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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Nothing new in the Stokos ease. Hudson and East rivcra blocked with ice. Boutwell's resignation is reported written. He is to atcp out Feb. lyih, d. v. Weather in New York yesterday clean and pleasant. New York CItiitra Park lake? crowded with skatcrw. ; Clear and pleasant woa-her iu California Cali-fornia on Sunday. So? Two more failures announced ou the Lon'lun stock exchange, llmiiton & Co s block in Oswogo, ' N. 1"., burned. Loss, $4o,0tX). Walter McCcnVry proaidect of the bank ol Chicago, died on Saturday. W'ni Williamson and J. II. Landman Land-man of Cincinnati dead. Fucumonia. J. Wilkes Booth is onoo moro in the tlesh. He has appeared at Syracuse. Syra-cuse. w, v Tlnro - i Cincinnati broker died on Sunday niht. John Conner's jewelry store, New York, robbed of $3,0U0 worth of jewelry. Daniels it McCaw'a sale stables in St. Louis burned. Loss $12,000. Horses all saved. Austria dispenses with the services of the Count Von Beust. She's down on Dutchmen now! Carnival of alcighiog on the Harlem lano and other roads in the upper part of New York city. Count Corti, Italian ministor at Washington, denies having been recalled re-called by his government. Lotta refuses to appear in London becauso it is so foggy she fears the people oouldn't understand hor. Tannery burned at Pittsburg. Thirty thousand dollars worth of hides and tan bark destroyed, Nice smsU dur ing the lire ! i Smith is dead a?aiu. Ho was connected con-nected with the Cincinnati Gazette aud choked himself to death whilo eating oatmeal porridge. A new government building is to bo erected in Sacramcuto on tho corner of 4th and L streets. Tho purchase of ground cost $30,000. Froude, at the solicitation of friends, ! has decided to remain another week in this country. The fraud! Our fond farewell was all In vain. Lirgo steam tannery burned at ' Portsmouth. Lisa, $30,000 ; insurance, insur-ance, $19,000 Sweet seemed performance perfor-mance at this point too. The New York Herald says, one of the leading stock operators has locked up a million and a half of greenbacks. Preparing tor tho Now irear. The Rev. Dr. Haight has written a letter declining- the position to which he has been elected bishop in tho Episcopal diocese of Massachusetts. ; Thirty steamboats, with ten ferry ' and harbor-tow boats, ice-bound at : Cincinnati. All well protected so aa 1 to be secure when tho ice breaks up. i The secretary of tho treasury has authorized the assistant treasurer at ! New Y'ork to buv one million nf honds : and sell one million in coin each week in January. The Louisiana committee in New Yorkl deny the statements of senator Kellocg. The whole secret of the muddle lies in the political disappointments disappoint-ments of Warmoth. A hundred workhouse prisoners cleaning away the ruin3 of tho New York Centre street fire. Coroner's inquest to bo hold over the bodies of victims as soon as found. Roselle, France, collected a thousand francs in its churches on Sunday for the relief of the rescued snrTerers from the steamer Germania. Tho sufferers not rescued are beyond relief. Thiers called on the English embassy em-bassy at Paris oq Saturday. Upon leaving he fell, slightly contusing his right hip and elbow. He had not been drinking, as our devil suggests! Tho commission to inquire into tho depredations of Mexicans on tho Texan frontiers, expect to leave Washington on January 7th to returro their labors. Meade, ono of the commissioners, has resigned. Wm. Donnovan, tho Winchell, California Cali-fornia murderer, was on Saturday taken to the State's prison, there to re-mainduring re-mainduring his "natural" life. How natural to wonder where he'll spend his "unnatural" l:fc. Gilbert C. Collins, clerk at the Turkey hill coal pit near Bcllcvicw, Ills., while assisting in dumping coal into the screen, fell down the shaft 1:20 feet. Ho died ia two hours. Most men would have died iu half the lime. Frederick Campbell found in hia room ding from a pistol shot wound accidentally