Connecticut western news., 1881-07-27

Benjamin's hotel in Sheffield has a large \ number of city boarders, who cannot help be. | ing satisfied with their place, as John is 6
 model landlord, and his hotel and grounds are
 looking beautiful
 Lapham, New York's new senator is s
 cousin of Pittsfeld woman. He's "Berk snlre boy" Of course-and let's see, didn't | Miller, the other senator once talk of starting | a paper in Pittsfeld?
 The Falls Village special butchered a horse belonging to John Manion at Lee recently,
 but John needn't get mad about it. If it bad been anybody else's horse it would have come 1 to the same conclusion.
 John Wallace of North Adams formed 6
 'lastingl friendship" with a picked.up ac | quaintance while drunk the other day; before | they parted the new friend stabbed him in the
 side and stole $10. from him.
 A fair will be held by the fair ones ot Plttsheld's Episcopal church Aug. 3 and 4.
 A committee will see fair play and no partiality | ln the kissing games, so the newspaper msr
 up that way will stand show. Hattie Wentworth of Peru, charged witE
 dshllng house, writing obscene letters. etc.
 nas been let oH by paying $50, the price oi | the house owners shocked modesty, and hel
 promise ot future good behavior. The wagon in which Mrs. Dr. Smith and
 Miss Lizzie Fields of Sheffield were riding out the other day, tipped over, frightened the ! horse and spilled out the ladies, The horse
 ran away and ruined $l5O. carriage. The Ct. Burlington Congregationalists had
 two days fair last week, from which they
 realized about $500. The church fair busi
 ness IS rapidly superceding the newspaper
 business as money making institution. Beartown mountain has a highwaymau-
 the genuine article, with red shirt, fsrocious | whiskers and big pistol. The other day he
 shot at E. A. Noteware of Monterey, fright | ening his horse so that he escaped. Boo! Rocket has lots of summer boarders but
 all other kinds of business are dull, since the
 leather tanning industry stopped. There is no sickness in town, and Dr. Knowlton is labout to move out and locate in Connecticut l A Flaherty boy shot himself in the hand 1 with toy pistol which he had loaded witt gravel stones on the 4th, and died of lockiaw
 in consequence last week in Pittsfeld. "Oh,
 that mine enemy would"-play with 8 toy | pistol
 For attempting to evads the payment o
 railroad fare on the B. A. R. R. last Thurs day, two fellows named La1am and Des
 Jardines, were arrested in Pittsfeld, and fol | attempting to evade the payment of fines they l were incarcerated.
 The merchants and prominent men of Ct
 Harrington are taking great deal of interest | in wicket ball, and it is no uncommon sight
 to see gray haired men indulging the sport
 with sprightliness that suggests the vigol | of their younger days.
 There are nearly 100 men at work on Lees rkc
 two miles of 1O-inch main pipe. The labor
 CTS struck for an increase to S1. 75 day last | week, which was refused and 100 men are
 now advertised for by the contractors.
 Jeremiah Winchell of South Egremont
 who fatally shot Mrs. Harriet Morrison last
 winter, was tried at Pittsfeld last week be-
 fore jury, who found him guilty of man l slaughter, and Chief justice Brigham sentenc ed him to seven years and six months in the | state prison.
 Rev. Dr. Eddy of the Sheffield Cong church breaches occasionally in the schoo houses in the suburbs of the place, which we presume to say are crowded at every meeting,
 as we never yet heard of slim congregation attending service which Dr. Eddy was an
 nounced to conduct.
 A New York Sun reporter has been ir ElLLSueLu CO WTlIe up Gu0 InaIar1al-Qam case
 or the dam m-malarial case, az you please-but
 as it was adjourned he didn't stay long
 enough to give Harding and Oatman chance
 to take him up in the wilderness and show him another cannlbal.
 Job Sweet of Hancock, gho is charged
 with the rape of a young girl some time since
 was brought up for trial at Pittsfeld last
 week. but his case was adjourned to nex
 January as the girl, who is the principal wit.
 ness against him had been Spirited away ; and she could not be found. MT. H. A. Fuller of the Journal has been granted vacation to enable him to wind up hls W1te:..erhnry 1 watch. According to the Journal, that watch has knocked him little "off his nut" but Fowler hopes that when he returns, he will be the same old Full that he used to was, if not little Fuller.
 William Richards woodshed was set on fire by some miscreant the other night, at Rich. mond, but it was discovered by the hired girl, who summoned help and had it textinguishsd. Later a note was found pinned on a lilac bush in front of the house, warning Richards to get out of town or discharge the hired girl who foiled him in his incendiary enterprise, or she would be shot State officer Kellogg is Investigating the case