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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES, Timothy Kcardon was thrown from a hospital ambulan Friday, at San Francisco, and received injuries which resulted in his death. A d:spaich from Columbia, 8. C,, says that in Warren county, Georgia, a man named G. Clark horribly slaughtered slaugh-tered his wife and left her body to be burued. Clark fled. Friday night tho dead body of Chas, Popper, a German 00 years of age, &b found at ihe grave of his wife in ho Sao Franci&to Odd Fellow's icmetery. Ho had decorated her tjtnb with flowers and taken poison, dying thero. Professor Lay's gas halloon bmke from her moorings ou Saturday morning, morn-ing, at Woodward's gardens, Sun Fraocieoo, and sailed rapidly into the "upper void," alone and unoontroled. The air ship mounted almost perpendicularly perpen-dicularly and was soon so high ai to be invisible. It took an easterly course. The action of bishop Foster, of Baltimore, Bal-timore, in assigning the Rev. Dashield to the pastorate of the Madison avenue ave-nue Methodist Episcopal church, instead in-stead of appointing tho Revv Hatfield of Chicago, who was desired by the congregation, causes great indiguation and may lead to trouble. Postmastergcneral Creswell, is re ported as saying on Friday, that tho statement that there would be no increase in-crease of ratos paid for postal ears, is untrue as tho act passed last session authorized an increiso next year of $500,000, and when tho roads perfect the system and place on more oars, tho , increase will amount to tSOO,000. Information derived from the parents pa-rents of the woman Armstrong, charged charg-ed with the murder of Goodrich, shows that hc was at home on the night of the murder. Mrs. Armstrong was twice married; both of her huj-bands huj-bands dead; and her parents are aged and suffering from poverty. . Sho i: their only support. The offioers wil detain her uutil the case is thoroughlj sifted, Sho admits having been al Goodrich's homo one day last week |