GENERAL NEWS.

Boston people propose to have a crematory.

Michigan fruit buds are reported but little damaged by the late freezing.

Ex-Governor John Letcher, of Virginia, is dead.

Kansas corn is being shipped to Wabash, Ind. It sells for 65 cents per bushel.

Gould is reducing the pay of employes along his Southwestern system fifty per cent.

The Virginia House has passed the joint resolution asking Senator Mahone to resign.

The Russian authorities have refused to allow a monument of Luther to be erected at Riga.

The lines of the National Telegraph Company have been absorbed by the Baltimore and Ohio.

Last Saturday night Europe experienced one of the severest gales ever known on that Continent.

The issue of silver dollars for the week ending Jan. 26, was 110,000; corresponding period last year 263,000.

E. M. W. Mackey, the Republican Member of Congress for South Carolina, died at Washington, Monday morning.

Mr. Blaine has introduced into the Senate a bill for the free circulation of newspapers within the States where published.

Fred Douglas, the eloquent African, has astonished the natives by marrying a white woman. He is about 70, she 46 years old.

The bodies of the Jeannette victims have reached Moscow, where the American residents placed flowers and wreathes on the biers.

The Chicago Opera-House Company, with a capital of $600,000, has been incorporated at Springfield by Charles Henrotin, Edward Koch, and others.

The Brigham Young Academy, at Provo, Utah, valued at $30,000, was burned Sunday evening. There were four hundred students in the building. No lives lost.

There are now 7,794 ocean steamers belonging to the different nations. About one half the ocean sailing vessels belong to England. Their total number is 36,194.

The famous Smithson college building at Logansport, Indiana, which is said to be the handsomest structure of its kind in the State, is to be purchased and turned into a normal school.

Articles of incorporation have been filed at New York for the Merchants’ Telegraph and Cable Company; capital stock $13,000,000, with power to increase that sum to, but not beyond $20,000,000.

The discovery of tin at King’s mountain, Cleveland county, N. C., is announced. This is the first discovery of this metal in the United States. The State chemist will make a careful examination.

O. A. Carpenter, suspected of the murder of Zora Burns, at Lincoln, Ill., has been indicted by the grand jury, and is now in jail. It is said that sufficient new evidence to convict him has come to light.

It is believed that an agreement has been reached at Pittsburg between the striking glass-workers and the employers. Great concessions are said to have been made on both sides. The strike has lasted five months.

The sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives presents bills for $3,461 for escorting the remains of Representative Haskell to Kansas. Among the items is one of $201 for a lunch before starting from Washington.

The newspapers say that one of the jurors in the Emma Bond case spends considerable time in crying; another runs from his house when visitors approach it, and a third has been dismissed by a beautiful woman to whom he was engaged.

The Hay-Shippers’ Association is getting up a petition to the Canadian Government in regard to the excessive duties charged on hay exported to the United States. It is understood that the Government will present the matter to the Washington authorities.

In the French Chamber of Deputies, Monday, Minister Ferry expressed the opinion that to ameliorate the labor crisis in Paris would be a difficult task. The exports were 1,200,000,000 francs in excess of the imports, he said, and within five years 6,000,000 francs had been expended on buildings for which tenants could hardly be obtained.

Young James Nutt was acquitted of the murder of Dukes on the ground of insanity. An after examination of his condition resulted in a declaration that he is no longer insane. The case is one of wide celebrity. Public opinion justifies the verdict. The President, Secretary Chandler, and ex-Secretary Blaine, also indorse the action of the jury.