The Atherstone, Nuneaton, and Warwickshire Times. — 1880-08-28 (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England)

STRAY NOTES.  Don't drink iced milk, or indeed iced anything, while you are hot. Your doing so may he the immediate precursor of death. Such is one of the lessons to be learnt from the lamented demise of the accomplished actress, Lilian Adelaida Neilson.  By a strange coincidence, almost satirical in its sadness, on zlw day of her death, The Era contained the announcement "Miss Neilson is now resting."  The reports of the outrage on the Metropolitan Railway have had a most ludicrous effect on the underground traffic. Men and women decline to enter compartments tenanted by a male passenger ...)/aw. There has not been such a scare, so the guaras say, since the murder of Mr. Briggs, by the German Muller.  Thera is a capital prospect of some good sport being obtained among the partridges in many .parts of Warwickshire, and the Ist of September is anxiously awaited by sportsmen. Birds are reported to be not only in good condition, but plentiful, nothwithstanding the thunderstorms and floods which prevailed a short time ago, and which in some places proved somewhat disastrous to the young birds.  Two .of the leaders of the "Salvation Anny " attended the Derby Police Court, on Tuesday, by request of the Mayor, who cautioned them as to the manner in which their out-dour services were conducted, and requested that they should be discontinued.  There is a rumour in the clubs that the present Speaker of the House of Commons desires repose and retirement from the duties of his ottice ; and that he is likely not to return to the Speaker's chair after this session. The selection of both sides of the House, few occupants of the chair have brought to the duties more painstaking devotion, or have more deservedly won the approval and esteem of members of the House. Mr. Brand's likely successor is said to be a Scotch representative, who has already established strong claims to the thanks of his party. However, now that the matter is mooted, public curiosity will not rest until it is gratified.  There are many complications and difficulties in the licensing laws, and one is the right of a publican to refuse to serve a customer. At the Clerkenwell Police Court a case of this kind, though 11,1“.: ill its way, did not exactly touc:i the main question. Henry Finch, landlord of the London Spa Tavern, was summoned for refu,ing to serve Mr. lie.irge Richardson, one of the public. The complaLiant went into the defendant's private bar, and was told that no one could be served "in that compartment but vestrymen." For the defence it was alleged that there was a notice in the vompamnent stating it to be the "bottle counter." Ili dismissing the summons, the magistrate said the complainant must prove, first, that he had the right to be served in that particular bar ; and, secondly, there were the questions whether the complainant was a traveller, and whether the defendant, being a publican only, was an innkeeper within the meaning of the Act. He thought a publican had a right to make regulations for conducting. his own business. The refusal wa.s <nay to serve in a particular bar.  A "strike of curates has taken place at Bournemouth, in consequence of the appointment of Bishop ilyan to the vicarage of that towc.--or rather tbe aggrieved curates have resii4.aed, although tic. newly-appointed vicar has made no great change in the ritual, which was so much fatted. Tiie. Bishop of Wittchester, who had been app:aled ti' !iy the curates, has told them that he c wnot inter:ere with the nominee of a patron ; but his lot .tip adds: "There is no doubt some anomaly in the present system of patronage, by virtue of a :jell a country clergyman, or the trustees of a petty society, or a clergyman who ha 4 purcliascil an advowson, may irresponsibly rule tile teaching and ritual of a large parish, and 411 a single week overturn the practices and revolutionise the principles which may have prevailed for years. I have long felt that such changes, in a icttever direction they may lead, should not be possibL3 without the will of the parishioners and without a power of appeal to the bishop."  Ecolstield. after being deprived for over four months of the services of the bell ringers, owing to the vielr having objected to the bells being ron.z on the occasiol of the Liberal victory in the timt.i Nest Riding, is again in the full enjoyment .1: its st,teple music, the churchwardens having re,!miciliatiou between the vicar and the ringers.  AI . i 7.; E