Connecticut western news., 1881-06-08
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.

Adams has l 200 poll tax payers.
 Operations at the Bliss ore bed in Cheshire are being suspended
 Harrison Garfield is the newly president of the Lee saVlngs bank
 The new Adams gingham mill is to be 32O feet long. by 16O feet wide.
 Dalton paper mill girl found $50 in some rage she was cutting last week. Luke Brase is to be tried tomorrow ip Ct. Burlington for illegal liquor selling
 Pittsfield's house of correction has only 56 prisoners, the smallest number it has had in nine years.
 Summer boardars have begun to arrive at Otis MT. Otls thinks he will have over a dozen this season.
 A party of four from North Adams are go. ing all through Europe and Great Britain for summers pleasure trip.
 A party of gypsies were ordered out of Pittsfield by the police last week because they destroyed the fences.
 A Savoy farmer had his arm crushed by the wheel of loaded hay wagon from which he was thrown, passing over it.
 Mrs. Mary Cullen of Pittsfeld drop ped dead on the street last Wednesday morn ing, of heart disease. Aged 80.
 Two men u-ere arrested in Pittsfeld last Saturday, for fast driving, and were fined $l and costs each for drunkenness
 The Third National Bank, of Pittsfeld. be. gan to exist last Wednesday, and still lives It's bills WAl be issused next week.
 Chief of police Hatch has been discharged by the Pitts6eld selectmen, and James McKenna now chiefs the police department.
 The strike at the PittsGeld shoe manufac- tory has been settled and the strikers have resumed work shaving their employers soles.
 Sandisield granted but one liquor license, which shows that there is considerable shrewdness among the majority of the rum- sellers there.
 Selm Gum, Pttsfeld darkey, fired him. self off at full-cock, recently, leaving his fam fly to shift for themselves. It is thought he has gone to Canada.
 Joseph Corsiglea, a native of the sunny land of hand organs, assaulted brother Italian in North Adams last Wednesday, and paid $s. in the district court for the fun.
 Pittsfeld has been awfuHy shocked twice within short space of time. First, when the screen law went into effect, and secondly during the recent severe thunder storm.
 There is to be horse trot on the Ct Bar rington fair ground the 18th inst and the 9 40 class will have $1OO. in prizes 1865. to the first. $25 to second and $lO to third
 Pittsfeld has raised $500. towards making noise and blowing off fingers and noses on the glorious 4th, but wants $4OO more 70 make sure of some runaways, to cheer the 
 Frederick Harrington, Pittsfeld driver, had his shoulder broken by being thrown from his wagon last Sunday. Mrs. Clapp was also thrown out and sustained broken collar bone,
 The Pittsfe!d bands will probably not he | engaged for the big 4th of July celebration, | as they want $6 co man. for their days ser 1 vices, and there is talk of hiring Colts band, 1 of Hartford.
 A2l years old son ot Wm E Bravton of Pittsfeld was found dead in his bed when his father went to call him for breakfast last Sun, day He retired apparently in the best of 1 health. and died of cerebral hemorrhage.
 The body of Alfred w. Walker, tree agent who disappeared from Pittsfeld few weeks ago. was found and identified the oh ,r day at Stratford, Ct, where the unfortu- late man had met his death by drowning. It is not known whether it is case of suicide ,r murder, but it IS probably the former, as 10 yaluables were missing from his person