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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Daniel Pratt, a pioneer manufacturer manufactu-rer of Alabama, is dead. Ago, 73. Ohio supremo court dcolarcd tho Bezel railroad law unconstitutional. Block of business hoases in Culvert, Toxas, burned yesterday. Loss, $75,-000. $75,-000. General L'Admiranlt military governor gover-nor of Paris has prohibited tho sale of the journal D'titat. Tho British steamer Altona, from Hong Kong, just arrived at San Fran-cisco, Fran-cisco, has on board a thousand Chinamen. China-men. President Grant has appointed Jackson Jack-son to represent the U. S. at the Vienna Vi-enna exposition, vice general Van Buren suspended. A Chioago special from Washington says Cameron attempted but failed to secure the removal of Douglass, commissioner com-missioner of revenue. All preparations have been made at San Francisco for the execution of Devino. He still refuses to soe any 1 persons but tho priests and the sisters of charity. i Janios T. Gardnor, chief of tho geological geo-logical survey and, exploration of the Territories of the United States, and statf, left New York Monday evening for thoir camp near Danvor, Uolo- rado. r Information received by tho depart ment ot state that tbo body ot Judge Orr, minister at St. Petersburg, will be scut to this country via Hamburg in charge of his son on tho opening of navigation, Lucignani, scntonccd to be hanged at Morristown, N. J., on Thursday next, has given up all hope of escaping the gallows by starving himself to death. He now cats ravenously. He is as profane as ever and continues to sing light songe, Henry Coulter, of Miohigan, failing to secure admission into tho race between be-tween Klgis Ward and John Blibn, challenges tho winner for $1,000 a siao, at cither Pittsburgh or Springfield, Spring-field, giving or taking suitable expenses. expens-es. Ho his do posited $2,000. A large number of peoplq visited army hesd-quarters at San Franoisco, on Tuesday, whero tho body of general I Clan by remains in state. Flags all over the city wero at half mast in re- I -peot to his memory. The casket is j strewn with flowere. A guard of honor was posted at noou. At tho requost of tho police of Brooklyn the inveitigation concerning tho death of Charles Goodrioh will not bo oontinued on Wednesday. The police hope to elicit something relative to it from Pap Tighe whom Lucotto Meyers says, from the description (riven, is tbo person whom she know as Koscoe. The hat and cap makers of New York are organizing for an effort to secure better wages than $5 or $6 per week of sixteen hours a day. The journeymen tailors in the wholesale manufacturing branch of the trade who make from $S to $10 per week working work-ing sixteen or seventeen hours a day are reorganizing with the hope of improving im-proving their condition. |