Connecticut western news., 1880-08-11
BERKSHlRE COUNTY.

The total bank tax of Pittsfeld is $1O,342
 South Egremont has 70 summer boarders
 Pittsfeld had marriages and l6 deaths il July. -t
 Pittsfeld had 8 Kettle drum" party las week.
 Lenox, it is said, is to have weekly news paper.
 Pittsfield talks of organizing temperanc, league.
 Ct. Barrington's new iron bridge is abo1 completed.
 The unlicensed dogs in Ct. Burlington ar, to be killed.
 The old tannery at Cheshire is to be mad, into grist mill.
 E. H, Clark of Gt Harrington is fasting | la Dr. Tanner.
 The Pittsfeld Sun celebrated it's 91st birth day last Wednesday.
 The east end of Glendale bridge is to have 1 a new stone abutment
 The new Baptist church in North Adam! will be dedicated Sept. z.
 Pittsfed parties have an excursion through the Hoosac tunnel to-day.
 No less than 100 guests arrived at Leno4 station in one day recently. The Hinsdale basket makers have struck for an increase of 25 cts. per day. The Pittsfeld Methodists had an excursion of seven cars, to Bridgeport last Thursday. The Berkshire Changers had big time al | their annual picnic at Pittsfeld last Thurs | day.
 It is suggested that prizes be offered for a bicycle race at the September fair in Ct. Bar. | rington.
 Beartown Beebe says August will be drier than July, and the latter part will have warm days and cool nights. A young man named Kindberg was danger ously injured by falling on stone step last week in Gt Harrington. Harry Brigham, the youthful orator of Sheffield, has successfully passed the neces- sary examination and entered Yale.
 A Pittsfeld man scratched his hand with a rusty nall recently, and erysipelas setting in, the amputation of at least one finger is neces- sary.
 The s'dangerous man at large" is said to have been seen in Cheshire last week, but that won't work, as North6eld, Ct is little ahead.
 At the Pttsfeld loan art exhibition is exhib- ited the t'Centennial Register" the largest ever made, containing the names of 50, 900 visitors at the Centennial
 Pittsfeld had a fashionable reception last week, when Thomas Allen, Jr. brought hls bride home, and the affair was described as "a picture of Paradise"
 A Stockbrdge deaf woman attempted to cross the track in front of an approaching locomotive the other day, but was struck and sust, ined broken collar bone.
 At Sheffield station there were shipped dur ing the month of July, 4482 40 quart cans, and 300 20 and 2l quart boxes, the total freight on which was $2,0S5S4.
 A Pittsfeld 5.years-old, during a recent shower asked his mother if it would do any good to pray in the day time, and said he wanted to Task Jesus to shut the water of"
 Editor Harding of the Pittsfield Eagle has been camping out at "Camp Bassett," Onota Lake, with family. He says that 'with fun and fishing, music and moonlight, the week was all too short"
 A correspondent tells of Sheffield farmer who, experimenting shower, got in his cnt grain on Sunday. The correspondent says: He was afraid of shower, and couldn't trust in Providence
 Miss Rose Harding, the girl cornetst is @ drawing feature at the Atheneum concerts in Pittsfeld. Miss Harding, besides being a splendid musician, is quite proficient in her school studies, in which she is as deeply in- terested as if she were not making such a turore in musical circles.
 A Pittsfield bicyclist who argued that his bicycle, as vehicle, had right in the road whether horses were frightened or not recent Iy bought horse, and while leading 1t down the street, bicycle whizzed by, frightening the animal who wheeled and kicked him in the leg. Now he is trying to find somebody who is responsible for damages.