Connecticut western news., 1881-05-11
BERKSHIRE COUNTl,


 | York.
 Prof. Cooke exposed in Pittsfeld last night.
 The Pittsfeld town clerk has issued nearly 50 liquor licenses.
 A new mill is to be built in North Adams, OH the circus ground.
 Mamps and measles finger in the lap of spring up in Pittsfeld.
 Rev. c. H. Parkhurst of New York preached in Pittsfeld last Sunday.
 St. Joseph's band in Pittsfeld are prepar- ing to buy new uniforms and instruments.
 Hoosac tunnel is nearly all niched, and stairways are being constructed in the air galleries.
 F. S. Gross of Lec is to build two large new barns. He has some of the finest horses in the county.
 The Stockbridge Methodists are to build q l church; they have heretofore held their ser vices in the town hail. | Adams discovered four new cases of small pox last Monday. One of the victims of the disease died Sunday Light. l Pittsfeld has more erysipelas than usual this spring, on account of the large amount of buckwheat raised last year, Almost daily Pittsfeld ships from four to six barrels of lard to New York to be made | into oleomargarine, popular emetic. Senator Dawes Is expected at his home in | Pittsteld this week, and he can tell his neighbors what he knows about dead-locks. | Pittsfeld's post office clerks have been uniformed, so they can be distinguished from the newspaper reporters and circus advance agents.
 l The Journal man wants somebody to club l him. He advocates the organization of base ball club by the butter fingered printers of Pittsfield.
 The Housatonic R. R. passenger train going north last Friday was detained at Hous. atomic an hour and quarter by two caQs- run ming off broken frog.
 The Pittsfeld board of health have issued an order, warning all persons who haven't been vaccinated in five years, to s'get thee to a doctor shop" at once.
 James Collins of Pittsfeld, bookkeeper ID the Dalton paper mill of lieutenant governor Byron Weston, died last week. He was wide ly and favorably known.
 Vim. Gardner, a cullud boy, of the Pitts | field lime kiln club. paid $9 75 in court the other day, just for firing off a pistol, and using another little darkey for a target.
 Dennis Clancy of Armenia, N. Y, was | found by policeman on the railroad track dead-drunk, near Pittstieid the other day Too much license up there for a York Slater
 Pittsield is happy over the prospect of having about 300 dogs to kll as less than 100 have been registered, and the place sup ports 400. Sealskin caps will be cheap in Berkshire County next winter
 A tramp stole copper kettle in Pittsfeld the other day, and sold it for 25 cents, then paid the superior court $9 65 for doing it : but where the dickens he figures in his prof it's on the transaction, is a mystery. | Job Sweet was before the court in Pitts. field last Friday for being altogether too Sweet on Miss Nellie Louise Horton, of Hancock His case was continued to yesterday and lin the meantime he went to jail in default of $2, ,O0 bonds.
 | Clark w. Bryan of the Courier is estab- fishing publishing house in Holyoke, where he will issue his two publications the Paper World, and the Manufacturer, which have. heretofore been printed by the Springfield Printing Company.
 A young man "not ten thousand miles from the Journal office" :n Pittsield ran into drug store the other night and excltedly called for chlorate of potash, explaining to | the clerk, that he had been kissing a school ma'am, who told him she was afraid she had the diphtheria.
 | In drunken brawl in North Adams last Saturday night, Mark. Gardiner was knocked down with stone, and shot in the head by Thomas Holbrook. The injured man will probably recover, and Holbrook is under | $l ,0o0 bonds to appear before the police court next Monday morning | Hubbel, the Gt Burlington clother, an | nonnces a sweeping reduction in prices for | the next so days, in straw hats, spring and summer clothing, furnishing goods, etc. in the very latest and best styles and quality | His new rd. was received too late for this week Look for it in our next issue. By all odds, the handsomest little book we have seen in somo time, is "The Hills and Holmes of Be kshire," hy Clark ". Bryan It is gotten up in the interest of city people seeking summer resorts, for the H R R. Co.,, l and is handsomely illustrated with cuts oi the principal hoeis and attractions of the vi cinitv, and will make a valuable guide book | to summer boarders in Berkshire. At the annual meeting Of the incorpora. l BOTS of the Ct. Burlington savings bank helc Wednesday afternoon at their banking house, these officers were chosen: President, Egg bert HoiIister: vtce-pre. dents H. H B. Tur her, Alfred Peck: c'erk. Merritt l. Wheeler trustees, Dwi2h Boardnan Merritt 1 Wheel CT, Walter B Peck, Sh,ldon w. Wright George hurch, John A Cote, F. T. Whiting Henry T Robbins Justin Dewey, Robert Girlng A w. Selkirk The treasurers re. port s as follows; Liabilities, deposits $2ol 149 2s :; interest S'3 4O3 s4; guarantee fund, $2, 949 go; total. S2l7 5O2ll. Assets. public funds, S'.0oo; bank stock, $74 5O8. 53: loans on bank stock $s25 60, loans on real estate. $l IA 055.l7; loans on personal secur- Ity, $20399 l6 cash on hand, $4,4l3 G5 real estate by foreclosure. $2,3OO; total. S2l7,5O2 II The incorporators' meeting then dissolved aud the trusLees' meeting i'm mediately occurred Ghlrles J. Taylor was re-chosen treasurer, and George Church l John A Cone, Robert Girling. Justin Dewey and c J. Taylor board Of investment For 1 the past year interest at the rate of four per l cent has been paId semi annually -.Joua'nal