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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Raining in London yesterday. Thiers returned to huj official rei'l;Lue at V'er-ianiun. Ship IJeooiogcon, ofJi-jfiton, font at n;a. Eight men drowned. Governor Wahburne, of Maaehu-iettd, Maaehu-iettd, inaugurated ytcterday. Thirty five thou-and dollar fire in New York early New Year n day. All N;w York madu N'ew Year's (jalln in sleigh.t. D.iy very ojuiet. 1'iiUit! dt-U aUltjim-nt .ihowi an in-r-,i io d'jriog lJecciiibcr of 1 1 " l,- .;im. Iit..-it irfiporiH at San Francisco, by "-ramirr Chin1, I lo Chinamen and one Jap. A. T. Krcwart hiis presented to tho N'ew York fund for disabled lire men. It in reported that a largo Kalian loan will be so iQ put oo the Kngh.ih market. Remain of the boy, buroed at the N'.-w York Centre ntreot fire, recovered yesterday. Maney (larlington brutally murdered murder-ed at Sprinliuld, Ohio, by her drunk-; drunk-; en ha.-tband. New Year's day generally obnerved in California. Weather stormy and diiaKrccabiu. fifth Avenue theatre, adjoining the hotel, gone up in sparks. Sympathetic Sympathet-ic coinbu.-itiou. Neckties and fancy shirts above par. $ 17,000 worth burned in a New York furni.ihing utore. General Van iloon has been specially special-ly appointed president of tlie i'rudsian council of the ministry. Building wrecked and one man badly bad-ly damaged by the explosion of a soda ! fountain in New York. Tho Indians who have been making oxtennivo raidi into Uruguay, have been defeated and driven back. Two hundred and fifty dollars received re-ceived at tho benefit for tho family of of tlio lato A. D. Evans. Slim 1 San Francisco colored pooplo celebrated cele-brated Emancipation with muoh enthusiasm, en-thusiasm, closing with a grand ball. 'Iho present long continued cold weather at Bangor, Maine, has been unprecedented fur the last thirty yoarB. Several miners precipitated several hundred feet into a copper mine, at Liberty, Md.,by tho breakingjof a BCaf-fold. BCaf-fold. Warmoth's tax collectors fleeingand flitting away. Several already disappeared, disap-peared, one being a defaulter for $:jo,j(ju. Secretary Delano telegraphs that his hnali li is quite restored. lie leaves Havana on tho 8th, reaching' Washington Washing-ton on tho 15. Steamer Minnesota arrived at London Lon-don on Tuesday. She lost fifteen bales nt" nnflfiH hu ti rn wlif-n Run iliv nnf. from New York. Tho Vancouver Ilogistor estimates that tho whoat orop of Clarko county next year, with an avorago season, will amount to 35,000 bushels. Russia has communicated lo England Eng-land her plan of the campaign in Central Cen-tral Asia, QDd has offered to allow British officers to witness it. Tbo Yellow rivor, in China, has overflown a Bocond timo and much more extensively than at first. Incalculable Incal-culable damago has been dono. Heavy rains at Chicago, Toledo, Detroit, De-troit, and throughout tho east and west. Telegraph wires in all directions from Chicago working hard or not at all. GovcrnorDix and lieutenant-governor Osborno, of Now York, inaugurated at tho Stato assombly chamber at 11 a.m. on tho Jst instant. Capitol densly crowded. In tho Stokes oaso yesterday Jeamo Tumor testified to a lady picking up a pistol on tho hotel stairs, at the time timo of tho murder, and giving it to a gontleman. Henry Hill, a sailor, shot in tho forehead fore-head byltobort O'Malloy, mato of the steamer Lucy, in San Francisco, yos-tcrday. yos-tcrday. O'Malloy jailed and Hill sont to tho hospital Tho revenue rcocipts of Great Britain for tho quarter ending December Decem-ber 3ist, amounted to poventy-cight millions an increase of flvo millions over tho preceding quarter. At Paris tho weather was very fine on New Year's day. The boulevards wcro crowded with holidav throngs and tho oity presented tho most animated ani-mated appearanoo seen since tlio war. Governor Palmer has respited Mo-Nulta, Mo-Nulta, wife murderer, who was to be hanged at Peoria, Ills., to-day, for thirty-five days. All tho Chicago council apply to the supremo court for a supersedeas. l'lighteon hundred omigrants arrived at Castle Garden on New Y ear's day, principally Germans and Italians. Tbey report having generally suffered intensely in-tensely from cold and ill-treatment throughout tho voyage. Rumor says thero will bo an attempt at-tempt in New Orleans to inaugurate the McEury State officials on tho 9th instant, and that troublo is anticipated. 'Twould be sad to have "trouble" added to tho Louisiana performance. Phillip Bullinoer, member of the St. Louis Presbyterian ohurob, and religious re-ligious tract distributor, has been arrested ar-rested upon a charge of incest with his own daughter eighteen years old. He stoutly denies the charge which she herself preferred. Wade, British minister to China, has reprimanded the consul at Niogpo who acted in conjunction with the American consul in settling the disturbance dis-turbance at Honahon. The United States minister thanked the latter for his part in this affair. Bismarck is still afcer the Catholics. Prosecutions have beeu instituted aeainst their journals, in Berliu and other German cities, that published tho Papal allocution. Excitement upon up-on the subject is increasing throughout tho empire. Step carefully, Bismarck. Tho fall of Macey's paper mill, Brooklyn, on Tuesday night, damaged that building to the extent of $15,000. Snow on the roof caused the damage by settling the building. A flour mill next door had its roof crushed in, two horses being killed, several injured and fourteen wagons smashed. The mail steamer from Rio Janerio. Pea Tth, has arrived at Lisbon. Gen, Mitre having success! uliy completed his negotiations with the Argentine republic, was honored with a publio banquet, attended by the chief officers of government and the leading members mem-bers of the legislative bodies. President Thiers held the usual New Y'ear's reception at Versailles. The diplomatic corps was first received. No speeches were made, the president merely exchanging a few words with each foreign representative. Tbe members mem-bers of the rjatiooal assembly followed, deputies of all shades of political opinion opin-ion being cordially welcomed and heartily hear-tily congratulated. New Year's customs throughout VN ashington were strictly observed. The executive mansion was crowded i for several hours with diplomatic cir-i cir-i cles who attended cn masse. The cabinet and supreme court were fully represented while congress, the army, the navy, and citizens were on hand in large numbers. Most of the cabinet members also held receptions at home. General Sherman's house was literally thronged with army oacers. Ship Win thro p from Antwerp for New York reports passim; through a meteoric shower near the West Made-1 Made-1 1 ria isiasd- It lasted two and a half 1 hours. During the first hour from i nina to twelve hundred meteors were ', in the air constancy, and four to sis ' hundred during the hour. They then craduil'y di?ap reared. ASou: four-' four-' tilths of them seemed smad bads of i tire moving s!ow;y. Others moved with great velocity leaving a trail like ' that of an army rocket. |
