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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Cool weather at Chicago. The river Po is still rising. The river Rhone continues its overflow. over-flow. Horse disease has appeared at Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. Horse disease spreading rapidly is Chicago. Kighty-five horses died io Now York yesterday. Pittuburg estimates ten thousand sick horses. Marked improvement among New York horses. The Mayor Hall jury disagreed and was discharged yesterday. Chicago reported a thousand cases of horse disease yesterday. La.'go cumbers of white swans are reported near cllington, Kansas. Mrs. Abby Sat-e Riehardaon has returned re-turned to New England to lecture. Jor&oy City chief of police McWi!-liams McWi!-liams was yesterday bailed at $21,000. Musio hall, at Oxford, England, burned Thursday night. Loss not stated. Tha public debt has been reduced $5,000, 000 during tho last three months. Six business bouses of Plattsburg, Mo., burned October 2S.li. Loss I'JS.OOO. Disraeli is praised for his discretion and forbearance duriDg the Geneva arbitration. ar-bitration. John R. Woodward, of Elmira, N. "., has beep arrested for attempts to bribe voters. Mobile and several gulf ports of Terns, have been visited by swarms of grasshoppers. The sudden breaking out of the hoife disease at Philadelphia, yesterday, ended end-ed a $1,500 race. Ohio observes Thanksgiving on the 28th of November, by gubernatorial proclamation yesterday. The typhoid laryngite epizooty is the treuble with the horses. Enough to kill any civilized animal I The Chicago "Tribune" yesterday paid an eloquent tribute to Col. Evans, lost io tho steamer "Missouri." St. Jamei hotel, at Rockway, L. I., was burned early yesterday, the occu pants barely escaping. Loss $100,000. The tobacco crop for the past season is estimated at 263,196,100 pounds. Of this amount Kentucky raised 103,-500,000. 103,-500,000. Howard Brownell, private pecretary of Parrngut, at the battle of Mobile bay, died on Thursday, at Hartford, aged 52. . . : Miss Sallio Shannon, who wan the favorite American lady in the eyes of (jrand Duko Alexis, was married at St. Loui?, on Tuesday. Senator Spraguc, of Rhode Island, is examining the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad, preparatory to ao-cepling ao-cepling the presidency thereof. The lower branch of tbo Spanish oongress has elected Masontura, radical, radi-cal, vice prcsi lent-, to fill a vacancy. The vote stood 142 against 1 IS. W. B. Rilchison, a young farmer of Greene county, Ohio, yesterday ambushed am-bushed himself in a hedge and shot & neighbor, Wm. Pogwell, fatally wounding wound-ing him. Tho King bridge company of To-peka, To-peka, Kansas, are preparing to commence com-mence the building of the bridge across the Missouri at Atchison. The cost is to be $900,000. A man named Hardcastle attempted to jump from the top of odc freight car to another on the Kansas Pacific road fell and was cut to pieces being run over by nine cars. The Pope bas resolved to defend the course of the church of Geneva against the decree of the Swiss governor govern-or en, forbidding the exercise of the episcopal function by the recently appointed ap-pointed Bishop Mermillad. Mrs. Vincent Collyer was drowned, on Thursday, while driviDg across a stream on (he road to the island, near Darien, Conn , where Bhe resided. She was returning alone, after having accompanied ac-companied her husband to the cars on his way to visit the Kiowa Indian delegation. dele-gation. The Po is still rising and the inundation inunda-tion is spreading. Families are fleeing far life, and many unable to escape are in a starving condition in the tree tops and upon the floating bouses. The stream is full of floating wrecks and carcasses. The town of Reggio, fourteen four-teen miles north of Modnea, is almost entirely submerged. |