S. treasury i department, offering to furnish, for a j consideration, other confederate man-: man-: u.-cript, representing it of importance, i No lurthcr purchases, however, will be made. A Matamoras special says banished 1 revolutionists are returning to Mexico. I Telegraphic communication with the City of Mexico will bo opened in a few : days. Rocha and the revolutionary I chiefs hold a conference, at Monte-. Monte-. rey, Sunday. The revolution is virtu-' virtu-' ally ended. A Washington dispatch says official advices from Geneva show thore is no ' hitch in tho arbitration, as reported, ! and that no final award has been made 1 in the Ftvrida caso ; consequently tho j report, that tho claims on account of that vessel have been reduced from six to two millions, is untrue. Tho official report to the Spanish war department, at Madrid, announces ! the total defeat of Castillo's band of j Carlists, numbering l.iXK), in the south. ' Five were killed and forty-five cap- I tured, of whom fifteen wore wounded. .Tho defeated insurgents carried away 1 fitly wounded. It is reported another Mbaod was defeated with three killed md, many wounded. |