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Show L1GHTXIXG FLASHES. Secretary Belknap has relumed to Washington. Carcw paper mill, at Hadley Falls, burned. Loss $O0,tK0. Insured. The Connecticut Senate has passed the usury law Jjxing interest at 7 per cent. Xew York specie shipments on Thursday were $llo,0UU in silver bars. A majority of the finance committee commit-tee of the Spanish cortes wish k I aMish pensions to members of the i Cabinet. The Pacific Mail directors were to ! meet Thursday at New York. There I were minors on the street of a murt-1 murt-1 g;ige of $0,000,(100, j Eighteen bids for gold in New York j on Thursday, amounting tol,2U),iHX ! at from 11. -JO to l-i.ti; 12.000,000 ut , from to 1 ".&. j i The contract for supplying- the Post ' Ollice department with registered ' ; package envelopes? has been awarded to George F. Neshitt tfc Co., of New York. Commander Bra hie, of the Jnniit, is in Washington to receive instructions. instruc-tions. On tiie return trip soundings will be made alo ig the coast of New Foundland. Information has been received at the War Department that the legislature legisla-ture of Texas has commended Col. McKenzie's late pursuit and chastisement chastise-ment of the Kiekapoos. .. The directors of the Pacilie mail line discussed the financial oundiliui) of the company on Thursday, and adjournal ad-journal to Friday to take up the question of issuing new bonds. The Memnonite deputation from Kussia to Manitoba havo arrival at the township set apart for them by government for their approbation. They appear well pleased with the country. JJclgiiuu refusal General Cluseret. the French Communist, a safe con? duct, and informal him if he came into E the country he will be arrested and 1 surrendered to the French authorities. authori-ties. A dispatch received at . London from the d'mtt AV.v rj(,datal Wednesday Wednes-day noun, reports 4W miles of cable paid out. The Ureal Knstern was then at latitude o'o deg., -0 minutes; longitude :20deg,, oti minutes.. J. V, Tracy resigned the presidency of the Chicago it Northwestern road, at a meeting of the directors Thursday, Thurs-day, and Albert Keep, a li rector of the Michigan Southern road succeeded succeed-ed him. M. L. Sykes succeeded C. Ii. Marvin sis Secretary. At a secret meeting of the New : York police commissioners, on Wed-! Wed-! nesday, it is said a. resolution was ' iidoplcd that the claims of colored 1 citizens he recognized bv the uppoint-i uppoint-i nient of twenty-live able In-died eol-i eol-i oral men ;is patrol men of (ho police j department. The commissioners will not say yet whether it was adoplal or not. |