Connecticut western news., 1880-12-01
BERKSHIRE COUNTl.

BERKSHIRE COUNTl.
 Pittsfeld has population of 14,367.
 Berkshire County has 40 deputy sheriffs
 Pittsfeld's house of correction contains 67 inmates.
 The Sheffield friendly union has about l5( members. gal .,, o;
 Monterey farmers are prepal.,, ice houses.
 Mir. Grogan died at Lenox recently, aged lO7 years
 South Lee is to have new railroad station in the spring.
 Ct. Burlington is made happy by several rods of new concrete walk.
 Deputy Sheriff George Roraback of Lee has just been in Kentucky.
 Another book of poems by Elaine and Dora Reade Goodale, is announced.
 Prof. Frost preached his Thanksgiving ser mon at Mill River on Sunday.
 Deputy Sheriff Kellogg of Pittsfeld has been appointed state detective.
 Mrs. Dr. Richardson of New Marlboro is to spend the winter in Tennessee.
 Theodore Hilton lectures in Ct. Harrington on "The Worlds Tomorrow" Dec. g.
 Patrick Lally of Williamstown is mysteri- ously missing, and foul play is feared.
 Reuben Fargo of Monterey lost valuable Holstein calf with 'black leg" recently.
 Miss LeJune has been giving some inter. esting lectures through Southern Berkshire.
 AMonterey lady recently killed twenty two rats, old and young, in barrel of buckwheat.
 A Boston party went through Hoosac tun- nel on a lighted platform car last Wednesday.
 G. I. Ingraham has purchased the entire business of the Southfeld shoe lace company.
 A semi-annual dividend of 6 per cent. has been declared by the Ct. Burlington water company.
 Dalzelrs axle manufactory at South Egre. mont has more business than ever before in its history.
 The Jackson library at stockbridge has added 500 new books to it's catalogue within the past year.
 Adams arranged for pedestrian contest last week, but the unpropitious weather blew the match out.
 Ralph Turner of Ct. Harrington recently shot an owl, measuring four feet and eight inches from tip to tip.
 A drunken man with a goose in his hanc was an attraction on the streets Of Pittsfielc on Thanksgiving day.
 John Verran, foreman of the Housatonic mill at Lee, and wife, celebrated their silver wedding the other day.
 N. K Bills of South Egremont, recently fell out of door, distance of six feet, and received severe injuries.
 A young man named Frank King was res. cued by comrade, from drowning in Silver lake, Pittsfeld, the other day.
 A Sheffield correspondent says that IN. P Small has entered new state, even that o m9tamGny," whatever that is.
 Mrs. Henry Sisson of Mill River recently made three pounds and seven ounces of but ter from the cream of ten quarts of milk.
 Clarence. familiarly known as Hunk" John son, of Monterey, dropped 300 lb. cauldror kettle on his toes, cutting offthe cords of one toe.
 Mrs. Oh arles Palmer of PittsfeId fell ard struck her head on the pavement, with such force as to render her insensible for some time.
 There are over 100 stations on the North Adams telephone circuit, at the central office of which from 25O to 300 calls are answered daily.
 It is thought that Sara Barnhardt and Col Bob. 1ngersoll will appear in Pittsfield this season. What is going to become of Pitts field?
 MT. Munson of New Marlboro kicked up 6 good deal Of stink, Literally and figurative- ly) by capturing o skunk in his hen roost the other night.
 John Eddy, who was injured by the explo- sion of powder at quarry in North Adams recently, is living, but in great agony, and will probably die.
 A Sheffield correspondent says that "the wagon of young Irishman collided with a freight train on Friday, quite demolshng it." Demolishing which?
 The Stockbridge Cong. church took up a collection to be added to the Boston fund for buying the poor children of that city a Thanksgiving dinner.
 Pittsfeld has taken its last lesson in cook cry from Miss Corson, and hereafter there will be more scolding of the butcher, and less growing because the "cake is all dough-"
 The Pittsfeld Journals South Lee corres- pendent is awful mean. He says ''Some of our young men have started to raise side whiskers. No doubt they will look we'll, but one needs glasses to see them" The Adams freeman complains that the streets in the vicinity of Collins block are in- fested with hoodlums who insult passers with