... DISTRICT -NEWS. Two BoYS DRo D -Two boys have been drowned in the neighbourhood of Middlesborough'by the giving-' way of the ice on which they were sliding. ' DEATH OF THE HON. J. H. DuNcO3WBE.--The death is -announced of the Hon. Janes Henry Duncombe, eldest surviving son of the Earl and Countess of Faversharn. The deceased was in his thirty-third year. On Thursday afternoon a fishing coble, ...

... !IMISL TO B. ' | At Christmas time there are few plants more popular than the curious mistletoe, and perhaps there is no plant about which there is a greater amount of mis- conception. Whether we regard its history, associa- tions, or its singular mode of growth, it is an interesting plant. Mistletoe is a vegetable parasite, that is, it grows upon and derives its nutriment frotn the juices of ...

... EXCITING SCENE IN A HUIJLL TRAIN. Thomas Bloomfield, labourer, Sarah-terrace, Court- ney-street, is in custody, charged by North-Eastern Railway-Constable Bass with wandering about: in the streets in an unsound state of ?? prisoner was a passenger from Leeds to Hull on Satnrday morning, and on the journey he conducted himself in a strange manner. After the train had passed Selby ?? attacked ...

... COLLAPSE OF THE SALVATION MISSION A'T HAN LEY. The Staffordshire Sentinel of Monday says- We understand that General Booth is expected at Hanley this afternoon with a view to the purchase of the Imperial Mission Hall for the use of the Salvation Army. This Step has been necessitated by the -serious falling off that has manifested itself in the Mission funds of late. During the past three ...

... D~yoT~iER FIRE NGINE FOR HULL. tn of the Watch Committee was held on A 15eetisd Alderman Stuart ?? pole ?? the week amounting to £85 estiilit's re ?? minutes of the Police 1 TOd S Cb-Committee contained a report from PtlVChi f Constable on the matter of appliances i she anguishing fires. He had examined i for e t fire escapes, and he thought a new pattern ,heP pre. 5hold be got from London. He ...

... DISTkICT NEWS.' | About 6-45 on Wednesday evening, a youtb, aged apparently about 17 years, but whose name has not tranep red, was killed by a passenger tram from Nor- naton about ?? from York. A' XBiununooM DROWNED WHI1ILST SKATINGQ. At Spalding, on Wednesday; a young mahl named Hub- bard, aged 21, was skating, when the ice gave way and he was drowned. Deceased was married' the same miorning> ...

... ~ I LOCAL :NEWS. I I N THEAsTERq AAiLwAy TRAFFICRErur.- NoFthEastern tsaffc returns for this weekc show a de- PRqPERTY SALE.-Messrs N. Easton and Son offered per- -for:. sale, by auction at their rooms 'the freehold or. residence known -as Pitt Villa~ 59, Trinity-street,t ,en Hull. 'T.t was8 sold to M~r Wilkinson for £650. S.PoroPS-eRD WonXIrN~o-nN's CLUB.'-The commnitte'e 41pits of ~,the ...

... .?z\ ?? ?? ?? 'V ? ? ?? ' FOX-HUNTING IN AMERICA-A FANCY ?? 11 (v , j ?? AMERICAN FACTS AND FANCIES-Il. CONCERNING these sketches, the late Randolph Caldecott writes thus :- The most prominent features of the landscape as seen from the train between New York and Washington are the huge advertisements in white letters painted upon black wooden barns and workshops, and upon long black hoardings ...

... ( htccn V)Ulnbtrcb anbI ENGLAND.-During the early part of 1885 the attention of Englishmen was absorbed by events in the Soudan. Before the end of 1884, Lord wVolseley, wvith a part of the force which had been sent for the relief of Khartoum, had reached Korti ; and it was decided that from this point, where his head-quarters were to be, two flying columns should alivance. One, under Major ...

... SIXTY YEARS SINCE, just before the great ?? crash of '26, Abbotsrord, the charming residence of Sir Walter Scott, was in the very heyday of its glory, crowded in the summer and auiumin seasons with hosts of visitors-the great and celebrated of every country. The author of Waverley was a kind and cheery host, possessing in an eminent degree the happy faculty of making all sorts of ...

... ANV ASCENT OF MOUNT SICIDDA IV A WVIIOLE party of Us might have been seen, a short time ago, setting out from pleasant Keswick, with knapsacks on our backs, Tarn ?? on our heads, and alpenstocks in our hands, bound for Skiddaw. We were going to ascend the familiar old mo Irain, which is 3,058 feet high, and picnic on the top. The clouds looked threatening, but the glass was high, and Skiddaw ...

... RURAL eNOTES 11- .. ' ''' ?? ' S K THE SEASON IN ENGLAND.-Thle brilliant sunshine with which June ended and July came in must not blind us to the fact that there has seldom been a year when the cereal crops were more generally adjudged to be under average in promise on almost all lands. It is too late to make up the lee-way of three months during which the situation was against' the crops. ...