Connecticut western news., 1880-10-06
BERKSHIRE COUNT1

South Lee.
 A daily paper is published during the gfair at Pittsfeld. ~''A~@ A Pittsfeld man has built a $6,500 house at Florence.
 Cider apples are selling in Pittsaeld for and cents bushel
 Pittsfeld republicans wear badges, iwith the figures 329 on them.
 The Lenox brick yard has been leased for six years, at $1 ,5o0 year.
 Views of Lenox, with magic lantern, are being exhibited in that town.
 A squash was exhibited at the Ct. Barring ton fair, weighing 1S2 pounds.
 The North Adams police made 16 arrests during the month ofseptember.
 Pittsfeld Royal Arch Masons have their annual election tomorrow night.
 A North Adams grocer sold l,500 baskets of peaches during the past season.
 The Fl. R. R. bridge between Ct. Earring ton and Sheffield is being repaired.
 One of the principal features of the Otis cat ! tie show was song by Chas. Gibbs. l Gt Burlington is to have singing class this winter taught by Prof. Delaney. ' ! Onions sell in Berkshire County for $1.00 per bushel, against 60 cents last year.
 H. B. Wellington of Pittsfeld, is linen. tioned" as candidate for high sheriff. l.. 1 A Pittsfeld sporting man has ordered from England 50 inch bicycle, gold plated. 1 Over 150 couples attended the colored folks dance at Sheffield last Thursday night. 1 F.M Landers and wife of Lee celebrated their silver wedding last Friday night.
 Bayard Taylor's home is in Beckett, and Bayard himself, is employed in tannery. | Ct. Harrington has boys l2 years old, who get blind drunk, according to an exchange.
 Deacon Cook of Richmond has raised a squash weighing between 60 and 70 pounds hands, Evans retiring, and Angeli taking the 1 reins.
 One of Peter Cullen's hips was broken by the falling of derrick at North Adams last Friday.
 Eight drunkards arrested in Ct. Barring ton Friday night paid their $l. fines, next morning.
 North Adams revives the pedestrian fever, with four hours go-as-you. u.please next Fri day night.
 The Indians who have been summering in Berkshire are soon to return to Hampton 1 Institute, Va.
 Mrs. Culver of Ct. Harrington, wife of an army paymaster, has just received g. 900 back pension.
 Amy Stone plays Cigarette, the Little Leopard of France" in Ct. Barrinfton next Saturday night.
 The new overalls manufactory at Pitts6eld is overrun with business and have moved in to bigger rooms.
 A paper is being circulated in Ct. Barring. ton, and with good results to raise money to establish shirt factory
 Charlie Gorham, route agent on the H. R. R. had lay of last week, and took in Gt. Harrington cattle show.
 Lee has a colored pedestrian who ran ten miles in 63 minutes the other day, and is to repeat the performance soon.
 Stockbridges summer boarders are depart ing. and yet others arrive on every train, keeping the number nearly full.
 An Otis child was given a dose of aconite insted of paregoric, and it's life was barely saved by the doctors best efforts.
 The Miller House, Ct. Burlington, under Brusie and Warner, is enjoying a good pat rorage, and is good place to stop.
 A four year old child of w. s Foster of Pittsfeld, died suddenly of apoplexy, while riding with it's parents last Monday. 5
 At the Ct. Burlington cattle show, Ed Foote, of the Courier office got out creditahle programme, with tasty advertisement. N A North Adams man recently wheeled 8 young lady to Ct. Harrington, and she wheeled him back. The wheelbarrow has gone crazy
 A Mexican steer got out of car at North Adams the other day, and halt the town | f1PNnH O hai Q m l ster.
 A man named Taylor, after an absence in Illinois of over 40 years, returned to his home in Beckett the other day for the first time in that period.
 John Clennon, Stockbridge hostler, was kicked in the head by a horse he was sad ding last Friday evening, and it is feared his injuries will prove fatal. z
 William H. Burget, colored, for l5 years waiter at the Berkshire House. Gt Barring ton was taken to the Northampton insane retreat last Wednesday,. M Z 1 A short time ago lady received telee gram that her daughter had died suddenly in Adams, and shortly after an infant child of the deceased died in Lee. t N l A Sky Farm (Mt. Washington farmer recently dug with common potato hook. in ! ten hours, one hundred and seventeen bushss els of St. Patrick potatoes !. 1 A Boston & Albany passenger train struch a man at State Line, crushing his skull and killing him almost instantly. He had a bot! tie of whiskey in his pocket. 7. The race between "Fleet" and "Jennien which was finished on the Ct. Burlington | track Saturday morning. was won by Fleet. Jennie had been sick all night. x
 Two valuable Alderney COWS belonging to Robert PomeroY recently died from eating white lead, carelessly left by boys who had been repairing boat, Pittsfeld.
 Frank Chapin. formerly of Ashley Falls, who for few years past has been carrying on business in Shokan, N. Y, has returned. and will locate in North Adams ! Edward Clark of New York has presented Williams College with large and conmodi- ous building in which to exhibit the valuable Wilder cabinet which was recently presented to the college.
 | A Williams college student was struck in 1 the forehead, and knocked down by 8 base ball, during game the other day, and it was l feared he was seriously injured but no perm- anent harm will result.
 Said the pastor of the Ct. Harrington Methodist church last Sunday morning to rather slim congregation: "There will be preaching in this church tonight If there is any body here to listen to itl" 1 The Ct. Burlington fair and cattle show held last week is pronounced, without ex- ception, the best and most successful the so- ciety has ever held. The exhibits of stock was better than for many preceding years, and the hall exhibits were fully up to the standard. The trotting was good, and the new features, such as bicycle and velocipede Aracing added new interest to the track.