. WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT, 38 East
Madison St., Chicago, Ill.

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SEEDS

ALBERT DICKINSON,

Dealer in Timothy, Clover, Flax, Hungarian, Millet, Red Top, Blue
Grass, Lawn Grass, Orchard Grass, Bird Seeds, &c.

POP CORN.

Warehouses {115, 117 & 119 Kinzie St.
{104, 106, 108 & 110 Michigan St.
OFFICE. 115 Kinzie St.
CHICAGO, ILL.

GENERAL NEWS.

The State tax of Florida this year is but three mills.

Hog cholera is again raging in Champaign county, Ill.

A cat show is to be held in New York, beginning on the 23d inst.

Ice harvesters along the Hudson river are on a strike for higher wages.

The Ohio river is rapidly rising from the melting of heavy bodies of
snow.

Several heavy failures among grain dealers of New York occurred last
week.

Senator Anthony is unable to attend to the duties as President pro tem
of the Senate.

The glucose works at Buffalo N. Y., have been removed to Peoria, Ill.,
and Levenworth, Kansas.

On Friday last one murderer was hung in Virginia, another in South
Carolina, and still another in California.

A very heavy snow storm prevailed in Western and Northern N. Y., last
week. It also extended to New England.

The State Senate of Texas has passed a bill giving the public domain,
except homesteads to actual settlers, to the public schools.

There were over four thousand suicides in Paris last year, which is
attributed to the tremendous pace at which the people live in France.

The starch-sugar industry of the country consumes forty thousand bushels
of corn per day, and the product is valued at about $10,000,000 per
year.

In attempting to slaughter a flock of prairie chickens near Fort Sill, a
party of eight hunters grew so careless that three of their number were
badly wounded.

The employes in three of the nail-mills at Wareham, Mass., struck,
Saturday, against reducing their wages ten per cent. The nailers and
puddlers of Plymouth also struck.

Canada is raising a standing army of 1,200 men to serve for three years.
The full number applied at the recruiting office in Montreal, where the
quota was only one hundred.

The Grand Orient of France has issued an appeal to all the lodges of
freemasons in the world asking a renewal of unity between the Grand
Orient and all other branches of the masonic rite.

The situation in Tonquin effectually ties the hands of France. The
announcement of the block