Connecticut western news., 1881-07-20
BERKSHIRE COUNTl,

BERKSHIRE COUNTl.
 Housatonic celebrated circus day last Thursday.
 The Pittsfeld woman's land league cleared $1O0 by recent festival.
 The Mount Everett House in South Egre- mont, has about 100 boarders.
 Editor Golden of the Cleaner is rusticating in South Norwalk and Long Island. A child in South Lee was badly scalded by falling into a pail of hot water last Saturday An Adams praying band is doing it's share, in nightly meetings, toward recovering the President.
 The corner stone, and tax, for the new Episcopal church at Adams, were laid last Thursday afternoon.
 Chester Dawes and bride, were given re- ception last Thursday in Pittsfeld, by Hon. Senator Dawes and wife.
 Adolphus Landfair of North Adams assault ed Myron Norcross recently, and paid the court SIS for the satisfaction. Presiding cider Sanford preached in the Housatonic Methodist church last Sunday. This church is now clear of debt. A celluloid mill is about to go up in | Adams. Those things are liable to Ego up" at any time alice samee like powder mill.
 James Foote, prominent citizen of Pitts | field is said to be insane. Is the prospect of an editorial son. law directly or indirectly | the cause? | Ct. Harrington has ,2l5 cows, 878 sheep, | 6l9 horses, 887 houses and 26, 280 acres of land on it's assessment list. It also has few dogs or two.
 Pittsfeld boys are getting altogether too neat, and the police are trying to convince them that it is wrong to bathe before the public on Sunday.
 Augustus R. Walker of Pittsfeld, a drunk ard by profession, has just been sentenced to two years in the Bridgewater work house, for being found almost sober.
 Dr. J. G. Holland is talked of as the poet or orator at the reunion of the graduates of the old Berkshire Medical college which is expected to come off next fall.
 A North Adams boy named Weatherby learned the art ot subtracting Saturday, by sticking his finger in the machinery of a mill and coming away without it.
 The Pittsfeld shirt factory is to be enlarg- ed, as it's business has increased since Fowler and Mills, of the Journal and Sun respect ively, took to clawing the shirts off each other.
 Carlton Holman and bride have just re- turned to Ct. Burlington from "pleasant wedding trip" Pleasant wedding trips are all the rage, especially among the newly mar ried.
 The Pttsfield Journal has been sweeping the heavens" with big telescope, and has come to the conclusion that this talk about there being a "man in the moon' is all non- sense.
 The Hurlburt Paper company's boarding house in Lee caught fire last Friday night in the room of two girls and about $75. worth of damage was done. There is always danger
 of ''sparks" in girls boarding house.
 A temperance lecturer who talked a Hous- atomic audience to sleep recently, received 25 ) cents when the hat was passed around, which
 shows the depth of total depravity to which } it is possible for an audience to sink in Hous- ) atomic.
 Highland Walker of WAiamstown was killed instantly by the cars at North Adams as he was lying in drunken stupor on the
 track. Almost invariably 8 man who feels like enjoying ''drunken stupor" puts for the railroad track.
 Mrs. Johanna Sullivan of Sandisfield was tarred and feathered last week Monday night by masked mob of home talent who broke into her house, abused her 16 years old sor 5 and committed other outrages. Several par ties have been arrested.
 The young ladies of Ashley Falls vii give an ice cream festival in LeRoy's Hal , Wednesday eve. , July 27, for benefit of Sun day School library. Doors open at 7.45 Committee of arrangements: Misses Hattie ' Ferris, Ida l. White Jane E. Moore, Fannie , c. Jones. Good music provided after tn, :, festival for those wishing to dance. When Albert Jones Richards, now in jai 7 awaiting trial for larceny, gave reporter 3 last January. the story of his career, his wile life, his conversion at the Canaan camp meet ing, his hosptable entertainment by and fina ] marriage to the widow ot Rev, Mir. Hutchin son, of Richmond his fall from grace anG } flight with neighbours sleigh and other property to Connecticut and his week. spree f there before his arrest he slngularly forgot te mention the fact that when he married the
 Berkshire lady, he had already wife anG , child. Officer Kellogg suspected something of the sort however, and soon after Jones l was jailed, began to trace the chap through , his many wanderings- He lately found wife number one living with her eight-year old , daughter at East Douglas. She arrived in , this town on Monday, to identify her long missing husband and to testify before the grand jury against him on charge of poly. gamy. Mrs. Jones was taken to the jail and placed in the sheriff's office, while Richards
 was brought into the guard room. She looked, and 'thought \ was him" {" but was not certain. He was then returned to his cell and she visited him there. The recogni- ton was perfect. 70, Albert!" she cried out,
 how could you do o?" 'Great heavens, Carrie" was the reply, ''I thought you was dead" Then they mutually dissolved in
 
 til some time after his advent into this county when he took the family name of his second ] wife's parents, married Carrie A. Smith at Pawtucket,, E l., April 3, 1872. Rev. c. Blodgett officiating. He abandoned her after living with her two months She had let ter from him week or two after his deser- ton, but since that time she has never seen him or heard from him. Her child daugh- ter, was born Tn January 1873, and she was seen on Monday by her father for the first time. Fhe prisoner Albert Franklin Jones before the probate court made him Albert Jones Richards was bern in Monson, in ls44 and is son of Jason W. Jones who died in l 1868. His mother, still widow, lives in Wilbraham. He has five brothers, one of them in state prison under six years sen- l tence, another known as 'hard ease," while the others are reputable, wellto-do men. | A letter says of Albert, 'he was always bad l he has had the delirium tremens, been in an insane asylum, stole his mother-in.aw's gold watch and some money; and has been on in innate terms with a married woman who twice helped him escape punishment for crimes" After the interview at the jail wife No. went to Richmond to spend the week. or until the trial comes of, with wife No. 2. I-Pittstteld Eagle.
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