THE PRAIRIE FARMER PUBLISHING COMPANY, 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.

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GENERAL NEWS.

The Emma Bond case has been given to the jury.

Queen Victoria will go to Baden Baden in February.

The war feeling in France against China is increasing.

Four colored men were lynched at Yazoo, Miss., on Saturday last.

Serious trouble is threatened between the Orangemen and the
Catholics of Ireland.

The works of the Lambert & Smith Wire Fence Company, at Joliet,
Ill., burned last week.

Mr. Villard is sick from nervous prostration.  Rumor says he is financially embarrassed.

It is expected that the Directors of the Suez Canal Company will pay a dividend of 18 per cent this year.

John D. Leslie, a grain-dealer of Elkhart, Indiana, was ruined by handling corn which failed to pass inspection.

Gen. Grant fell upon the sidewalk in New York, the other day, and hurt his hip severely.  He is recovering.

N.G.  Ordway, Governor of Dakota, is charged with accepting bribes in making appointments of County Commissioners.

Holloway, the great pill man of England, is said to be worth $25,000,000.  He spends $250,000 per year in advertising.

The extensive sewerage system which Boston has been several years in constructing is at last finished, at a cost of $4,500,000.

Bradner Smith & Co, and the National Printing Company, Chicago, were partially burned out on Sunday.  Loss about $200,000.