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Show LIGHTNINGJLASHES. Congressmen journeying homeward for the holidays. Greeley will contestants will push Tho Erie conipaoy do not intend to vacate the Grand opera house. C. Gardner, of Benton., Ark., killed in a fk'ht with Zachariah Snow. William Wirt Vircin, appointed to fill the vacancy in the supreme court of Maine Rhode Island medical sooiety has admitted' its first lady member, Mrs. Anita K. Tyng. Massachusetts legislature prorogued until January. Insurance bill signed by the governor. Tromendous flood at Ghent; lower streets under water, and lowUnds of the vicinity overflowed. Frank P. Blair savs General Blair is well. Reports to the contrary circulated circu-lated to effect his election. The London "Times," of yesterday, contains six verdicts of murder, with death sentences in each ease. The ship "Matchless," of Boston, has been wrecked off the Northumberland Northumber-land coast, and all on board were lost. The international convention call to secure uniformity of coinage has been signed by Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Nor-way. Two gold broksrs firms in New Tork reported puspended. No names are given, but the report is probably correct. cor-rect. Seventeen bids for gold in New York yesterday amounted to less than $4,000,000, and ranged from 11 to 11 56). Six jurors have been obtained in the Stokes caso. It is presumed they are of tho right stamp ignoramuses or rascals. That part of Paris, bordering Seine, has been overflowed, doing an immensa amount of material damage, but failing fail-ing to cool the fever in the assembly. Stated that the suits of the Erie company aeainst Gould have been abandoned, he paying the company in final settlement of all demands the sum of $0,000,000. Gould must be rich. A fire at Flushing, L. L, on Wednesday Wed-nesday night destroyed a large amount of property. One man was killed and a boy severely wound by the falling of a chimney. Five buildings destroyed to stop tho firo- At Lifavette, Indiana, yesterday morninz, the boiler of a locomotive standing on the track at the comer of Union aod 5th streets, exploded with terrific violence, killing the engineer and badly woundinr BBOther man, and damaging the neighboring houses. New Orleans committee to Washington Wash-ington in re'ation to the Warmoth-Keilozg Warmoth-Keilozg row, had an interview with the attorney general yesterday moroine, and were to met the President io the afternoon. No leak of results reported. re-ported. Colfax denies that he has accepted the editorship of the ' Tribune," and says that the negotiations to that end are terminated. The old game of refusing re-fusing and consenting, by playing which he failed to beat Wilson for the vice-presidential vice-presidential nomination. The probabilities are that the C. P. R. R. company will son be in possession posses-sion of Goat Island. The last election in California is held to be an approval of the bill to cede the island to the railroad company. This is sound logic-, and the cession of the island is the best way to dispose of the botheration about it. |
