Connecticut western news., 1888-01-18
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.

Dalton farmers are agitating the ques- tien of creamery.
 The glass factory at Lenox Furnace started last week after undergoing repairs.
 Hon Fl. J. Durham, of Stockbridge, h .s been re-appointed trial justice by Gev Ames.
 A public installation of the officers of the Dalton grange occurred at that place last evening.
 The Pittsield Praying Band is con- ducting revival services ill some of the Berkshire towns.
 John H. Manning, of Pittsfield, has has been elected chairman of the board of county commissioners.
 Landlord c. Fl. Plumb and wife started Monday via New Orleans for 8 pleasure tour to California
 The Johnson manufacturing company of North Adams, mailed nearly 10000 samples of gingham last week.
 The Pittsfeld jail has Ill prisoners, the greatest number of occupants since Sherff Crosby has been in office.
 A new catalogue of the subscribers to the telephone in Western Massachu- sets will be issued in February.
 Mrs Albert Moore, of Housatonic, has two pineapple stalks of her own cultivation, upon which there are two fine specimens of the fruit. se5
 It is estimated that 6 million and . quarter dollars have been expended in Berkshire county during the past year in erecting and improving buildings.
 The nuptials of William Geer, of Becket, aged 75 years, and Lydia Fay Tor, of Chesterfield. aged 55 years. were recently celebrated at Canaan Four Corners, N. Y. ..
 Ben Scippie, alias William Lynch, who escaped from the Pittsfeld jail, was sentenced to IA years imprison- ment, at Yonkers, Thursday. He is 2 native of St Louis.
 The scarlet fever epidemic has be- come 30 serious matter in some of the towns of Berkshire as to demand the attention and prompt action of the boards of health and town officials.
 A stock company, with sufficient capital for the transaction of the busi- ness, will be formed for the purpose of setting in operation the mill of the Hurlbert Paper Go. at Lee, at an early date
 Thomas Fl. Curtis. formerly promi- nent citizen of Great Harrington, died at his residence in Brooklyn on Sunday of last week. He was at one ti,ue president of the Housatonic agricultural society.
 Forty lasters employed at the Lamp son shoe shops, at North Adams, struck Thursday, because the adoption of 8 schedule of prices which had been sub. mitted by the union, were refused by the employers.
 Congressman Rockwell, of Pittsfeld, has been appointed on the committee on foreign affairs. He will speak to- morrow at the presentation of the DOT. trait of Mir Sedgwick. of Stockbridge, who vas at one time speaker of the House.
 Pittsfeld people are joyous in antici- patton of counting Mrs Cleveland among the next summers guests. It is said that there is to be a reunion of the party who enjoyed the hospitality of General Greedy and wife, at the sea shore last summer, of which the Presi- dents wife was 6 member, and that they will be che guests of Miss Anna Dawes. of Pittsfeld.
 A Pitts6eld man, so 1t is stated, has discovered process whereby copper can be made from scrap irou in 12 hours by some secret chemical process. The discovery will probably not be patented d although it is said he has applied for one, for then it becomes to some extent public, and an effort is being made to raise some capital for the prosecution of experiments which, if successful, pro- mise to have millions in them. It would soon break the copper "corner," which for few weeks has sent this metal up to 16 cents pound. Samples have been sent to Waterbury, where the brass founders say they are equa: to the best foreign copper, and . New York chem ist, who has assayed specimens, pro- nounces them first-class. There is 8 doubt, however, in local circles, of the success of the experiment., but some Pittsfeld men, who have interested themselves in the mans plans, are quite sanpuine of succe.ss. -lBerk. Co Eaple