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Show LIGHTNINGFLASHES. Stokes jury empannellcd yosterday. Boston Greeley fund progressing Steamship "Washington" arrived 1 out at London. I Inrvard college relief fund only $115,000 already. I Kansas city complains of fgarrotcrs. i Greased necks numerous! Iiiver Seine booming. Banks over- ! flowing. All caused by Thiers. St. Louis is holding an educational j convention. It can't save her. Ship "American Union," ashore '. near New Haven, gone to pieces. Another fire at Hamilton, Ontario. $100,000 worth of Christmas burned. Fort Scott, Kansas, votes $50,000 to bolster up her drooping manufactories. manufactor-ies. Steam and saw mill in ashes at Baltimore. Slabs burned cost $60,-, $60,-, uoo. New York posf master resigned. General John MoA.rth.ur to sucoeed 1 him. ! St. Joe, Missouri, is happy in an insane asylum. No accounting for , taste. j Freight train from Boston wrecked ! at Dogerville, R. I. One man killed, j Eighteen cars smashed' j Bruce Hussey, drunken farmer near i Sandusky, t-hot by his brother-in-law i for abusing Mrs. Hussey. Robert Bowles sent to Newgate prison pri-son to await trial. Swindled school marms refused to bail him. Swine cholera raging in Southdown, Illinois. Horses got the zootic, and sausage grinders desperate. The congress of Peru has granted a $'20,000 subsidy for a telegraph line to connect with the Ceylon and Jamaica cable. Stokes says he will prove that Fiek was armed on the day of his shooting. He will also show where the pistol went to. . William Chuck, tho Indianapolis wife murderer, sentenced to be hunged on Fridav, has been reprieved until January 3J. England, of the New York "Sun," has given up trying to raise a Greeley statue fund, and is returning the money to the subscribers. Not a cent of ioterest received on New York city deposits since last December. De-cember. At 4 per cent, there would have been $220,000. Alabama has no statute against voting early and often. Consequence, Mobile with S.OOO voters east 16,000, Her council is figuring in out. London is asking cable questions whether Erie will declare a dividend on preferred stock. Directors in meeting meet-ing on Sunday at New York decided not to do so. A Baltimore prophet has seen the spirit of ex-empress Josephine. Louis Napoleon is to die, and Eugenie, with her son, is to rule France in 1875. France will shed Thiers. Congressional post office and road committee wdl recommend the letter carrier system in all cities of 20,000 ! inhabitants. How the pretty maidens' J hearts will suffer I ' Zjrilla. in the lower cortes on Moo-day, Moo-day, declared k to be the purpose of the Spanish government to introduce a law abolishing slavery in Porto Rico. Approved by a vote of 182 to 6. Blum & Anson, the Egyptians of Cairo, Illinois, who last week claimed to have been robbed of goods to the tune of $20,000, have been eeized as swindlers. Bail $10,000. Creditors after them. Peru is considering a proposition to throw opea her mines to discoverers native and foreign with a greater extent of claim than allowed by Spanish laws. Local miners are to bo particularly particu-larly favored. The steamer "Adriatio" delayed off Sandy Hook with broken propeller blades. "Great Republic" will be detained de-tained in port on the Pacific coast three weeks to repair her shale Both Panama steamers. A Washington special says it is positively stated that Colfax will take charge of the "Tribune" next week. Resignation as vice president to be presented after the holiday reoeBS. Colfax thinks ho co bring the "Tribune" "Tri-bune" to its old Btanding and steer clear of the maelstrom 'of New York politics into which Greeley was always being drawn. Moro Bowks aching, D. P , a branch of the Paris house, arrested at Inglepide. near Springfield, Mass., for $6,95 deposited with the firm of Nathan & Appletoo, special Boston partners. General movement of all tbe Bowles in the country looked for about this Litno. Birron, Forbes A, Co., of England, do business iu Mexico. They innocently inno-cently a.nk $20,000,000 for quicksilver mines claimed captured by the United States in IMG. Tbe American and British mixed commission refused to seo it and then adjourned to celebrate until January 6;h. A New York special says much moro than usual interest is being taken in tho Stokes case in viow of tho recent murders in that city. Stokes' counsel say it is an unfavorable time to go to trial but ho wants bis fate determined. His long imprisonment has broken him dowd in spirits. His hair is almost grey and he is but tho shadow of the man ho was when ho entered tho Tombs on the 6th of last January. |
