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Show Neablt A Fiee. Five or ten minutes min-utes more delay last evtning acd we probably would have betn called upon to chronicle a severe fire, or perhaps have been unable to do sc. At about half-past eight the H f ra i r foreman was passing from the composing room to the ' sanctum" for "more copy," when he discovered a fire is the aJey back of this office. Immediately sounding the alarm, a dozen or so ready hands appeared from Lhe different differ-ent establishments openirjg upon the alley, and the fire wa3 speedily extinguished. exting-uished. It was started in a crate of , packing straw, two or three of which were piled together in position offering offer-ing fine ODportonity tvx m first-class conflagration. Mr. Frank, of Barralt's Bar-ralt's furniture establishment, rushed out promptly harnessed to a fire extinguisher, ex-tinguisher, and did excellent execution. We understand the fire was caused by the lighted stump of a cigar being thrown among the straw; and that cigar stump might have burned up fifty to a hundred thousand dollars worth of property, easily enough. |