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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Thurlow Weed slowly recovering. Thiers gives one thousand franca to Boston. Motion, f-T early trial of Stokes, made yesterday. Govoraor Conko. of Washington, is confined to his house. New York dock fire police will be abolished by the legislature. Memorable service at tho Old South Church, Boston, on Sunday. . Horses at Troy, N. Y,; are having tho dropsy. Disease vary severe. Abbey ville, S. C, burned hor business busi-ness on Sunday. Damage, $50,000. Many noted running horses attacked by the hippo in New York. All doing well. Wilson & Davis' silver ware factory, at Philadelphia burglarized $8,000 worth. Motion mado by Tweed for the lists of witnesses upon whose testimony ho was indicted. Silk weavers striko at Patterson, N. J., successful. All but ono proprietor have conceded the old wages. Jus. 0. King, formerly a New York stoak-brokor, shot James O'Neil dead yesterday. Family difficulties. Andrew D. Fowler, formerly of the Cleveland " Plain Dealer, " died at Newark, N. J., on Saturday. Philadelphia business men have nearly completed a fund of $100,000 for the family of general Meade. . F. Caffio & Co. announce that they will givo away 1,000 lots near Chicago. Tho "Times" pronounces it a swindle. The banks of the beautiful Susquehanna Susque-hanna river are lined with thousands of dead fowls. Chiekagrippe epidemic General John F. Dale, a leading criminal lawyer of Memphis, died Eud- denly, on Sunday, of congestion of the lungs. Third floor of the New York 'Herald" building broke yesterday. Five workmen thrown to the basement. Three fatally injured. Prince .Napoleon will Bue for 40,000 franos, the prefect and commissary of police who served on him the order of expulsion from Franco. Tho American and British mixed commission, at Washington, have awarded $4,000 additional damages against the United States. Tho well known trotters "Sontag," "Abdalah," "Lottery" and "Western New York" have died of tho horse disease in New York city. Vermont and New Hampshire oom-plain oom-plain that the febrcquobron ohiatihar-Borenose ohiatihar-Borenose is carrying off all their oxen to play horse in the cities. - Lay ton House, leading hotel in Logansport, Ind., badly damaged by fire. Loss heavy but not stated. Owners will tear it down and rebuild. Mow Vnrlr mliflft Rftrnadinir Broad way concert saloons. Proprietors and barkeepers of nine jailed on Saturday. Sat-urday. Also 160 pretty waiter girls. New York supreme court-commission show that over $10,000,000 worth of property has been given freo for street railway franchises in that State. New York committee of seventy dis-cuing dis-cuing disbandonmenL Ihink Have-meyer, Have-meyer, new mayor, may need their aid. They decide the matter ta-oight Two hundred miles of tho Grand Trunk railway, from Sarina to Fort Erie, changed its gauge on Saturday, from five feet six to four feet eight and a half. Horse dropsy has appeared in all the street car stables of New York. Forty percent, of the animals attacked die. Hon-es affected are mainly those used while suffering with the epizootic. Ben Capoune, alleged defaulting navy paymaster is decided, by court, a lunatic At the time of his giving bonds ho was not qualified to enter into a contract. Loss only $25,000. Shakers at Morris, N. Y., suddenly taken to wrangling among themselves. Life was getting too - monotonous. General division of property expected. Tho marriage question is what did it. The Chicago, Fort Wayne and Pittsburgh, tbe Chicago, Alton and St- Louis, and the Milwaukee and St Paul railway companies will erect, at Chicago, one of the largest and finest depots in the country. Body ot Thomas McNamarn, constable con-stable at Lackawanna, Pa., found on outskirts of Scranton with face, fearfully fear-fully fcinashed and hands severely cut, evidently in trying to ward off the knife of his murderer. r Along the Hudson river a terrible disease has appeared among poultry. Chickens dying by the hundreds. Tur-, Tur-, keys, geese and ducks, in market, show 1 j-ifjos of the malady. Disease assuming the form of a destructive pestilence. Win. P. Shearman, chief cJeik of the stamp division of tho internal revenue department, has re.-igned to accept the position of treasurer of the Krie railway. , Vacancy will be filled undur the civil service regulations. Memorial meeting in respect to tbe late general Meade held yesterday at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia. Union Lt1 ague attended in a body. General Ilumphrcjs pronounced the oratioo. " Resolutions adopted, and closing address made by M. Gibson. New York insurance circles excited over the reports that judges in adjoining adjoin-ing counties are ready to appoint receivers re-ceivers upon ex parte statements, to make money out of" the misfortunes of i the companies. Underwriters' will resent re-sent and pray tbe legislature for aid. Reliable estimates place the destruction destruc-tion of wool at Boston at 10,250,000 pounds, of whioh 3,950,000 was domestic, do-mestic, tho balance foreign. There are Btill in bond, at Boston 14,700,000 pounds, at Philadelphia 200,000, at New York 17,000,000. Captain Ed Dix, well-known steamboat steam-boat man of St. Louis, shot Robert Westlin, of New Orleans, at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, on Sunday. Sun-day. No words passed. Westlin hit in left jaw and tide Not seriously wounded- Dix surrendered to the police. |