Connecticut western news., 1880-09-29
BERKSH7RE COUNTl
Afford is haunted.

Lenox academy has 20 pupils.
 The Lenox glass factory is soon to be start ed up.
 Huntsville had calathumpian serenade the other night.
 Ice is selling in Pittsfeld for from $7. to $8. 50. per ton.
 Ct. Harrington republicans have organized a Garfield club.
 W. J. Mallory of Lee lost valuable horse by over-driving.
 stockbridge is breaking out with measles and campaign flags. .. g..
 Housatonic is to have course of lectures the coming winter. The proposed big dam at Mill River, will, it is said be likely to flood Hartsville.
 Rev. E. H. Roys lectured on temperance in North Egremont last Sunday night.
 Bob Ingersoll is to speak at North Adams on the ''Political Question of the Day."
 The total receipts at the recent loan art ex. hibition at Pittsfeld amounted to $1, ,492. Open air religious meetings are held Sun. day afternoons in Gibson's grove, Hartsville.
 stockbridge Congregationalists presented their dominic with purse of $85. the other day.
 Another. A Pittsfeld boy had his shoulder broken last Friday by jumping on a moving train.
 Gen. Armstrong, just returned from the Sandwich Islands, lectured in Stockbridge re- | gently.
 Wm. Burghardt's COW, at Ct. Burlington, was choked to death while eating apples re- gently.
 Pittsfeld democrats had an enthusiastic ral- l ly on the 18th inst, with speeches by promi- nent men.
 Geo. Bourne of Lenox is building a large ice house, to hold 800 tons, and will sell ice next summer. | They are camping out yet up in Sandisfeld Nothing but insurmountable snow drifts will put a stop to it. ] The Pittsfeld authorities have warned bi- cyclists that those who run on the sidewalk will be prosecuted. l High sheriff Root, who has held that office for 25 years, declines & re.nomination on ac. count of ill health.
 MT. Doolittle of Ct. Harrington, proprieto, of the railroad boarding house, contemplates going to Detroit, Mich. l The Richmond Iron Go. is building three { or four brick ki]ns of 100 cords capacity, anG will employ 45 or 50 men.
 The county commissioners have 8 meeting Oct. 8, to consider a petition for exemption from fencing along the railroad. EgFemont has man who assisted in carry ing Gen. Hancock off the field at Gettysburg when the General was wounded. l A new gingham mill is to be erected be tween North Adams and Pittsfeld, to cove an acre and quarter of ground. The Pittsfield First church society talks 0 erecting fine monument to the memory 0 the late pastor, Rev. Dr. John Todd. West Stockbridge needs "some temperance work that will close rum shops and give IL quiet Sundays" says correspondent. 1 A correspondent says in Dalton there is campaign flag in town 5ayjug hidden iron view. It cant be Hancock flag, then. l Gibson's grove had big. union sunda, being required to transport the participants Rose M. Harding of Plttsfield makes he first appearance in the Miniature Concer Company at Fremont Temple, Boston, Oct I16.
 E. D. Brainard of Albany, has purchase' the Robbins grove at Ct. Burlington, an will transform it into a public park wit walks, drives, etc. The Pittsfeld reporters have carried thei point, and are to be provided with aceommo dations in the superio. court room, but out o the lawyers reach.
 An explosion occurred in a range in Fathe Lynch's kitchen in North Adams, which dam aged property to the amount of $200 l priest sitting in another room leaning agains the chimney was thrown forward several fee and some bricks from the chimney wer thrown across the room.
 A wagon containing three little girls, col lded with another team, in Dalton, recent ly. and the horses becoming frightened, start ed on run, throwing out two of the occu pants the other. with great presence o mind, pulling desperately at the reins, fnall succeeded in stopping the horse.