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At Blackburn, on Tuesday, Michael Calvev, football player, formerly with the Blackburn kovers, was charged with being drunk on licensed premises, with causing wilful' damage to a window, and with assaulting James Livesey and Police-constable Duxbury in June last. He was turned o

Information has been at the Colne County Police Court that, late on Monday afternoon two youths had been seen loitering in a secluded on the Midland Railway Company's line between Colne and Foulridge, who on being seen hastily decamped. The man who saw them was unable to overtak

CHRISTMAS PRIZE DISTRIBUTION. The annual distribution of prizes in oomAiotion with the Christmes`shooting of the K Company, Ist V.B. Northumberland Fusiliers, took place in the Town Hall Thursday last week. The pitsge-oontributed by the gentry.tradeepeople, and fanners of the to

A sad accident, which resulted in the drowning of two men, has occurred at Gateshead. Some men were " larking " on Hillgate Quay, when one of them fell into the river. Another man, named Armstrong, aged about 21 years, in the hope of rescuing him, jumped into the river, but, unh

ETHODIST CHAPEL. her 26th, the annual Sunday was held in the vestry, the The Secretary reporteck , and 8 teachers on the past are the names of offleeni year :—Superintendents: J. Hodgson; secretaries: and Joseph Smith: treasurer: pvsident for Band of Hope: ; vice-president: Mr T

A letter from Mr J. M. Forster King's Norton, ioester, was read, with reference to taking water from the town supply up the Shield Hill. He asked that the matter be laid before the Council, to ascertain if a constant supply would be available, and if the Council would bear a por

Aooounts, 79,497. TWO AND-A-HALF per INTEREST allowed on DLPOBITB, repayable on demand. TWO per CENT. on CURRENT ACCOUNTS, on the minimum monthly balances, when not drawn below 1100. BTOCKI3, MARES, and ANNUITIES parabola* and sokl for Custom•rs.

FUN, FACTS AND FANCIES. INTBRESTLNG YAM'S. Hasheesh, _or the Indian hemp, is it resinous sub- produoed from the tops of As plant in India. The bones of an average man's skeleton weigh twenty pounds. Those of a woman are probably six pounds lighter. At its present rat* of oombusti