Connecticut western news., 1881-03-09

A Williamsvllle hunter brought in four fox skins within week.
 Shelter brothers of Lee have shot 13 foxes thus far this season.
 Lenox and Pittsfeld had rifle shoot at the | latter place last Saturday.
 The St. James church society, by recent supper, cleared $63.85.
 Ct. Harrington is afflicted impartially and indiscriminately with humps, s9O passenger tickets were sold at the Ct. Harrington station last month. The Courier gives fowery description of Dewitt Smiths greenhouse at Lee. Pittsfeld boys play marbles on the side \ walk, with the mercury below zero City boarders have been the guests of the
 Stockbridge hotel for the past month. Dalton had six cases of disturbing the peace in th @ superior court last week.
 Pittsfeld entertained 26 tramps, and made
 l6 arrests during the month of February.
 Landlord Vinegar of the Ct. Barrlngton Miller House is in Kentucky buying horses,
 fFishing on lake Buel will be permitted dur ing the month of July, August and Septem-
 Der.
 The Ct Harrington Methodists had an oys-
 ter supper at the parsonage last Wednesday
 night
 ! Walter Lacheur, the popular clerk of the
 Berkshire House. Gt Burlington, died last
 week.
 The Zimmerman brothers of Troy, N. Y. shipped carload of tobacco from Sheffield \ last week. Rev. Dr. J. Halsted Carroll of Newburgh
 N. Y. is to lecture again in Lee, sometime in
 the near future.
 ; James Palmer, of Housatonlc, aged 69, has during the fall and winter, husked over 2,36s , bushels of corn.
 North Adams had high toned cock fight" in the upstairs parlor of North Ad- ans hotel recently.
 ,I A Washington family who were recently } burned out of house and home, are being pro , vlded for by subscription. A Ct. Burlington party offshermen caugh
 on Mt. Kisco lake the other day. 75 pickere !, averaging two pounds each. J kThe African M. E. Zion's church society a f Ct Harrington purpose to build house 0 3 worship on lot they now own- President Garfield is expected to be pres
 ent at the inauguration Of Prof. Garter to tn
 presidency of Williams College. \ A large owl was caught between Ct. Bal f rington and Sheffield the other day, as it wa
 sitting demurely by the roadside. d Thirteen freight engines were blocked b all night by snow drifts between Richmon n and State Line, last Tuesday night a Two unknown Frenchmen were struck b e the cars and knocked insensible, but nc B. dangerously hurt near Blackinton, last Wec le nesday night.
 Rev J. W. Macombers horse ran away Ct. Harrington last Wednesday, throwing tt dominic out of the sleigh and smashing thint
 up generally.
 K An insane man from New Britain, Ct, a K piled to the police in Pittsfeld the oth al night, for protection, saying he was to in hung that night.
 'n Frank Richardson of North Adams we V to bed Friday night with a sore throat, and ''' the morning he was found nearly strangl' 'o to death, the throat having swollen so tn 's his face was bloated and distorted. The following officers were elected for u .. town of New Marlboro last Monday. F # Town clerk, s. Pease; treasurer, D. Sta zo nard seleotmen G. Gaylord, A. J. Freema 1o I. N. Futile; assessors, M. Sheldon, \ .. Granger, c. E. Barnes; school committee W. Wright, W. c. Underwood, E. D. Ha mon town agent A. Smith. to The closing exercises for the winter ter in of the south Berkshire Institute are arrang ve as follows Exhibition of the third for in Wednesday evening, March 9th fourth forl vo Friday evening, March Ii. Dramatic exhi 10, tion of the fifth and sixth forms on Frid ts evening, March 18th. Examinations Thu o. day and Friday, March 17th and 18th T
 school during the winter has been the large
 and most prosperous for many years Courier.
 40 Editor Henry Chickering of Pittsfeld di ,,+ at Pittsfeld last Saturday afternoon. He h been postmaster at Pittsfeld since 1861, a nt principal proprietor and editor of the Eae .e since 1854. He was one of the most pron ho nent Masons in the country having taken or degrees; had been Massachusetts represent 70 tive of the grand lodge of New York, gra master of the grand council of Royal and VI. lect Masters of Massachusetts and Rhode ,o land, and was, at the time of his death, e1 :. inent commander of the Berkshire Comman =, cry. He was an active religious, temperan and political worker, and stalwart repub] G z; can, widely known throughout the state H ,u age was 6l years.
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