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GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY. BOSTON AND VICINITY. The third legislative educational meeting was held at the State House, Thursday eve. ning. In the absence of the chairman of the Committee on Education, George B. Emerson, Esq., presided. Hon. George S. Hillard delivered an able address upon "Books and Reading," which was listened to by a crowded audience. The Boston Transcript says a gentleman of that city has sent $100 to the widowed mother of the dancer who lost her life by her dress taking fire in New York, last Saturday evening. ESSEX COUNTY. Hersey A. Skinner of Lynnfield committed suicide, Thursday, while suffering under temporary aberation of mind. Not long since he laid down in the snow in a state of nudity with the evident intention of freezing to death. The semi-annual examination of the State Normal School at Salem took place on Thursday. Twenty-three young ladies graduated. Addresses were made by Gov. Banks, and exGovs. Boutwell and Washburn. Mr. Charles Smith of Newburyport has an apple tree in his garden on Lime street, that bears a mixed fruit, one side of each apple being sour, and the other side sweet. The color upon the surface shows how far each variety prevails. This mixture was produced in budding. MIDDLESEX COUNTY. The high wind of Friday morning, which did so mnch damage in this vicinity, blew down a shed near Waltham, 100 feet long by 24 ein width, directly upon the track of the Fitchburg Railroad. The train was delayed for a considerable time. NORFOLK COUNTY. The family of George Bird, of Stoughton, were all taken with measles at one time, about two weeks since, and the father and mother both died within two days of each other, leaving five small children, all dangerously sick. BRISTOL COUNTY. New cases of virulent throat disease continue to be reported in the town of Westport, and the physicians are of opinion that nearly all the inhabitants will be attacked. HAMPDEN COUNTY. The loss by the burning of David E. Jones' dwelling house, in Ludlow center, on Tuesday morning, is about $1,200, the furniture being mostly saved. There was an insurance upon the building for $800 in the Farmers' and Mechanics' office of Worcester. Theorigin of the fire is unknown. BERKSHIRE COUNTY. A little son of Michael Barry of Great Barrington, while playing around the stove a few evenings since, drank a mouthful of boiling hot water from the spout of a tea kettle, scalding his throat terribly but by medical treatment he is now considered out of danger. RHODE ISLAND. The Woonsocket Patriot learns that the severe frost of last week has destroyed the peach buds in that vicinity. In the heart of the buds are black spots indicative of decay. Few, if any, of the trees have escaped damage. Heavy Defalcation and Bank Failure.-The Providence Press announces that Daniel C. Kenyon, Cashier of the Rhode Island Exchange Bank, at East Greenwich, has been discovered to be a defaulter to a heavy amount, compelling the closure of the institution. Mr. Kenyon was Treasurer of the East Greenwich Institution for Savings, and is a defaulter in that capacity also. Employment of the funds entrusted to his care in stock speculations, is understood to have been the occasion of the default. The amount of Mr. Kenyon's robberies is stated in round numbers at $72,000 from the Rhode Island Exchange Bank, and $39,000 from the Savings Institution. The capital of the former was $60,000, and its circulation is about $40,000. Mr. Kenyoni is some thirty five years of age, has hitherto borne an excellent reputation, and the exposure of his misconduct occasions profound regret. The excitement in East Greenwich is intense. CONNECTICUT. George W. Bishop of New Haven has sued the Palladium for $10,000 damages, for publishing that he was charged with kidnapping and selling into slavery a negro boy. He was in fact arrested at Philadelphia and charged with kidnapping a boy 15 years old but he soon produced the boy in court, and the case was dismissed-the court being satisfied that he had taken the boy to Alabama to ride racehorses. John Garrity of Roxbury was found with his neck broken a short distance from Botsford's store in Weekeepeeme, on Wednesday night. He had been dead but a short time. His death was attributed to drunkenness. An Irishman was found dead in a shed in New Milford the same night. His skull was cracked. The barn of Robert Goodwin, Jr., at New London, was destroyed by fire Wednesday. Four horses, several carriages, &c., were also consumed. Loss about $4000-insured. Thomas Brady's mill, at Rockville, Conn., used for the manufacture of cotton twine, was almost entirely destroyed by fire last Wednesday night. Insurance on mill, stock, and machinery, $11,000, which will not cover the loss. A large number of workmen are thrown out of employment by the disaster. The parishioners of Rev. Mr. Griggs of Bristol, on the afternoon and evening of the 3d, made a visit to the parsonage, and presented the pastor and his family about $100 in cash and valuable articles. PERSONAL. Captain Glyn, who is said to have furnished to his friend Thackeray the character of Capt. Strong, in "Pendennis," recently died in the New York Hospital, and was buried by the hand of charity in the Cemetery of the Evergreens. n excellent linguist, a thorough scholar, a tasteful artist, an accomplished musician, a poor gentleman, a brave soldier, and an inebriate! POLITICAL. In the Virginia House of Delegates, a reso. lution has been offered, requiring every one who has emigrated from or shall emigrate from a non-slaveholding state to Virginia, to take an oath to support her constitution and laws, and defend her soil and institutions against her enemies. The three opposition papers of Baltimore have each run up the name of a different presidential favorite, and each is publishing elab-
