“MUTUAL GUARANTEE.”—A Treatise on Mutual Suretyship. Pamphlet. .50 Any of the above books will be sent post paid on receipt of price, by PRAIRIE FARMER PUBLISHING CO., 150 Monroe St. CHICAGO, ILL. Money should be remitted by express, or by draft check or post office order. * * * * * MAP Of the United States and Canada, Printed in Colors, size 4 × 2½ feet, also a copy of THE PRAIRIE FARMER for one year. Sent to any address for $2.00. * * * * * 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.