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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES, News expected from the Lava beds o day. San Francisco very quiet on Sunday. Sun-day. King and queen of Denmark visit Londuo in May. Clara Crawford, estimable young lady of Chicago, suicided by hangmg. HevtiO thousand dollar fire at Oak Hill, Ohio, on Saturday. No insurance. insur-ance. Stanton, Tnn., a village on the Tjouifvillo road, destroyed by fire. Loss 50,00. j Santa Barbara college is completed and opened for the reception of visitors. The New i'ork Times learns that De Long is likely to bo continued as minister minis-ter to Japan. Smith & Co's saw mill, bending and spoke works burned at Geneva, Ills. Loss $30,000. Juhn Coffee, a Chicago laborer, blew the top of his head oil" with a shot gun on Sunday. Whisky. 1 At a monster meeting of federalists, at Madrid, on Sunday, several violent speeches were made. Santa Barbara water pipes completed and water from tho mission was let into themon Sunday. The Carlist band commanded by the famous chieftain Sabalias has been routed. Sabalias has disappeared. Cars run on moat of the San Francisco Fran-cisco railroad linos on Sunday. Sick horses pressed into the service. Commodoro John II. Avliok, of the U. S. Navy, on tho retired list, died at New York on Monday morning. The Santa Barbara, Cala., Odd Fellows celebrated on Sunday; a picnic waa given in tho woods at Montor-isto. Montor-isto. Arthur M.,agcd 14, only son of Hon. I. N. Arnold, of Chicago, was drowned in Rock river at Dixon on Saturday. Boat eapsized. Depositors of the Atlantic bank wore to meet Monday evening to oonsider the situation. The U. S. marshal has charge of the bank. Madrid dispatches say Becerra and Figueras, of tho pormanont commission, commis-sion, have been arrested and search for other members oontinue?. Spain has arranged to pay her treasury treas-ury bills, due at the end of May, one-! third in speoie and two-thirds in Dew acceptances, payable a month from date. Ives Letroques, a quartermaster on board the steamer Pererre, oomittod suicide at New York, on Sunday, by jumping from the yard arm to the deck. Hugh MuMcnomy, on trial in San Francisco for tho murder of James Hogan, on Sunday, made a savage assault on a witness who had testified against him. n the Sao Francisco breach ol promise case, Miss Helena Frazer vs Thrift, the jury awarded $12,000 damage?. Verdict was received with great applause. The Lancashire railway company's carriage works, in Manchester, Eog-land, Eog-land, together with filty loaomotivab and a huudred ad fifty aoaohes, burned burn-ed Sunday night. Loss, $1,000,000. A houf-e about two miles out of the town of Otis, Indiana, burned on Saturday. Sa-turday. A man named lilees, 70 years of age, and his duughter with her five children were burned to death. Friday night's frost extremely disastrous dis-astrous to orops along the Carolina coasts. Muuh cotton will have to be replanted. Injury to early vegetables is irrepaiuuiu, .ltusl bu iulb iu season unprecedented. Captain general Velarde hae ordered the inhabitants of country districts in , Spain, invaded by the Carlists, to abandon their farms and houses and retire into tho cities with all the provisions pro-visions they can carry. Liverpool papers of the 14th contain particulars of a fire in 26 Gay street, of that city, whereby ono Ceharah was burned to death, and an entire family, named Edwards, consisting of six persons, per-sons, were suffocated. Riot at Kceno, New York, on Saturday Satur-day night. A number of citizens came to the assistance of the police and the rioters were dispersed, four of them being arrested; subsequently the chief of police was badly beaten. General Canby's remains expected in San Francisco on Tuesday night. The municipal authorities have taken measures to rcccivo them and the body will be taken lrom the Portland steamer to the army headquarters. The Western Union telegraph company com-pany on Monday, occupied the new elegant Chicago office, just completed for them, on the south-west corner ol Washington and Lasalle streets, directly di-rectly opposite their office before the fire. George Burko, a negro living on a farm near Collinsvillo, Ills., went home drunk Saturday night, and with an axe chopped oil' tho head and one arm of Maria Bowman, also colored, and threw her body into a ravine. Jealousy. Jeal-ousy. There is talk on Wall street of a movement to twist those who have gone extensively short of Pacifio Mail. Gould, Stockwell and Hatch are said to have most of the stock and will not allow the street to cover its Bhorta at present prices. The efforts to bring about a union of Prince Edwards Island with the Dominion Do-minion of Canada have not been wholly defeated by the overthrow of the late ministry. Pope, the now premier, has gouo to Ottawa to reopen negotiation un the subject. Tho war department haa made extensive ex-tensive arrangements for tho protection protec-tion of engineering parties along the Northern Pacific railroad. About forty companies of all branches of the service will compose tho expedition which starts June 15, colonel Stanley commanding. Postmaster James, of New York oity, pronounces tho rumors without foundation of tho defalcation in the accounts of Henry Whiting, oaahier. The rumors originated lrom the fact that while Mr. Whiting is making up his last quarterly accounts of ex-postmaster Jones, he is acting cashier. The assistant treasurer at New York will sell one million of gold on the first, third and fifth Thuisdaya of May and million and a half on the second and fourth Thursdays, and will buy five hundred thousand dollars in bonds on the third Wednesday of May. He will also pay without rebato on and ' after the 26th instant, all interest due on bonds to May fiist. |