received, was tho flon of Jacob Campbell, president of the Pacific hank. lie held a rcspon's'blo portion in the banking house of Ver-miljc Ver-miljc cc Co. British vessel, in Charleston, S. C, harbor, with ,2-1 (bales of uplands cottou caught fire Saturday night, aud was sunk to save a portion of the cargo. car-go. Much d -image sustained from the salt water. Corucd citlon doesn't sell well. Sui Francioo dispa'chra in ivp art-ice art-ice the knocking down and robbing of a cbickcntocd Chinaman on Saturday, by which ttio hoodlums secured $Ib, savs: ''This is of dily occurrence." Possibly it is the same John each timo. What the d:ucc is his "little game?" Cu.tom house frauds developed in Havana. Names of otficia's implicated have- b?cn published. The expose cmscs much excitement among the office holders and merchants. For a small affiir, moro fuss is made over it than was kicked up over tho New Yo;k custom house orrors of judgment. judg-ment. Havana oxen have tho bosophecg-matoblcnasticui, bosophecg-matoblcnasticui, a near relative of the hippo grippe. The telrgraph pays they have it in two jurisdictions. This is piobably a misiakc, or, as telegraphers telegraph-ers say, a hu'l. They probably have it in the head. Many deal. Choice rna'B ahead. Coroner's inquest upon tho bediea of the two Chinamen, victims of the Hercules powder works explosion, ia to be lnld alter the holidays It is now claimed tint souii nitroglycerine was exploded, through iht carelessness of ouo of the Chine-so workman au 1 that noue of tho powder exploded. The s'eatufir Junes Adger arrived at New York on Saturday with ten men for thn Albany Penitentiary, convicted con-victed of Ku Klux nuirages. Among the rri.'-; crj is Rev. Jihn Kzoll, B ipti t e!- ig mm of South Carolina. Three r.t'er confess to being coi-ccrrc.1 coi-ccrrc.1 in fourteen aPsaHfinatiouB. 7ho St. Peterburgh Bulletin informs in-forms m that tho Czarowitch rcs'cd fpiidly on Saturday uight, and that ht.i condition is (-atifltiictory. This making dailv itenH of tho way this ynucix man fIept, how often he snored, what ho had for dinner, and how he means to rest to-night, is too much of h g'-ud thing. Lt's kuow whoo bo diea acd that's all that ia necessary. The alleged ra-o of pardon by the grand duke ''f Hcsjo on condition that tho criminal emigrates to America, having been brouiriit to tho attention of thn ll-"Man authorities by our diplomatic dip-lomatic rci-recntativo at Berlin, nrnu-rancrs nrnu-rancrs hnvo hern (riven that prird'um a -c'!iip:i'.ii il by f-'"'h condition will in n cno lie granted by the grand duke. Tim wrnl'! v, "imnilti o onprivi!o:o i on Jutiu try Hiihwill ri"uino ih'irin-v-ihi'Ji'i'ifi ol l ho ijhitrn hu AuhI n:mi-tt,r n:mi-tt,r Cal-Jw II that in: w-.s rlr,-d by tl e brib'-ry of :.-rl;iifi in- rnl.'Tf of the KniiH-ii lei.-ihtiiro. 'I l-; CutiiiKHiy Cik' ii hv ciiiiri.ii s I' tfi-hilnro in a, n-ly h-l'orn !h-n. Thr-y will aL thn tmii! ;th"-.e 'a'"l I" gin iho ex'imiua-lion ex'imiua-lion of wiln-. " thn .rrc. ant at ntun bavin fi'iun''i'; l h"U'. twenly por-Rons por-Rons lor tint purpose. Fire-marshal McSpedan of New Y'ork says, in regard to tho burning of Barnum's museum and menagerie, that tho Qro originated under tho tioor immediately over tho boiler, and from superheated steam which, in its effects, is as destructive as burning gas or tlame, and where allowed to gain strength is sure to be productive of. fire. Ho adds that the attention of the managers of tho circus was twice called to its condition, but that uo attention at-tention was paid to the uioruiog. M. Bourgeony, French minister at tho Papal court, has resigned and leaves Rome at oucc, beeause some Freuoh naval officers at Komo in the beginuinrr of the holiday season called on the King and Popo ou the same day to tender tho complimeots of the season. The Monarchists of France are endeavoring to make capital out of this affair. Tho Paris Union publishes pub-lishes an address praistDg tho aelion of Bourgeony as a striking disavowal of a policy which would abandon tho Holy Sec to spoliation and insult. |