Connecticut western news., 1881-07-06
BERKSH7RE COUNTl

BERKSHIRE COUNT1.
 Dogs have been shearing sheep again for Joseph Foot of Pittsfeld.
 The liabilities of insolvent E. Bosworth of Lee are said to be $43,000.
 About 600 from Lee attended Barnum's big show in Pittsfeld last week.
 About 40 trains of loaded cars were sent east from Pittsfeld daily last week.
 St. Mary's Catholic church in Lee is to hold weeks fair, beginning next Monday.
 Barnum's greatest paid Pittsfsld $50. in circus tickets, for license to show ID town,
 Two Lenox gentlemen who recently robbed 8 summer residence, were fined $25. each for the joke.
 Lee has TIC school children, and the farm. CTS devote considerable attention to the culti- vation of birch trees.
 A H. R. R. brakeman fell between two moving cars last Monday at Lee, and narrow ly escaped being killed.
 Seventeen surviving graduates of the old Berkshire Medical College will have reun- ion in Pittsield next fall.
 Lester Miner of Otis was almost instantly killed by being run over by 8 loaded ox-cart from which he fell last Wednesday night.
 Harding of the Eagle, who sees things as through glass, doubly, says there are two comets with two heads and two tails each.
 Geo. E. Russell of Ct Harrington has just purchased 10000 pounds of wool in Michi gan, for the Berkshire Woolen Co.,. at an av. craze price of 37 cents.
 Pittsield talks of organizing 8 civil ser. vicesreform club, (not base ball nine, but an for oSv nrV7Svo %ho date for chief of police.)
 Two worthy old citizens" of Pittsfeld got into highly respectable fight the other day and were arrested and fined $4. each by 6 low -browed, unprineipled judge.
 A little snow and hail is falling as we gc to press Journal Is it possible who'd a thought that your going to press would have had such an effect upon the elements
 Ex-editor Marcus H. Rogers of Ct. Bar rington, and wife, sail August 9th for Paris on the steamer Berlin. They will remain ir Paris some months, then make an extended tour of Europe.
 An Adams boy shot hole plumb through the centre of his hand at arms length the other day, with toy ptstol, while venting | his patriotism, and now he wears his arm in little American flag.
 Chief of police Mallory of North Adams who is charged by g Miss Witherell, with se duction, bastardy and adultery, has sough refuge in Troy, N. Y., but says he will re turn when he is wanted as he is innocent.
 Charles Quinn of North Adams was sen fenced to 60 days imprisonment for maliciou. mischief, last Saturday, and h1s wife, wh, plead guilty to the charge of keeping dis orderly house, was let of on paying the costs
 John Savage of Lee who was indicted las July for embezzlemeIt from R. B. Cheney, ii spending the summer in beautiful Berkshire his present boarding place being Pittsfelt jail. He was captured in New York las Wednesday. 4
 John Crummie of Lenox stole harness from H. A. Carpenter of. Stockbriege the oth CT day, and is now enjoying his own tsociet, in Pittsfieid jail, and figuring on how man hours of imprisonment each stitch in that har ,os. " have cost him,
 A portion of a broken -"+"'ue rod cling to the spire of Pittsfeld Catholic chnr,.,. ana the pastor wants an expert to go to tn, top, and remove it. Just bring your snir down here, and we'll remove the rod in tw, quivers of sheep's tail.
 | A''sA0Ao pa ptists nave begun to ap point meetings and adjourn, preparatory t, see1ing ready 10 make arrangements to SC, about how much it is going to cost to mt i, new bath tub and make other improva ments about their church.
 Albert Iryon's saloon in Monterey wa. raloeo oy State detective Kellogg and Sherif George Roraback of Lee last Saturday and , considerable quantity of liquor was confscat ed. This melancholy event cast A cloor over that fourth of July celebration.
 There is little ground where all men stand on the same footing. Impulses that move al] are few. Fear, hate, love and the like draw together parties and sections. A hen ;s on, let her set. His satanic majesty will he there. ."-[ Pittsfield Journal announcement ol fourth of July programme VI
 The Beckett theatrical critic wasn't pleased with Uncle Toms Cabin as played in that place recently. He says the company than. ned out only eight aetors," and that s:soms of the male characters were very bad" as mioht be expected from a combination that w;l, show in that forsaken country.
 A big dog in Plttsie'd the other day friobt. ened team who ran away, and friphtaned another team who also ran away and smash ed up line of telephone poles and wapon standing by the sidewalk which contained 9 woman and policeman, both of whom were thrown out and considerably damaged. The dog escaped with some lofty cussing
 The Berkshire grangers had strawberry and ice cream festival in Pittsfeld the other evening. when one of the honorary members showed his bringing up, by asking in gran olloquent speech, II the inventive genius of America couldn't devise some means of i'm. proving the quality of strawberry trees and ice cream plants Harding is an honorary member.
 Pittsdsld is mysti6ed A horse belonp;no to German was found the other morning mtched to post on the street; it was last seen in the stall, and the great conundrum is ''how came the animal out, and tied ?n Why a horse that can't tie himself loose from his stall, and go out and hitch himself to a post wouldn't be considered any horse at all, down here in Connecticut You've probably oot a Connecticut horse there.
 An oil car was set on fire at Becket 1os+ week, by the explosion of lantern, and inc inhabitants, fearing that the big tank on tho car would explode, scrambled around excited. ly, packing up their goods and pullinp mn their goose-berry bushes, etc. in their frantic haste to move out of town to escape the cat astrophe. but prompt action on the part of the brakemen extinguished the flames before any great damage was done. William Henry and Sarah Jane. ssfron, Beckett, by gol !" took ID Barnums show in 'our beautiful city" last week, and as thev stood with both hands full of gingerbread and peanuts gazing in open -mouthed wonder. on | he animals and curiosities, they got plimnaa ! of editor Hardings feet under the rope as the | press party" passed by, beside the cages | vhereupon he exclaimed excitedly, "Bv ocks Sal; didn't know before that the | 'aby elephant was twinsl DJew ?" It is reported that the Housatonic road are new time- table to take effect in a CIV days, whereby thelr night train to Pitts leld will connect with the g. 50 train to North