Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-04-11
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


The Courier makes the important correction
that "Wm. S. Anderson, the colorcd iuryman,
was summoned by mistake The court
wanted white man of the same name,-which
makes great difference.
The sixth annual meeting or the Massachu-
sets Homeopathic society was held in Boston
Wednesday. DIR. c.. NJ. Weld of Jamaica
Plain was elected president Tor the ensuing
year The annual address was delivered by
DIR. j. Tisdale Talbot.
Charles Andersen one Of the Triggers gang
on board the Minnesota, at the Charlestown
navy yard, fell from the foremost head of the
ship, Tuesday, and was instantly killed. He
was Dane by birth
Emanuel Joyce, sentenced in 1857, for eight
years, for supposed robbery of sailor in
North street den, has been pardoned out for
reasons involving doubt ofhis guilt.
Thompson Miller, Esq, for more than half
century past a member of the Suffolk bar,
died in Boston two or three days since, at the
age OF 81 years. He was native of Middle
boro and graduated at Brown University.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The chemical analysis of the stomach of
Mrs. wilkins, who died suddenly in Lowell,
few days ago, revealed the presence OF large
quantity of arsenic. Her husband had lived
unhappily with her, young woman in the
family, &c. No arrests have been made.
Miss Nelly Hunt Of Concord, graduate of
the state normal school, and very accom-
plished scholar, drowned herself on the 9th
inst. She left note in her room, at the resi-
dence of Judge Hoar, of whose family she was
a member, bidding her friends farewell
Some excitement was occasoned i'll Cam
bridge, Wednesday morning, by the discovery
Of the effigy of woman in full dress suspend
ed from a tree by the side OF Mr.. Dobbins'
grocery. 1t was the result of scandal in which
Mr.. Dobbns and Mrs. Scott, the woman in
the case, were both concerned.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Salem Cadets, who supposed that all
their records were destroyed by the Franklin
building fire, have recovered record book,
extending from 1886 to 1919, which has been
missing for twenty years.
Hon. Stephen Minot, formerly prominent
member of the Massachusetts bar, died in
Haverhill on the 9th inst, at the age of "a
| years. His widow, who survives him, is
| daughter of the late Hon. Stephen p. Gardner
| of Bolton.
RHODE ISLAND.
Mr.. Lovett Ravens, for many years a tav.
ern keeper in Valley Falls, died in that village
very suddenly last Friday, his death was at
tributed to disease of the heart.
| CONNECTICUT.
| On Sunday last woman in Southport dis
covered q nest Ot Dldck snakes near her house.
| Aiming herself with hoe, she SAILED into"
| the reptiles, and in a short time succeeded in
dispatching sixty-fouI of them.
H. G. Hotchkiss, one of the original Wash
ingtonians in Waterbury, at the dawn of the
reform, twenty years ago, who has kept his
| pledge inviolate, has received handsome
| testimonial from the "Sons" in that place.
The rumor prevails that secret conspiracy,
headed by many of the friends of Breckenridge
in Philadelphia, has been discovered, and that
it is shielded under the title of the "Knights
| of the Golden Circle"
| Samuel Elliot was nagurated as president
| of Trinity College, Hartford, on the 9th inst.
In the evening the buildings were illuminated
| with festoons Of lanterns, and serenade was
| given to the president
PERSONAL.
Rev. Darius Forbes formerly of Newbury-
| port, and late editor OF the Maine Journal at
Portland, Me, has been appointed to clerk
ship in the treasury department at Washing
| ton.
| John Morrissey, the pugilist. is dangerously
sick with diptlleria. His physician has been
in constant attendance since Sunday.
Hon. John Bell is prominently named as a
J candidate for representative to congress from