Connecticut western news., 1882-06-21
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
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Maplewood Institute closes this week.
 Ct. Darlington is to have new steam fire engine.
 Hillsdale is to have a new iron bridge, to cost s3O0o.
 The Atheaaeum library of Pitts6eld con- tains il ,572 volumes.
 The Plainville camp meeting begins Aug. 2l and continues through the week.
 The Gt Burlington Savings Bank has de cared dividend to be paid July 9th.
 Mrs. Mark Hopkins has bought, for S6,oOo John L Dodges place in Gt Harrington.
 There is to be reception at the parlors of the South Berkshire Institute, next Friday night.
 Pittsfeld is to be sued for $ll 1000 for using patented contrivance on their steam fire en- zine.
 E. W. B. Canning of Stockbridge attended the graduation exercises of the West Point | cadets.
 The Lenox brass band after only fourteen rehearsals made its first public appearance last week.
 It is estimated that it will take several | thousand dollars to repair the broken pier of the Bel Air dam, in Pitts6eld. The steamer flake Buel" has been launched for the season and was never in ! better trim for picnicers than now. | R,,rolare broLa into Murpbr opd Horpor,s shoe store in Pitts6eld getting away with about slO and probable supply of boots and shoes.
 The Berkshire Overall company have bought more machines to increase their
 facilities for making, first class ''breecha. loons"
 The South Berkshire Conference of Con- gregational churches, met at the Otis church, last week Tuesday, a large delegation being
 present.
 The herd of Hereford cattle which passed
 west over the Boston $ Albany road were
 shipped from Hereford county, England,
 crossing the ocean in l3 days, and but one
 of them had the least scratch or abrasion. Mir. George Spencer, the father of the little girl who was bitten by MT. Brett's dog year
 or more ago, went to MT. Brett's house last week and offered to buy the dog, and being refused, he went out in the yard where tho
 dog was tied and fired three shots at him wounding the dog badly, and would hav , killed him only for MT. Brett's standing be :" tween him and the dog. Courier. , North Adams gossips have an elopemen : to talk about now. It seems that one of tn
 beautiful damsels of that place inveigled D man into buying her wedding outfit by " promise of marriage but before the ceremon 1t was performed she had skipped" wit s- another fellow. Getting sick of this bar h gain she decided to take the first man an 'r they are now enjoying themselves in part
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 a. B. H. Beer has brought suits in favor ( of Mrs. Marion s. Davis, under the civil dan a age act, against A. E. Richmond, Joh zt Kelley, Michael Garry and Peter Snyder ft 1e $2o,0Oo. Action against John Doyle WI E. begun some time ago, and all will be entere ne at the superior court the 27th for trial
 OcLODer. JdnudFJ Z4 MrS OdVlS 5 uuSUdI he bought liquor, so he ssys, at all these place np got drunk, wandered on the railroad tra' a near the little tunnel, and had both legs c no of. He is now crippled for life, and MI ,rt Davis has five children to support. T ck cases are the first ever brought under th rm statute in Berkshire. pm Dr. E. Wright of Lee was tried by t sw local board of health at the police court y
 terday for failing to report to them in May W case of diphtherla which he attended. T a trial was we'll attended, the case having e by siderable local interest. The doctor was to fended by three lawyers, motions to qus he were overruled, the defense put in no te ,a- mony, and, after he had declined propc as tion that he pay the costs and promise mt report future cases the doctor was fined nd and costs. He appealed to the crimi ,ar term of the superior court in July.
 Wright has been in practice 20 years tho more, and is widely known in West -b Massachusetts. His friends claim that c.- action against him is petty persecution
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