Connecticut western news., 1880-11-03
BERKSHlRE COUNTl.

Another. A Lee COW has died from eating too many apples.
 The Hoosac tunnel is to be lighted with the electric light.
 The evening train north will Enot stop at Lenox station any more thls season.
 9 French Canadian families havo arrived at North Adams. to work in the mills,
 Henry Shaw, an aged Pittsfeld man, fell down stairs the other day and broke his wrist.
 The name of the Sherman House, Pittsfeld, has been changed to the Commercial House.
 A Williams College students room was en- tered the other night and $65, in money stol- en.
 Avaluablo horse belonging to John A. Par sons of Lenox died with lockjaw the other day.
 Rev. T. Dewitt Tallmage lectures in Pitts field Nov 10, on "The rocks on which people split"
 Twelve inches in dinmeter is big apple. but the Lee Cleaner tells of 'em up in Mon terey.
 Tho Pittsfeld superior court naturalized 200 aliens last Friday, besides rejecting 15 appli cations.
 Miss Sarah Whtely, who left Housatonic for her health last spring, died ln New York last week.
 | The North Adams Baptist church society gave harvest home concert in their church recently.
 Revs. Fevus of Huntsville and Macombcr of Ct. Burlington exchanged pulpits last Sunday.
 The explosion of a kerosene lamp nearly set the Miller House, Ct. Burlington, aire on a recent evening.
 The next farmers institute of the Housa- tonic agricultural society occurs at Ct. Bar. rington on Nov. IT.
 A North Adams boy had portion of his hands blown off recently by the explosion of dynamite cartrige. ss $. | A quarterly conference was held at the AL ford M. E. church last Sunday night, Presid-
  The Lee Methodists recently got up an oyster supper to purchase parlor and sitting l room stoves for their parson.
 James Dewen of West Stockbridge was l thrown from his wagon the other day, sustain ing a fractured collar bone. One of the Renfrew manufacturing Co.'S buildings at Dalton was damaged by fire the other day to the amount of $2,500. A child was born in Adams at nine o'clock | last Tuesday morning, and at 12 o'clock it l was taken on the cars to North Adams to be christened
 Mrs. Labee and son were thrown from Q | wagon by runaway team between Ct. Bar rington and VanDeusenville recently and were considerably shaken up. The stopping of one of the head teams in general mix-up of the others, and four wagons were upset and several persons moro or less l injured
 A Pittsfeld debating club is to discuss the question, "Resolved, that the president and | vice,presidcnt of the United States should be chosen by ballot directly instead of by tie electoral collegc." Rev. Hcrmance of West Stockbridge | recently preached a sermon to young lad!es | from the text: Favour is deceitlul and bcau- ty is vain, but a woman that eareth the Lord, she shall be praised"
 Officially Berkshire county has population 1 of 60, ,O49; male, 23.74l; female, 35 sos na- tive born 54,804; foreign born, l4,2I5 weitc, G7,72O; colored, 1921 The official population of Pittafeld is l3,367; North Adams 10, 0,192; Gt Harrington, 4658.
 On account of cancer, daughter of Law yer H. J. Durham of Stockbridge submitted to the operation of having one of her legs amputated last Thursday. It IS feared that owing to a delicate constitution she may not recover from the shock of the operation. LATER.--The young lady died last Saturday
 Michael OHearn, notoriously bad oharac- ter of Pittsfeld, attempted to murder his wife last Tuesday because she would not kiss him while he wac Tn Q drunken condition, He stabbed her several times with a jack knife, when an officer interfered He then went to the pond and deliberately drowned himself Tho woman will recover
 Benon Stcadman of Tyringham, who spent several days with his brother spritualists at Lako Pleasant last August has been telling ,1,o JIo sixteen scances held by the Eddy brothers Every day he saw and conversed with his spirit wife and shook 9hands with her. He also presented her a bouquet, and at the next seanco she gave nim one. He saw many more marifcstations-all convincing proofs, | to him, of spirit influence. Mrs Mary Eddy 1 Huntoon, the medium who visited Berkshire some months ago with such poor luck, was at Lake Pleasant this year, contrary to announce. ments that had been made, and held num- Der of seances with good success.
 Frank Davis of North Adams, apropos of i the recent accident in the Hoosac tunnel, makes the sensible suggestion tha. the tunnel be lighted with electric lights, He says: Sixteen of these would be moro than sufi- cient, and eight would probably be the full number required. The expense of electric lighting is very considerably in the power re- quired to generate the electricity. But the State has already an unemployed water power many times greater than would be needed for this purpose. The dam at the east end of the tunnel, built at large expense, and used