Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1881-07-01 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

LONG JOB.—The work of paining and gilding the face of the clock at the Houses of Parliament is slowly approaching completion. It has bi cti in band for two years, it being possible to carry on the work only en warm, still days. Workmen are no ea;y;e4:l on the east face, and it is hoped that it will be completed before winter sets in.  AN inquest was held on Friday at Msryborough on the body of Godson Mulvey, who was sentenced last Tuesday to five years' penal servitude for cattle-stealing. On Friday morning, about three o'clock, he strangled himself by twisting a towel round his neck while lying on his back in the bed in his cell.  DURING a parade of Barnum's menagerie and circus in Massachussetts. a week or two ago, the six horses drawing the big glass cage that held 40 serpents of various Sizes became unmanageable and ran .away. The cage was smashed and the streets •strewn with a medley of anacondas, boa-constrictors, and other roptiies. There was, an American paper says, "a general stampede of t he immense throng of spectators, even the unterritied small boys seeking refuge up larnp•posts and trees, The keepers succeeded, however, in recapturing the scaly monsters without injury or loss." AMONGST the subscribers to a national toQinarial to Lord Beaconsfield are the Balmoral lionsehold £lO l3s. 6d. ; Lora: Arundel of Wardaur, £2 2s. ; the Duke of Bedford.„ £5O; the Marchioness of Westminster, £10; Lord Alington, £5O; and the Earl of Radnor, £25.  IT is rumoured that Mr. Parnell intends to sail in a few weeks' time for America, for the purpose of making an extended political tour through the United States.  JUSTICE, it is said, has at last overtaken one of thole who, perhaps, has had the largest share in inducing the Government to introduce a Coercion Act for Ireland. An arrest has been made in a county in the West of Ireland of an enterprising patriot, notoriouo alike in London as in Dublin. and known in the latter city by the soubriquet of "The Outrage Correspondent." This person has for two years been driving e .u‘od tde by sending accounts of oni,ragesi fur the most v.art fictitious, to the two capitals. Now that this gentleman's inventive genius has been confined within the four wtlls of one of Her Majesty's gaols during the pleasure of the Lord • Lieutenant, a speedy pacification of the district may be expected. HER MAJESTY has appointed Lord Carlngton Captain ef the Gentlemen-at-Arius, in the place of the Marquis of Huntly, resigned.  IT is stated that in tlio course of a day or two the Queen will issue about one hundred and fifty pardons for Political offences in connection with the recent general elections.  LAST week, before tho Ecclesail Guardians, among the applicants for out-door relief were a man awl his wife who in the coutse of eleven years had had eighteen children. ,It was stated that the husband was iu a consumption. s MR. S. Br.Arsow, a Sheffield manufacturee, committed suicide on Thursday. A fortnight ago he dissolved part• nership with his brother, and since then he has been very depressed, and has given way to intemperance. On Wednesday he tried to hang himself, and on Thursday morning he went into the cellar at his hnse and cut his tb:oat with a razor. lie leaves a widow and six children.