Connecticut western news., 1881-04-13
BERKHH7RE COUNTl.
Pittslald iail has 69 prlsoners.

Pittsasld jail has 69 prisoners.
 North Adams has a new police force, ol Ave men.
 The small pox excitement has subsided iu Housatonic.
 Robert Corkscrew goes around in Ct. Bar rington, carrying tslegrams. POP deaths are reported in Pittsdeld fol ! the year ending January 1st
 Pittsfeld's schools have more pupils thar at any previous spring term. R D Earle and Chas. E. Lumbert of Cur \ tsvllle, have gone to Michigan. Tho boy choir in St. Stephens church Pitts6eld, is to be replaced by quartet.
 Pitts6eld's meat markets close up at o'clock each evening, excepting Saturday. Pittsfeld is to have circus next Tuesday Save your pennies, brethren of the press. Fifty dollars worth of new books have been added to the Lee Baptist Sunday school li- brary. The choral union of Ct. Burlington, give a concert on the 29th inst 10 benefit the Ii brary.
 l. North Adams is enforcing the law, re- quiring the liquor saloons to be closed or Sunday.
 A portion of a building at Maplewood, (Pitts6eld,O was blown off by high wind Monday.
 Maggie Tighe, dress maker in PittsAeld died last Friday from the effects of kan abortion.
 Dr. Morse of West Otis is recovering from the measles. This is the second time he has had them. Two dogs got into barn in Pttsield last Friday night, killing six sheep. One of the dogs was shot.
 Pittsfeld is a model town. Two-thirds ol the nominees for office respectfully decline' before election.
 Otis continues to get about on runners and thinks of celebrating the glorious fourth with sleigh-ride.
 The Boston & Albany locomotives take 200 tons of coal week from Pitts6eld for theil own consumption. Adams young ladies have organized 6 "Gcsl:ng club" with Helen Phillips, the little goose, as president.
 The receiving tomb ill Pltts6eld cemetery contains 60 bodies awaiting interment. Dc they slet the dead bury their dead ?" W H Pritchard has returned from the  position in the Pitts6eld national bank. Lenox prosecutes the paper company on ac count of their dam, and the paper company dams Lenox on account of it's prosecution. Dr. Samuel Camp of Ct. Burlington wal out riding last Friday for the first time since his recent dangerous sickness with pneu monia.
 West Otis ia having hard time of it mak- ing maple sugar, on account of the grea depth of snow, making it difficult to gather the sap. Rev Nathaniel Kellogg of Pittsfeld { superannuated preacher is the third oldes member of the New York East Conference having joined in 1926.
 A Housatonic minister observed fast da, by preaching on Mormon'sm, and the factor7 | boys observed the same day by playing match game of base ball. ...e4 A Hinsdale man was leading colt behint his wagon, when it took fright at the cars, ant jumped into the wagon, tipping it over, ant breaking one of the mans legs. offers to head subscription list with $10O towards raising fund of $l ,OoO for the pros ecution of violators of the license law.
 North Adams school houses are to be tele phoned together, 50 that the vail of the whalet youth in one temple will strike terrorand obe dience to the hearts of those in the others.
 Pittsfeld's fire district will be asked t, appropriate money for new uniforms fo Fl ,usatonic CT s ne Co No. I, and topurchas new supply of hose, at the annual meeting on the 18th inst
 I A Pittafeld prohihisionist who stood a I the polls last Monday, with placards exhort ing the voters to vote no license, was drive of by the police, and he was frequently as saulted with mud, by the rummies of tn place.
 The compliment which Pittsfield love paid his sweetheart the other day, broke u their engagement. She has for some tim been taking lessons ID painting, and had jus finished 8 carefully painted trout scene fo him. On being presented with it, he sai wickedly, ''How natural those bananas arel
 Two young men who resided in Yves Stockbridge, but worked in Housatoni, boarding in the same house where the sma pox was raging, pulled stakes and went hom immediately after the disease broke out, an
 the following Sunday evening attende church in West Stockbridge. The horrife
 minister on seeing them, dismissed the SCI
 vice. One ot the citizens of West Stock bridge visited the selectmen, requesting thel , to forbid the ,llage boys sparkling the Hous,
 tonic girls, and saying he would have T
 compunctions about shooting them down lik
 mad dogs if they entered his door-vard afte
 such sparkling, The boys, however, woul
 rather run the risk of being shot at hon
 than be deprived of their lovefeasts in smal
 poxed Housatonic.
 , The talk of last summer of fast train fro1
 New York to Pittsfield is revived, and ther
 is possibility of it's being put on for the a, commodation of New York people who spen
 the summers in Berkshire, connecting wit
 the train at Pi,ts6eld for North Adams an
 Williamstown The plan is to run the trai
 now leaving Bridgeport to Falls Village To
 cl train, making the train now leavin
 Bridgeport at 50 an express to Falls Village
 so that passengers from New York can It
 main until the 4 o'clock express instead (
 taking the o'clock accommodation at Pitts
 field, arriving as now about 9 in the evening
 It is suggested that the North Adams trai
 be allowed half an ho1r instead of 50 minute as now. Anoth part of the programme is shorten the time to New York from Pittsfiel over the Housatonic, by making the 1 2 passenger train an express, stopping only 8 Lenox, Lee, Stockbrldge, Great Harrington and other larger stations, and making the o'clock milk train an accommodation. ---IP, lpubtScan C0RRESPo oNDENCE A9- CORRESPONDENTS are requested to sen in fheir fiOna an as n ooh1 13s rc