Connecticut western news., 1880-09-08
BERKSHIRE COUNTY,
he Massachusetts game law is off.

The Massachusetts game law is off.
 Mill River is having hay rides.
 Hartsville farmers complain of potato rot
 The Pittsfeld loan art exhibition has closed.
 Lenox and Pittsfeld are telephoned to- gether,
 The county commissioners met in Pittsield yesterday.
 Curtisville booms with measles and whoop. ing cough.
 Pitts6eld's new daily paper is to appear on the 27th inst.
 Moses. H. Pease of Lee is spoken of for High Sheriff.
 The Lenox Catholics have been holding successful fair.
 Pine Grove Hall at Monterey is popular camping resort. s. W. Bowerman is president of the Pitts field Hancock club.
 Gen. Joseph E. Johnson of Virginia is boarding at Pittsfeld.
 Work has been stopped at the Briggs mar ble quarry at Sheffield.
 Blackberries have sold in Beckett this sea- son for two cents quart.
 
 tleshow and fair Sept. 2l. Wellington Smiths "Fleet" trotted mile in 2.35 IA the other day. Nice raspberres of a second growth were found in Seekonk last week. Pittsfeld Jews celebrated their New Year fast last Saturday and Sunday.
 Housatonic mills are undergoing great i'm. provement and enormous expense.
 A peach festival is to be held at Prospect Lake. North Egremont, tomorrow. At the Ct. Burlington cattle show there will be bicycle and velocipede racing. Until recently there have been 1OO summer boarders at the Sheffield Miller House.
 Mill River taxes are somewhat unequal owing to the division of school districts.
 Lees new St. Georges church is to be con- secrated by Bishop Paddock Sept 18th.
 Ct. Harrington had private excursion to Seaside Park, Bridgeport, last Thursday.
 The Pittsfeld-Lenox rife match has been postponed from last Friday until the l7th.
 The annual inspection and parade of the Pittsfeld fire department takes place to-mor- row.
 Beckett farmers complain of insufficient fac ilties for the storage of the immense crop of apples.
 Stockbridge has a Garfield club, which will be addressed next Saturday by Senator Dawes.
 The recent drouth has raised the price oi butter in North Adams, from 22 to 28 cts per pound.
 The Crosier family had family reunion at Peru recently, 150 members of the family being present.
 A Tyringham man named James Wilson aged v years, died suddenly of heart disease few days ago. Lots of Berkshire people atte' ded the Sun day school convention held on Pine Grove at ter camp meeting.
 The Lee telephone is awful nice, but it oc , casionally gets in condition when lit worked , all right a minute ago" ) Among the smentioned" democratic can didates for district attorney is H. c. Joyner f Esq, of Ct. Harrington. A company has been formed in Wes Stock bridge to develop what is considered ;
 valuable ana productive ore property there. The Fl R R. Go. IS building a coal bi1 , 200 feet long, of heavy masonry, at Ct. Bar rington. Steel rails are also being laid there An Otis man dropped dead the other day 2 supposed to have been caused by grief ove ? the conviction of his son as common drunk ard.
 B. J. Bradley has retired from the man ( agement of the Miller House in Gt Barring ? ton, which will be conducted by Warner Brusie. l The Lee gas works turns out to be a poo 1 investment as the company has not nor than half dozen takers outside of thu
 street lamps. ], Wm. Weiss and Edward Watson had f fight in Pittsfeld the other day, and paid fo l, their whistle in the district court to the tun f of $22. apiece.
 The Berkshire Woolen Co.'S. new dam a v Gt Harrington will be fifty feet long, Is fee high, l6 feet wide at base and ten at top, ant f will cost $5,0OO. By the introduction of 8 new machine Chaffee Calendar of Glendale are enabled d to increase their product ofpaper from one third to one-half. l, A case of "wheel within a wheel" caused i. five men to unceremoniously dismount il
 North Egremont the other night. No on
 was seriously hurt The Berkshire Changers met at Lak t Mahkeenac, Lenox, lately, and had a glo- - rious time, with music, speeches, dancing
 boating and such nice things.
 James Johnson of Sheffield found $2O f bill, dropped by Sheriff Root and spent par l of It at Pine Grove camp meeting. He wa
 compelled to restore it, which he did withou
 prosecution. | In the loan art exhibition at Pittsfeld is small box between four and five hundred z years old, made from the oak tree in whicl ( William Wallace, the historic Scottish hero concealed himself, and so escaped capture by his enemies.
 A Pittsleld merchant, who boasted of ar easy customer he had just dealt with, who found no fault with prices, but bought a [, once and gave check in payment. was sud : denly taken back by tho announcement tha the check was nix good" Some freight cars on side track at Nortl Il Adams started down slight grade last Fri day through carelessness in not having the |, brakes on, and ran of onto the main tracl just as a passenger train was coming. The engineer saw the obstruction when too late to stop his train, which ran into the cars F smashing them considerably, and wreckine , the locomotive. No lives were lost. ACCIDENTAL REUNION AT SHEFFIELD.
 The 49 Massachusetts regiment held its } 14th annual reunion at Sheffield last Thurs } day, and most enjoyable occasion it was. The buildings were decorated with flags, and . the Cong. church was elaborately ornament ed with flags and pictures. One hundred vet. erans were present. The Stockbridge band ) furnished music, and headed the procession ; s. B. Sumner was elected president of the as- D |. James Keith secretary and treasurer. Speech es were made by Col. S. B. Sumner, Rev Dr. w. H. Bellows, Senator Dawes, pr. Peck, Rev. A. N Benedict, Col. T. c. Weller, Gov. Weston, Joseph Tucker, Chas Adams, H B.