Connecticut western news., 1880-10-27
BERKSHlRE COUNTl.
Lee has 754 voters.

Lee has 754 voters.
 Ct Harrington has 792 voters.
 Pittsaeld has fey cases of the measles.
 The city boarders at Lenox are leaving rap' idly.
 Jonathan Jones of Tyringham is to winter in North Carolina.
 Al Lee man has used potaska for epizootic, with good results.
 North Adams had another incendiarv fire last Tuesday night.
 PittsAeld young ladies are taking course of cooking lectures.
 Frank s. Gross of Lee is tho democratic candidate for senator. A Housatonic milkman lost a COW by being choked by an apple, recently.
 The Williams college and Yale teams had game of football recently. 354 Pittsaeld's South church society is to have two days fair in December. 1 :. Alexander Hyde has been nominated by the republicans of Lee for representative.
 Gov. Long and council visited North Adams the other night, and were serenaded. zs...
 St. Joseph's band of PittsHeld contemplatesl procuring new instruments and uniforms.
 The pupils in the Lee grammar school stand, 30 for Hancock, and 24 for Garfield.
 The apple crop in the two Shaker commun, ities amounts to over 20, 900 bushels. - The superior court opened Monday, Judge Bacon presiding. There are about 35 cases.
 In a recent drunken fight Phelix Murray of Dalton gouged out the eye of George Will l Hams. Pittsleld has some rowdies who insult la dies on the street, and peek in at their win' dows. ,~ The North Adams insurance agents have formed themselves into a board of under. writers.
 The PittsAeld Sun has been changed to a semi-weekly, and will continue so until after election.
 1 A party of 25 husked hundred bushels of corn and several bushels of oysters at Lee the other night. ..s -s-- A Monterey girl found seven chestnuts in one bur the other day. It is sign she will marry the first man who asks her.
 A Pittsfield man 30 years old fell from an apple tree onto picket fence, and received injuries which are likely to prove fatal.
 A Lee woman, in answer to an inquiry said that her husband had gone to attend "mor- tifcation meeting" meaning ratification"
 The stock has all been subscribed (sl5, ,oo0) for the establishment of a shirt factory at Ct.
 Harrington, and operations will begin early in 1881.
 William Finder of West Stockbridge, one of the train rioters at the time of the cattle
 show, was fined $2O. in the district court Sat
 urday,
 Pittsfeld had big republican parade last
 Thursday night, and bigger democratic par
 ade on Friday nigt. Both were addressed by
 big men.
 .l North Adams recently decided in the af. firmative, the question: "ResolVed, that a warrior is more deserving of esteem than a statesman"
 , A freight train on the Troy { Greenfield IR. R.. had a smash.up in Hoosac tunnel last Wednesday night, causing considerable delay
 to other trains.
 Michael Flynn of West stockbridge is g man of sorrows and acquainted with grief On single day recently, his wife and his COW . died, and 340O. was stolen from him James Wilson recently picked in his garden , strawberry stem containing one specimen o well ripened twin berries, another quite well I matured, a third just set in, and well pro-
 portioned blossomed, all grades being repre-.
 sented Qp this one stem, ,l A Berkshire reporter told sensational sto
 " about the recent finding of human bones , ;n a fireplace in an old Glendale house, but the romance is all spoiled by the announce ment by tone Who knows," that they were , the bones of a pet dog, put there for safe keep ing several years ago.
 Of Miss Rose Harding's debut in the Ninia ture Opera Company at Boston on the 18th, il is said that it ''was an unqualified success
 and though she was stranger in strange
 land, she received an immense bouquet an6 was encored and applauded with great en- thusiasm. The result of her performance f was several other engagements" The third annual supper of the Berkshire County editors and reporters at the American House, PittsAeld, last Thursday night, was one of the pleasantest social events of the season. About 40 were present, including invited guests, and speeches were made by such prominent men as Henry W. Taft, Esq, Hon. Marshall Wilcox, F. W. Rockwell, Elizur
 Smith, Wellington Smith, J. A. Royce, Alex ander Hyde, T. A. Oman, Postmaster Chick. ering Dr. J. E. Adams, Rev. c. c. Adams, : Gardner T. Barker, G. E. Baldwin and W.
 R. Plunkett Esq. Letters of regret were read, from Gen. Grant, Gen. Butler, Gov. Long, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Gen. Hancock, . Gen. Arthur, Mark Twain, Cyrus w. Field, P. T. Barnum, George W. Childs, Dr. J. G.
 Holland, W. D. Howells, Judge Tourgee John B. Cough, Marshall Jewell, and Paul A. Chadbourne. The supper was one of Land- lord Jones' best--and anybody who knows
 MT. Jones' style of supper can readily imagine that his "best" supper means as good as can be fourd anywhere in this country. It took about two hours of steady work, to go through the menw. The success of the affair must be gratifying to the projectors, Messrs
 James Harding of the Berkshire County Eagle,