Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-03-17
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Rev. j. l.. Dimon, late pastor of the First
Congregational Church in Fall River, was in
stalled as pastor of the Harvard Church and
Society in Brookline, Thursday evening.
1t is stated that counterfeit bills of the de-
nomination OF twenty dollars, on the South
Berwick Bank, Me-, are in circulation in Bos.
ton.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Friday forenoon, a passenger train on the
Eastern railroad, run over and killed an intox
icated Irishman, named Michael Murphy, of
West Lynn, who was walking on the track be-
tween Swampscot and Salem. He was about
twenty eight years of age.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Taunton Gazette tells story of a cat
that used to accompany Capt. James Briggs
to the West Indies. On one voyage he re-
manned at home, the vessel and cat going in
charge of the mate. Two months after thew
went, the cat came TO Capt Briggs door in
Taunton, to be let in. He inferred rightly
that the brig had arrived. 1t appeared on in.
quiry that she was below Howlands Ferry, and
mile from shore, at anchor. An hour after
sunset, the previous night the cat was on
board. Consequently Tom must have jumped
overheard during the night, swum ashore on
the Tlverton side, and travelled by land and
water rs miles before daylight.
The organization of the new town of Acush-
net, formerly the northerly part of the town of
Fairhaven, was completed on Wednesday by
the election of town officers Town Clerk,
Treasurer and Collector-Jabez L. Wood
Seectmen, Assessors and 0verseers of the
Poor-Cyrus E. Clark, Benjamin Wilson,
Benjamin White,2. For School Committee
Jabez I. Wood, years. Philip Crandon, 2
years; George Morse, year. Constable
Philip A. Bradford
Isaac Delano of North Dartmouth, having
an attack of insanity, the other day, harnessed
his horse, and drove to the lunatic asylum,
Taunton, where he had previously been a
patient. His absence created anxiety, till he
was discovered. Then his team was taken
home, and he was left at the asylum under the
care of the superintendent.
Charles Z. Ripner of North Bridgewater,
shot himself with a pistol at his boarding.
honse in New Bedford, on Thursday morning.
lie had shipped as second mate of whaling
bark Antelope, " hich was to sail for Davis
Straits on that day, and it is supposed the
cause for the rash act, was reluctance to
again go to sea. He was about twenty
years of age.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
In Springfield, a few days since, the wife of
Z. Il. Moore, daguerreotypst being in very
nervous and excited condition, killed herself
with poison. First she bought glass of gin,
then, at drug store, half an ounce of arsenic
then, going to friends rooms on State street,
she asked for water, put the poison in it, and
swallowed the potion and soon after confessed
the act.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Joseph Z. Webb foreman of the Lenox
furnace iron ore, bed, was buried one hundred
ieet below the earths surface,a few days since,
Dy a mass OF ore which fell from the side of
the drift. crushing him down with it. He was
paaiy injured about the back, but will proba-
bly, recover.
The town OF Hinsdale has voted to prepare
anew cemetery, and to buy therefor eighteen
acres OF and' which is admirably adapted for
the purpose, from its variety of nil Main
grove, brook, and rayne, and for the cost and
fencing, appropriates 5000, looking to the sale