Connecticut western news., 1881-04-27
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 The Adams telephone exchange has 30 connections.
 Hon. Thomas Allen of Pittsneld goes to Europe in quest of health.
 Ct. Barrington's high school is to give a variety exhibition next week.
 Hesphy's saloon in Lee was raided the oth- or day, and lots of liquor taken.
 The Pttsfell telephone exchange is to be extended to Lenox and Stockbridge.
 Judge Tourgee, author ot "A Fools Er rand" is to lecture in Lee next month.
 Calvin Crane, prominent. citizen of Ct Harrington, died last Thursday, aged 75.
 The mail route from Ct. Burlington to Cheshire, will be retained by A. B. Chaplain
 Louis C. Raifstanger a bartender in a Ct. Burlington saloon, has resigned his posi- tion."
 "A Bliss telephone signals, invented by 8 Pitts6eld man, have just been ordered from Paris.
 A little son of chief of police Hatch of Pitts field, is dangerously sick with congestion of the brain.
 The Pittstield selectmen will charge $l5O. for first class liquor license, and $6O. to $8O for second class.
 The Italian street musicians, small pox, and milliners bills tell North Adams that spring has come.
 Barnum's circus will show of in Pttsfeld about May 26th, and the printer mourns be-. cause he went to Coup's.
 The Pitts6eld overall factory is at work on l.20O uniforms for the employees of the Will limantic thread company.
 Weller's block in Pittsfield was destroyed by fire last Saturday, with most of the con tents. Insured for $S,5OO.
 The Owen Paper company of Housatonic was written up and illustrated in the Scien- tiic American ot last week.
 The firm of c. w. Norton < Co. of Gs. Harrington, has dissolved, and the business will be conducted by 0. w. Norton. Pitts6eld's board of health is examining a heap of refuse matter on Center street, to see if they can find any small pox seeds. Two hundred of Pittstield's cabbage heads ] (vegetable,) have been buried all winter, and when dug up the other day, were quite sound 1 PittsAeld's street commissioners have cleaned some of the streets, and now the Journal man wears his pants outside his ] boots
 A Hinsdale man advertises for sale, a large brown horse weighing ll,OOO pounds"-ol five and one half tons. It's naughty mis representation.
 | A Troy & Greenfield R. R. employee faint 1 ed on 8 car at North Adams last Thursday and falling off, struck on rail and cracked rl, TJn iS tod fo The Lee water works will have a fall o | l9O feet. The work Of construction will be gin in June. The Company will have to bring the water two miles, from the spring to th' village.
 The two Davis girls, formerly of Ct. Bar ringson, have been convicted as street-walk- CTS, and sentenced to the women's prison al Sherburne, one for one year, the other for Is months.
 Ernest T. Halwcll of Pittsfield, goes thil week to Scotland, and from there he will gc to China, via Marseiles He is a member oi the Chinese civil service, and will be absent from Pittsfeld about five years.
 The marriage of Charles L. Anderson, to Miss Susie J. Mink. daughter of foreman Mink of the Pitts6eld Eagle office, took place last Thursday night. Among ths presents was one from the proprietors and employees of tho Eagle office. The Ct. Harrington sportsmen's club con. | template putting several thousand land locked salmon in lake Buell., and several thousand white perch in Long pond Transgressors oi the game laws are also to be put into the | lakes, to feed the fish. A New Marlboro correspondent, writing ur the death of Byron M. Hall, says he ''resades in the north part of New Marlboro" Wrong doers beware! the undiscovered country I from whose bourn no traveller returns" has been discovered. Turn ye. Housatonic boys are delighted with the prospect of new passenger depot to carve their names on, as every available inch of surface on the old building is crowded with names, thicker than the tail-end of the declaration of independence. | Adams has a small pox scare, 8 French mans family being afflicted with disease which is thought by some to be small pox, although physician says it is nothing but German measles, in a violent form, which is ''hard to distinguish from small pox.'
 Joseph Mcdonald was thrown from his wagon at Pittsfed last week Monday, and picked up insensble. He was taken to the Cottage hotel, where he died Wednesday night, having never recovered consciousness since his injury He was 65 years old.
 At the annual meeting of the Monument Mills Company at Housatonic last Wednes- day, Col Geo Church was elected president, lev, agent and clerk, aud John M. Seeley, T. G. Ramsdell, Farley A. Russell, George Rus sell and Col. Geo. Church, directors.