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Show NEWS OF THE DAT.' Order have been received at Roach's shipyard at Chester, Pa., to start up next Monday morning. Heavy rains are falling in the midland districts in England. The water in some places is two feet deep, spoiling the crops. Ex-Senator Sharon is so sick that he has deeded to his son and son-in-law his estates, valued at over six millions. This may make Sarah Althsa sick, too. The quarrel between Hanlan and Teemer exposes the fact that the latter is dishonest, and that he is probably no worse than Hanlan.- It is becoming safer every day to ttfrain from betting on anything that can Ihe Governor of "Washington Territory has ijceived a telegram from Secretary ljamai approving his issurance of the pro-clamat&n pro-clamat&n for the defense of the Chinese, and dircting him to use all means in his power t prevent further trouble. Trouble is expend at Taooma and at Seattle. Eepisentatives of the Knights of Labor allege th the public press, in assigning the reason foDemocratio victory in New York, has quite iverlooked the importance of that organization as a factor in the results. Its members a Brooklyn voted with almost unanimitytor Hill and claim that success was due to eir efforts. -De Lessps' Panama Canal Company is reported to te on the verge of bankruptcy. One sectjonbf the canal is already completed, com-pleted, hower, and if the worst comes to the worst wi suppose he can cut up his ditch and sll it for post holes. It has been plainly pparent from the start that he was running Is canal in the ground. The postristress at Corning, Pa., was Mrs. Trump. She was a veritable trump, too, and kept hrself posted in regard to the business secret of hr neighbors and the love affairs of fc,e young people of the community com-munity by opering tfieir letters. She admits ad-mits her guilt aid il justification alleges that she did not trow she was committing committ-ing an offense foivlich she could be punished, pun-ished, ill The New York Sn is exultant over the election result, andlevotes nearly all its editorial page to a Brciless flogging of the poor Mugwumps, t says the result will open the eyes of sou people to the influence of certain newspaprs in this community. The Times, HeraldEvening Post, Harper's Weekhi Anil Pu?fc Vil Rnnnnrtod CAavafo-nA All five combined it vehement endeavor to defeat Hill. Hill Jceived a much larger plurality in the Site than Cleveland got , last year, and a mority ampler by thou- j sands of votes in tb very city where those newspapers are pulished. The Governorf Alaska in his annual report dwells at insiderable length upon the great natural esources of Alaska, and severely arraignsGovernmen agents who have represented le country as inclement to a degree that pssludes cultvation or the keeping of dopstic animals. Nevor, he says, in his homeravels from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mtico has he seen a more luxuriant vegetata than in Southeastern Alaska, or hardie?vegetables. All grow to maturity and to s enormous size,' and the cattle are sleek al in the best possible condition. con-dition. The goldnines on Douglas Island, opposite Juno, itt full operation. The deposit is reprinted, to be truly phe-nominal, phe-nominal, and thGovernor says the mine promises to figut more largely in the mining min-ing history of t world than any one on record. Probably ce of the most remarkable meetings of io character ever held in America will bthat of the Irish-American National Leape, which is to convene at Chicago on theOth of next January. Each subordinate bmch of the league will be entitled to oneielegate to every fifty members. mem-bers. But inorder that no organization, shall be deprrvd of representation, leagues in the countr with: memberships of only twenty-five ar authorized to send one delegate. dele-gate. The ntional convention will be i body througly representative of Irish-American Irish-American citienship, aud whatever it may do in the cane of Irish freedom will have more weight ihan anything before accomplished accom-plished in tbt direction on this side of the waters. Pahell, the great Irish leader, it is definitely attounced, will be in attendance, and his counels.'will, without doubt, result in a more through and enthusiastic organization orga-nization of tie patriotic Irish sentiment in America. In St. PAersburg war is looked for between be-tween Russi? and Austria, and Bulgaria is fenerally regarded as the probable battle eld. The oDinion in the official and military mili-tary world oi Russia is that Austria is using Servia as a cat's Daw. not to capture Bulgarian Teiritory, but to paralyze the Balkan Bal-kan Conference at Constantinople by showing show-ing the embassadors that war is imminent. It is also believed in Russia that England is privy , to this scheme, and is abetting Austria in her maneuvers to get a better position; that Russia is preparing for an inevitable conflict. Activity of war preparations in Russia continues unabated, and with the splendid state of efficiency in which t he army was put last spring, in view of a possible war w ith England, and the steady drill and discipline since maintained in every department, it is doubtful if the Rnssiai army was ever better organized or equippei for a great war than it is at the presen moment. - |