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GENERAL NEWS.

Florida farmers are now planting Irish potatoes.

The St. Charles Hotel, Paducah, Ky., was burned Sunday night.

Another relief party for the Greeley arctic expedition is to be sent
out.

Wm. H. Guion, of the Steamship firm of Williams has failed for
$2,000,000.

Music Hall, in Whitechapel, London, burned on Monday; loss $200,000.

Ice has prevented the ferry boats from crossing the St. Clair river at
Port Huron.

The prohibitionists declare that they will place a presidential ticket
in the field next fall.

Lowell manufacturers have given employes notice that there will be a
reduction of ten per cent in wages beginning Feb. 1.

An elevated road, adapted both to passengers and freight, is to be
constructed along the levee at New Orleans within two years.

There was a railway wreck, caused by a broken rail, on the Wabash road
near Macon, Mo., on Monday; several persons were injured.

It is estimated that the United States Senate is the wealthiest
deliberative body in the world, the seventy-six members of that body
representing $180,000,000.

A rumor is in circulation at Ottawa, Canada, that the Canadian Pacific
road has asked the government for additional assistance to the amount of
$14,000,000.

A colored base-ball club of professionals has been formed at Chicago,
and will be ready to take the road May 1. They are backed by a stock
company.

It is claimed that there is at the present time between 100 and 150
foreign vessels engaged in the oyster traffic on the Virginia coast
without right or authority.

The people of Ouray, Col., lynched Mike Cuddigan and wife Saturday, on
suspicion of having murdered a child whom they took from a Catholic
asylum at Denver.

It is said that the buffaloes have come north of the Missouri river, in
Montana, and the Indians killed eleven hundred in one day not far from
the mouth of the Musselshell.

The horror of the week was the wrecking of the steamer City of Columbus
off Martha's Vineyard, January 19th. There were 129 persons on board of
whom ninety-seven were lost.

A seal was discovered in the track of the steamer Armstrong, at
Morristown, N. Y., on the St. Lawrence river. This was the third or
fourth seal seen in that v