Connecticut western news., 1880-08-04
BERKSH1RE COUNTY.

North Adams is enjoying 0 church fight.
 The Lake Buel steamer is in constant de- mand.
 The H. R. R. O. are laying new side tracks at Lee.
 Pittsfeld boys are being arrested for steal ing apples.
 Pittsfeld wants more bicycles. We have, n't got any.
 Mill River's new "band" consists of a flute | and dancing jack
 The colored Methodists of Lee have an ''Ebenezer society,""
 The Berkshire grangers have a picnic at Pittsfeld tomorrow
 North Adams is to have another Murphy movement this month.
 A gypsy band, with l2 wagons are en- camped near Pittsfeld.
 Lanesboro has an inhabitant 1O2 years old, and Lenox has one lO5.
 There are in Berkshire County 26 persons 90 years old and upward.
 Somebody's going to work. Pttsfeld is to have an overalls manufactory.
 A dog in Ct. Harrington did $50. worth of damages to sheep the other day.
 Sheriff Root and wife, of Pittsfield, are en- toying themselves at the sea-shore.
 The Sheffield young people are to repeat the drama Among the Breakers" soon.
 Prof. H. R. Hallett plays on the Stock bridge chimes 10 selections each evening.
 John Dobson of Housatonic recently had paralytic shock, and died two days afterward.
 Ct. Burlington man S5 years old went berrying a distance of five miles the other day.
 West Stockbridge is building brick vault for the better protection of the town papers.
 Dr. W. H. Morse, young Pittsfed phy- sician will accept professorship in Turkish college.
 A Tyringham man recently stuck pitch fork into his leg, and had to be carried to the house.
 Ct. Burlington and South Egremont can talk each other to death by telephone now, for 10 cents.
 The Pittsfeld pleasure park is to be sold on the 2lst inst under mortgage held by the savings bank.
 A Pittsfeld man was thrown into spasms on a recent Sunday, on seeing some farmers getting in hay.
 Sheriff Geo. Roraback of Lee had two cases of "hquor nusances" in the police court the other morning.
 A rattle snake was killed at Hartsville the other day, measuring three feet long, and having nine rattes.
 North Adams has colored man, 60 years old, married to a l7 years old white girl and they have healthy boy baby.
 Rose Harding the girl cornetist of Pitts field has been engaged for the season by the Miniature concert company of Boston.
 A Pitts6eld girl was fatally burned last week by the explosion of a kerosene can from which sbe was lighting the kitchen fire.
 James Parton pronounces Stockbridge the tsmost exquisite village in the world" He spent the summer there few years ago.
 The guests of the Berkshire House, gave an entertainment recently for the benefit of the Episcopal church which realized Sl35. A Berkshire sheriff got so drunk in Pitts field the other day that he had to be loaded onto the car by his companions, just like a hog"
 Rev. Dr. Grover of Hannibal, Mo, former ly a physician of Ct. Burlington. preached in the Cong Church at Sheffield, last Sunday night.
 In dggng for the gas work, at Lee, a wooden sluice-way was found, which was put in years ago, when the village was nothing but swamp.
 The Chadwick family of Tyringham are joint heirs to an estate in London valued al $4O,OOO, ,OOO, and are confident of getting their slice of it.
 Herbert Holmes, Gt Burlington news paper man, lately connected with the Spring field Union has secured prominent position on the Woonsocket Patriot
 A Dalton woman saturated a doughnu with arsenic for rats the other day, and hel husband ate it, and was saved by the vigor ous use of stomach pump. Wm Bliss of Springfield has been choser president of the Boston & Albany R. R 1T place of the late president Lincoln who wa. killed at the late Yale Harvard boat race.
 Among Pittsfeld's summer boarders is Er nest T. Holwell who has mastered the Chi. . nese language, and has published book 1T that tongue, treating upon the literature o China
 There are some young men up in Lee who're going on vacation spree. At Otis they'll camp, in the woods, la tramp, and get shot at, and set upon by dogs, and-what glorious time that will be. North Adams recently tried to organize 6 branch of the new order, "Sons of Veterans, but couldn't make go of it. An effort tc organize the ''Sons of Guns" in N. A. will probably meet with better success. A Springfield woman wants to start c school for instruction in the highest branch es of the culinary art" in Tyringham. A piano teacher or dancing master would un doubtedly meet with better encouragement.
 There is a man in West Stockbridge who makes chew of tobacco go good ways When he is tired of chewing, he puts his cud in little tin box until wanted. He isn't bothered with fellows asking "Gimme chaw , terbacker2"
 , Up in Sandisfeld potato bugs are all the rage, and selling for cts. quart; huckle berries are raising the deuce with potato patches; apple trees of the 'early rose" va riety are being dug potato vines fairly groan under their burden ot rosy checked fruit , dogs cannot be speared in the brooks, and many of the fish are yet unlicensed and un- muzzled and still they're not happy Tn san' distield,