Connecticut western news., 1881-08-24
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.

Lawn tennis is the latest Lenox craze.
 Summer is dying" up in Ct Big Barring ton.
 There are 24 paupers in the Pittsfeld alms- house.
 Some Belgians in Berkshire own flock of carrier pigeons.
 Tyringham picnicked at Lees Laurel Lake last Wednesday.
 Becket has three doctors and a big apple orop--Iet us pray.
 The old Lenox iron furnace was sold at auction last Saturday.
 Mrs. Stiles Cady died in Pittsfeld last week, at the age of 80.
 North Adams is to have a Teachers Con. vention September 9th.
 MT. and Mrs. David Dresser of Lee are rus- ticating at Ocean Grove.
 Bacheller & Doris circus exhibits in Ct. Burlington next week Saturday.
 A Lenox club waxed the Pittsfeld ssshoe- sters" by a score of 10 to lastweek.
 Rev. W. E. Clarke's pulpit in Lee was oc- cupied by Rev. MT. Nash of that place last week Sunday.
 The new depot at Housatonic is approach ing completion. The old one will be repaired and used as freight house.
 Two pickled hines fought game of base bawl, last Monday, in Pittsfield. This was the 329th game of the season.
 Peru jubilates over having seven persons representing four generations of the same family, living in the same house. A drunken table-cloth peddler, named OHarran, fell into the river at North Adams, 1oS irht Opral Sundays
 A lew Corliss engine of 200 horse power has been put up in Byron Weston's mill in water should fail Superintendent John Verran of the Smith Paper Co.'S. mill in Housatonic, has purchas' ed Prentiss Chaffee's mill ln East Lee, and will take possession Nov. 1st.
 Fostine Moore met with quite serious ac cident in the Konkapot mills last Friday. He was saving shingle girts, when the stick he was saving hit against something, pushing i back, and throwing his left hard on the saw nearly severing all the fingers from the hand
 Sheffield reports a case of rape perpetratet by one Jim Mullally, an Irishman, upon { colored girl, daughter of Ed. Moore, las Monday. According to the story, Mullall. WouI tO hOOlC D uOdoO, lllBLlLOA0u OuI IWO VI three of the boys, committed the deed, ant was put to flight by one of the boys, who re turned with a shotgun. Officers are il search of the culprit.
 An Albany occulist, named Fleischmanr attempted to commit suicide with a knife, il the Morgan House, Lee, the other evening but his design was frustrated by gentlema who discovered him. He was taken back t Albany by his sons. He is subject to fits but was never known to attempt suicide be fore, and it is supposed that this attempt wa made during temporary insanity. Last Thursday night, Conductor Clar Lanes passenger train going north, encour tered pile of railroad ties, about mile thi side of Dewey's, which had been place across the track by some scoundrel or SCOUT l d1e,s whose evident object was to throw tn train from the track.s Engineer Kingsley sa - the Instructions, but not in time to stop tt ' train, and some of the ties were thrown frol the track, while those on the lower tier wei !, wedged under the pilot so tightly that it WE with difficulty that they were extricate
 This is the third attempt to wreck the san
 train within few weeks, the two previol ; ones being made at Kent.