Connecticut western news., 1881-06-01
BERKSHIRE COUNTY

bEhhSHIRE COUNI1.
 North Adams has licensed 175 dogs
 The now Ct. Burlington library is now open to the public.
 The Ct. Harrington post office building has been re. painted.
 John F. VanDeusen has been appointed justice of the peace in Pittstield.
 A Denver, Col. ;, minister preached in the Methodist church in Lee last Sunday.
 Fitchburg R. R. brakeman was killed by being struck by bridge last Friday.
 If the candidates are all elected, the Pitts field court house will have IA janitors.
 One hundred and fifteen soldiers graves were decorated in Pittsfield last Sunday. A West Stockbridge landlord was fined $50 for keeping liquor nuisance last week. A new depot is to be built at Housatonic that vexed question has just been settled.
 Pontoosuc Lake, Pittsfeld, now floats catamaran 25 feet in length, with II feet beam,
 Major F. N Ray of North Adams, belong | ing to the 2nd regiment, has resigned his office,
 A West Stockbridge selectman has been | tined $50. for selling liquor without a li- cense.
 The H. R. R. train going north now stops at Lenox each evening, beginning last Friday evening.
 The Beaver River and Adams rifle clubs, will shoot, sup and speech In Adams on the 18th inst. | Rev. D. G. Anderson of Ct. Harrington at tended the diocesan convention at Boston last week.
 A new railroad line is being surveyed from State line through West tockbridge to, Van Deusenyille.
 Lee trots horses July 2d, so the horse men will have time to recover and celebrate the glorious 4th.
 Elmer Myers of Pittsield was tried last week for forgery; the sentence was reserved until yesterday,
 The Lee boat club lay the challenges they receive, Ion the table" where most of their racing is done
 John Hogans house in North Adams was burned by a supposed incendiary fire last Friday morning.
 Dr. H. W. Parks of Ct Burlington has ar rived home allopathcally, bringing with him a bride from Jersey.
 Grove Hurlburt of Lanesboro has been sued for an account that has been running 20 years, and grown stale.
 The factories in Adams were shut down on Decoration day but the saloons kept running at their fullest capacity. | There is only one man confined in the pest house at North Adams. with small pox, and the fright is about over
 George Roraback of Lee, lost colt last l for rrb,D har fFor of $200, few days before.
 The Journal vs the Sun and Eagle com positors, etc. will play match game of base ball next Saturday in Pittstield. | Pittsheld Is shocked by boys bathing in Silver lake, whose bathing suits are not in the height of fashion nor anything else. I The Massachusetts writer of decoration day proclamations is evidently spiritualist, and Abraham Lincoln is his patron saint.
 A North Adams artist named Booth, has gone like dream, as he was to be arrested l for an indecent assault on nine years-old girl.
 A Pittsield firm announces ''ladie's spring garments" The "ladle" shouldn't make too radica! spring change, or she may take oold
 I Il Pittsted last Thursday night. and a number of speeches were made. The receipts were $l50.
 Lake May, in Lee, contains foot and a half mere water than 1t did last year at this time but then, Lee was mo license" town last year. James Burke, an Irish boy. was fined $1. and costs in the district court in Pittsfeld last Monday for abusing colored boy eleven years old. Charles Kloseman, a teamster, was killed by ] lightning at Pittsfield last Monday, and the Catholic church was struck ani considerably damaged.
 They are trying to establish merchants exchange in Pittsfeld, but as the principal stock-in-trade is bad debts, there is lack of confidence.
 Ex.edtor Marcus H. Rogers is stopping for short time, u his far reaching and sue cessful search for pleasure, at his old home in Ct Barringtop
 James Bullard is chosen president of the new Lee creamery cooperative association" his name suggesting itself as being "appro- priate to the oocasiep,"
 Some Knights of Pythias from Pittsfeld went to Adams last week to inspect sister lodge, but they found the screen law just as memorable as at home.
 The Methodist ladies' aid society in Ct. Burlington will hold monthly aid socabes as soon as they can find out what style of spring hats the heather prefer.
 Charles Davis, 8 railroad man rescued a 7I years old son of Dr Brown of North Adams from drowning, after he had sunk twice, hay ing fallen from bridge last Saturday.
 The Berkshire glass company refuse to en. ter the combination to suspend during the summer, and will keep running in full blast, as there is good demand tos their glass.
 Harvey Kinney has taken out the necessary papers for the attachment ofthe body of Dep. uty sheriff Cobb's daughter, of West Stock bridge, and a clergyman serves them to-day. The Journal is feeding Dr. Gallagher of Mill River, who brings libel suit against it | for $3 OO0, on what must be to him very dis agreeable medicine, in the shape of reminis- cences which it has gleaned from the Dr's. | pedigree. It makes very interesting reading ]