... ET1PEE-AB RD1PEN-AND DISTRIOT TRAMWAY. I- i. i . -. . . . . . .. . 1 - . 1 P~tlet~t is o hoheldthis iifternoo o l led~ 0 oImts frost t ioStreet - CotnnIhtereeisendi . 0 te Aberdleen 'Tttuiwaysi, And thu Lie to Eoht end mid. tote.Tbo.equniuiit~cee ytijeL to tho cqristruction. Oftpc *Quay tt'ornwiy, btt1 at doilut; of thte tlia.rowncOss of tlici cutricigewi' of Brtidge ISticot. (3feet) , Manil ...

... THE KIRKIIILL PUBLIC SCHOOL, NICG. ke nig to RiSOrUTION TO APl'Y TO PYAILTAMENT. att u°r On ucseday afternotin a meet(ing of the School Board V11 ti, of the parish of Nigg was held within the ofice of tho il Ur clerk, Mr M'Lcnnanl, 4S King Strcet-Mlr P. Qooper, a1o Ys chairman of the Board, presiding. see The chief business before the meeting was to receive oil) and dispose of n ...

... | An accident resulting in the death of a Steeple I u 5 Jack, which has cast quite a gloom over the town al B I happened in Inverness yesterday. For some weeks tj | Messrs Goodchild & Moir, known as Steeple Jacks, of Dundee, have been engaged repairing the Town spire. Recently they commenced repairing the spire t of the Free High Church. Yesterday morning, shortly v after ten o'clock, ...

... TUE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR. .t.1 A ±. - I host PUBLIC MHEETING IN ABERDEEIN. 'et 011CC, .k public mneetin'g, called by t~he Lord Provost in too, scettbCO ithitrequisition to express the mnild of probt fc~ommunie ity h th be p intrelation y that this countrtoughit to will' prn00Ic l elto to the %var in the East, was held last 1%v nigiht in the Meusicnull. Thle Lord Provost wasaccomfpit- liore 0kde, ...

... P i'l^TBBRIEAD. 'a;V unou BJ oUI0OOLIBOAU1D.-.A meeting of' thi Uurghl! b xn, Scahool!Bonrd was held yesterday-Mlr Ti J. Bremner I rs, presiding. A letter fron the East Churoh managers in .I W. referenco to the alleged encroachment on their feu by c Ur theo School Board wns read. The 'letter, which ehl- tl as, racterised the conduct of; the Sihool Boerd as a law- b ;the less act,'doenaniled ...

... The annual Clristmnas Tree Bazaar in aid of the funds of the Dorcas Sooiety was held in M1r Minty'a 8 Hall oln Saturdey laot. Thle Rev. W. W. Peyton, pro- sidlent of the society, openid it by prayer, and after- 8 wards gave a short ilnlress, seatting forthi the workings of the society during tho past fourteen years of its existence, and showinglo Ow it had won the confideneo a and support of ...

... OLD DEER-ST DROSTAN'S FAIR, Wednesday.-Dustaen Fair being the oldest fair in Buchau, asd icog atiterior to r Ie famous Ailey, was held to-day oe the stance at fiatlaw stittioj. The numnber of beasts presecilt Was less than ever i eviotisic known, and their coedi tion was belew what is ex- 'etedatthis seaison. This locality wias well ransacked for e sazitab)le becsts for Christmas, and mosta of ...

... mILRAL ASSOCIS'I'TON FOR FORFARSHIRE. Ijil WedulehldY afternoon a mecting of tho county cte wis held ill thle Tulwnhall, Forfar, the object elec to fSOII a liberal A'ssociatiou similar to those recentlY forlle in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dundee, B jaj'ht lton. * E. Ecater, MLP. (ehalirlan). h tth Clisirmasi having explained tbe object of thle a till Mr Barclay, MIr., movol the fellowilig I - ...

... THE FARMERS' COLUAIN. at - r( l1at THE FEEDING OF CATTLE. WE aing ~~~~~~BARLEY OR DIALT! 1a an A considerable amount of discussion has taken place Al ran., recently an the sub ject of the malt tax, and the value co *s of malt for feeding pnrposes. The question whether Hli 'sire barley or malt is at once the cheapest Tnethod of feed- SC ing cattle, i~nd whether the one or the other will yield 3 ...

... BIRTHS. At 38 lalevidere Place, Aberdeen, onl the tltl, f-t the v-ife i, of JAMES KERR, A.M, Normlal Sichl-ol, of a Son,. At Letheuty, yvric, on the 6th inst.,, tILm wife of E. W. HIAT , merchait, of a sioii. At 48 Watson Street, Abrideenl, oulithe 1ibt inst., the wife ef It. W. Yorsesoe,.nf a daulighter. At 1 St Mary s Plae, Aberdeen, anl tih 12Lh list., thle wife .f WnSixaz I Ite1 il, of a ...

... -, ASSAULT BtY A WOMNI -Mrs Cowill, a middle eaged woman, from Branderburgh, pleaded guilty- before Sheriff Smrith-at Elgin on Monday to a oharge of assaulting a lother woman, named Mrs Brace, in Bram- derburgh. Mrs Ca owie, it appcars, had given Mrs Braco a n blow or ush which caused he'r to fall on a piece of rock, antd seriouslY to injure her head. .Th Sheriff said that, ail thoug the ...

... 4T1E 'WAMNOY IN THE WEST PARISH 'CHURCH. ACCEPrANCE OF A CALL I3Y REV. MIR pi MITCHELL, PAISLEY. NV AA pi-or iv naea mneeting of the Presbytezy of Paisley ;nud Greenoctk wets held in St George's Church, P~aisley, yesterdAy at noon-Dr Grahani, Kilbatroban, moderator -for: the purposc of consitdeving find disposing of the g, -call' from the West 'Pnisisl Church, Aberdeen, to the o' 'Rev. ...