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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Fumner reached Paris, Monday night. A $30,000 fire occurred yesterday in Farmington. The order of American Mechanics is holding a council at New York. Secretary Robeson is expected at Washington to day from New York. The American war Bteamer " Wa-chusett" Wa-chusett" has arrived at Portsmouth. Tho Kansas "Straightouts" havo a State convention, at Topeka, October third. Tho "P ionecr" was yesterday sold at Newport., K. I., by the marshal for $4,800. Gen. Cowan, assistant secretary of the interior, was expected at Washington Washing-ton yesterday. The advanced price of coal causes the Lancashire cotton mills to reduce hours of labor. Peter Booker, a young blacksmith of Evansville, Ind., accidentally shot himself Mouday evening. Mr?. Mary Frances Wade sues ex-mayor ex-mayor Kallfleish, of Brooklyn, for $150,000 for breach of promise. Gen. Torrill, assistant postmaster ! general, goes to Indiana to day, to remain re-main uotil after the State electioo. The Turkish ambassador to France is said to have died a few days since on a railway train e route to Austria. Johnson, tho New York sub-treasury defaulter, has gone to Europe. His wife was left sick and destitute. Weather throughout England is reported re-ported very tempestuous. Consider able damage has been done shipping or the coast. Grant leaves Long Branch, for the season, to-day. He spends to-morrow at Philadelphia, and goes thence to Washington. Henry McNulta, of Cbilicothe, in a drunken fit, beat his wile to death. He was with difficulty rescued from a mob determined to lynoh him. Goodspecd, the Bunko victim of Chicago, proves to be a confidential clerk who absconded from a Hartford bank with $5,000 of the funds. Two persons were severely injured by a collision yesterday between the New Haven express train and the Grnnd street horse cars in New York. No decision has yet been arrived at as to the method of auditing private claims for damages by the rebel cruisers. cruis-ers. Congress is expected to decide the question. The French departments of Marne, and Haute Marne are to be evacuated October loth, by agreement just consummated con-summated with the German commander com-mander Manteuffel. L. H. Kaufmann, of Washington Thos. Underwood, of Lafayette, Ind., and A. C. Sands, of Cincinnati, have been appointed government direotora of the Northern Pacific road. Evanston, Penn. , has indefinite rumors of the murder of three negroes by a gang of white laborers, to avenge the alleged murder of one of their number. Several negro shanties are reported burned. |