The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-07-08 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

PATRICE STAUNTON. —An inquest was held at the Knaphill convict prison on Wednesday, before Mr. Hull, coroner for Surrey, on the body of Patrick Llewellyn Staunton, one of the convicts. Deceased was one of the brothers Staunton, who, with Patrick's wife, Elizabeth Ann, and a young woman named Alice Rhodes, were tried and sentenced to death in September, 1877, for the murder of Harriet Staunton, wife of Innis Edward' Staunton, the now surviving brother. Alice Rhodes was subsequently pardoned, and the sentence on the other prisonese wain commuted to penal servitude for life. The cass,stmisty be remembered, excited considerable lateral's as sile 41116, tinder the title of "The Penge Murder." Ouring use confinement deceased has been in a weak ana dejected state, and he died ultimately of consumption. By order of the Postmaster-General a number of female clerkships will shortly be filled up by open competition. •  THE Brighton Railway Company will shortly place on their line a train completely composed of Pullman cars, There will be a general saloon, a diningrom, smoking taken, ladies' boudoir, and refreshment bar. - - - •  AT the funeral of the Baroness de Caters, Labloche's daughter, the Queen, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold sent wreaths, Her Majesty labelling hers with an endorsement in her own handwriting, thatit was as mark of profound respect on the part of a pupil of her father. Two Italian girl students, the Signorina Carolina Miudatrelli, of Mantua, and the Signorina Evangelina Boner°, of Acoui. who had previously passed with great distinction examinations in Greek, Latin, and Italian !iterature in the Roman Vniversity, took doctor's degrees in natural sciences.  THURSDAY being the anniversary of the dispersion of the Jesuits, a profusion of flowers was scattered in front 4 their empty establishments in Paris. So far from the intended elections being affected by the break-up of the teauthorised religious orders, the reduction of the tpactionary renority in the Chamber is a foregone eonclasioo.  A SEVERE tornado in Tangier Sound, Chesapeake Bay, on Friday, wiecked several schooners, drowning nine men.  A MAN named Waisley has been burnt to death at Spalding through his upsetting a paraffin lamp. AT the Mansion-house, on Saturday, the Lord Mayor vas informed that during the 24 hours which had passed litre the last sitting, not a single charge or summons had been entered for investigation, and his worship was, according to custom, presented with a pair of white kid gloves,  A TOOTH named James Sproule has been apprehended ' at Devizes for having shot his sister dead on the previous evening at Lockendge, near Marlborough. THREE men belonging to the 60th Rifles were capsized labile on an excursion on the Shannon on Saturday. A TOOTH of 15, named William Singleton, was descending a steep thoroughfare at Sheffield on a bicycle when his feet slipped from the treadle, and he lost all control ',.ver the machine, and was dashed against a stone wall. Ile was picked up unconscious, and so seriously injured that his life Is despaired of. AT the Walsall Guildhall, Edward Padmore, Blue-lane, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard inbour for violently assaulting Sergeant Martin when the Ober was about to arrest him and another man for brass !Wing. The prisoner is said to be the nephew of the ate Mr. Padmore, member for Worcester, and to be tattled to a legacy of nearly £3,000 under his uncle's AN Italian gardener has discovered a method of impart-14 a beautiful fragrance to the usually scentless camellia, to that a tree of those superb flowers smells as sweet as a btd of violets. Dam Amu, aged eight years, the son of an Aberdeen °lesehant, was playing with a loaded gun at Moss-green. Peeside, when the weapon went off. and the contents tatered the boy's head, causing instant loath.