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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. Providence, R. I., Richmond cotton thread mills burned. ArrivH.I, at New Yurk, Meamer City of Paris from Liverpoo'. Frederick W. Cooper, clerk ia ihc Bot'in p'jhtdffie, arrested for stealing money letters. France and Germany have exchanged ratifications of the treaty for the evacuation evac-uation of France. Commander Nathaniel Greene, of U. S. navy, died at Reading, Pa., on Sunday; aed 37. It is reported that negotiations are in progrcbS for tho leae of Harlem railroad to tho New York Central railroad. rail-road. The weather ia San Francisco, on Sunday.was cold and diii'jrco iblc snd (lie pcoplo generally kept within doors. James Iiowker, ex member of the Philadelphia city council suicided bv hanging. Presumed tinanoial difficulties difficul-ties prompted the ac'. Pun Pranci-co was very quiet on S'loday. Not an arrest was made by the police abovo tho dignity of drunk in the streets. Moral town ! Steamship Cioibria from Hamburg for Now York arrived at Havre disabled. dis-abled. The Halsatia will replace the Cimbria, and take her passengers. Draft of charter fortho Edwin Forrest For-rest Home for tho aired and disabled actors prepared and will he presented to tho Pennsylvania legislature to-day. Lieutenant governor M. II. Pottit, of Wisconsin, died at his residence, at Konoshn, in that State, on Sunday nifcht) after a brief but severe illness. ill-ness. Tho United States and British claims commission dears up all its business by the 26th of September, when its duration cxpiros by limitation. limita-tion. In Peru gold has been discovered in the river Lob. A locality abounding in nitrate of soda and another with borax bo-rax has been discovered in the desert of Ataoama. Secretary Fish received, on Sunday, from minister Sickles, the news that the Porto Rico immcdiute-emancipa-tion bill had unanimously pushed the Spanish assembly. Prosidenfc Grant suffers from an aggravated ag-gravated inauguration day oold new variety. Ho received no visitors on Saturday. His coachmen are well. Don Piatt has ne cold. Twelvo thousand dollars worth of millinery goods seized by New York ouBtom house officers on board the steamer Cuba, on suspicion of smuggling. smuggl-ing. Cruel, oruel men! Tho Madrid Imparcial says a number num-ber of foreigners havo arrived there with a viow of agitating tho over-brow of the municipality of Madrid, and establishing the commune in its place. Reverends Tyng, Beechcr and Hep-woth, Hep-woth, preached on the Foster case Suniavi Tho two latter praised governor gov-ernor Dix's aotion. A woman fainted at Hcpworth's vivid description of the hanging. An Albany correspondent says that the moneys paid by Erie directors, for expenses in connection with the removal re-moval of Gould and othere$30,000 was I divided up among six members of the State senate. Cheap 1 Upon Friday last United Statos treasurer Spinnor spun out the last thread of his thirtistn year as a government gov-ernment spinner. What a jolly old wob be must have woven; and he still spins on in his tangled wav I Tho Connecticut masons, in New York, who replaced the strikers on tbo 4th avenue improvements, are guarded by tho police. Tho strikers ask $4 a day for einht hours' work, The contractors con-tractors will only pay $4 for ten houre. Ellis Ward, of Sing Sing, N. Y., renews re-news his challenge to John Riglin, of New York, to row a five mile race for ouu a siae, on tne lianrioo ,iTv., Springfield, Mass., next July. "Oh, gaily glides my gimdoliorl" At a pigeon match, on tho old Union race-course, L. 1-, on Saturday, $500 a side, 50 birds, Ira A. Paine, of New" York, killed 4'3, and Ed. W. Tinker, of Providenco, R. I., 39. "When I enn shoot ray riflo cloav, etc., I'll bid fnrowoll lo pork and bonus, And live on iiigoon pioa!" The Spanish assembly are considering consider-ing a resolution for a permanent commission com-mission of members of that house to watch over tho government after adjournment. ad-journment. This is a patented improvement im-provement upon the United States plan. On Saturday, near Bardstown, Ky. , D. W. Haltzhauser, was shot three times and killed by his brother, J. Haltzhauser. Murder committed in the presence of the venerable father. The brothers are said to have bsen unfriendly un-friendly a long time. In Nicaragua about 110 citizens of Leon have signed a petition to congress con-gress in favor of not expelling the Jesuits from the republic. The reverend rever-end pat res, when spoken (o on tho subject, are reported to have said, "We will never leavo unless by force." Commodore Vandcrbilt gives $500,-000 $500,-000 for a ladies' seminary on tho Moravian Mo-ravian church grounds at Ncwdorp, Staten Island. The plan of the building build-ing is the same as that of the seminary semina-ry at Bothelem, Pa. The ootnmodore endowed that too. Bless his Harl inn- little hoLrt 1 A'as, that glorious structure, tho gloomy, clammy, dank and dark old Tombs, at once tho pride and disgrace of New York city, is to be served with a supersedeas. The aldermanio committee com-mittee to examine into its condition report in favor of a new oity prison on the East river bank at the foot of 26th street. Exit the Tombs. Jerome B. Waas, inspector at lare of internal revenue, and Mr. Morton, teoretary of tho Republican general oommittee, of Kings county, thrown from their carriage at the corner of Fulton and York streets, Brooklyn, Suuday afternoon. Wass received injuries in-juries in the head whioh resulted in congestion of the brain and ho is not expected to recover. Only twelve million doi!ars will be required to complete the New York and Brooklyn uri (go, nine millions for tho bridge proper, and three millions for land damages in building approaches; approach-es; to Eays Murphy, aud lie is a State senator, and a director of tho bridge company, and he ought to know as he is tho author of the new city Haul tho Murphy charter. Tho Chili inspeotor-genoral of telegraphs tele-graphs is about to order the construction construc-tion of a line to connect Lota and Cor-oucl, Cor-oucl, and another to connect the latter pirt with Araueo and Lehu. The Nacimiento line will also bo extended to Los Anjelcs and Wulchen. Thore are in operation now in Chili 55,015 miles of telegraph wires, and telegrams tele-grams are transmitted at the uniform rate of thirty cents for oTicjq words. Tho line city of San Vicento, San Salvador, D3S been nearly all destroyed by the earthquake that occurred on the niht of the l.-:h of Dc cumber last. The upper half of the parish church fell to the ground. The general con-siernation con-siernation is described as being horrible horri-ble tho noise of the falling houses intermingled in-termingled with the groans of the victims. Those who could do so fled in all direction?. There wero no robberies rob-beries nor disorder. According to a telegram published at Calloa. Peru, on the 3uth of January Janua-ry last, the railroad bridge at Lambaya-qua Lambaya-qua had given away while a locomotive with four ears of the Ercn railroad was passing. One of the superintendents of the l'ata?mayo railroad een. lo iMr. Mciggs an account of the catastrophe, from which it appears that a locomotive locomo-tive and four cars were passing the bridge at a slow ra'.e when the briJce gave way and the four cars fell into the river. They were leaded with rails and other cargo weighing in all about sisty tons. Some persons bad fallen into the river and been carried by the current, but only three of them were drowned. |