Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A case has just been closed in a New
York court of the following character A
man prosecuted physician who had attended
upon his two children during fatal illness,
for unskillful treatment. They died with
measles, or scarlet fever-neither physicians
or pal ents could tell which. On this account
the father supposed the physician was an ig-
noramus, and brought an action against him.
But in Court three of the most distinguished
physicians, viz Parker, Watts, and Mott,
testified that they once attended upon four
children in the same family at the same time,
two of whom died, and neither of them (phy-
sicians) ever knew whether the disease was
measles OR scarlet fever. As three such prom :
inent physicians testified thus, the court did
not give the plaintiff his case. It's believed
that doctors are not usually as free to confess
their ignorance in the sick room.
Gagged clergymen" seem to be turning
up in all directions. A correspondent of the
Journal Of Commerce mentions the case of Mr..
Marshall coored Baptist preacher in Savan-
nah, Ca, who is IS years old, and still Off
ciates. 1t is also related of Rev. Nehemia
Porter, second minister of the Cougrega-
tional church in Ashfeld, this state, that
he was able to enter the pulpit In his Tooth
year, and give the address to the people, at
the ordination of his colleague.
The southern commercial convention
metat New Orleans on the 8lh. On the 9th
General Lamar, of Texas, was elected presi-
dent. Ten states were represented, and I2O
delegates were present-83 from louisiana
Resolutions were offered for the improvement
of Galveston bar and harbor, and for the es-
ta5llshment of a marire hospital there. On
the 10th no business of importance was trans.
acted.
The indications are that Mr.. Seward
will be reelected Senator by the New York
Legislature. The seeding Know Nothing
State council, friendly to him, are in session
at Schenectady, near Albany, overseeing the
legislature. They have resolved not to coun-
tenance any proscriptlc IL of Americans on &C
count Of devotion to freedom
Ruth Wormsley, the girl arrested for
poisoning Charles Wormsley and wife, of this
town, has had her trial at Lenox, and on
tuesday was sentenced to five years i'll the
state prison. The grand jury found no bill
against Horace d. Church, whom she asserted
advised to the commission of the crime
Ittt$feId Sun.
The Austrian Authorities have order
ed that i'll future all legal proceedings before
the courts in Hungary shall be in the German
language. The Magyars are to have nothing
left to remind them OF their last independence,
not even their language.
In Detroit, Baber, who participated
in burglary and attempted to kill a clerk,
has been sentenced to fifty years in the state
prison. or till 1905, when he will be IS years
old, being now Is.
Col. Bissell, of Illinois, who has been
suffering many months of dangerous illness
in Washington, is recovering. His physician
is confident that he will be restored to health.
Abraham Miller, who was with the
Wolfe at the taking Oh Que &c, it is said, is
still living in Canada. at the age of lis years.
Cholera is prevailing in Cuba-26OO
recent deaths are reported.