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Show The Southern Continent. Buenos Ayres, Oct. 10. Hostile armies on the southern borders of Peru are advancing to meet each other, and a great battle ib believed imminent. Heavy rains have fallen in tbe Argentine states, dispelling the fears of drought. Tbe wheat orop in Santa Fe district is in very fine condition. Panama advices: Parofl, the Oleo-margerine Oleo-margerine swindler, who went from San Francisco to Santiago and organized organ-ized mining frauds there, and was imprisoned two years ago, has been eeutenced to five years' exile in Valvidia under guard. Parofl's Iraud in Santiago entailed a loss of many thousands of dollars upon several of the most estimable members of the community, who for Bome time solemnly believed in the humbug. Works coBting hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of dollars wera erected at Santiago (or tbe reduction ot ores, according to the Parofl method, which remain to this day as a monument of his fraud, I Panama, Oct. 25. A railroad project pro-ject is on foot in Columbia to unite the capital witb navigation on tbe Magdalena River on Honda. Total length of road, 300 kilometres; total cost, $2,6o0,0O0. |