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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The Pope is agaiu confined to his bed. Tho CarliHtf, like honest banditti, I,vo by exaotirg reijuiniuonH. A detachment of I fiU United Statos Holdiors left New York on Sunday lor the Modoc country. Lieutenant general Sheridan arrived in Chicago on Sunday from his tour of .observation on tho Texas frontier. Albert M. Smith sentenced to bo hanged far tho murder of Charles H. Sackctt at Westfield last November. A. C. White, member of tho New York slock board, found dead in bed at his house on Staton Island on Sunday. Sun-day. Tho Tuoson Citizen denies a Sonora official btatcmcnt that the Mariposa Indiana desiro to leave Arizona for Sonorai King Victor Emanuel has rovoked his acceptance of his ministers' resig nation, and requests that it be withdrawn. with-drawn. A fire in Broadwinoh, Devonshire, England, burned seventeen houses, making a large number of people homeless. Reported that tno ooii'"in marohing from Oronberg against Khiva, finds its progress difficult, and makes only 20 versts a day. Dr. Carpenter pleaded for meroy to the Modoos, at the Howard ProBby-tcrian ProBby-tcrian church, San Francisco, on Sunday Sun-day evening. Delegations left San Francisco on Sunday to meet Uonry Ward Bcooher, but finding they had been hoaxed returned disgusted. JamCB Ledwith, in New York city, while drunk on Sunday, attacked tidward King with a cutlass and fatally injured him. Tho monarohial party in the French assembly demand a remodelling of the ministry by Thierp, and that it be mado more conservative. Admiral Hdgnalt Da Gonvailly, senator and minister of tho French murine and colonies duriDg the reign of Nupoloun the third, is dead. At the burning of a houso in Newport, New-port, N. hi., on Sunday evening, E. K. Kiohardson and George Williams wore killed by a lulling chimney. Nothing of tho identity of the Lodi station suicide, on Sunday, had been learned. Poverty was not the cause, as $ 1 00 ai found on his body. Jopcph Spaulding shot captain CharloB Atchison, in a quarrel over a Dottle of whisky, at Mohave city, Arizona, April 19th. Atchison Btill lives. At the Royal academy, annual banquet, ban-quet, in London, on Sunday, Sir Fran- jia Uraut, president, toasted the prosperity pros-perity of the United States, and dehouck responded. At five o'olook, Sunday afternoon, William Francis, of Fraoois Brothers, druggists, was found dead in a water closet at May field, California. He died of apoplexy, aged 57. At Belleville, Ills., Saturday night, Jno. Scllinger shot and killed James Long, hia room mate, while the latter was in bed. Cause: opposition of Sel linger to the marriage of his sister to Long. As the four hundred boys in the Wostborough reform sohool of Massachusetts Massa-chusetts were marching from breakfast, Monday, they made a break for the gates, and one hundred -succeeded in making their ejeapo. Gen. Caballos De Rodas attempted to escape from Madrid by concealing himself in a baggago train, but was discovered and taken prisoner by the volunteer?. Served him right. Senor Mai tos has also boon arrested at Victoria. Vic-toria. It is rumored that the Bupreme oourt has denied the application for a new trial in the caso of Stokes. One of hia oounscl says he would not bo surprised sur-prised if the report proved true, but is convinced that the court of appeals would grant a new trial. President Figuoras, in reply to Gen. Sickles on Sunday, thanked the American Ame-rican nation and Congress and President Presi-dent Grant, and said the republic of Spain meant tho extension of equal rights to all citizens, and no sacrifice will be deemed too great to secure this end. The mombers of tho United States Darien exploring expedition have returned. -They report the ship canal via tho Napipi and Deguado rivers will be twenty-eight miles long in length with a tunnel of three miles. It is estimated tho entiro work will cost seventy million dollars. Frederick Uepsig, tho ahoemaker who was stabbed by Peter Ritter, on the 2Sth ult., in New York, died on Sunday. Bcaaig suspected Ritter of an improper intimaoy with his wife, and in an altercation struck him in the face, when Ritter plunged a knife in Hessig's side. Among tho killed by tho dreadful bridgo disaster, at Dixon, Illinois, were Mrs. Oilman, mother of Lieut. B. H. Oilman. U. S. A , now stationed in Utah, and Bessie Payne, daughter of Mr. M. L. Payne, editor of the Chicago Magazine, and well known in journalistic journal-istic circles in Chicago. Under tho aot of congress retiring naval officers at tho ago of sixty-two, rear admirals Geo. J. Emmons, Chas. Steedman, Wm. Rogers Taylor and Thornton A. Jenkins will bo retired this year. Commodores John J. Almy, James H. Strong, E. J. Parratt and Wm. Reynolds will be promoted to fill vacancies. President Grant and family arrived in Chicago Sunday morning and with the exception of Miss Nellie who is the guest ol Miss Mcdill, daughter of major Medill, sro quartered at the Tremont house. The President's visit will bo attended with no formal reception, as he desires to pasa the few days of bis stay here qu e'ly. Judge Hardin of New York, a short time ago, gave a decision sustaining the demurrer interposed by Jos. H. Inger-soll Inger-soll in the suit brought against him by the State, holding that tho State bad no rij;i.t of action unless tho county was made a party to the suit, and today to-day on on appeal to judge Ingraham he a 1 firmed iho decision. This ia the fatnouH suit for recovering six millions which the late Tweed ring is said to have taken from the New York county treasury. |