Connecticut western news., 1881-07-27
BERKSHIRE COUNTY,

Shefield's real estate valuation is $749 725 | Senator David Davis of Illinois is in Pitts. field.
 Fernside, at Tyringham is we'll filled with boarders.
 Theodore Pomeroy of Pittsfeld. is, it is feared, fatally sick.
 The new Lee creamery buildings are to be put up by W. A. Stone.
 Pittsfeld's policemen will take turns enjoy ing their vacations next month.
 Pittsfelds Germania band gives a grand concert for grand prices tonight.
 VanDeusenville's new iron bridge over the l Housatonic is nearly completed.
 MT. and Mrs. c. W. Norton of Ct. Barring. ] ton are visiting in Pennsylvania. The Lenox Catholics are having three days fair, which commenced yesterday.
 Edwin Rogers of North Adams slipped l, 10 pounds of butter into Boston last Monday,
 North Adams now has not single case of small pox, and the late scare has subsided. Rev. 4. N. Benedict of Southfeld preached in Black Rock, near Bridgeport last Sunday ! The water at North Adams reservoir is only five feet deen: the usual depth is 15 feet.
 A Catholic fair, with it's inevitable goia headed cane, is in full blast at North Adams this week.
 Principal Tupper of the West stockbridge high school has resigned and removed to Stamford.
 A piece of glass which Pittsfeld boy re gently stepped on, is liable to lock his jaws, It is feared.
 Mrs NJ. E. Pettee of North Adams was last week fined $50. and costs for illegally selling liquor.
 A Pittsfeld girl fell off the bridge into the river recently, but her shoes kept her from sinking.
 Rev. E. H. Roys of North Egremont ex. changed with Rev. F Hermance of West Stockbridge last Sunday. Pttsfeld's barbers are now allowed to keep their shops open until 9 o'clock Sunday morn. ings, to shave the people, Peru ships 1000 bushels of charcoal per day to the Richmond Iron Co.'S. furnace, at a cost of 20 cents a bushel. North Adams has valuation of S4,376,- 8S7.. and 2721 polls, including reporters and candidates for the office Of deputy sheriff.
 The creditors of E J. Bosworth of Lee, &C., cept 40 cents on the dollar and it is expected he will establish himself in business again. Hancock had a destructive hail storm last Thursday which blasted the crops about as emphaticaly as the farmers did the storm.
 Two hundred people from Pittsfeld drove out to Lebanon to attend the Shaker meeting last Sunday. The Shaker meetings are free Mrs Laura Adams, only sister of MT. John M. Seelev of Housatonic. dled quite suddenly at Maple Grove, (Adams) last Thursday.
 MT. Ticknor young man from New Marl- boro, will conduct the services in the Episco- pal chapel at Sheffield every Sunday morning hereafter.
 E. G. Baldwin, recently principal of Pitts young men in that place, to be called "Wen- dall Hall."
 The Cottage Hotel in Pittsfeld, which changes hands about as often as schoolboy's jack knife, is about to undergo another change of proprietors.
 Whitman, the local editor of the Journal. has resigned, and his place is to be filled by E. F Mclaughlin. That's a Laughlin matter for Whitman.
 Ct. Harrington had horse trot last satur-
 
 George c. Russel and Edwin Hurlburt. The latter won in PA l-2.
 lO,490 cars went through Hoosac tunnel last month The tunnels and tunnels of North Adams furnish lots of items and things for the newspaper men.
 A crayon portrait of the late postmaster and editor Chickering of Pittsfeld has just been finished by Miss Canning, and is n ow in ho n,asopio 1odoa in th
 Morris Murphy of Dalton got drunk in Pitts field Saturday night, and. walking home oyer the B. & A R. R. he was struck by a train and knocked sober and insensibla
 Another telephone wire, the third, is being put up between Lenox and Pittsfeld. Lenox Is ta!kative place, especially in the summer, when it is full of city agony and "culchaw.''
 Adams has 1925 women over IS years of i age, and several census enumerators were maimed for life, scalded and bitten by dogs in ] getting these accurate and interesting sta- | tistics. North Adamsites can go to Chicago for SIP. | and ths low rate of fare to "furrin" countries | seems to have the effect of increasing the 1 number of embezzlements and emigrations by 1 Adamsite. An Afford man got drunk on ''beautiful | Berkshire" whiskey in Gt Harrington the other day, and in driving home ran over all the teams he met and frightened woman so that she bit her tongue
 A CARD:-We sincerely thank our neighbors and friends for their kindness and so generously extended to us in pur late sad affliction and bereavement. May He that doeth all things well bless and keep them. MR. AND MRS. N. VANDKUsEN.