Tat Reunr FD. This fund, organised for the relief of the distress Macclesfield was closed last week. The Mayor, in announcing the fact, thanked those who had kindly contributed to the fund. ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE. STATE OF Tu n'.—Messrs. Reyncr Brothers' mill, Cockbrook, is still wor

A Purty Way to Talk to a Lono Widder. A weather-beaten woman of melancholy and dis. couraged mien sat in front of a drummer on a railroad train. She was clad in rusty mourning, and her appearance indicated that her loss was recent. When near to Chicago she turned to the drummer a

THE Axxvxt, TRADES CONORESS.—The Spinners and Minders' Association will be represented for the first time as an association by Mr. Samuel Winterbottom, one of its past presidents and one of its trustees. The Trades Council, representing over 1,200 members, will also be represent

There are 621 newspapers printed in Berlin. Fifty-four are official papers, 70 political, 165 have to do with literature, science and art, 217 are corn. mercial and 30 religious. _ ON AN AIERICA.N LINEB.—The Customs officers at Queenstown, on Monday, arrested Delia Moriarty, of

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STRIKE IN WEAVING TRU/E.—Some day; 9.5.!0 a strike oc , iurred in the weaving department o. the Belfast Spinning and Weaving Co.'s premises at Milfort Mills, owing, as the workers allege, to a reduction of their wages, or, more correctly Epeaking, the retention of a part, and in

Consul Gregory writes :—As to foreign imports, reviewing the statistics of a number of considerable articles for six years, and beginning with the cotton goods, I remark that grey shirtings (the chief article) are something over double the average of the preceding five years. In

Ssroxy.—Mr. G. Stachev writes :—Cotton spinning is now a business of a highly aleatory character, owii47 to the manner in which the price of the raw material is tossed up and down by speculative buying and selling, and by other influences. Advantageous purchases of cotton may br