The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1880-11-19 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

OOO. Four young gentlemen of Paris, for laughing at the police whilst clearing the monasteries,have been sentenced to a a fortaight'e imprisonment. A fifth party has been tined 100 francs for saying the police disgraced their uniform. Alexanler Sleddall, lately cashier to Messrs. Li ttledale and Co., cotton brokers, Liverpool, who on Monday pleaded guilty to stealing upwards of .C 3 000 belonging to the firm, was on Tuesday sentenced to five years' penal servitude Willian Brownlee,. ohoemaker, was executed at Durham. on Tuesday, for murdering his sweetheart, Elizabeth Holmes, at Evenwood, on the 18th of August. Brownless was quite resigned to his fate. Ma-wood was the executioner. A fishing-boat capsiztel off Calais on Saturday at the mouth of the harbour. Thirty persons went to the capstan in the jetty to try and haul up the boat, but the ieapstan bar broke, dashing three men into the sea, where they were drowned, and injuring ten other,. An ex-cirector of the late Glasgow Bank, who recently resided inone of Her Majesty's gaols, hae purchased an extensive estate, picturesquely situated near Lake Lucerne. It is said that he has grown to prefer this neighbourhood to the banks of the Clyde. At a gravid review at Lehner, on Saturday, the Viceroy of India announced that Her Majesty has granted the troops in Afghanistan a medal with six clasps, inscribed Ali•Musjil, Peiwar-Kotal, Charasobad, Cabul . AhmedKheyl. all Candalmr. A bronze star is to be given to General Toberts. As a man named Robert McGibbon, 27 years of age was working in the steeple of the New Free Church, Greenock, on Frisitg morning, he lost his footing and tell to the ground, atance of 150 feet, death resulting instantaneously. Bits brother was killed some three weeks ago by a fall from the same steeple. A very painful case of immorality and destitution came to light on Sunday evening, when a police-comtable in the Coto'nercial-road, Landon, met a girl, fifteen years of age, claming, in a bundle of rags, the body of a recentlyborn infant. The poor girl wait in a wretched condition, and is now under medical treatment. A emirate incident has marked the mayoralty election of St. Ives. The newly-elected mayor was one of the retiring aldermen, and, as he was not re-elected an ieder, man, he ceases to be a member of the corporation. The to wit clerk, however, advised that he would still retain his mayoralty, and haves casting vote as mayor. although , he would have no vote as alderman or councillor. Robert Dudgeon, clerk to St. Margaret's parish, the largest district in Leicester, has been remanded, without bail, by the borough magistrates, on a charge of embezzling large autos belonging to the ratepayers. Evidence was ' adduced as to one case only—ASS rent received and not accounted for; but it was intimated that other serious charges would be brought. THE Ceesne —The whole of the printings together with , the supply cf the paper for the Census for England and Wales has been undertaken by Messrs. M'Corquedale and Co. There will be 7.527.500 hnueeholdere' schedules, 79,350 numerating books, and 110.000 forms for veeselo, the quantity of paper that will be required being 57 tons 13 cwt. On Monday afternoon the Barnsley magistrates fined a collier named William Heppinstall 20e. and cute for being found drum and asleep with his head on the down line in the Oxsprirg tunnel on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway. Fortunately the driver of an engine puling on the up line saw the defendant, or the next train a/mild have decapitated him. The death is announced, under sudden and paieful eircinnetenses, of the Rev. William Biennial, M.A., headmaster of Grencester Grammer school. He was officiating at Smith Cerney Parish Church on Sunday evening last, and hat just commenced to read the prayers, when he wal seised with an apoplectic fit, and died in a few minutes. Elizabeth Stacey, the woman condemned to death by Lord Justice Baggallay at the late Leicester Assi zee for the murder of her illegitimate child at Little Glen, lay putting it when aileep in a pond on the roadside, ha, been reprieved. Alice Maud Mary Pickering, aged 19, at present lying under sentence of death at Leeds Gail, for the murder of her infant son at Scarborough, has also been reprieved. About three o'clock on Saturday morning a fire broke out on the premises occupied by Messrs. Merritt and Hatcher, proprietors of the Keneibh M,reury and general printers, situated in Blackheath-road, London, and before assistance could arrive the whole building was in flames. The engineer and his wife, who resided on the premises, were rescued by means of a fire escape. The plant and machinery were destroyed, and the warehouse, composing. room, ant general Melees entirely gutted. Nsw I