... THE COUNTY COUNCiLS. XORTHEUMBERLAND. BEuwVIcL.-The name of Mr R. G. Bolam having been brought before a public meeting, held last week at Berwick, as one qualified to fill the office, he has consented to become a candidate. BELSAY.-On Wednesday evening a well attended meeting of the inbabitants of Heddon-on tie-.Wall snd district wise held in the village school room for toe purpose of ...

... THE first Tuesday in every fourth November is an important day in the United States. On it the President is chosen, or rather the persons who choose the President. The real election takes place later, but practically Tuesday determined who is to be the President during the next four years. This time, more than usual interest has been created in the proceedings owfbog to the Sackville incident. ...

... EXTRAORDINARY SCEOE IN THE STREETS. In the Town Hall, on Wednesday night, Mr Stuart Cumberland, the world-renowned exponent of the proces30of thooght-reading, gave one of his fareell seancesin England. Bir Cumberland was in Newcastle a few weeks argowhen bis pertormances were watched with BO great an interest and by so large and influential audiences that on his return fr.a Scotland this week ...

... 4te Ifll'w'-fle c6ur1alitt NORTH OF ENGLAND FARMER, AND GENERAL HUE AND CRY. ES7A3LISHED 1711-9TEE Ylas o0 QumE AmxR. _ _ Is diplomacy a failure ? This is the latest form which the inqniry made so familiar to us during the past few weeks is taking. Mr Chamberlain was not successful in his mission over the Canadian fishery question, and now Lord Sackville has blundered in dealing with the same ...

... LOSS OF A VESSEL AND ALL HANDS. Information reached Qoeenstown on Wednesday night fltat the brigantine J. C. Noeb, Walais to New York, has been lost in tbe Atlantic 'with all tlands. The A TERRIBLE TALE OF THE SEA. The Carman. attatnsnip Meictr, belonging to the Neptane Company. has arrived at 'Vigo with the sole object of land. ing an old Portrguese sailor, thre only survivor of the crew of ...

... THE Parnell Commission proceedings are becom- ing interesting. A Recorder, himself an Irishman, once declared that if you want to roast an Irishman you may always get an Irishman to turn the spit, and the assertion is being verified before the Com- mission in the statements of some of the worst char- acters associated with the League. These state. ments are no doubt true, and the impression ...

... PRESENTATION TO CHIEF- CONSTABLE ELLIOTT. SPEECH BY M11LTOSEPH COWEN. The formal presentation of an illuminated address and a purse containing 300 ghieeas to Uir John Elliott, who for 25 years Las been Chi't-Constable of Gatesbead, in secog- nition of his valuable services in that capacity, took place on Saturday afternoon. in the Council Chamber Gatesbead. A handsome gold brooch was also ...

... TEE NJATIOVAL UNAuN AT WOLVERHAMPTON. The twenty-first annual conference of the National Union of Corservative Associations was opened at Wolverhampton on Friday. Mr Ashmead Bartlett, MlP., the chairman of the council, precided. The report said :- The alliance b6- tween the two portions ot the Unionist party against the common foe has been maintained with a solidity and good feeling rare in ...

... pultlm in T- vvoo A heavy snowstorm has ocenrred ino the Canton of Valaia. Twro splendid specimens of the Great Shearwator have i been shot at Soarboroughr It is reported from Berlin that the Emperor William E will visit Constantinople when be visits Athene.a The War Office are about to constitute a factory at Lydd for the manufacture of the new explosive lyddite. Duciuig last month there were ...

... ALL RIGHTS E1G3BHVNR. ghato with ProltothMeM BISCUIT BAKING. In the north of EneianI householders do not depend on tbe bskers for their sopply of bread. In the south, east, and welt of Enluaand, the baker's man goes round every morning enrd evening in the towns, and the bread is thus obtained freer, each day. The working man in Dorhain and Notitumberlsnd has, tiowever, an inbred dislike to b- ...

... KILLED ON THE SWITCNBACK RAILWAY. On Satunday evening David Wilson, residing at Elliot Street, Glasgow, was killed on the switchbick railwaY at Glasgow Exhibition. He hsd lost his hat and, contrary to warninge, went along the line to recover it, when he wbY- IUn over by a car and killed on the spot, BOILER EXPLOSION NEAR MONrROMS, On Tuesday a'ternoona terrible noilerexplosion occurred at tbe ...

... ALL RIGHITS RESEKVED. Tong tolho, ?6. 014umu. is ,- u ' -j ;i - My dear Bairns,-Have you ever read abont naturalists term ' anthropord; arld if you wenlt menagerie, and were asked on your return if yoC teas noticed tbe anthropoid, should you ire able to answer' T, term is given to spes, bemause of their resmeLblsncw10 to M and tre greatest oa these are called ?? This et ' of the monkey family ...