Excerpt from The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century, 1903: Newspaper Index and Annals October 16 and' 25. - Notices of the Northern Meeting, which began on Monday, 12th inst., and lasted for the week. It is noted that the Duchess of Gordon was not present, and that Lord Seaforth, who had been unwell, was not sufficiently recovered to attend. October 30. - A few days ago at a marriage in Kirkhill, the mother of the bridegroom, who was 96 years old, was so elevated on the occasion that she sang and danced, and entertained the company with 80 years old stories, and would have no other music than the Highland bag pipe, which she said was always the music that Lord Lev-at and the lairds of her day danced to on similar occasions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.