... Z A GIGANTIC EXCURSIOf I TO ABERDEEN. R RAILWAY WORKERS FROX ST ROLLOX. NEARLY 8000 VISITORS. Aberdeen, with its 140,000 souls, flatters thelf with being a city of no moan importance in point of population, as in other madters; but when, as happened on Satur- day, from 7000 to 8000 visitors are poured into the town in little more than an hour, the native has a feeling that he is being crushed ...

... The Trades Union Congress resumed en b Wednesday at Birmingham, when resolutions were passed in favour of a legal eight hours day for miners, the parmesnt of members of Parliament, and taxation of ground values. Two delegates from the 4merican Federation of Labour expressed sygmpathy with trades unionists in this country, and said the move- . merit on the other side of the Atlantic had * ...

... I THE CHURCR OF SCOTLAND. I MODERATOR'S PASTORAL LEER. THE LIFiE AND WORK OF THE CHURCH. Yesterday, in accordance with the order of the General Assembly of the Churuh of S8otland, the pastoral letter by the Moderator-the Right Rev. Wm. Mair-was read in all the parish churohes in Abordoen. At the (outaet the letter states that it is thte intention of the Gimeral Assembly to communicate always ...

... A HUNDRED Y.EA b-:is :~~~~~~E~ _ _ CO EXTRACTS FROM IERDEEN ,OUR,18* OF AUCUST 15,17. GENERAL AND LOCAL, A FALSE ALARU1. The Good Design, armed ship arrived bay (Aberdeen) on Thursday afteree.i§ this brougitt intelligence that that moraing gt 4' gliht, being off the Ted Head, there discovered two veoeels which Werer c to be frigates and soom After oti~e i vessoels, which appeared to be all ...

... I A RLAlIBILE TO CHIAMONIX. 1-i t II. S, (BY AN ABtll)nF. GflNTLEMIAN.) I Tis morn: with gold the verdant mountain glows; I 1\lore high, the snowy peaks with hues of rolse. F'ar-stretched beneath the many-tintect hills, A mighty waste of mist the valIey Mills, A solemn sra, ! whose billows wide around 8tand mlotionless, to awful silenle bound Pines, on the cosstthrough mist their tops uprear, ...

... 'TIE DI)AMOND JUBILEE.I SPAIN TO BE REPRESENTED. M &twi), Tuesday. The l)Mike tie Sutuoilkyor Iota beilI itp- pioilittil Special, Ambiihsaadolar tto rtpt'e.meoit the Qhwteell Itezlbt; 'It., (,tieun Victorin' dimtnionl jtilbilaos coloinlattion. Tlo spi~itl;f;iI mtnvy wtill he roptilresentud by the liattloqhill Vizaayp. T711C VISIT OFlT ''l-1. (JOLONIAl4 STA'I'CSM iN. Writingt in a rimeant issue ...

... LETTERS TO THEj' EIDITORt.I I~~~~~~~~~~~ Northorn (Co-opeoa1;ive C8ompalny and the Boycott Sm.-In your imeie of Saturday I obqervecl a letter front I Phlubus oil til, abovo suabject nt inlt like him, I laU euipriised that thislt iatle-dealurs and butchera ahould upholdlR coapIIllany xvhich in sinmply worling (lilcater and ruin to thair trade. Trh*e adlltit it -every onu of thomn--rnd why, ...

... IDR R11'THERFORD HIARRIS AND MR L.AIM)UCHE~tE. Tht; IE APOLOGYE. Wet h1AVe received the followintg copy of the leteraddreat~d by lDr Rutherford Earlis to t~ic (Chairmnan of thc South Africn Committee: Barlingjt n Hot31. W. May 27thl, 1897. Sir,-On 21st Mlay I dretw the attsntlion of the Brititth Souush Africa Comtnritee to certait- charges whioh had bsen tmtade against mel by Mr Labsuchere, ...

... I OREIGN AND (WLUONAL hoLS DUSPATCa OP MAILS. NEXT DxsMIkTxoxi. PgOX LOSvDOS. MATL Dr; Ascenson.via Z50utbainpton ..June - M Jttly Australia, viz.: Victo.ia, New Souu, Wales, Queensland, S. and W Australia, and Tasmania, via ItalyJune - Z June 23 Austratia (Parcel Mil) ..i . June - St June - Queenslatd (Parcel Mail) . _ - it June - Bahamas . June - ...

... finite A'.lberletly C INV OFFIDC-BROAD STREFT, ABERDEEN. iO*fl)oU OyIor-5 NE4W 1X IDOR STRE1ST, EC. TELEGtAMr- AIJUIREN JOURNAL, ABERDZIN. Tk''PHONE-NO. 27. AVIRRIU)EN, MONDAY, JUNE 21, 1897. NEWS SUMMARY. A special thanksgiving service in cele- bration of Hert Majesty's sixty yoars' reign was yesterday performed throughout the United Kingdom, the forme of prayer being identical in all ...

... ?I I I fI i Tlermomeier and Barometer. R;EADINGS AT 2 A.M. TO-DAY. , ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I Sets . 8 , Uigh WNatr at Aber- 1 4 45 .if t deell .. . I j I '-! llo :-arownltor hi-t3 falnia. and11 _ th;re ise i, rotl! t bo a chanre il I0 ov athe weather.' lXI-DAYw (Jully 23, 1XV) 1' Y. FOIEECASTS FOR TO-DAY. The follo;vilug orc^:s of weather for to-dav wsere iqsued froun tbe '-oological ...

... i coIpfA-Nl) DAY BY DAY. c etil;tiOfluil Already rery rife ns9 to vwh q e the reelitents of tile record reign r L.onldil ...