... , BY JOURNAL SPECIAL WIRE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) 5 NEW B55IDOF STRsEET, Sunday night.. The dlebate on the Transvaal on Friday practically ended the session, so far as the mljortty of members are concerned. There still remains -a good leal of le ...

... NElEMBBS FYEAR OF LIG(HTNING, YIn the August Cemitury Alexander M'asbe lgives encouragement and advice to people who have an excessive fear of being struck by light- .ning-or thunder, as rome of thers. think. Fe lwrites:-The keen suffering which many undergo just in' advanee of or during a. thunderstorm is of a dual nature, The sense of impending danger alarms and terrifies; but there is ...

... 9,Ite A'llateln OlurjnuL ClIlEF OFFIaT.-BROAD StRInu, AilERi'ERN. LOSDON OFFICK-5 NlEW IJIDV SRtt C, F,.C. TELhXORAMS-AHERDE:EN IJOURNAL,` ABiE1RDEEN. rnJlilioxN-No. S. ABERDEEN, MONDAY, JULY 31,1899. , _ . _ . . .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NEWS SUMMARY. The death is announced of Dowager Lady Howard de Walden. Lord and Lady Hiarris celebrated their silver wedding on Saturday. Var ...

... SPEECH DAY AT EPSOM I COLLEGE. I LORD ROSEBERY ON MANHOOD. TRIBLUTE TO LW'AJORh MARCHAND. The distribution of prizes at Epsom College took place on .Saturday afternoon in presence of a large gathering of the parents and frienis .-f the scholars. The headmaster (Rev. T. N Hart Smith) presided, and Lord Rosebery distributed some of the prizes, and afterwards delivered an address. Lord Rosebery, ...

... jTHE DISPOSAL OF DISTILLERY I KRf'IEFUSI. DECISION LN DUP FTOWN CASE. Sheriff Grant yesterday issued his interlocutor in the action at the instance of George Cowie and 8on distillers, Mortlaclh, ngainst. the Com nissioners of the Burgh ,f UtuffLown. T1he punquers claimed the right, uinder section 7 of the Rivers Pollution Act, 1876. to introduce the refuse from their dis- tillory into the ...

... DUNNOT'AR.\1t t)E'QVI NG CLUB PICNIC ANO~l (: ANIES.I T1'he aimiial piclii.' utidl gtites l~ied ticlci tie it iilii lti noritir 01, Dlttiniottat olleio, Oil] St:Inr- iWi i kii,('It her %Nla, ectreieIII1 Warn, cliii1 tleT UtntttdatiE.'i large. Th le prillicipal evoiii 'iss tile lk-mliptitioit for dih' hitiii'oiiit sille Cir opiv 1.10- by~lel i Ar Ii. ti. Ilitcilije. ltnoititur 11911' ¾. xi ito ...

... LONG DISTkNCE BALLOONING. A SUCCESSFUL JOURNERY. The fourth of a series of experiments to test Ithe long distance trmvelling capacities of balloons s'wass made on S&turdey, wbhen the aeronaut, Mr 3Spencer, and a friend, named Mr Pollock, left the LCrystal Palace with a, favourable north-west wind c cross the English Channel. Tlhe trip proved nvsriarkably succetsful in achieving its object, and ...

... BUDDON AMRILLERY CM1P. 14 A south-westerly galle was experienced at Bi3A don yesterday, but the atmosphere was n1o0 lu favourable to shooting, and the competieionDwe advanced a stage. A number of sras Were, issued, While Corporal Robson's (2nd DUrIh deotchment still lends in drill and laying wih, the grand total of 42, second place has D bef taken by all Argyll and 13ute squad tuder 130 ...

... I 1 BY JOURNAL SPECIAL WIRE. .t (FRAOM OUR OWN CORRE SPONDENT.) 5 N ew BRIDGE STREET, k Friday night. g A full-dress debate upon the condition of if affairs in the Transvaal attracted a large ) number of members and strangers to the d1 House of Comsmons this afternoon. It was easy to see that something unusual was ex- d pected. Long before three o'clock there 6 was a stir and the hum of ...

... Thermometer and Barometer, READINGS AT 2 A.M. TO-)AY.- I ZFIESM(1 N Sets~ A '27 147 AM 5,- deviln. P. _ ~~~~SEN.S MOON. lsc3. 4n lwe Me.. r iC5 P.M. _ Sets, . 87 rd. l 47 A. _ Uigh Wvatci SL3 Aber. D4 A S^M. _ Je,,A5.j,., bi61 P.M. _ TIhe barometer has fallen slightly, anld the wverlher is _ uTsnettled., ; TO.DAY. (July 24, 18:9.) tO' kV. BARO( SI - __)_ I FORECASTS FOR TO-DAY. ...

... I,J TilHE DYNAMITE M~1ONOPOLY. DISCUSICON IN Vt LICSR.AAD. (Ti7tus ASSOCIATION FortiqN SPrEcIAL.r Pretoria, Thun'sday. III the First l lMad this Molrning, the read- iln, of tile opillnion of tihe Sate Attorney. Mr | Son ut atiatin4 the canlecllaltion of the dviia- mite coicexssiol nns % re1ied. Air LJveda- a-lied that the opinion of M1r Scli-rinel shoild be read, but tile chlairlan obeeted, ...

... THIE WVATCH1LMAN'S NIGHT. Mr llenry Wiggin, tho Vestry night watohman, the hero of the follocing trute story, resides tit 2 `Ilc.rtclcd tlrovo, (ihalk Farm, London, where a St Pancras Oazette represontative found him i onel fRaiorday acftP'rnoou. I'enfly pin, his Stctill et allilOlts t tO hii- ir eieght and-twonty s'ears (I am now 58) 1 ha.ve s t flfered frolic lhan;, broanchitis, and in- di ...