Connecticut western news., 1881-11-23

and left an old suit to console the proprietors. They didn't console worth cent, but tele- graphed to the neighboring towns, and the darkey was arrested at Sheffield Monday af- ternoon, and shipped to Pittsfeld.
 Taylor < Rogers, the Ct. Burlington cloth, fer, sing quite lengthy and logical song in the NEWS this week. They say they have ''come to stay," and conclude from their pat. ronage that they're ''quite welcome" They sell pile of goods, and as everything is fair in love and war, they exchange their little ''courtesles" back and forth with their genial neighbor Hubbell, across the way, which simply attracts attention and increases the trade of both, and this is what has made for Gt. Harrington the reputation it enjoys of be- ing the clothing centre of Berkshire county.
 Another warning against indorsing notes for friends comes from Great Burlington Andrew J. Baldwin of Seekonk, the owner of gristmill there, has secured as indorsers to his notes at various times his brothers-in-law W. J. Calkins of Great Burlington and L. K. Kline of Egremont, and suit was begun in the October term of the superior court on two oi the notes and others were about to be begun | by the local banks. Friday the claims were settled, Kline paying about $l200 and Cal kins $2OO0, and the latter will be financially
 
 over to them his equity in the property which he owns.-RepublieGn.
 The great amount of spare poetry in the \ Courier, is accounted for. The key may be found in our Birth" column this week. Il seems that in anticipation of the "episode, Jimmy had prepared his little poem, My soul is fufiaof music,
 My gizzard full of joy" | There's something very touching about those lines, and the candor shown dispels the doubts that may arise. as to whether hit 'fullness' was taken straight or 'alf and 'alf The anticipation" came in in the last line which was originally as follows:
 l II sing of beautiful Berkshire And I'VE beautiful boy" Subsequent events however. proved that Ii wasn't that kind of rosebud, which so con fused Jimmy that instead of sensibly changing the second line to read My head is in whirl," which would have let him out in gooc shape. he simply changed "Tve," to ''I'm' and flung the whole business at our inoffen sive self Oh, yes, Jimmy, we smoke.
 The joke is on deputy George w. Rorabacl of Lee, this time, who must have learned tt swear slnce he left this happy land, although we didn't suppose the climate of beautiful | Berkshire could have such an influence owe, the moral training of a Canaanite. Tn, Pittstield Eagle says: Deputy sheriff Ror aback, of Lee, was arraigned in the distric court in Ct Harrington on papers served by deputy sheriff Langdon, accusing him of pro fane swearing. It seems that last Septembe Roraback arrested one George Wheeler, o Monterey, for cruelty to animals, Wheele having in his wagon calf with legs tied con trary to law. Wheeler was to appear ant answer to the complaint on a certain date ant did so, but Roraback and his papers were no present. The sheriff subsequently, had to g Monterey for his victim, who was fined fo his offense, but he complained that Rorabacl was mad because he had to drive to Monterey to make the second service and used unlawful explosives to express his indignation in fac tbat there was cerulean haze all over thu hills from the cuss words used Rorabacl pleaded nOllO c0atendere and sentence wa postponed until December 2.