Connecticut western news., 1880-11-24
BERKSHlRE COUNTl.

der the heading of "Pickles."
 BERKSHIRE C0UNTl.
 sandisfeld's church fair netted $36 >
 Berkshire Village has scarlet fever.
 Pittsfeld IS to have drawing school.
 Tyringham's chapel has been newly car peted. A Pittsfeld man has hog weighing 53l pounds.
 J. Decker of South Lee shot big wildcat the other day.
 North Adams Hibernian society had ball last Friday night.
 The old Turkey paper mill ats atsTyringham is in operation again.
 The effects of the North Adams1 board of trade have been sold.
 A foot race for purse of $100. came off at Pittsfeld last Saturday.
 Monterey is to have singing school, with Prof. Weaver as teacher. John O'Laughlin, Pittsfeld farmer, aged 65, has mysteriously disappeared.
 John siggins of Ct. Burlington has been appointed clerk of the district court.
 Sandisield boasts a business boom: Another store has been opened there.
 :Pittsfeld's drum corps is to be uniformed in white corduroy with gold cord trimming.
 Gershom Fitch, of Clayton, now in his 80th year, is sick, and not expected to recover:
 Frank D. Mills, formerly of the Ansonia Seminal, is now local editor of the Pittstield Sun. r. Mary Meaher of Cheshire, aged l9, was sent to the Northampton insane retreat last week.
 Mrs. Mallory of Lenox is to spend the win ter in South Carolina, for the benefit of hel health. A pet deer owned in Lee. was struck by { train and sustained broken leg. It wal afterwards shot.
 r Mrs. Frederick Cone of Tyringham, recent ly fell down and broke her leg near the knee She is s2 years old.
 l A Plttsfield band of Christian young mel are to do considerable evangelist work i Berkshire this season.
 The falling of large stone distance of ? feet killed Ephraim Wilson at Humphrey quarry near Lenox last Wednesday. .,.,.
 Wm. Bidwell of Monterey caught a youn hen hawk in fox trap the other day, whic measured four feet from tip to tip.
 Geo. Hale of Tyrlngham has a pair of year-old steers that weigh a725 pounds, an a pair of two-year-old, weighing 262os
 Berkshire County has 1901 colored people of which 137 reside in Lee, and the balanc with one or two exceptions, in Sheffield: | A married man named Royal R. Millar eloped with Mrs. seeley Doty ot North Egre mont a short time since, and officers are ol their track.
 Pittsfeld's Nine e-pin club is to have grand masquerade ball Dec. 3. and over 5 couples are expected. Music by Becker orchestra of pieces.
 Will some one please send us the address of the author of Beautiful Snow ?"-PStts field Journal Yes sir-ee address Bob. Er- win of the New Milford Gazette. He did i with his little hatchet.
 A Sandisfeld correspondent, speaking o the abundance of cider, "hopes people vii not make an alembic of their stomachs to sucl an extent as to interfere with their locomotio1 and sense of propriety,"
 A horse became frightened by 8 foot bal which some boys were kicking in tue street of Pitts6eld the other day, and, the bit break ing, he ran away throwing out couple O young men, considerably injuring them. '~
 The Springfield Republican says: "'Wad' Lawrence, whose difficulties with his wifi have frequently brought him before the courts paid costs Friday, and the papers against hin as common drunkard were filed away on hi promise of future good behavior. -,
 The mystery which, since May, 1s79,7 ha attended the disappearance of Mrs. Johl Shufelt of North Egremont is now cleared away Deputy Sheriff Humphrey of Ct. Bar rington, who has given considerable attention to the case, returning yesterday morning from Hart's Falls, N. Y., where the woman worked last summer. Shufelt, who lived in { tumble down house near Prospect lake, wa: accused of murdering his wife, and of sinkine her body ill the lake; but on the examination at Great Burlington there was no proof, ex cepting the story of their half-witted boy eight years old, who told the story that his mother had been murdered by his father, and Shufelt was discharged. A young man named Barton Church, who lived near shuf elt's, was suspected of having eloped with her as he disappeared about the same time. It is now found by the officer that they worked together for some time in the vicinity of Mechanicsville, N. Y., and few months ago left there for parts unknown Shufelt has re, mained in Egremont since the affair, and :. has always protested his innocence. Republican.
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