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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The V. S. steamer Fnrhatlnn has arrival nt New York from Halifax. New Castle, Pa., had an extensive fire Monday night; loss $15,000. Work has been commenced at Jersey Jer-sey City on the New Bergen railway tunnci. Erie directors are holding a meeting meet-ing to consider the vital subject ol dividends. Prominent residents of Brooklyn are moving for an investigation ol the department of Public Works. Newark, N. J-, is the latest city tc ilrm:mil inve.stication. and claims tc be able to rival Brooklyn in her fraud exhibit. The British iron clads have taken the Spanish vessels Ahuinza and Villoriit toGibraltar without resistance by the insurgents. The Civil Service Commission is out of time. Eaton, successor of Curtis, is thought to be trying to assume loo much importance. ThcMary F. Wade ?I-"t0,000 breach of p'romise case against the late Mayor Kalhileisch, of Brooklyn, h:is been revival, re-vival, and his estate is to be sued at once. Six hundral London Catholics of the Order of the Sacral Heart have startal on a pilgrimage to Pavoy la Moniale to the tomb of the founder of the order, Rodman, the defaulting deputy I treasurer of Brooklyn, has thus far 1 been unable to procure bail, although his friends claim that the requisite Itonds will soon be forthcoming. Mrs. C. V. Deerowsy, of Columbus, Ohio, was plavmg with a luadal pistol. pis-tol. Her husband attempting to take it fi-om htr, the ball was discharged through her lungs, causing instant deatliT Joseph Link, a New York earl man, was hit by Anton Hirst, on Sunday night, with brass knuckles, and lies in a critical condition. He had gone to his stable in the dark and was taken for an intruder. Minister Thornton has informal the SUitc Department that the Mani- ...1 ;,.ic will l,o lri.,l .1 ciai term, this month. Every cdort will be mode to supply them with good counsel. Payments by United States Treasury Treas-ury warrants, exclusive of interest and principal of public debt, were: civil and miscellaneous, W...W: war, ?0,0O7,002,81;. navy, $2,330f-2-16. 2$; interior, Indian and pensions. The returns of delegates thus far, elected to the Massachusetts Republican Republi-can Convention, show 60 for Wash-burne Wash-burne and 137 lor Butler. The Butler But-ler men arc straining every nerve.but their opponents count on 6o0 of the 1,105 delegates. The Convention meetd on Saturday at Worcester. Huntington, L.I., has had a tar and leathering affair, it being reported the victim Kelsev was finally thrown in the bay and drowned. He had been writing obscene and disgusting letters to a young lady who was engagal to Royal Simons. The latter testifies that he ami another man saw Kelsey tarred and feathered, but doesn't know what became of him. He thinks he is still alive. The New York journeymen plumbers plumb-ers have been having a meeting tc consider the eight hour law. A delegation dele-gation visited President Grant, at Long Branch, who promisal to have the law enforced on all public works. The plumlters on the new jxjst offic building have complained loudly. They are to send papers and docu merits to Attorney General William I for investigation. |