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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. National! hou-l, Mansfield, Ohio, burned Sunday inoruing. It is annuune'-d that scnor Kios will ( succeed senor Olozai as minister of ( Spain to France. The bill for a po.tal convention between be-tween Sweden and N"rwdy his been signed by Prcsidi ut GraLt. '1 he President h?s U-iiod an ord'.-r "."movine the local land'urnce; frouiV est Point, Nebraska, to Norlulk. It i.i tbought that general Webster, of Chicago, will be appointed assistant United States treasurer for that city. Conniderab' di.s&ppciutincct is ex-prcrted ex-prcrted in Washington, at general Cowan's declination of tbe Indian coojuibsionership. Pere Hyacinth has comuicEced to pn ach at Geneva with marked effect. Congregations very large and he ii fast gaining adherent.''. Wm. M. Tweed gavo a dinner to sixt-two of his old associates at the American club house, Greenwich. (Jonr., on Friday night. Charles Hunt, a well-known tobacconist, tobacco-nist, of Indianapolis, suicided at bis store, on Monday, by shooting himself. Financial troubles aro the alleged cause. Some fifteen steamers arc now overdue over-due at New York from two to ten day.". No anxiety, however, is felt lor them, except for tho Niagara, from tho Bermudas. Clarkson N. Potter declines to re-1 re-1 ccivo increased pay as a member of the forty second conercss, in a letter to the scrgcant-at-arms of tbo house of representatives. Troops have been pent Io tho Span ish frontier to asM.it tbo local authori tics in the execution of tho order requiring re-quiring that all Carhsts crosMng into France be intercepts'. The President has accepted iho rc-f,ij:nation rc-f,ij:nation of postmaster Jones, of New York. It is siiid Mr. Jame., an employe of tho New York custom house, will be his successor. Ambrose B. Coo charged with murdering mur-dering Abbie Summers at Ashley, Mis- souri, has been discharged. Jury un- : able to agree, thero being seven for acquittal ac-quittal and five forconviotion. Man named Smultz stabbed and killed at Syracuse, N. Y., by two brothers named Andres, with whom there had been a dispute concerning a game of cards. Andres arrested. McMillan and Pinohbaek, of Louisiana, Louis-iana, contesting for tho United States senatorship, have roturncd home, the senate not intending to consider the question during tho present session. Assistant secretary Cowan, in an interview reported from Washington, says tho Modoo trouble was tho result of bad management aud in great part the fault of tho Indian office. No disturbances dis-turbances with other Indians aro apprehended. ap-prehended. Finest business portion of Elyria, Ohio, burned at midnight Saturday. Fire commenced at the corner of Mill and Br ad streets and went to Washington Wash-ington avenue. Loss $200,000 ; insurant insur-ant $100,000. Colonel J. M. Parker, brother inlaw in-law of general Butler, lately confirmed surveyor for the port of New Orleans, left Washington for that city Saturday nighr. The oath of office will bo administered ad-ministered by collector Casey. Large numbers of ordors are being received from Europe to purchase wooden vessels to replace the iron ones lost in the last year's galcp. Some brokers say they lind it impossible to fill their commissions fast enough. In the Spanish cortes Saturday, the minister of foreign affairs announced that the Portuguese oouobg! had been instructed to demand immediate satisfaction satis-faction of the Brazilian goverment for outrages to tho Portuguese flag at Para. No solution to the Kngland ministerial minis-terial difficulty found up to Monday. Disraeli refuses to take office and the probability then was that Gladstone, who has had another interview with the queen, would return to pawer with tho cabinet unchanged. Postmaster Jones, of New York, says that his resignation is not duo to political causes, as ho was iu perfect accord with tho President, but arose from a desire to be freed from the responsibility re-sponsibility to which he is subjected by defalcations among subordinates. Mails from St. Louis to the east have been robbed several times during the past two months. $50,000 with drafts sent from there by tne Third National bank to the National bank of commerce, New Y'ork, the night of January 3lst, failed to reach its destination! destin-ation! Detectives are working up tho ease. Indian inspectors wili not be appointed ap-pointed until after the 30th of Juno next, as no appropriation will be available avail-able during tho present fiscal year for the payment of their salaries. It is probable the office of Indian superintendent superin-tendent will bo abolished as the view is likely to be taken that the inspectors will answer the same purpose as superintendents super-intendents throughout tho country. Vaguely rumored that counterfeit stock of the Toledo, Wabash & Western West-ern road and of tho Pittsburg & Fort Wayno road has been negotiated in Wall street, and that three or four firms were victimized, including the Continental bank and the house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Details wero expected ex-pected yesterday. It is stated, however, how-ever, that the extent of forgeries may not go beyond $30,000. |