... The Cincinnati Gazette will to-morrow print report* from the iron regions of Ohio and adjoining States on the condition end prospects the iron trade. The statements are prepared by the managers of the leading iron and steel manufacturing works, blast furnaces and rolling miiia. They all speak a marked increase in activity in all branches the trade. Furuacemeu and manufacturers are more hopeful ...

... _ Last night Mr F. G. Widdows (Frater Aloysius) lectured in the Victoria Hall, Dundee, on the Mass. Long before the openiug of the doors the street was blocked with aa immense crowd, a vast proportion being ladies. When the doors were opened at seven o'clock the hall was crowded in few minutes, while hundreds were unable to obtain admittance. The hall was packed to suffocation. Widdows ...

... Paris*.—'Tbe the Goran Ptriali School Bawd mat tha of Kinning Park and Plantation last night in Lamb- Mil Street Public School, Goran, for the pnrpeee oi submitting statement of the proceedings of. the Boarii during the put three year*. Provect Mair, who was called upon preside, briefly explained the object of the meeting, after which M'Onie detailed the educational work carried daring the ...

... License Confirmation Committee—Refusal to Confirm a Grocer's License. —At meeting this committee, held the Town Hall yesterday, two new licenses which had been granted Magistrates at the recent Licensing Court were dispell of. That granted for the new hotel in Duke Street was unanimously continued, but the grocer's license granted to Air Smith, Olencniin .'Square, was not continued, this ...

... a th« Rrv. rm Fiut«B.-Xast night ooovOTsarioae honour of LUD ÜB >«« ...

... Yesterday afternoon, while the bos which reaves at 3.45 waa atandiug at ita usual stance the junction of Watt Street and Main Street, Mary hill, tha horses took fright and bolted. The driver, who, with the guard, was standing oa tha footpath, tried to catch the reins, but failed in the attempt Knocking over one of the atreet lamps, the hones daahed along Main Street at a fearful rate. When ...

... thrice boys who had so—psd that morning. and Peterson went off a cab ia the direction Greenock, aaa just aa they expected the came the abeoondinif lads acar One them named Canning but the two others managed to get en. 'i hey different directions them, •no was punned for a considerable distance by Patcrson, being foolhardy enough to i. ** *ould-be captor by taking down through tunnel the ...

... Ibonwobkkbs.—Notices were at Ciiatieriey Iron Company's (Limited; Ironstone Mines Works, North Stafford, yesterday, intimating that alter fourteen days the whole the men will be discharged and the works closed tor iudebnite period. The cause the notice is the prolouged stagnation trade the want orders, there being sutiicient stock to meet all probable requirements for the next six mouths. ...

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... The monthly meeting the Home Rule League was hsU yesterday in l>ublin. Major presided. There was small attendance. The Chairman said the extension of the franchise must be granted, and when it wae grauted Home Rule ereald epaadily follow. It explained that the monthly meetings the league had been suspended for some tine owing te Rutt'e Illiisss. The following reaolutioaa were adopted:— That ...

... The largest and in many respects the most influential ot the miners' mass meetings was held near Sunderland yesterday by the meu on strike. Over persons attended. Shortly after noon long and showy po-sessions irom distant collieries entered Suuderlaud to take part in the meeting, women some instances marching front of the bauds and t'anners. The principal speakers were Mr John secretary, ...

... e Herald will consist of two shoots containing The Child MURDER NEAR GOVAN .?Yesterday Moore made a post-mortem examination the body the child which was found in Kenfrew Koad, near van, on Tuesday. The result, we understand, is that was ascertained that the child had been born alive, that death had been caused by suffocation. Glasgow-Bound Vessel in Collision.?Yesterday morning Captain ...