Connecticut western news., 1881-08-10
.BERKSH1RE COUNTY.
Lenox has registered 12O dogs.

BERKsH1RE COUNTY.
 Lenox has registered 12O dogs.
 Wm o'Malley of Pittsfsld is in jail trying to got sober.
 A Pittsfield firm is about to send two paper engines to Japan.
 Lee goes on an excursion to Seaside Park, Bridgeport, to-day.
 The Lee Cong. Sunday school had picnic at Laurel lake yesterday.
 Edward Learned and family of Pittsfeld are psying hack fees in Saratoga.
 Real estate is booming in Leno1 this sea. son, and building unusually brisk.
 The Lee yacht club is to start on a cruise to Bridgeport and other places, on the 18th.
 The Berkshire historical society held its quarterly meeting in Pitts6eld last Thurs day.
 E.. T. Badger of Pittsfield fell dead of heart disease near the depot last Thursday after noon. The Methodists of Lenox Furnace are to build church. They have hired hall for several years past.
 Editor Nichols of the Pittsheld Sun has been trolling in luxury" iu New London, Ct., during his vacation.
 Mary Hines of North Adams 10 years old, \ tried to kindle fire with kerosene last Sat urday. Funeral yesterday. The new Congregational church at West Stockbridge is to be built for $4,70O by w. H. Hatch of Ct. Harrington. T. B. Strong of Gt Burlington, father of G. P. Strong in this place, has returned from three months visit to Iowa.
 The Baptists of North Adams are to have an excursion to New Haven about the 20th, when the water is at high.tide. l Major Lord, Gross famous trotter. of Lee, | is disabled by lameness, and several entries have had to be cancelled in consequence. | Fanny O'Harra of Ct Burlington broke her leg, falling down stairs while under the influence of fstroag-impnlses last Saturday.
 The Advent camp meeting in Otis begins on the 29th inst, and lasts two weeks, pro- viding the end doesn't come before that time. l The driver of an ice wagon in Pittsield kept cool until his ice melted and turned l iLto steam, last Saturday, and then he got sun.struck.
 Two cows belonging to Loomis Joyner at North Egremont, and horse near YanDeu- senville, dropped dead iro.:. ir1. tho excessive heat last Friday.
 John Spencer has been baggage master at Pittsield depot for the last 30 years and he has become totally deaf-to the rawlings of the owners of smashed trunks.
 Two Monteravians went fishing at Otis res. erVoir the other day, and secured eight pick. eral weighing thirty pounds-or vice versa 1: figures wont lie about Otis fish.
 J. R. Spaulding has returned to Pittsfeld from the Northampton insane asylum, where | he has been under treatment, for a peculiar Berkshire mania-the hankering for deputy sherifship
 At picnic given by a Pittsfeld base ball club the other evening, the clocksters and shoesters came off victorious being several black eyes and bloody noses ahead of their aunty -gonists.
 | Carl A. Goodnow of North Adams, train master of the Troy & Greenfield road, has been appointed superintendent of the New Haven & Northampton road, to assume his duties Sept. l.
 | Ex-editor Fowler will stay month longer | in Pittstield taking in money due him. We know just how to sympathize with him But these little trials don't often occur to a newspaper man.
 Strickland and Bravert, two Otis burglars. were arrested and locked up in Lee last Tues. day, but they escaped in the afternoon. and were recaptured in the evening by sheriffs Cutting and Roraback.
 Charles Worden and Charles Harris had prize fight in the Union House, Ct. Barring ton last Saturday, which was about 'tnip and tuck At the close the participants and spectators all tuck nip.
 In the town of Monterey there is said to be a widower who has popped the question to all the marriageable women in that region. from IA to 75 years of age, and still he's widower forlorn, with lots of cash.
 Frank L. Mills, formerly of the Pittsfield Sun, is local editor of the Journal under the new administration. Frank is one of the kind of Mills that grind out locals sharp and terse, without agonizing. Shake, Frank. Who are the successful men?-Courier Is it conundrum? we'll, les see because because-oh, no. They who advertise. of course .-Or is the answer something about holding four aces against full hand" or a flush"
 The wages of the workmen in F. s. Cross quarry in Lee have been voluntarily advanced 5 cents per day by the proprietor. This un- heard.ot proceeding will probably have the ef- feet of increasing the number of strikes among Mir. Cross stone cutters.
 They have novel way of playing billiards up in Pittsfeld, which consists of throwing cobblestones through the windows of the billiard room, from the outside, then running away from the police. Generally the fellow that gets caught pays the bills. It's quite an exciting game.
 A baby carriage wheeled by nurse frightened horse in Pittsheld last Saturday and the animal ran away and killed the wagon to which he was attached. If the nurse can't find a better way than that to amuse the babies in her charge, she should put on an other breast-pin.
 Last Sunday morning as Henry Fellows and Peter Adams of Housatonic were foolinp with revolver that wasn't loaded, the weap. on accidently discharged and sent ball into young Fellows headjust over the left eye, infiicting a wound from which he died the