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Show ILL-STARRED CHICAGO. Unhappy Chicago 1 The glory of Illinois, the pride of the mighty West and the Iwaat of America! Less than three years have passed since a great conflagration swept through its stately blocks, crowed its streets and reduced to allies many of its gilded palaces and eest'y structures, aud now again the lire fiend has selected the Garden City for its' victim. The enterprise enter-prise of the must enterprising people who walk the earth, whether on the American or other continents, with uuparalled energy and unprecedented accomplishments, bad not quite obliterated obli-terated the cindered evidences of one oi humanity's calamities, when a second similar catastrophe is their portion. In the excitement attendant upuu such a cuullagi'.Uiou, of course many particulars are overlooked and much is overdrawn; but from the dispatches in this mcrnhig's Hllald we can rest assured that the destruction is treat and tl e u-solatiuii wide -spread; and at the ti:ne tt receiving utir ia'.t-st report a.m. tho lliuics were tw no means iukul control. A ati-ji) feels sad to-day at the seeo-id disaster which has belaaut one ef U greatest cities : '.Hid who dovs i;ot mourn for the i!l-faU, il!-,-taiied Chiea.v and its e.ii.uiiily sutVering people '. |