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Show LIGHTNINS FLASHES. Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, dead. Barnum is marching through Georgia. Geor-gia. Grant returned to Washington ycB-terday. ycB-terday. Ten cases of small pox in Quinoy, Illinois. Dreadful gales on tho French coast last Tuesday. No hops for tho recovery of Disraeli's wife. Senate discussing bill to abolish revenue assessors. Solicitor-general Phillips has com' menced his duties. Ostrieh feathers up. $35,000 worth burned at New York. Three notorious burglars captured near Rock Island, Ills. More wooden buildings in4Chicago now than before tho fire. Eighteen bids for gold at 120 l-lo to 25 210. A million sold. Tennessee hogs seven cents gross at Charleston, South Carolina. U. S. supremo court room crowded ,o hear the Louisiana case. Northern Pacific railway capital itock increased to $11,000,000. Henry MoAulta, Peoria, 111., wife murderer, sentenced to bo hung. Bank of England discount reduced ono per cent. Now at five per coot. Fifteen states represented at the national commercial convention at St. Louis. Colfax says nothing is settled as to bis going on the New York "Tribune." "Tri-bune." Blaine, Ames, McComb, examined by credit mobilier committee in secret session. Spaniard badly cut by Wm. Mixey, over a gau:e of cards at Franktown, Neveda. M. D. Gardner, of Elko, Nevada, suicided by shooting himself in tbe abdomen. Paris and Versailles visited by a hurricane. Great damage. Many per-' sons killed. Edwin Forrest fell dead yesterday morning while dressing at his home in Philadelphia. The Woodhull says if she is killed a hundred Yiotorias will spring from her ashes. Don't kill her 1 Secretary Delano says he goes south under the advice of his physician. Probably visit Havana, Mike McCoole, pugilist, magnificently magnificent-ly married iu 1S6S, seeks a oommon divorce now, at St. Louis. The demand for the impeachment of governor Davis, of Texas, continues. His newspapera are defiant, John Brown hung in Claiborn? ODuniyj Alabama. He killed his wife thirteen years ago. Slow but sure! Modoo Indian war in Oregon proved i a failure. But little orer 100 Modocs and 300 Snakes all told in both tribes. Five hundred and three patients in the Georgia lunatic asylum. Scvonty-two Scvonty-two of them idiots. What are the rest? Freight train broke through bridge near Cumberland, Md. Fireman killed; engineer, conductor and brakeman injured. in-jured. Winslow, fugitive president of the suspended Chicago Scandinavian bank, is in China. Went a month ago with $20,000 cash. Orton, president W. U. telegraph company, to be before the appropria-tiou appropria-tiou committee of congress on the postal telegraph. At the Boston exhibition billiard game, a hundred points, between Miss Bessinger and Mr. Tobin, tbe latter lost by fifty-one points. Bill authorising the secretary of the treasury to issue coupon bonds in ex change for registered bonds, at the ex. pense of the owners, passed 136 to 22, New York committee of Bevcnty protest against mayor Hall appointing heads of departments just as he retires. They will favor bo party legislation at Albany this winter. Syndicate of German bankers proposed pro-posed to take the whole four and a half and five per cent, funded loan at two ana a nan per cent, commission, without expenso to tbe treasury department. de-partment. Eight houses on Aoticosti is'and near Quebec completely destroy td during late hurricane. Keeper, his wife and six children killed. Several small fishing vessels wrecked on the island. Ship ''Franklin," from Hamburg for San Francisco, with a large number of emigrants stranded off the Netherlands Nether-lands in the North Sea. Eighty persons per-sons known to have perished. Others missing. Workmen of Beaver Falls, Pa., cutlery cut-lery company struck upon the appearance appear-ance of 160 Chinese who . they claim are to supercede tho whites at one-fourth one-fourth present wages as soon as they've learned tho trado. Attorney-general Williams, with the President's approval, advises tho reorganization reor-ganization of the Alabama legislature, the lights of members from contested counties being decided by the vote of each branch tor itself. Emigration agents in Italy circulating circula-ting hand bills describing America as a land ofi'abulous wealth. Emigrants at New York think they aro in Buenos Avres. Commissioners -of charity call for action by seorctary Fish. Funeral of S- N. Pike, lato of Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, took place yesterday from his residence in Fifth avenue, New York. Wm. Orton, president W. U. telegraph tele-graph company, and many prominent members of tho theatrical profession attended. Gambctta aud Louis Blanc will be tho first speakers in the French assembly to-morrow on tho dissolution petitions. Thiers, to show his neutral position, will not attend. Ministers will probably di.approvo of tho debate as inopportune. |