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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The Sultan U reported seriously ill at Lond n. Congressman Jamea Brooks is reported report-ed somewhat better. " Twenty thousand coal miners in Leicestershire struck. The Priuco of Wales left LondoD on Thursday night for Vicuna. The body of tho carl Delaware was found on Thursday morning in the river Cam, England. It scowed hard, en Thursday, at Chicago, for an hour, but tho snow melted nearly as fust as it fell. Mark Boothhy, who killed his wif'o in Edgcworth, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Wed-nesday, has surrendered himself to the authorities. Twenty bids for gold in New York, Thursday, amounting to S5,GiU,0UU, at Irom 17 01 to 17.71 J- Ono million and a half sold aL from 17.48 to 17.711. Ex-governor William Pickering, of Indiana, died on Tuesday, at the residence resi-dence of his son liichard Pickering, in Edwards' county, Illinois, of apojilcxy. Tho stockholders of the Atlantic cable companies at an unofficial mooting moot-ing adopted a resolution favoring a consolidation of the companies and an amalgamation of interests.. President Grant and family were to Icavo Kansas city on a special train this morning over the Kansas Pacific road, for Denver and the lamoua. Bummer resort of the Rocky Mountain?. Moun-tain?. Collector Bailey has seized at Albany twenty-three loeomotives and thirty-eight thirty-eight passenger and baggage cars of the New York Central &, Hudson River railroad, company for non-payment of taxes Th3 temporary retirement of Prcat. Figueras and the appointment of Mai-gall Mai-gall to administer the duties of the executive exe-cutive office have caused intense excitement excite-ment in Madrid and a rising of the population is imminent-Bills imminent-Bills amounting to $300,000 for reconstructing re-constructing tho New York centre market armory have been found in the city comptroller's office. The superintendent superin-tendent of works states the billa ho rendered amount to only 57,137. The Epsom spring meeting cloeed Thursday. Morringtoo won tho groat metropolitan stakes; Dutch Skater, last year's winner, second; and Uhlangood third. Tho race was a handioap for twenty-five sovereigns each, two hundred hun-dred added. Twelve horses started. A letter received from a Baltimorean at Pernambuco, Brazil, states that a bitter controversy is going on between the Archbishop of Pernambuco and the Masonic fraternity. The press affiliated af-filiated with the Masons and it was thought the difficulty would culminate io the expulsion of th3 Jesuits. A Boston letter says by tho near opening of the Hoosac tunnol and the consolidation of the railroad intorests, Boston hopes to share in the western trade which is to undergo great and rapid development. Boston expecLs to become a grand grain depot through new rtiilrjads and her harbor and dock improvements. |