Connecticut western news., 1882-05-31
RERKSH1RE COUNTY.

Lee is to have dancing class.
 The American House at Pittsfeld is to b1 opened to day.
 William Turner of Ct. Harrington lest two valuable horses last week
 An old hand press dated ls45 is one of tha Fcuriosities of the Pitts6eld Sun office. Rev Hiram Eddy lectured in Hopsatonit last week, on "Push and Clear Grit"
 The Terry Clock Company of Pittsfeld shipped 4,ooo clock. to Chicago last week. A new set of office furniture has beer placed Tn the Ct Harrington Mahaiws bank
 Henry Washburn of Lenox is on bis way from Holland with 100 head of Holsteiz l cattle.
 Rev. J:,E Russell of New Haven preached in the Congregational eharch at Dalton last Sunday.
 The L. L Brown paper company at Adams talk of having 30.foot extension to their brick mill.
 The North Adams vocal society gave their nfth public rehearsal daye 24th, in the Con. greEationai chapel. .. .....
 Local editor Whitman of the PittaneId Eagle is .a cousin Of Walt Whitman, the poetry manufacturer.
 The South .Berkshire cheese. factory com. menced operations last Monday, with Joseph '. .Lawton as superintendent. Y The Agassiz association ofLenox held a picnic at Stockbridge Lake last Saturday, in honor of Prot. Agassiz' birthday.
 Willie Carpenter of Pitts6eld had one fn- ger broken and another badly smashed last week, by brick falling on his hand.
 James Henwood of North Adams fell from a carriage in the Hoosac tunnel last week, and was severely. injured about the head and spine.
 Mrs. Reinbart of New Haven, who had been visiting in Beckett, was found dead on the floor one morning last week, from hem orhage of the lungs .-.-
 Mrs. George F. woodin of sandiaaeld dropped dead last Wednesday while about her 'kousework. She leaves two children, one babe only two months old |.
 It is reported that Mrs Mark Hopkins and her brother-in,law, Moses Hopkins, have each given $5, 900 to the Congregational church fund of Ct. Burlington.
 Samuel Roberts, of North Adams has ap- piled for, and is liable to obtain back pen :. sion of about 5000 from the death of his youngest son in the army IS years ago.
 A band of rowing gypsiss has pitched tents on the Housatonic river near Sheffield, and we would advise the farmers of that locality to tie a knot in their horses tails or the ''critters" may slip out of their hands.
 Woman's rights in Pitts6sld are utterly ignored. Some of the business men of that place spit all over the stove, and on the car. pet at home. and then go to the sumptuous apartments of the Business Mems Association and sxpectorate in gilt-edged cuspador. |
 The only excitement of any moment in | Pitts6eld last Saturday was game of ball between theWilliams College sophomores of and the Wendall Han club of l Both clubs mentioned are scien. tiac ball twisters, and the honors wore about l divided In the first two innings, each scoring | } ''goose-egg." e....
 A touching instance of casting in all ones 'ossesslons-ss did the widow, with her historical mite-occurred while the floral decorations were being arranged in St lanes Church, on Tuesday evening last, in preparations for the funeral of the rector, Rev. MT. Anderson, to occur the next day colored lad, of generally wayward propen. ities, whom MT. Anderson had looked after omewhat, and drawn into Sunday School, ppeared at the church with punches of wild iolets, bloodroot aud anemones, and tender. them for use in the completion of the ecorstions for the occasion, afterwards with rawing to the rear of the church, where he oked on in decofous silence while others ranged the flowers for the solemn occasion. thers brought of their wealth of flowers Tined into beautiful crosses, wreaths and stoons, but he brought all that he had, the z reath of modest and simple wild flowers of IF own blooming hillsidss.-Rerksbirs ( ourSer.
 Colonel Ingsrsoil has refused any compen. u tion, even for travelling and hotel expenses, a deliver thess ssorationtat the Academy of h nsic in New York on Decoration Day. i, hen efsrse ihiassFsa eompsnsation he said d