The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1876-11-11 00:00:00

--Every person on board the Arctic explorin ships is
to be paid double pay from the date of commindo

A football-player at Shotts had hia collar-bone broken
on SAM hy falting on him elm:Oder.

At the (2*binet Cauneil .ir Id on Saturday (4th) all
..tlie-tilaiatera-went.prefrlit with the except:bin nt the Draw"
litllTEinold and Gordon.

The Bristol embscription to the Easfern War S of-
ferers' Itllief Fund was closed on Saturday the 4th, and
amounted to about £l,OOO.
Indian advices say that much excitement is being
created in Bombay Presidency In consequence of the prospect,
of famine which threaten large dicricts of it. It is calculated
that in consequence of the drought this season not fewer
than six coals are in imminent danger of starvation.

The Lord Chief Justice was chaffed when out shoot-
ing the other day, and told he gave his birds too much
"law.' " Perhaps I do." he replied; "but remember It Is
not the duty of the judge to carry out the execution."—
Cow t Journal.

Tn. Association for the Promotion of Secondary
Education in Scotland have adopted resolutions urging the
Glsvernment to deal with Scottish educational endowments.
and the universities to provide a special curriculum for
teachers.

"Tommy, make room for your Uncle" is now being
played on the barrel-organs in Paris. It is understood to be
is British hymn. As France has a large export trade In these
instruments, "Tommy. make room for your Uncle," may now
be said to be starting for the tour of the world.

"We understand that Mr. Gladstone will contd.
bate ti an American periodical, Harpers Monthly Magazin!:
for December, a paper explaining his attiancle towards
America during the late Civil War '
—Daily New:.

The brink; slurs on strike at Bristol have dedded
to ask Mr. Crots to receive a national deputation during his
visit to Birmingham on the question of prison labour com-
petition. It a fair inquiry be conceded by the Home Secretary
the Bristol men on strike will at once resume work.

We are glad to be able to announce that Lord
Stlisbury is to be present at the proposed Conference on the
affairs of Turkey as the Queen's Special Ambassador. Lord
Salisbury and Str Ilenry Elliot wiU act as joint Plenipoten-
tiaries —The limes.

A New School of Art has been opened atfWinchester
by the Earl of Northbrook, who, in the course of an address,
expressed his belief that the great advance made in the art
education of this country was mainly due to the Prince
Consort, who saw that English manufacturers were likely to
be behind the rest of the world owing to the wait of cultiva-
tion in art design.
A summary of the balance-sheets for 1875 of thirty.
nine at the charitable institutions of Liverpool is given in
Monday's Liverpool Post. Ihe gross total income is stated_
at £152 SA, and the gross total expenditure at £128,102.
13th these sums represent advances on 1874, when the come-
sponding figures were £124,583 and £118,149.

The Moslems believe that their religion superseded.
Judaism and Chrhtlanity—Mahomed closing the culminating- _
series of six great prophets, Adam, Nosh, Abraham, Moses,
Christ, Mohammed—and that they have a right to administer
on the effects ot both. They appropriate our sacred history
and embellish it without the least scruple, assume exclusive
right to our sacred places, and enroll in their own calendar
all our notable heroes and saints.
A delegate meeting, composed of representatives of
every town and village in North and North-East Lancashire 1- 99
was held on Saturday evening at the Spinners' Institute,
Black Nirn. Five delegates also attended from the Northern. y
Counties kasociation of Operative Spinners. it was almost
unanimously resolved that, in view of the impending lockout
on the part of the masters, the operative spinners on strike,
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at three mills might at once return to work.
•do 'user
Prince John of Glucksburg took leave on Monday
morning of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and left Sand:.4 "' 7
ringliam on his return to Denmark. Among the guests whom "4 i'la
their Royal Highnesses entertained at Sandringham aince sanest:Ms
their arrival was Captain Nares, Cmomander of the
Arctic Expedition. •--- -
Mr. Stansfeld, M P., at a Liberal demonstration stir or
Tonmorneu on the occasion of the opening of a new Liberal
club, spoke at length on the Eastern question Efe acknow-
ledged Oat It was only an act of fairness to the Government
to state distinctly that what had taken place with regard to
the change hi tne foreign policy of Eeglaud was what the
country had asked at the hands of the GArernment.
Considerable anxiety and bustle were manifested atIT A
a deuce in Brooklyn the other evening when during the
second figure of the lancers, a hollow spherical object, of • eis
wire and canvas, was suddenly discovered on the floor in the •.
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centre of one of the sets. Nobody appeared to know what
it was, or where it came from, bnt it was noticed that several fras
young men snickered audibly as an attendant removed the • Ajoll
offending obstacle, and that four young ladles left the rooncrste here
in hot haste the moment the dance concluded. g0:q.115744
A writer in Macmillan for November reminds will edi ,ax
that the Emperor Nicholas's comparison of flukey to a sick 04/
men was by no means new. In Likening the Octoman Empire ;, -
to a sinking patient, be was only repeating to Sir Hamilton - "'"'"
Seymour what Sir Thomas Roe, Ambassador from England '9' 9,9 44
In the time of James IL in Constantinople, had written entueda
home in despatches. "Larkey," said Sir Thomas, 'is like
the body of an old man crazed with vices, which puts on the I.
appearance of health though near its end."
Captain Bates and his blooming wife have retired A
into the privacy of their home near New York (the World
tells us). The house was built specially for them, and
presents a few peculiarities in the shape of rooms eighteen
feet high, doorways twelve feet high, a bedstead ten feet
lurg, and other articles of furniture in proportion. The
cap; ain will not be forgotten Its London, where acme years
ego be exhibited himself as the biggest man in the world,
being seven feet and a half high. •flais was not denied; but
he had to give plaee aux domes, and in Miss Anna Swann
he was obliged to adroit the existence of a lady fully one
inch taller than himself. On the principle of the selection
of the fittest, the captain married Miss Swann, and it is
said that since that nappy event they never fell out but
once, and that was through the bottom of a London four.
wheeler, which was driving them along the Strand towarda
St. James's Hall.

On Saturday morning Colonel Charles Towneley, of
Towneley-hall, Burnley, Lancashire, was found dead in his
dressing-room. He has been subject to epileptic fits, and It
is believed he died in one on the morning in question. He
was seen in his dressing-room at nine o'clock, and at 9 30 he
was found dead. He was eldest son of Mr. Peregrine Eaward
Towneley. To this distinguished Catholic family belonged
Richard Towneley, the eminent antiquary Charles Towne-
ley, the collector of statuary; John fowneley, the grand-
father of the deceased and father of the tianslator of " Hn-
dtbras" into French. Peregrine Towneley was the first
.man Catholic High Sheriff of Lancashire since the Refor-
mation, and the deceased has since held the same appoint-
ment. He succeeded to the Towneley estates on the death
of his father, which happened on December 31, 1846. The •
deceased was Colonel of the sth Royal Lincashire Militia, ftl
(Lc., Chairman of the County Magistrates, and one of thisfes
most celebrated cattle-breeders in England. He had been
attended by Dr. Coultate some time previous to his death..tii
Deceased was born in 1103.

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