Connecticut western news., 1880-01-28
BERKSH7RB C0URTY.'

pitt of New London.
 BERKSH7RB C0URTY.
 Miss Minnie Ball of Housatohic has gone to New York to take lessons in 7paipting.- !. Afarmers' institute of the Housatonic Az. ricultural Society is held at Gts Darlington to. day.
 Ct Burlington has been having entertain. msnts by Ralph, Rrigham, the !.'boy orator" eight years old.
 Thirty workmen now find employment in the Pittsfeld jail inssddition to seventy-fve prisoners who manipulate isather.2' l.
 Lee talks of,prohibitng shex sale, of. cigars by druggists on Sunday. They also talk of having Wendell Phillips lsetpee te thsm. :,
 The house of W. H. May of Egremons was Burned the other evenfng,4 a .fa"ysars old daughter injured at the time by falling tim ber, has died, and sanotter childfs H6relessly i'll from fright end exposure. ...,-
 The firm of Fascett Durant, of the ssCity Store" Ct. Harrington ia.to; ;badiseolsd, the oopartuership expiring by limitation on Feb. 26. It M'nut shnoanced: who: wIlls Continue the business. The house is an extensive con. cern, and does an immense basiness.
 Agnes M. Ronald and Frances A. Willard of Enfield Ct, the young women wh6 were somewhat hurt by the fall of bridge over the Pixley brook, mile from Great Barring ton, on the Stockbridge.r road. last August, at the same time that companion, .Somers Ben jamin of South Egremont, was instantly kill ed, have each sued the town of Great Barring ion for $1 10, 900 and the entries will be made at the February court. Mrs. Benjamin,> the mother of the young man who was killed, has also filed claim, within the 30 days pre- scribed by law, but has not brought suit : as yet. The selectmen claim that the bridge was to all appearances, because of recent examination and repairss perfectly .safe,. . loaded team having passed over 1t but aTfew moments before the accident They have engaged :ex-senator Dewey to defend the suit, and Lawyer Wilcox of-Pittsfe4d appears for the plaintiffs.
 Frederick B. Webster WAS found guilty oa participating in the Chester Go6dale: assAnlt of last September in the superior Court a, Pittsfeld Wednesday, after & triaI winch continued only about an hour, and af terward sentenced to BIZ years in state-prison for that and other crimeA to most of which he had previously pleaded guilty: For thu tn assault on Thomas W. ,Hiwatasoe AHord, he gets six years for the Goodale assault, five years; for breaking and entering the Edward, store at Afford, the burglary of Monroe ,Wl- cox's house at Ct. Barrington and tbs burg. lary of Franklin <spurrs house at shsfRsld each five years; on the four remaining in. dictments for larceny he was ndjudysd . com: mon and notorious thief and. sentenced -te five years more in prison with one dsy of sol itary confinement for. each sentsnes, the whole aggregating sl years Webster is now ioa s3 years old, and he hasreceived- the ionges, sentence aside from 2 life term, svsfsglven tc one person in Berkshire county. ,H;:s.. ..;.',
 In opening the trial for the Goodale assault, the commonwealth did not cali all ,ta witnesses on the stand only Catherine Mallsly, .. dc. mestic, Chester c. Dalsel, the grandson- who found MT. Goodals, Dr.. Camp, who described the nature of the wounds, AlmSn M Smith who was the first man called to assist Mr Goodale, and Walter B. Peck, who carried the old man to the house, being examined to prove the assault. Eliza Stanton, otherwise known as Mary Doran, testified to- WebsterT telling her in October that Notewire. struck the blow. Webster himself took the stand and described witK considerable mihuteness the assault It varied little from. the state- ment in the Republican of "Wednesday: For l sometime both he and Notewire had eoansel. ed together and laid plans how to- rob several wealthy men in the vicinity, among them MT. Goodale, and both had concluded that ke was their easiest victim. On Tuesday:evsning hs robbed the house of MT. Goodaie, obtaining dried beef, canned fruit and butter, which lat: ter he put in basket and tied 1t in 8 tree a few rods away, where it was subsequently found. Wednesday being rainy he remained in the barn all day, and about 1 o'clock the following morning Notewire -came. On the morning of the assault about, 6, 30 o'clock the pair went to the basement of the barn, Note wire standing by the partition leading to the stable, while+ Webster hidA himsslf with a blanket in histhsnst, ueder tAss ssAakaa !: The first intimationf fhsa he had of- an sssaatt was when Mr. GoodAisr 2,was, knocked backward and nearly on, him in his hiding place, and he exclaimed, My God, Nqtsvirs whst have you done P .That vss followed by two meFe blows, when, Webster became frighsenad.aad ran out Of e, door to the 'baiin,yaiia and ,sEaG he returned Notewire was in the At ocri8bg the pockets of Goodsle; and a moment after fed. Their subsequent meeting and the divi- sion of the money was told substantially as already published. ~Websters feelings over came him by the recital of the affair." ,spd. he wept frequently and exhibited -copsiderable feeling and for the first time since his arrest his apparent coolness forsook him. Be sAid that after that he frequently thought to give himself up, but both the fear that Goodale would dis and he be hung.- and the; hope that possibly he might recover and identify Notewire that deserred him.-RepUblican. ,-
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 The East river bridge is rapidly nearing Most of the .workmen employed on the Brooklyn approach have been die. charged, and the work of taking down the