Connecticut western news., 1882-08-02
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.

About TOO people from Lee, attended Bar. num's show at Pit.sfeld.
 Work has been commenced upon the turn out for the use of the Berkshire wooleu company above this station.
 Benjamin Benham, an engineer on the Housatonic road, was presented with hand- some silver service, last Saturday, by his Pitts field friends.
 A Sandis6eld man, while driving near the station at Van Deusenville the other day, and his team frightened by the cars so that he ran away and spilled the driver Dewitt, the eloper, has not been seen or heard from since he was bailed out of jail, and it is reported that his wife is preparing to join him somewhere in New York state A valuable horse belonging to J. c. Tor rey of South Williamstown, was seriously injured, recently, by running long silver into his shoulder, that pfotrudad from board fence.
 | Barnum's circus was sued at North Adams last Thursday, for $25,00O by Sprinfeld parties No attachment was made The suit was brought on account of injuries re. ceived by boy from falling tent pole dur ing the performance in Springfield.
 The old hill country of Berkshire will have a man to present for the succession to Hon. Robert R. Bishop as president of the Mass. Senate Hon. Francis W. Rockwell of Pitts.
 field is the gentleman named, and man ol positive character, sincerity and great person. al popularity.
 Edmond W. Milford, a law student in the Great Harrington office of Billings Palmer died last Saturday, after three weeks illness.
 He was a member of North Egermont Free
 Baptist church, was educated at Harvard
 and had taught school in Great Harrington
 and Hartford.
 Prof. A. L. Perry, who has supplied ths
 pulpit of the Congregational church for tht
 past seven years, closes his connection witt
 the parish next Sunday, and will go to Ne
 braska to lecture on "Free Trade" An effor
 will be made to secure Rev. John Dennisor
 to fill the vacancy.
 The Monday morning ? o'clock passenge
 train for Bridgeport, was delayed at Sheffield an hour, in consequence of 8 wrecked freigh
 car on the track at that place. The wrecl
 was occasioned by misplaced track in makin, Z, flying switch. A wrecking car was dis
 patched and righted the accident. Seneca s. Gordon has sold the once cele f brated Berkshire soda springs to Alber Winters for g 900. The original hotel bull l by Jonathan Baldwin and sons in '53 wa r destroyed by fire July 4, '76, but four year
 ago MT. Gordon purchased the property an erected small house which he has occupie n as adwelling.
 !. Rufus G. Walden, of North Adams, ez 8 selectman, deputy sheriff, tax collector, chic , engineer of the fire department, at presen d treasurer of the Hoosac Valley Agriculture n Society, stood up Monday morning, July 24 is at the bar of the Superior court, and receive
 a sentence to four years imprisonment in tn |. State Prison. h A curiosity which Barnum should possess e is owned by Mr. Pease, farmer of Stepher n town, Mass., in the form of chicken wit ,e four perfect legs. The two surplus legs prt r. jeet from the back of the chicken, just behin IS the shoulder; and when the two nescessal it limbs are used, the extra ones seem to trea r. the air.