Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.

The Ct. Harrington choral union have or ganized for the winter, and these officers were elected at the recent meeting President, c. J. Burget vice-president, T. W. Crissey ;; secretary and treasurer, E. D. Strong; mu- sical director, H. T. Robbins. The society have number of pieces which they will shortly begin 10 rehearse for concerts during the winter.
 Berkshire county sportsmen report the present season a good one for most kinds of glme including gray squirrels, partridge, duck, &c.
 Mrs. William J. Bartlett was seriously in- jured at Lee, Monday afternoon, runaway team belonging to l.. B. Moore of Tyringham dashing into her carriage, which was standing in the road near her house, throwing her vio- lently out. The physician thinks, however, that no bones were broken. Miss Hattie Ball, who was in the carriage, escaped without seri- ous injury.
 Augustus Smith is dangerously i'll with fe- yer at the house of his father, Wellington Smith at Lee.
 In the police court at Lee, Thomas Ken nedy, John Carpenter, Wm. Cheevers and George Paddock, Glendale young men, for dis turbing the peace, have been fined $15 and costs each, and Carpenter for assault and bat tery $1 and costs additional,
 The Mrs. Jones who was lost on the steam CT Express in Chesapeake bay week before last, was a sister of F. S. Gross, owner of the Lee III lol L-n 4I summer with her brother, and was returning to her home in Maryland when overtaken and shipwrecked by the terrible storm of Wednes- day. The body was washed ashore about SIX miles from her home in St. Marys county.
 It is doubtful if Sunset Terrace at Lenox is rebuilt, as Col. Auchnuty has had an offer of SIS, ,OO0 for the property, and the buyer pro- poses to build two cottages on the site.
 -Platt, Barnes & Go. of the Rockdale mills, West Stockbridge, are manufacturing buck wheat flour by their patent process ill large quantities this fall, and are shipping it South and to Europe.
 The branch road from Van Deusenville to State Line is doing good freighting business this season, taking from 25 to 50 cars a night of through freight from State Line to Bridge port. An average of about 50 tons of ore, main ly from the Richmond mines, is sent of to Can aan, Ct., and the through passenger trains from Bridgeport to Albany have been well pat ronized,
 The Wilson iron company at West Stock bridge are employing 100 men and sending their hematite ore to Hudson. They have mined from 40 to 80 tons day for several years, and through the panic and hard times have never ceased operating on full time. The Treusdale lime-works are in operation, rum ming one stack, and Fuerey & GaSton ono kiln
 By the present arrangement of trains it is impossible to go to Albany and return the same day, without going by way of Pittsfeld or driving to State Line, and there is some talk of petitioning the railroad for late after noon train from State Line.
 The four clock-faces on the StocLbridge tower, which were painted light yellow, were not satisfactory to David Dudley Field, and they Were taken down and gilded, and the pinnacle also is to be covered with gilt.
 -Pittsfelds new band has divided and now there are two, with W, L, Mallory at the head of the original organization, and MT, Spencer stRs ssssdsFh