... I GENERAL FOREIGN NEW2S I I- . .1 - - - - ' ANOTHERs EXPLOSION IN AMERICA. 11 PERSONS KILLED. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMI.) New York, Monday.-An explosion occurred fto-day at a firework factory employing a large c number of women and boys at Plymouth, t Pennsylvania. Nint Nomen and two boys are t reported killed. t AFGHAN TROOPS FOR HERAT. t (REUT'i1's TELEGRAMS.) C St Pctersbarg, MIondlay.-A teegram ...

... THEE IVATEVSIDE POLLED HERD. | g DRAFT SALE, The aunone cmenti tbat Mr George lVilken, ' rastereide of ,eorbes,, was to offer a draft from his 'I rnowned hetsi of polled Aberdeenshire cattle drew v tozether Y vit-erday a large and representative f aeiubtroe, of breeders from all parts of the United v luizidonru, repre entatives being present not only 9 hon the mr north, but from 11nr1and and ...

... LECTURES], SOCIAL MEETINGS, &;a. BLLIATERMUTUAL IgiPtOVRMEfNT ASSOCIATION. -This association met on Tuesday evening-Mr Barnett, president, in ebe chair. 'The debate for the evening-vtc., HEasg dancing or the sitage the better influencoe -wasl opened by 'ar Jamzes Grant, H tor dancoing, and by Mr J. P. Coutte, Eor the stage. At the close ot tbe discuasion the votb was tsakeni, and ...

... EDUCAT[ONAL AFFA11i; EX NEW BYTH. a e A meeting of the New Byth School Borrd wat t. beld yesterlay afterinoou within the Board oorn-the Rev. Mr Falconer, chairman of the Board presiding. The .i:her members present were-Rev. Mr Francis, nand Messrs Gibb, blacleod, Allan. and Meldrum. Mr John Nicol and Miss Nicol, pupti teacber, UIpperbrae School, were also present at the request of the Board. A ...

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... J THE NEW FRENCH CABINET. IMPORTANT MINISTERIAL STATEMENT (RE UTER'S TELEGRAMS.) Paris, Saturday.-A Ministerial declaration. was read' in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate to-day. It expresses the hope that the Chamber will not refuse co-operation to men who present themselves with a determination to accomplish the duty required by the situa- tion. The greatest tasks of the present Leois- i ...

... IMrPERIAL PARLIAMENT. H SOUSEi OF COMM~ON~S-W EDNESDAY. | When the House of Commons met yesterday f ; 1 meebewresien signs of excitementb among-st thel . ~TH[E PIG()TT CASE. M Wr SEXTON9 on the Speakler takinR the chairt nsked if M~r ]?igst had been arrestedt .anid also wvhether an iniquest was to be h eld on Dr MiagUILS, aud further ;vhether, .|accordin~g to the staterrent of Sir C. Russell, ...

... Coll-, BIRTHSB. 'ddL At 33 Ashvale 'Vaincr, Aberdeenira, ear the 20th me~t,, tao wife IIo W11.1,1Ar4 lBte aN, In It still, T eI At 2B7 Ureitt Wietrarar Rorn, Aberdeen, on the 23thl Irat. 207,1 a th Ifo of JAbtato ANDiMONeaa, Of at dirr.' hiter-otril.iaarar. At Sclarttle, on the 2lait tril., thor w'ito of W. ii Warata r, -.I On thle 20th lustl., the wifes of Mr II. 0U. Dwaiceac, Scotinolhose, ...

... SEIR10US CRUEMES. THE MUSWELL `lHT.L OUTRAGE. Id At tho Iliglgate Police Ceurton Monday the n eu it obarged with burglary at MIuiwell Hill, and shooting ik M, G eorge Atkin, were again brought beforle the 1. Magistrates. DIr George Atkin attended to give to evidence. lie wae looking exceedingly palt, id b hut otherwise appearetl well, Rid walked with er a firm ftep lie detailed the ...

... IMPOI4J11O ON NORTH C'OUtN't'rRy M01HcaNTs. At a Sheriff and Jury Cou, t at Aberdeen on Tues- day, beforeSheriff Brown, Marshal, CampbellGrant, Glasgow, w1s charged with having formed a Rcheme of obtaining the goads oif others by falme premences and appropriating tbeta to his own uses. Accused, it I was alleged. on different dates, by means of letters, repreHerit.'d himself as a merchant, or ...

... Professor Robertson delivered his fifth lecture on a Hfebrew Historians and Modern IHistorians of X Israel in Blythswood Church yesterday afternoon. £ Referring to the preceding lectures, he said that thus 11 far he bad abstained from discusslons as to dates andG t origins of books, and also from the subject of the cE history of legislation, because these were not the fundamental points in ...

... INSOl+, piOiOStD OUarLyo POyD.-A move- Ment is on foot to acquire part of the croft occupied IJY tile l Cies hurch Yninisier fur the forination of a Clllii n c prod. It is al.so proposed cc have a -katil y Poitri tor tha ladies. ini a tennis and bowling green hMi' also been suggested. RfiNCARDINI, 0NRE1--A jBE- ,iAIcE 1M.AMUNA-, P7N0N- )r vScott Rtiddell, Aberdecn, on behalf of the St John's ...