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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The Tennessee press is calling for a a good free school system. Dr. St rrs, vicar general of tho diocese of New York, died yesterday morning. Kentucky poach trees si'rious'y affected af-fected with tho frodt. Light orop looked for. liids fur gold yesterday in New York were over four millions. Sales a million aud a half at 1 02 and 13.-7'J. 13.-7'J. Tho extortions in tlio harbormaster's department which were exposed a year ago, aro again practiced upon ship owners. (Joveinor Bcvcridgo, of Ills., has refused tr commute tho eentenco of Henry MoNulty, convicted of wife murder. A bill is soon to bo introduced in tho New York legislature for ihe consoli- ' datiou of New York and Brooklyn. And why not consolidate ? Tho Llayoona Courier pays the Spanish forces havo as yet gt.iucd no Hiiltslantial advantage over the insurgents insurg-ents in the northern provinces of Spam. A. IS. Swaniion, sentenced to fifteen yc;trs in the penitentiary for tho murder mur-der of his wife, in Warren county, Ills., suicided in juil at e-lonuiouth on Wi-dunsday night, but cutting his threat. 1'Vemont has boon indicted in Paris in connection with his negotiation of I ho Memphis & Kl Paso railroad bonds. Some of his associates are held with him. Trial to como off soon. Ilunon N. Harrison, counsel of the Saumna Ii:iy company, says hundreds oi'lelters are received daily from parties desirous of emigrating to 8an DomitiL-o. Tho company intend to keep their matters private uotii tho rosult of tho election is known- A New York special says Simmons the murderer of Duryea, of New York, was not releasnd on $10,000 bail a9 stated, tho grand jury of tho oyor and terminer court having fonnd an in-diotmeutof in-diotmeutof murdcrin tho first degree in timo to prevent such an outrage of juioe. At Waukegan. Ills., on Wednosday, Christopher Kafl'erty, who killed officer O'Mcara, of Chicago, in August last, while the latter was serving a warrant for his arrest for ar-sault, and who obtained the change of venue to Lake county, was found guilty ot' murder in tho first degrco and ho was sentonoed to bo hung. |
