Connecticut western news., 1880-08-18
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
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Pittsfeld is to have new $4,000 sewer.
 There is an ore bed in prospect in Cheshire
 An Otis man has been killed by the cars at Troy.
 A Monterey man recently killed family of 30 streaked snakes.
 Lee is getting proud, and has introduced gas for the first time.
 The Pittsield Methodist's excursion to Bridgeport the other day cleared $282.
 In the loan art exhibition at Pittsfeld is a dunning letter. from Geo. Washington.
 Eight couples from North Adams yand Pittsield are encamped at Twin Lakes
 Berkshire County Changers will hold their annual picnic at Stockbrdge Bowl the 26th.
 ''All hands" in the Courier office took a "day off" last week, and picnicked at Lake BueL
 A Sandisfield Correspondent says: ''This would soon be a fourishing town if we only had railroad"
 A Tyringham lady and her daughter were thrown out of a wagon the other day, and considerably bruised.
 Ct. Harrington tobacco grower has an unusually hne crop this year, most of the leaves measuring 42x2O inches.
 Rev. Samuel Harrison has been preacher among the colored people in Plttsfield for nearly thirty years. His vigor is nowise di- unfinished by time.
 The Lee trotter, 'tMajor Lord" has been withdrawn from the turf for the present, on account of lameness. The Major has made a mile on the track, in 2.2O.
 Miss Rose Harding of Pittsfeld has been engaged to give cornet solos on the steamer Grand Republic" Sept. 4th, when the next Coney Island excursion comes off,
 Berkshire County has been swindled by fellows who obtain the signatures of respon. sible parties, with plausible story, and the signatures are forged on notes. etc.
 Dudley Field, prominent lawyer of New York and son of David Dudley Field, died last week of heart disease, at Stockbridge. aged 49. A large number of his associates attended his funeral, ex-Lieut Gov. Dor sheimer of New York being one of the pail bearers.
 Pittsfeld's new daily will be an afternoon paper, with republican tendencies. It will be issued independent of the Eagle, an ar- rangement having been effected whereby therelwill beno clashing of interests It is said to be ably backed by strong money men of the county.
 Southern Berkshire is maintaining it's rep. utation as a delightful summer resort. The hotels at Great Burlington, Sheffield, Stock. bridge and Egremont have been full all the season, and many guests have been obliged to live in adjacent cottages and take their meals at the hotels.
 The Berkshire "wild man." first thought to be the Middletown dangerous man at large T has finally been captured, and turns out tc be Harry Green, North Adams pauper. He gave his name as Death, the prophet of Fate' and said that he had already "killed several people, and still God cries for the blood of more:''
 The second annual clam bake of the train men of Conductor Lathrops and Coles trains together with the station men of Pittsfeld. was held Saturday, Aug IA, near the engine house in Pittsfeld. The bill of fare was ex- tensive enough to satisfy all consisting of two bushel of clans, one bushel of sweet corn, plenty ofpotatoes, bread, crackers, etc. Mark says they had royal good time, and wants it repeated.
 Corrected figures of the enumeration of Massachusetts are at hand, and differ some. what from the unrevised reports Massachu. setts has a total population of 1, ,7S3,Sl2, a gain in ten years of 326,46 Nearly every farming district shows falling off. The of. ticial figures for Berkshire county are. 69, ,363, gain of 4,536 in ten years, and of l,O93 in five years. Pittsfeld's population is l3,31O, Ct. Barrington's, 4,54O, Lees, 3,938, New Marlboro's, 1863, Shefield's, 2,2OS.