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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Smith & Noyoa, largo tea dealers of New i'ork, failed on Saturday. Numbers 53 to 64, Beinvillo street, New Orleans, burned on Sunday. Loss 8lU,UUU. Paper mill of Maovillo & Car. at i Madiaun, tud., burued. Loss, $1U,000, insurance, $7,500. The total debt of Spain in March, 1873, was 7,830,000,000 pesetos, about a third more than in 18G'J. Tho police of Rome have arrested twenty persons who participated in the riotous demonstrations of'Sunday. The man who drew $10,000 in the Milwaukee Market association gill en-erpriso en-erpriso is J. P. L. Lander of St. Louis. Tho Hupplumental election in B-o-chello, France, resulted in tho return of tho Bonapartists to the national as Horribly. Flouring mill of Soott, Prindcll & Co.. at Madison, Indiana, buruud on S-turda". Loss, $120,000 ; insured, $7,000. ' The Portland steamer, with tho remains re-mains of general Canby on board, was duo at San Francisco on Monday afternoon. after-noon. Tho Oorman government proposes to modily certain provisions in the bank act, with a view of relieving tho stock market. Anthony E. Jones, the "fire bug," was taken to New York, from Sing Sing, having boon granted a new trial by the court of appeal. A dispatch from Berlin says the report re-port is without foundation that an attempt at-tempt was made to assassinate the emperor at St. Petersburg. Two oolored men havo commenced suit undor the oivil rights act, against Wallaok's tbeatro, New York, for their expulsion from orohestra scatB. Forty clerks from the U. S. treasury will begin an examination of tho New York city national banks, on Tuesday, to ascertain tho respective circulation. Billy Emerson and Beveral other minstrels of the Alhambra Theatre, San Francisco, have closed their engagements, en-gagements, and will go to Australia soon. Ary McClelland, leader of the "policy" "pol-icy" bu&inoss in Brooklyn, was sentenced sen-tenced to one year's imprisonment io the penitentiary and fined $1,000 on Saturday. . The Federalists have carried every olection district in Madrid. It is reported re-ported that the magistrates have received re-ceived orders to hold admiral Topcto I under arrest. Emperor William of Germany, was fired upon by a priest while reviewing the troops at St. Petersburg; the shot I passed through his helmot and wounded wound-ed an adjutant. Tho trial of the Laura D. Fair case against the lessees of Piatt's hall, will oo mo on again on the 12th, when the Fair udonis and her agent will testily on her behalf. TLrco millions of postal cards have been sent to the principal post offices. Two millions moro will be Beut to-day and henceforth all requisitions will be promptly filled. Supplemental elections were held at Paris, on Saturday, in four departments. depart-ments. The returns, so far as received, re-ceived, indicate that in all cases either Radical or Republican eandidates for the assembly have been chosen. John O'Dimmiok, a lawyer of New York, committed suicide at his rcsi-denoo rcsi-denoo in Bloomingburg, N. Y., on Saturday, by shooting. He was afflicted afflic-ted with dyspepsia in an aggravated form. Iho sovereignty of .the Peninsula was ceded to the bam ana Bay company on April 1st. Walter A. Price was appointed collector of the port, and a police force was organized undoc Joe. Wright. The strike of the gasmen in Brooklyn Brook-lyn continues, but the oompany has obtained a large number of experienced men from Jersey City and the Metropolitan Metro-politan pas company of New York, and tho Brooklyn works were expected to be in lull operation on Monday. At a Republican convention, held in Birmingham, England, on Saturday, a letter from John Bright was read discountenancing the republican agitation, agi-tation, and emphatically declaring that tho writer had no sympathy with those who sought to uproot the British monarchy. mon-archy. It is reported that a Russian picket party, of the advance guard of general Kauflman's column, were surprised by some Bokhara horsemen, and all put to death by impalement. Three officers offi-cers and a few men were captured by Kirghese, between Orsk and Kasal-insk. Kasal-insk. The secretary of the navy has telegraphed tele-graphed to the U. S. Consul at St. Johns to inform the department of the best moans to bring the survivors of the Polaris to this city. If no other oonveyanoo is presented government will dispatch a steamer to the bay of Roberts. Joseph Ormsby.of the firm of Orms-by Orms-by & Co., jewelers, New York, lost at Rochester his carpet bag, containing $15,000 worth of jewelery, diamonds, etc. Tho bag was in custody of Ihr proprietors of the Osborno Hotel, and was delivered to the thief by the clerk through mistake. Many people visited the San Francisco Fran-cisco City gardens, on Sunday, expecting expect-ing to eeo Fairview'B monster air ship go up, but it is not finished, and will not ascend till next Tuesday, The boat is tho shape of a scow, Bixty feet lone, thirty feet in diameter, and calculated to cany eight persons. During tho sitting of the chamber of deputies at Rome on Saturday, 200 persons marched to the Quirinal, making mak-ing riotous demonstrations on the way, and shouting for theoomplote abolition of religious corporations. The polioo made a stand against tho mob, and prevented it from entering tho palace. Bluck J ess, the mBre with which Leo Hudson- has been playing Mazeppa n different parts of tho country, till from tho stairo at the Grand Opera blouse, at St. Louis, on Saturday night, failing about fourteen feet, and -eccived injuries lrom which she died. Miss Hudson was also badly bruised, but not seriously injured. Judge Davis in his charge to tho grand jury.of New York,called particular particu-lar attention to the laws against usury and extortion on the part of the municipal muni-cipal officers. He also alluded in strong terms to the fraud upon tho city involved in the presentation and payment of fraudulent pay roils, and ifked the grand jury to investigate the matter. |