Connecticut western news., 1880-01-14
BERKSRRE COUNTY.

Scarlet fever is raging in Sandistield.
 North Adams has recently organized a Board of Trade. ...
 The southfeld corset lace factory is run ming day and night to fill orders. ,s '~
 Religious revivals now being held at Lee. are being crowned with glorious success. :s Y.
 Tho Cone free library at Housatonic has 2742 volumes and. is extensively patroniaed.
 MT. and Mrs. Valorus Birmingham of Lanes. boro celebrated their silver wedding last week.
 Southield lyceum discusses the question. "Do savage nations possess"a right to the soil2'' ,-..-.'';. 7. -. =. ..'I Deputy Sheriff Langdon of Monterey cele. brated his crystal wedding last Thursday night T,.I.'
 The licenses of two illegal liquor sellers at Housatonic were last week revoked by the
 The Western Massachusetts Total Absti. hence Society meet to-day in North Adams, with prominent speakers.
 Last year Sheffield shipped 1, ,253, 2so quarts of milk down the H. R. R., the freight charg- es amounting to $15 2s2. ., a.;
 Twenty-Five weavers in Pttsfeld mill struck for an advance of pay last Wednesday, but were refused and discharged.
 Barney O'Brien, boy of 16, fell down the shaft at the Goodrich mine at West Stock. bridge last week, and was instantly killed.
 The Berkshire Woolen Go. at Ct. Barring ton manufacture Ia, 900 yards of fancy cassi- meres week and are running 10 their fullest capacity. =. "
 A Pittsfield man has cured himself by pray. CT and faith, of eataraets on both eyes which made him nearly blind, lung difficulty, cry. spelas, etc. '@- - The parlor and furniture of the G. Y. Learned engine Co. at Pittsfeld was damaged by fire to the amount of $500 last Sunday. Fully insured.
 The firm of E. T. Whiting & O., druggists at Ct. Harrington is dissolved, Chas. Lillie, junior partner retiring, and Mr. Whiting con- tinuing the business. ....
 A l3 years old girl and l9 years old boy were married at Ct. Harrington recently, but lived together only week, the girl being compelled to return home. A Wilianstown College student carried off the rhetorical prize at the recent inter collegi. ate contest in New York City, in which the leading colleges of the country took part.
 David Leahey, Glendale rough, knocked down and brutally kicked and pounded Sheriff Averil of Stockbridge, while the latter had him in custody last week, and escaped.
 Henry s. New, the Pi.ts6eld post office de. faulter, was fined $20O, and given his liberty. l The opinion of the press seems to be that the | magnitude of his offense called for heavier penalty.
 The annual meeting of the Berkshire Agri- cultural Society held at Pittsfeld~ shows the to be in @ fourishing condition. | with balance in the treasury, over all ex- ! penses of about $500.
 David Leavitt who recently died in New York at the great age of S9, was an extensive 1 real estate owner at Ct Burlington, and own sd magnificent residence there valued 1t is said at over $lo0, ,OOO.
 The Monument Mills at Housatonic are ,ot run nights, although the large orders would warrant 1t, the superintendent believ- ng that from 10 to II hours per day is enough o expect from the operatives.
 Ann Fallon of Pittsfield while in e drunken leep the other night narrowly escaped being burned alive by candle setting the bed clothes ablaze She was arrested and sen. enced to three months imprisonment as common drunkard.
 New Ashford school teacher who, with ome citizens, played cards in the school louse, sometimes all night burning up the owns wood, and whose dissipated habits windled the thrifty school to five pupils, left own on New Years day and has not been eard from since.
 The annual meeting of the Housatonic Az. icultural Society was held at Ct. Harrington ,st Thursday, and the following officers were lected: president. Henry L. Smith of Lee; ice-presidents, W. H. Day of Gt Darlington, lenry L. Rowe of Egremont; secretary, Hen. 7 T. Robbins of Ct. Harrington: treasurer, 'homas Siggins of Ct. Harrington; superin- sndent of fair grounds, Wallace W. Langdon ome changes were made in the premium st. A sinking fund of $500 was established, ) be invested in securities readily converted ito cash, to be drawn on only. for the pur- hase of land or the erection of new buldings.t he next Farmers Institute will be held at t. Darlington on the 2sth inst