Connecticut western news., 1880-06-16
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Ct. Harrington has 1895 polls.


 Diphtheria is reported in West Stockbridge.
 A bear has been seen at Savoy and at Windsor.
 The Adams census taker came across a family with l6 children.
 A New Ashford boy has captured alive a pair of tiny wood chucks.
 A barn in Windsor was struck by light ming and consumed last week.
 A boy distributing hand bills at Lee recent ly was seriously bitten by dog
 Pittsfeld has held a meeting to see about celebrating the glorious fourth.
 Congressman Robeson, with his family, has arrived at Lenox, his summer residence.
 Several North Adams families have sent to Nova Scotia for women to do housework
 The Berkshire county sewing machine agents had dinner at Pittsfeld recently.
 E. M. Seeley of Lenox, recently broke his leg by slipping and falling off his wagon.
 Lenox has an immense rush of summer boarders, and "still there's more to follow. /"
 H. B. Towers house in Beckett was bur- glarized recently, and considerable table ware taken.
 MT. and MT. Thomas B. Patterson of Stockbridge celebrated their crystal wedding last Monday.
 The Pittsfeld bicycle club have formed a permanent organization, with John T. Power as president.
 The overturning of pot of melting bees wax nearly set fire to North Adams house the other day.
 North Adams is to have six hours walk ing match for the championship of the coun- ty next Saturday. Conductor Wilbur of the B. &. A. accomo- dation train had shoulder dislocated in a scuffle last Thursday. Sandis6eld had a family fight recently, in which there was considerable stabbing and slashing "wid razor." !; The Lee oratorio class are to give com- plimentary benefit to their teacher, MT. De- laney, next Friday night. A North Adams jeweler has made an elec- tric clock, which, besides denoting the time, lights and shuts off the gas, etc. The Lanesboro furnace, under the manage ment of Fayette Root, is casting three times a day, averaging three tons to a cast Telephonic communications have been established between Pittsield and North Adams, and from Pittstield to Dalton. The house of Gardner Barker near Stearnsville was burglarized and robbed of about $40 worth of silverware recently, Philias Bosquet recently died in Beckett of a cancerous tumor upon the neck, which had grown so large as to disfgure his face. T.. B Andrews a Richmond farmer was recently thrown eff load of straw which ! tipped over onto him breaking one of his legs A Ct. Harrington restaurant keeper recent l ly bought in New York, @ living green tur' tie from the West Indies, weighing 70 pounds Williams College. from which Garfield graduated with honor in 1856, had celebra. | tion, and congratulated the nominee las, | Thursday.
 A MT. Palmer of Pleasant Valley, N r., sustained probably fatal injuries, by being srtuck by a freight train near Chatham the other day.
 A Lanesboro correspondent says: "With taxes, bugs, worms and crows to prey upon our crops, the successful farmer has to be constantly on the alert" The Mechanics" hose company of North Adams who went to Waterford, N. Y. to take the first prize in a running match, didn't take the first prize. Hose to blame A Tyringham correspondent thus dubious. ly put it: "The machinery in the Turkey mill is still, the wheels are not in motion, and the keys are in the hands of the sheriff.
 The Southern Berkshire telephone com. pany" was organized at Ct. Harrington last week, and line is to be constructed from Ct Harrington to South Egremont, five miles. Deacon F. .Torrington of Lanesboro recent ly fell from scaffolding in his barn into the stable below and was taken up insensible. He is s2 years old, and will probably not | fully recover.
 James Goodline, a machine tender at the Huntington paper mill, while standing near the Hume, lost his balance and fell into it. and the current carried him to the immense water wheel which horribly mangled him, ipp him instantly