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Show EASTEHV SPARKS. . ., ' The U. S. Supreme Court was to resume re-sume buaiuess Monday. - Caleb Cushing was - on Monday nominated as Minister to Spain. Henry O. Lewis & Co., of New York, resumed business on Mon-! day. ; New York workingmen hold a grand demonstration on Thursday next. E. L. Barker, of Springfield, Ills., has been nominated consul to Buenos Ayrcs. The Westinghouso Car Brake company com-pany have purchased all conflicting claims. A vote on the civil rights bill will he tiken on Thursday. It is thought the bill will pass, The light house appropriations have been cut down a million, leaving but half the estimate. The New York Bar Association will on Tuesday consider the nomination of Williams for Chief Justice. The bone-black factory of a Philadelphia Phila-delphia sugar refinery burned on Saturday. Loss, $-00,000. A defective flue has caused a damage dam-age of $60,000 to the Clarendon street Baptist church of Boston. The United States and Mexican commission has resume1 business,and expects to close all cases witlun two months. No new developemcnts in regard to the Chief Justiceship. The feeling in Washington is Williams will be confirmed. A surplus of three millions in the nn.irtpninotcr'u (innnrlmnnt n,-,L h. ported to Congress will be covered into in-to the treasury. Any reduction of military expenditures expendi-tures on the Texas, New Alexico and Arizona frontiers is considered impracticable. im-practicable. The Secretary and civil engineer of the Pittsburg water com mission have b.;en arrested for larceny of valunble public documents. Official advices at Washington confirm the Madrid news. Genera! Pavia is to be court martialled. His supporter have been disarmed. Genera Sherman thinks the Texas Pacific road would save five millions in military estimates as well an reduce re-duce the regular appropriations. : At "Elizabeth port, Saturday night, Patrick Slovins shot Dan Lynch. Slovins Wtis arrested, but a niub of miners rescued him and ho is still at large. Anthony Oswald and John Peters two teamsters of Bullitlo quarreled1 Saturday night alxiut a girl and : Peters fclmck Oswald over the head with a chair causing almost instant death. The Ol. io L gidlature nu t on Mon-day Mon-day electing a full li-t of Democratic uthecrs. A resolution calling for the repeal of the back-pay act was ordered order-ed amended so as to censure the Pres-! ident. ' The Reformed Episcopalians had a large congregation at Steinway Hall New York, on Sunday. The adoption of the prayer book nf 17So .was the main feature of difference from the regular ritual. Belbre Congress adjourns an appropriation appro-priation is to be asked for, for littiny out another expedition to the North Pole. Captain Green who comman- , tied the Juni'ifa in search of the rolaris is spoken of as commander. Estimates for fortifications will be 1 reduced from i.GUU.OOO to 1,200,-1 000; and for harbors and river? from $16,000,000 to less than $S,H00,000 : making a total reduction in the war I department of about twenty million ' cloJIars. A thousand unemployed workmen ' of i-v ork met in Tuion Shi, are I on Monday, and nlbr denouncing' swindling politicians for trying to' .-tarve them marched to the City Hall, their numbers rapidly iucreas-1 ing. The Mayor and ofiicials refused !i to sco them, lj |