Worcester daily spy., 1859-05-27
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND yIcINIrY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The anniversaries continue to be well at
tended, though they have developed little of
novelty or OF special interest. In most of them
the old boards of officers have been reelected.
and none of them have assumed any new DO
stion. The anniversaries of the radical and
reformatory societies have been better attend
ed, and have received a more respectful hear
ing than usual.
The cricket players of Massachusetts held
a convention in Boston, Wednesday, and ac-
cepted the challenge of the New York club to
play their first eleven against an equal num-
ber of cricketers selected from Massachusetts.
The match will be played at Hoboken on the
third Monday in June.
Mr.. j. w. Audubon, son of the late J. r.
Audubon, is in Boston, and proposes to issue
new edition of the celebrated work entitled
"Birds of America, from the original copper
plates transferred to stone Every plate will
be colored from the original drawings still in
possession of the family.
The Journal says that, at the missionary
meeting at the fremont Temple Thursday
morning, a pompous individual stepped upon
the platform and inquired if certain clergy
man was in the audience, stating that one of
his Pensioners had suddenly deceased and
desired his immediate presence.
In the Court of Common Pleas at East
Cambridge, Thursday forenoon the question
was discussed between counsel whether it
would be more graceful for Judge Bishop to
terminate his judicial life by sustaining YER
dict, or by tempering justice with mercy by
setting the verdict aside.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
]. B. Woods, a citizen of Braintree, came
very near losing his life by carelessness one
day last week. On going home at o'clock in
the morning, and feeling unwell he took bot
FLO oi,,i,, ,.-bo 10
cine, and swallowed about half wine-glass
full. 1t was bug poison, but physician saved
his life
The Braintree depot was broken into few
nights since, and trunk belonging to Miss
Coffin, containing several articles of clothing
and ]ewelry of the value of about 5000, was
stolen. The trunk was found a day or two
after, at short distance from the depot, on
the line of the South Shore Railroad. ri1ed of
its contents.
CONNECTICUT.
In Norwich, May 25th, James Olney, bar
Der fell overheard from boat on the river
near Trading Cove and was drowned.
Monday night, May %, soon after the Com
monwealth left New London for New York,
two of the deck hands, Dennis Hanley and
Patrick Radigan had quarrel, when Radigan
drew large knife and inflicted upon his an
tagonist several wounds in the breast, neck,
and sides, some of which will cause DEATH
The wound in the neck is three inches deep,
the weapon grazing the jugular vein-that in
the breast penetrated the lungs, and the cuts
in the side extend half around the mans body.
Hanley is in the Hospital, at New York, and
Radigan in the tombs.
Michael Foley, an Irish boy in Hartford,
was caught between two cars on the Hartford,
Providence and Fishkill Railroad, Wednesday
afternoon and his head crushed in such man
ner that his life is despaired of. He attempted
to run between two cars that were about to be
coupled together, and the train back so sud-
denly that he was caught between the proiec-
| tons.
PERSONAL
Painful rumors have become current in Eng.
land, since the great Reform Debate, that the
Colonial Secretary, Sir Edward Bulwer Lyt-
ton, is insane. He has lately issued an ad-
dress to the Electors of Herfordshire, but it
is said to bear melancholy evidences of weary
and broken intellect. The papers generally
abstain from illusions to the subject in any
terms more precise than indsposition
The late Dr. Lardner was lately cut up by
MIR. Thackeray, who has since ingeniously
confessed that he had never even seen him
when he wrote the satire in "The Yelowplush
Papers" in Frazer. He figures, also, as DR.
Diabolus Gander, the scientific protector, in
Warren's notable life novel of "Ten Thousand
Year"
John M Bolts says he will take up the pr.
vate matter involved in the assertions of editor
Wise, as soon as the Virginia elections are
over and the public mind RECEIVERS its natural
tone. The reported fatal duel of young Bolts
with Wise must have been false alarm.
Old John Brown Of Kansas is now in Bos
ton. lie escaped safely from Missouri with
the slaves he had rescued, and sold the horses