General

JAST. l'iiil adelphia Lafl a dtstructlve Ure Juut .) entall ng a loss of nearly {ïüO.tMT.i. The St. Cloud Hotel was burned to the ground. A bou: 300 guests were In the hotel at ihe Urne. ui pi whom eseaped. Ames, Bell fe Co.'s rollinií mili In Yo-.mgstown, Ohlo, which had been idlo aboyt a year, was starte;t up on tl nioroing oí . an. '2ó. The second mornlng thcreaiter the iniU w.iset on nre by an employé upsettlng a ichíoíjihlamp, and in less than añ hour the entire works were consamed. The loss is esti i u!ed ut SSU.UOO. Ketween 200 and 800 men are thrown out of cmployment. One of the largest bsinc?s strnctorés iu Burlington, Vcrmont, was burned Jan. 27. Loss &:),U00. Assistant Seeretary Faüchild has lfistrueted the collector of vustöius at New Vuik to i.diuit free of duty a portralt of the late Geu. iiiaut, palnted In Paris by Mr. Ueali-v, an Anur.oan artlst, and lmported by Mis. U. S. Grant. Notwltbstandiog the preearious condltiuj of hls health, John Kelly has been seleuteJ ehairman of the Tammany hall urgunization. TVEiT. The San Joaquin rlver In California I a? overflowed lts banks, and U',ut-0 acnea trt wheat turned into a ralniature lïke. i -: is estlmated at $500,000. % Wlehlta, Kansas, suffered b7 fire Jan. 36 to the amount of $50,000. The Terra Haute, Iud., ron and nall ivorkj started up Jan. 27. SOUTH. Advlses from Saufoíd, Florida the orange erop is rulned, and inany of the yi. uut trees are killed. The people are trylng to mceal if ; the land agen ts swear it is "not so; but lt is so. There is not a souud iu Ibis ivgion. The loss in the state is inany millious ol dollars. FOREIGN. The war fever in Greece is bevond the control of the king and premier, úreeee ref uses to dlsarm, but on the contrary is makine active preparations for immedíate and decisivè aetion. The British' Meüiterranean squadron bas been ordered to the Piraeus. Four custom officials of Montreal have beei arrested for connivlng witb smugglerf. Considerable commotion was cauüeJ in the British House of Commou Jan. 27, when the conservativo leader gave notice thai in a íew j days he would introduce a bilí tu suppress the Irláh natíonal league and other dant-rous societies, to prevent intimidatiou, to prwtect life and property and to maintain public oider in Irelaud. A number of employés of the Grand Trunk in Montreal were discbarLcil Jau. :C. '-for cause." á Several floods are reponed Ironi the souih ol France. Jan. 27 the empeior of Germanv opencd an " atonement house" on the site "of the King theater in Vienna, the burning uf v, hich. a fe years ago, was attenued with terrible ,iss ol life. The house is a haadsómu jruthic struct ure aud will be let out in üats, the rent írom which will be devoted to charitable purpos es.