Connecticut western news., 1881-04-06
.BERKSHlRE COUNTl,

Lee has young mems Catholic association. Sandisfeld is all stuck up with maple sugar. There are 4l6 pupils in he schools il Len. OK
 Pitts6elds post office employees are to be uniformed
 Dalton has slelghiug equal to any, of tho past winter.
 Haskell Dodge of Pittsfeld has bought a $2OOO trotter.
 Pittsfeld talks of building horse railroad to cost $2O.OoO.
 Maplewood institute at Pittsfeld has closed its winter term.
 for stealing coal. Charles A. Burt, Pitts6eld's jeweler, died last week Sunday. W. H. Hinton of Stockbridge has returned | from a trip to London. The superior court at Pittsfeld had & criminal cases last month.
 Lenox has ''sheet and pillow.case parties with music and refreshments. | Building will be more lively than ever 1T | Pitts6eld the coming summer. l Rev. c. N. Fitch of West Cornwall preach cd in Stockbridge last Sunday
 Frank Durant formerly of Gt Harrington has gone into business in Chicago.
 ". H. Sproug is postmaster Osborne's as sistant in the Plttsfeld post office.
 An old folks concert was held in the Meth odist church in Pittstield last Monday.
 Two North Adams houses were burglarizec by drunken men, last Saturday morning.
 Dr. Brodhead has resigned the postmaster ship of Hartsvllle, and gives up his store. Lee locked up 53 prisoners during the pas year-one a week. with two for Christmas
 Patrick Dunn. Lee insane man has beel raken to the insane retreat at Northampton 1,5lO freight cars went through Hoosa tunnel last month, an average of 70 trains lay.
 Eghert Hollister has retired from the treas urerShip of Ct Burlington after 25years' ser vice.
 The new shirt factory in Ct. Burlington il now in operation, running twenty sewing ma chimes.
 LeDox has been sued for $500, the price 0 Invaluable horse" killed in the snow las winter.
 Thomas Madden of North Adams was kill ed by the cars at Eagle Bridge, N. r., las Friday night.
 President Garfield is to attend the con- mencemens exercises at Williams colleg, week after next.
 Miss Jenny Phelps of Monterey has beer arrested for stealing watch and other arti cles from John Pixley,
 The pupils in Tyrinyham public schoo presented their teacher with gold scarf pil at the close of the term.
 John Burton, Gt Barrinaton's post ofict clerk, has resigned, to accepl position iI9 North Adams drug store.
 and published by Clark w. Bryan, Justil Dewy and Milton Mackey
 A sugar party at B Moores. in Tyring ham last Friday night was one of the mos enjoyable events of the season
 Rev J. W. Macomber who rctres from tn, ! Ct Burlington M E church, was pastor o the same church 30 years ago.
 Manager Gardiner of the Tunnel Road hal resigned and will take the general manage 'nent of the Mexican National Railway.
 Rodney Hill, one of Ct. Barrngton's oldes residents, died last Friday at the residence o his son.in-law, druggist F. T. Whiting. ! A French boy was perhaps fatally hurt las Friday by being caught in the machinery o the Arnold print works in North Adams. Rev. W. S Clark of the Leo Methodis church is expected to return for apother year having just finished his second year there,
 Mrs Hunter has presented the chapel a lGl-ndale with street lamp for illuminatin, the entrance to 'lhe straight snd marrow way"
 A Williamstown farmer recently lost thre, ! valuable COWS, on account of the falling of tn, stnble floor, leaving the cows hanging by th' necks
 Stockbridge has voted to procure a whit, memorial tahlet bearing the names of hel sons who fell in the Rebellion, and the wal of l2.
 At an adjourned town meeting held las Saturday. Ct. Burlington voted appropria ions amounting to $l9 75O, for schools, road, md other expenses. ! A Tvrlngham man named Webster recent ! iy cut & cord and ha,f of wood in three hours and half. His historic namesake uldu't beat that with dictionary. | North Adams ts to have q !ssugar eat when the men will wait on table' and make l III the preparations. Woman suffrage is growing in strength ln Massachusetts. l The Pttsfeld Journal gives sensible lee 4 ture to parents who allow their daughters tc -"alk the streets at night. It is said the street are thronsed night with young girls,