Show ABOUT SHIPS AND SAILORS On the steamer Coptic there were 2 S21 pounds of opium and its value with duty paid is 1 about 5100000 Tho tty on the opium II SH292G Tho Government Lighthouse board Is making every effort to establish n number of light and l fog signal sthtlons along the Alaskan coast before the end of the corning corn-ing season Tho commanding officer of tho battleship battle-ship Texas now at Culebra has been ordered to have that vessel at New Orleans Or-leans In time to Lake part in the Mardi l Craw fcstlvlllcs on the 23rd Instant Admiral ONell chief of the bureau of ordnance Nnvy department I was heard yesterday by the llouso Committee on Naval Affairs on the subject of armor for now naval I vessels IIo said that about 0000 tons aro requIred i The naval bill has been practically completed com-pleted by tho subcommlttoe hitvlng it In charge except on the Iwo chief Itomx of new whips and armor Before these arc ar-c on Secretary Jx > ng will bo heard probably some Uuio next week In Southampton Edward Galcr a deck I cadet on tho steamer St Louis who I was arrested on February 9th for the alleged I al-leged theft of two bills of arc ptanco for 21101 marks in transit from Berlin to New York was brought up In court and discharged dis-charged One sounding made by the United States steamer Nero nasir Guam Island markd MG J J fathom and another 52 < S > fathom only Blxtyplx joel hhort of six KtJiiulo mlloa That Is deeper than th t highest mounlnln icaU on thu land surface sur-face of the globe |