The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-07-01 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

LONG JOB. —The work of painting and gilding the fa':e of the clock at the Houses of Parliament is slowly approaching completFah It has been in hand for two years, it being possible to ca,ry on the work only en warm, still days. Workmen are now eaga,4ed on the east face, and it is hoped that it will be completed before winter sets in.  AN inquest was held on Friday at Maryborough on the body of Godson Mulvey, who was sentenced last Tuesday to live 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.  Minim a parade of Barnum's menagerie and ~;irmis iri Sal m, Massachunsetts, a week or two ago, the six hoes drawing the big glass cage that held 40 serpents of various sizes became unmanageable and ran away. The ca.gF. was smashed and the streets strewn with a mediev of anacondas, boa-constrictors, and other roptiies. There was, an American paper says, "a general stampede of the immense throng of spectators, even the unterrifiecl small boys seeking refuge up lamp-posts and trees. . The keepers succeeded, however, in recapturing the scaly mopsters without injury or loss." ANIONGST the subscribers to a national memorial to Lord Beaconsfield are the Balmoral household £lO 13. Cal..; Lord, Arundel of Wardour, ; the Duke of Bedford.. £5O; the Marchioness of Westminster, £10; Lord Alington, £5O; and the Earl of Radnor, £25. h 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 those 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 ,4 Ireland of an enterprising patriot, notorious alike in London DM in Dublin. and known in the latter city by the soubriquet of "The Outrage Correspondent." This person has for two years been driving r ,;ood trade by sending accounts of outrages' for the most part fictitious, to the two capitals. Now that this gentleman's inventive genius has been confined within the four wrils of one 62 Her Majesty's gaols during the pleasure of the Lord Lieutenant, a speedy pacification of the dirtrict may he expected.  HER MAJESTY has appointed Lord Carington Captaiu of the Gentlemen-at-Arms, in the place of the Marguiv of Huntly, resigned. _  Jr is stated that in the course of a day or two the Queen will issue about one hundred anti fifty pardons for political offences in connection with the recent general elections.  LAST week, before tho Eerlesail Guardians, among the epplicants for out-door relief were a man and his Wife who in the course of eleven years had had eighteen rhil• dren. It was stated that the husband was in a ransump. tion.  ••-••• MR. S. BRATSON, a Sheffield manufacture, committed suicide on Thursday. A fortnight ago he dissolved Part., nership with his brother, and since then he has been vefi* depressed, and has given way to intemperan. W. nesday he tried to hang himself, and on Thursday ni.*n•.. big he went into the cellar at his hense and cut his throat with a [UM Lie Loaves a widow and ein children.