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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Land slides on the Erie railroad are delaying the train?. Dutch Heinricb, the celebrated New York bond rubber, is insane. Nixon, the New York murderer, uii'ii r Mmlence to be hanged is improv-' improv-' im. Huilion irrthe Bank of England has de.-reut-ed during the past week 648,-UW. 648,-UW. Specie in the Bank of Franoe has decreased 250,000 franos during the past week. The insurance on Horace Greeley's life, $100,000, has been collected. 'Ihis policy iu the largest pa:d in the laU ten years. Another lurid slide on the Montice!-lo Montice!-lo railway at Port Jervis, N. 1'., carried car-ried away 100 feet of trauk and killed an old man-John man-John llauley, the youthful hero of the Atlantic disaster, visited the New York stock exchange oa Thursday, and received $233. A German in New York, on his way to tho gas works, Wednesday, was brutally beaten and unnaturally mutilated mutil-ated by the strikers. Nineteen bids for gold on Thursday, amounting to six millions at 17, 8 to 18, 10. A million and a half sold at from 18,13 to 18,19. Caldwell, of Kansas, has announced that be has abandoned politics forever, and that hereafter he will dovote himself him-self to commercial pursuitf. A dispatch from Spain states (hat tho garrison of Pucgaerda, refusing to surrender, the Carlists opened fire on tho town. Result unknown. James C. King, awaiting trial in New York for the murder of Anthony F. O'Neill, is in an advanced stage of consumption and liaDle to an early death. A desporate fight occurred a few day 8 ago, at Olonno, France, in tho department of Vendee, between two companies of strolling aotorc. N ine killed an'l several injured. The presidents of the Philadelphia national banks gave a banquet on Thursday night to ex-senator;Cattell, who h about to go to Europe to assist in refunding government bonds. Now York speoie dealers aro complaining com-plaining of the United States mint for delaying the Usue of the new silver coins. Officials state new dies are not ready and cannot issue coins from the old ones. During practice on board tho. ship Cambridge, at Devonport, England, on Wednesday, a shell burst. The officers refuBo to give information, but it is understood that a number of men wero wounded. Tin first yellow fever patients seon at New York quarantine this season arrived ar-rived Wednesday from Rio Janeiro. The authorities havo taken every precaution pre-caution to arrest tho progress of the disease and have no fear, of a general epidemio. Fresh evidence is being discovered daily, at the Bull's Head bank, clearly pointing out the defaulters and tend- ; iog to inculpate others riot yot men tinned. One of the bookkeepers has been placed under bonds to appear as a witness on the trials of Merritt and Peck. A workingmen's convention is to be held in New York on the 22d instant, to take action to insure the speedy enforcement of tho eight hour law. Workingmcn in general have little sympathy with the convention and do not oare to invite a repetition of the disasters of a year ago. The New York Sun's Albany correspondent cor-respondent gives the following as a list of tho senators who last year received re-ceived five thousand each for voting against the pro rata freight bill, as brought out by the Erie company: George Bowen, Laren L. Lewis, Wm. B. Wood in, Norman M. Allen, Gabriel T. Harrower, and James Wood. It ia asserted that Pomeroy ia working work-ing assiduously to succeed Caldwell in the senate. He has sent his paid agents already out in Kansas to work up hisohanocs. Kansas politicians concede, con-cede, however,that who ever is selcoted, by governor Osborne, for the temporary tempo-rary successor, will suooeed before the egislature when it oomes to make a choice. Paris letters say that of twenty mil lions of franos subscribed in Franoe, for the construction of the imaginary ; Memphis and El Paso railroad, eight- 1 een and a half millions went into the pockets of those engineering the scheme, and the remainder was used to makfi extravatr mb o.intraots t.hat thn Bale of lands might be further stimulated. stimu-lated. In the New York pOGtal oar investigation, investi-gation, on Thursday, Mr. Hinokley argued in favor of tho railroad companies' compa-nies' being paid by measurement, instead in-stead of weight, for oarrying the mail, and against being compelled to use patent heating apparatus in the postal oars. N. Davis, assistant superintendent superintend-ent of the postal eerviae, replied for the govornment and read a statement that in the southern and eastern States railroads were paid an advance of twenty per oent. Binoe 1807, and i in some instances, on western roads, ; as high as 100 and even 150 per oent. |