Connecticut western news., 1878-08-08
3erkshire Gnnntp.

The Burlington savings bunk IS 10 close business.
 Tyrnghan's tax rate thls year IS SIP on $l.O00.
 A South Adams druggist received this order the other day: ''Pleas send by tl,is Boy Box ot F,sickin pils"
 Lawyer Dewey of Ct. Burlington is talked ot as candidate for the lieutenant governorship of Massachusetts.
 The O,rs Congregational church has a suit against Henry K. Lee, to recover $IO of slip rent, which has been fought froEI the police court to the supreme court.
 The stone tower with town clock aud chime of bells, which Davic Dudley Field is to present to the town of Stuckbrdge, will be about l6 feet square, 70 feet high and cost about 5000.
 Mrs. Rufus Mercy Of Pitt tfield, GO years old, while intoxicated Wednesday, fell from third story window, striking on the pavement below, distance of GO feet, and lived only few hours.
 Great Bairipgion fremen's muster occurs Aug. IA, and grand gipsey carniv ,l is be- ing arranged to be held at Luke Bu,l ihe 18th. The affair will be similar to the one held there last year, and on more extend ed scale.
 The following games of base ball re played on the Pit,sfeid buse ball park ;--- pitsof f.ld a 10. Stottsvilles 9; Pittsfelds vs Wilokas of Brooklyn, Aug. 5, Pitlsfelds IL. Wltokas 9; Pittshelds vs Worces,ers, Aug. 6, Pitts. fields 9. Worcesters A.
 Thos. Monshan, the assassin of Officer Quinn, was srraigned before Judge Colt at Pittsfed Saturday morning, to answer to an indictment for murder. On being ask ed the usual question, he answered mot guilty" falteringly. There were two in- dictmcnts against him. Being ask, d if he had counsel, be replied that he had not. bu, expected that he should have soon. He stated that he wished to employ Frank w. Rockwell Esq, and that gentleman was as- signed by the Court. Monshan was in structed 10 be ready fur trial, Supt. II, at which time jury has been summoned to appear. The trial will be brief, the facts being simple, and the defense obliged to rely on legal points involved in the case. l Another of those rumors that have agi- tated Pittsfield since Ten Eyek's sentence, got out again Saturday, but was of course without. foundation, neither Sheriff Root, Rev. Mir. Harrison, who saw him the day before. nor Ten Eyck himself knowing aught about it. Rev. Mir. Harrison gave 1t as his opinion that Tex Eyct will make no confession, but will make n statement from the scaffold, probably declaring his innocence. News comes from Boston that Ten Eyck had written to the governor, ask | ing for reprievo of two weeks, cn tho ground that be should have new uial, as an enemy of his falsely swore his life away, travelling l50 miles for the purpose. The enemy is, of course, William Ten Eyck, his brother, who came from New Haven and wholly overthrow John's story. IL Is not supposed that this will have a feathers weight in the matter of securing feprieve, and Berkshire people cannot see any way for Ten Eyck to escspe the gallows. ex- cept by starving himself to death, which he is not inclined to do, even were there time before the 10th. The gsllows borrow ed in Springfield is found to be so warped | as to be unseiviceable, and another one is being mace. This one will be used as model, however. There IS a trap door in the centre of the scaffold, upon which the condemned stands, and the sheriff drops it by simply placing his foot upon sort of l latch at the corner of the platform. The required strength of the beam and rope arc determined by the weight ofthe condemn ed, and Ten Eyck went on the scales one day last week weighing l59 pounds, having lost three rounds during the past four weeks. His hair is quite white and thin now, but he tells Rev. MT. Harrison, his spiritual adviser, that he is ready. and wil ling to die.