... I MR CARNEGIE AND ABERDEEN, PUBLIC LIBRARY. In GIFT OF £1000. ; be At a meeting of the Public LibrarypNew Building ag Fund -Sub.Committee, held yesterday afternoon, the fir following letter fromA Mr Andrew Carnegie to the id Lord Provost was submitted to New York, April 12, 1889. Of To the Lord Provost of Aberdeen, ad My Dear Sir,-I have your favour of the 18th &l March, telling me about the ...

... ABERDEEN CHORAL UNION, The annual meeting of the Aberdeen Charal Union 1 was held last night in the Round Room of the Msicioi Ihil Buildinggs. There was a good attendance. Mr Pi J. Mlurray Garden, advocate, tile president, occupied Be ihe chair. b mr A. M. Byres, the secretary, having read the a Mninute3 of last meetingv, submitted the report of the hi cwnoinittee as follows:- The session ...

... HIGHLAND SOCIETY'S EXPEfIMENTS. ' I , - - - . M1mING AJN ALB'OAD. '`R. On Saturday Afternoon Dr ;Aitken', chemist of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Sc1tland, met I at Alford with a number of -the farmers in the Vale o ,of Alford, who are conducting, or are, proposing to ti conduct, experiments- under the auspices of:, the sociery. The meeting took place within -the Haugh' .d ...

... LATEST LONDON NEWS6 its 'Y [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] ve e be LONDox, Thursday night. yve Mr Parnell's cross-examination is not. so he dramatic as was Major Le Caron's, but it is still ats very interesting, and, in 'theatrical parlance, easily fills the house. Very.often it becomes sea duel between witness and counsel, for each Veseems to forget that the other is.a member of ice the ...

... NOtfING LESS THAN A MIRACLE. TaE Domroes DsLUDzD, BUTS THE PATIENT'S Lia's . ,3SAVElD. (:St Helen's Chronicle, April 9tb.) The viTle compounds plated' in the market- by unsorupulous empirics have, produced an almost general tendency to poos4pooh the effcacy of all patent medicines; and so human experience all the World over serves to show that that which was ordained for the common good is ...

... AGRICULTURAL REVIB,. E d (FROM A SPECIAL CORRIESPONDENT.) Y 5 With the advent of the merry month of May we IN 13 have a promise of mach-needed im~provement in tbe- so ,t weather. The closing ditys of April and the opening£ d.of May were characterlsed by cold and excessive s a moisture, and even. yesterday snorr~inig a good deal of at Lirain fell. Ae the day advanced; however, there damne Ot Ia ...

... LECTURES, SOOIAL MEETINGS, &a. KICITH-.SoOAL MmrsGra.-The members of the local branch of the Scotch Girls' Friendly Society held a social meeting in the Longmore Hall on Saturday evening, when the Han. Mrs Ferguson of Pitfour was present and gave an address. A magio lantern exhibition followed. KEiTH-IALL--PABR15 GuILD.-Tbe members of the Parish Guild closed a very eucoesaful season's ...

... I AHIONABLE, MARIAGE. The marriage of Mr Edward, Gsalton Brori'Letij d, bridge; eldest son of the Ite Mr J. C. Baron Leth- o bridge, of Tregeare, Cornwall,- and Miss Ada Dorothy he Ivy King, younger daughter of the late Rev. Edwarc4 is King, vicar of Werrington, was celebrated yesterday as afte'rnooniat-St John's Church,. Torquay. The bride and bridegroom'-and their families are welL. knowq ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENTS 1 * Ordi H1OUSE OF LORDS--THURSDAY.~ who * at t The Lord-Chancellor took his seat on the wool- sack at a quarter-past four. O FIRIST REtADING, N Lord HERSORELL introduced a bill consolidat- exi, ine the law relating to the sale of goods. I The bill was read a first tame.kn SALE OF FIORSEFLESH FOR FOOD. onl t Earl BEAUCHAMP, in moving the' Florseflesh L (Sale for Food) Bill ...

... d PovZRAN.-oae sowing is finished in this districb, it and farmers are busy among turnip land. w DuFkrowN-LaT or GAsSS.-The grass park, of Bncbromb, belonging to Mr Findlay of Aberlour, were let for the sefsod yesterday. The parks let at a rise Ty of IO per cent. on last year's prices. DUNZCHI-GBASS Rour.-The grass parks on the Home Farm of Dunecht, 16 in number, were let fot . the season on ...

... sl1BDnEEN SPRING HOLIDAY.. 'e t -- - hIthbntiz strictly speaking, to-da'y falls to be o o' e 'dns the annual spring holiday,..many persons 3'lte tcn on Saturday, indaced no doubt by the fine :sveathbir, Deeside, as usual, was well patroeise a8 W eie *lsothe Buohan and North sections of the Great' h North 'of Scotland Railiay Company's system. Stone. xf taveiv, 'Muchalls, and Cove were also ...

... I EbUCATIONAL0:INSrITUTE OF B'OTJINDi !~~~ . . . , * DEX~~IRf BRAmcir- 0 Tlie asurdal meatiugoif' the- Deer Br;anch-of the Educational Institete of Scoiland was heid'. at Maud on 8nturday-Mr M'Kenzie, Sti Jergua, president, ini the chair. The 'minutes of the previoes meeting bavihg been read, the president gave his retiring, ad- dress. Mr M'Kenzie, in the course of. his retiring address, ...