Connecticut western news., 1882-07-19
BERKsHIRE COUNTY.

934, against $4,376O0O last year.
 A Housatonic minister makes flying visits to his parishioners upon bicycle.
 sheff1elds valuation amounts to $915,992, and the tax rate is $12 on $1 ,oOO.
 The Pittsfed National Bank has declared semi-annual dividend of per cent
 An engine on the Boston & Albany road was smashed up at Hinsdale, the other day.
 The National Mahaiwe Bank of Ct. Bar rington has declared a per cent. semi annual dividend.
 There was no indictment found in the Gleason Harrison scandal case at Pittsfeld, last week.
 Barnum will surely give Pittsfeld another cal. this year, as the show bills are up, and dated for the 18th.
 Lieutenant. Governor Byron Weston and son sailed for Europe last Saturday, and will be absent month or two.
 Isaac c. Ives formerly judge of the police court in Lee, and prominent citizen, died last week Sunday, aged 79.
 The Annual Reunion of the Massachusetts 10th Regiment will probably be held in Lee, about the last week of August
 Probably as large field of rye as there is in Berkshire county, is that of Robert L. Taft at Clayton, containing 54 acres.
 A North Adams woman Grace Gutter by name, was sent to the House of Correction last week, for six months as common drunkard.
 MT. Jackley, of Berkshire, has about 125 homing pigeons imported or bred from i'm. ported birds, with which he has much amuse- ment and some profit from sales,
 Mrs. E. A. Newton, of Pittsfeld, died at her residence in that town on Saturday even- ing, aged S6 years. Mrs. Newton leaves an unmarried daughter and an estate of $lOO, 0OO.
 The Quarterly Meeting of the Medical Association of Berkshire, Renselair and Washington counties will be held in North Adams, to-day. Several interesting papers will be read.
 The friends of Rev. $ Mrs O. P. Clifford of Boston, formerly of Pittsfeld, presented them with many useful as well as ornamental gifts, on the occasion of their wooden wed- ding which occurred last week, B. T. Blodgett. G. T. Blodgett and G. c. Walter have purchased the Bradbury & sickley paper mill, at Mill River, of Messrs. H. c. Hurlburt 6 Co.,, of New York, and will probably start it within a month.
 The engagement of Amos Taylor of New York, formerly telegraph operator in Spring | field and Miss Mary Robinson, for some time operator in the Pittsfeld telegraph office, is announced, and the marriage is to take place this fall
 Hiram Heaton, father of Mrs. C. H. Plumb of Stockbridge, for some years landlord of the United States hotel at Pittsfeld, and afterward of the Stockbridge hotel, died the other day at Fort Edward, N. Y, sged about 80.
 Lillie, l5.years-old daughter Of John W. Martin, now of Lanesboro and formerly of Richmond, after a disreputable life of few months in Pittsfeld and Stockbridge has dis appeared, and report from Albany says she died there few days since.
 A little crookedness between the accounts of Shepardson, collector, and Mclaughlin, treasurer of the town of Lanesboro, has caused more or less comment, but it is gener ally thought that the trouble is more in im- perfect bookkeeping than in intention to defraud.
 J. F.. Hemingway of Pittsfeld, who com. plained of the Boston d5 Albany railroad on account of discrimination in the carrying of freights has had hearing. It is reported that MT. Hemingway has sold out his coal and feed business, with the expectation of leaving the State.
 Recently an Italian chair mender put in an appearance at Becket and applied for work from house to house. Just before dark he went into house in the upper part of the village, and while there got into. a dispute with the inmates. He threatened to shoot the lady of the house and acted in such a manner as to cause his arrest.
 Last Thursday at North Adams, blind horse belonging to the Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine agency. became frightened at the fall of machine, and started to run. At the corner of Main and Eagle streets it ran it's head against an iron lamp post, breaking the post off at the ground. The animal fell over and died in few minutes
 Elizur Smith has issued a handsome cata- gathering together at his 'tHighawn" farm in Lee. The catalogue details minutely the pedigrees and points of the different animals, manner of breeding, style of training, &c, making it valuable pamphlet to all any way interested in horses and horsefesh.
 A Pitts6eld young woman who has joined the church and commenced learning the dress makers trade, left some of her marked cloth ing in Dalton school house, very recently. to the great consternation of the honest yeo- maury of the neighborhood. A Dalton young man has also been careless enough to leave cuff, which was marked, in the same local ity.
 Abraham Burbank of Pittsfeld, has notif- ed the telephone company to take the wires off from his Main street buildings, but the company will take no notice of his letter on the ground that tacit permission allows them place for their wires permanently, and that some of those who rent rooms in MT. Bur- banks buildings have paid for their tele- phones and have right to use them. The grand jury found a new indictment against the Smith paper company on account