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Show L!GKTN!NGFLASHES. St. Louis mad dogs and dressed hogs lively. Concre.s discussing (ucstion'of holiday hol-iday reeciv--. Ten stores burned at Ottowa, Unt. Loss $10,000. Galesburg, Ills., forming an Arizona ruby company. J. Russel Jones, minister to Belgium, departed to his post. Dry goods store, at Cairo, Illinois, robbed of $2u,O0O currency. Jcjse Hunt, prominent citizen of Brhimnre, dead. Aired SO. Chicago purouina her gamblers and cut-throats lo tho bitter end. S'mcr "Frank . Tracy" sunk on the Ohio river with 400 bales of cotton. cot-ton. Bctzer, 1'ella, Iowa, postmaster, mining. Supposed a woman stole him. l'ikesville. Va., farmer shot rats in his barn. Barn burned. Ten rats cost 2.000. Worcester, M.i-s tried tho freo open library plan on Sunday. Complete ' success. Chicago, Danville and VincennoM railway i'urnUhing Chicago 150 curs of coal daily. A Mr. Lipjv!, of New York, aged 70, found dead. Body partially devoured de-voured by rats. And now they Bav A. 0.ikcy Hall, ex-mayor of New York, isn't to run the "Herald." Aaron Wood, eighty years old, murdered mur-dered in Boston. Two French Canadians Cana-dians suspected. Four years' labor rcuirod to examine ex-amine southern claims; 17,700 worth tiled to Dec. 1st. Minister Washburne gone to Maine to visit his father. Passed through New York yesterday. New York cigar workers call for names to petition the reduction of tax on homo manufactures. Reynold's woolen mill at Windsor, Conn., burned. Stock and machinery oonsumed. Loss $60,000 A. H. Brainard, post master at Iowa City, charged by his clerks with perjury, perju-ry, theft and cmbezlement. Margaret Cullen, a fifty year-old widow, of Springfield, slipped up on ice and dropped in the cistern. Grand Haven, Mich., donates in $50,000 subscriptions toward the Chicago and Saginaw railway. Lirgo number of wealthy Cubans leaving the "Gem of tho Antilles" and : buying plantations in Louisiana. Conistock & Co's. furniture rooms in St Louis totally destroyed by fire. Loss 100,000. Insurance $55,000. Club of ten, at Columhus, Iud., held ticket number 6,450 which drew the $75,000 prize at the Louisville- lottery. Chicago ouack doctors circulating their pamphlets in the street cars. Police after them the quacks, not the pamphlets. Short-horned Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minne-sota, heifer ran away with a cu ter load of ladies. Upset in a snowbank. Ono badly frozen. Two sons of tho sexton of Dr. Tab mage's church, New York, arrested for robbing the money box of $000. Been going on three months. Two counterfeiters, ringleader?, arrested ar-rested on the St. Francis river, Arkansas. Arkan-sas. I're.-ses, plates, prisoners, and unfinished bonds arrived at St. Louis. New York internationalists will hold a mass meeting at Cooper Institute, for the benefit of the widows and orphans or-phans of the guillotined Communists. Dick Connolly, cxcomptrollcr of New York, was the man who sailed incognito from Havana a.- jiidu-e Fleming, Flem-ing, and not Tom Fields. Tom s-iils soon. Now York "Express" editorial and comrjosine rooms burned. Valuable statistical library destroyed. Loss f;iO,-000. f;iO,-000. Offices and saloons on lower floors badly damaged. Geo. Rabisch, a Bavarian, of Dubuque, Du-buque, Iowa, suicided by placing tho muzzle double barrel shot gun against his breast over the heart, and discharging discharg-ing it with a cane. Whisky. Wagon cross. d railway track at Council BInffs A; St. Joo road, Dine miies south of Sst. Joe, smashed by train. Three persons killed. Two fatally fa-tally injured. No damage to train. Henficld, Wentworth it Co , dry goods and commi-sion merchants of Boston, failed for $2,324,800. Caused by tho fire. Firm propose to settle within a year at sixty cents on the dollar. dol-lar. EFive incendiaries, with a can of burning burn-ing fluid discovered attempting to tire Howard Theatre, Boston. Ooo clubbed club-bed by watchman. The other fired a pistol ball through the watchman's hat. Both escaped. A letter is reported to have been received re-ceived from Wendell Phillips, in which ho saya the French Communists are entitled to the respect of tho civilized worid. The barbarities practised on them wero a disgrace and shame to humanity. New Orleans quiet on Sunday. Custom house legislature Eupported in every demand by federal court. They propose to impeach Warmoth nnd have his legislature dispersed by troops. Believed Warmoth will be impeached and imprisoned. Cape of Good Hope mail advices report a fierce battle in tho interior of Africa between the Krcli and the Tambooskics. Litter beaten, with lOO to 1,000 slaughtered. Enfield rifles and other civilized arms abundant among the natives. The new French ministerial appointments appoint-ments made public yestorday, although regarded as transitional, arcsuppposcd to indicate the termination of the crisis and to secure to government the support of tho right "centre and left centre in the assembly. Memento Mori gives details of the new Japan educational system. Eight colleges, two hundred and fifty high schools, and over fifty-thrco thousand public schools to be orcanizod. Education Edu-cation compulsory for all children above six. New York "Herald" special states thj irent mobhicr investigation will show that several cooLTCsmcn accept d enormous dividends Irom that concern which they (ievut.d to charitable and political purpose. They will how they wero not connected with the m;in-ageiLont m;in-ageiLont of the concern or tho legislation legisla-tion for iL Dcerco declaring 'IVjada president of Mexico promulgated November J Mt li. Oath Uikco Saturday, Jiitli, Cnngre-s adjourned Saturday, 'I'.'A. Cabinet chances to bo made at once. Dhz ami Tejada satipfact'jrily interviewed each other. Telegraphic communication with tho United States restored. Terriblo westerly galo throughout England. Wundny. - Telegraph lines down. In London many buildings demolished, de-molished, pedestrians da,-lied to the ground, signs and street lamps blown down and watrons overturned. Eight ships blown nshorg at Plymouth, and many merchantmon at other points. Crewd rescued. Henry H. Boody, treasurer of Hock-ford Hock-ford and Rock Inland road, was held to bail t'Q allegation of president of road that be hid used ?J t.VuuO of tho proceeds pro-ceeds of tho salo of eight millions mortgage bonds and $'J2,W0 charged to certain firm who never received it. Mont y said to havo been lost in gold speculation which were understood to be part of the ordinary financial traus actions of tho company. Now York "Herald" New Orleans special reports on general Emory's authority that tlie only I !. fc. s"lii-'rd thero are- a stjuadron of cavalry, two batteries lirt nrtiilery, and I'.'rh infantry. in-fantry. No truth in tho rumor of 1u,)mn troops in tho city. Military hold in reading-, to obey the mandate of the court unlor-H hoiuo palpably ab surd service is required. Emoiy had special orders to iuruinh force necessary neces-sary to carry out court decreet1. i |