Republican Herald

DIABOLICAL.—The Lenox (Mass.) Eagle, relates the most diabolical result of female jealousy that we recollect to have read of. It appears that one day last week a young lady, whose name is not given, received an invitation, purporting to come from a young man to whom she was engaged to be married, to visit a family of her acquaintance in Green River, and went there accordingly. Mrs. Lane, a widow lady of that place, invited the young lady to her house as she was passing by, and offered her a glass of beer, which upon tasting she refused to drink. Mrs Lane, however, induced, or by the assistance of her daughter, compelled her to drink the beer, which contained, as was afterwards proved, a large quantity of corrosive sublimate. The effect of the poison was so sudden, that before she was conveyed to one of the neighboring houses, her tongue swelled so as to protrude from her mouth. Physicians were immediately procured, and by the means of a stomach pump the sufferer was relieved to some extent, but it is thought that she cannot survive. As a reason for this most atrocious act, it is said that Mrs. L. was desirous of having the gentleman to whom her victim was engaged, marry her own daughter, and resorted to this means in hopes of accomplishing her purpose! The woman and her daughter are both confined in the Hudson jail.