... I - TH.E MINX]:1Ss'ittl titI As WaLs U ~I 1.02 : n. tneoctirtg Cf li111U iicrc.i.;h\' the; m~eetinig nf the pi MOU iijy Id bertde, it wvas ir' circ I; a there lhei llhd l 4oIiCIU. cI' the i'OUiit, boa L' . ii! a ?? o Otia' Hl'lii. yeteday Mor~lle.' . ZIj~ Bid2iw Liics.alL Ii ii ui in. 'Elits ?? cation jrivateir 'Is til tt' e ?? action, bult iftz'it %`a, ?? ?? iiatn In.-t, It) o Ein'ca te i 2u ...

... I DAMPING OUT OF FURNACES. I Notice has been posted at Glengarnock Works, Kilbirnie, belonging to Messrs Merry & Cuning- hame, that all the furnaces now in operation (six in number) at the works will be damped out in 14 days. This action is said to be owing to the scarcity of coal, none arriving from the strike dis- trictsin LanarkshireandAyrshire. Severalof the furnaces have already been ...

... DBrrISH my, ICAL ASSOCIATION *-(mo on S 6 O ORRl5PONlET.)W Cambridge, Thriday Evening. Taz main feature of the business of the British Medical Association to-day was the address in physiology delivered by Dr Michael Foster, Pro- Lecturer of Physiology in Trinity College, Cam- bridge. As the doctor's ideas on the education of students are of a somewhat revolutionary charac- ter, we make the ...

... FATAL OMNIBUS ACCIDENT IN. I' - . FDINBURGEL - g I DRIVER KILED AND SEVERAL PASSEGER ' ?? ?? On Saturday afternoon about half-past five o'clock a serious accident took place in Edin- burgh, 'by the overturning of an emnibts with between thirty and forty passengers. The'ibus was one of those, run by the Street Tramway Company between Edinburgh and Trinity and Newhaven, and starting firnn the ...

... FRAINC& (nou OUt OWN CORREZPOXNZIT.) I Paris, August 22. THE last few days have witnessed a general : exodus of Ministers and high political person- ages from hot, dusty Paris to the green lanes of ithe country or the seaside. The President of the Republic has gone to recruit his health tamongst his favourite mountains of the Jura. l He seemed indisposed to say much at the different railway ...

... BROOMHILL HOMIL pO-c-psL3 This institution at irkbintigioe was vis Saturday by no fewer than four enr. ito r from Glasgow, nlimaherin.' t0onether aunt 4n0a tsr.t ..t .r0o laert sons, and accompanied b tio ilsttrillenrnal 'ai Conspicuously came fuilv 3Yl3 of the leee and friends of the Good TAnzlarw hl tc 3 tion, headed by their preSidert, M'r ?? alter Freer and attended by the Mossbank ...

... INSCH -The annual treat given by the teachers and sothersito the children attending the Sabbath schools of the Established Church in this parish came off on Thursday after coun. The rendezvous was the Public e Hall. There wan a feeling of general regret at the d absence of the Fev. Mr Stode, their respected pastor, awho is presently on his holidays. In the absence of' tMr Storie Mr Clhristie ...

... ROYAL (ROYCB) REAPERS. - We learn that Green, Bank: Brothers, & Co., Waterford, Canada, have been Co. running overtime the whole season in order to over- tenan take the numerous orders received for their Royal, prope which has become the farmer's favourite and given such ba d general satisfaction for the past four years. (1878 LAU5RYNC-EIIRK-FINGER-AND-TOE IN TURIps.- these Finger-and-toe ...

... 6 t : ABERDEEINSHIRE. ' BALLOOK CAIRNIE,-On the 14th Michael Hughes, a a Esq. (2 gunsl, bagged 21 brace grouse and 3 couples r h, bares. Birds wild. . GARTLY.-On the 16th Michael Hughes, Esq., bagged l e 20 brace grouse and 1 couple hares. Scent bad. c if Birds wild. f . D]sKRiY.-, On the 16th W. S. Deacon, Esq. (2 gUns), I .t bagged 211 brace grouse and 14 couples hares. On r d Deakry moors ...

... sr [Ir 310 of 3 II. of Cr of Jr et a, .t. Ir 6 A full rpeeting of the Foridlvoi Parochial Board was held on Thursday in the Bonrd's Room-I'rovost Coutts, Banff, in the chair. The business of the Board was routine, and the Board resolved itself into the Local Authority, when there was submitted the following report of committee of the Local Authority of the parish of Fordyce, appointed on 15th ...

... wR)UR_ LADIES' COLUMN. Inte.l ~~tery a 4Y 't~nqter 3a'c Y Stanley tb'i 'si ft ere' wAs''~rle tfostoia sf LIthat when at monk bad served isterm of years he E e~l~tId cease from arduous labou-,r .,his name was sa 'lchanged into(q g ignifying&- t' ai plaYfeliow.;` and lit a it was undeslsto& th~ SI~s so: a eve be naLmedlin Piqpresence. liow Iwish ome -Ai law ofthe . - wasi force Nvith r -gaxrd ...

... Edmund Spencer, the first great poet after Chiaucer, was hornr in' 15.33, -and -'was~'educated at -Pembroke College, Cambridge. At the age of 40 he received the degrees of BaclieloraadMaster.oLArt3. Shortly after Gabriel Harvey introduced higtr to Sir Philip ydney, Nwboi. pnroved a true and' valuable nd. Spens~r's fiit work is supposed to have baeeiwrtten visiting at the home of his -patron, ...