Connecticut western news., 1894-03-01
GREAT HARRINGTON.

Frederick Holmes, who has been em- ployed for IS years at Mrs John Fl. Cof- fng's, expects to move this spring to the farm of Henry A. Tobey in the west part of this town.
 John s. White, of Whites hill, re- ported Saturday morning that the weather at his place was the coldest known in 33 years. :.
 Rev F. R. Marvin, of the Congrega- tional church. gave an instructive talk on "China" before the Thursday morn ing club last week.
 St. Pster's Temperance Society will give supper and entertainment at the Town Hall, March IT.
 The pupils of the grammar school wishing to become familiar with the features of George Washington have purchased picture of that lllustrious gentleman.
 The new and elegant black hearse purchased by E. B. Culver at New Bed ford arrived Friday. A new white hearse for MT Culver is expected in a week or more.
 The body of George A. Mott. who committed suicide at New York city last week Wednesday, was brought to this village and buried Friday in the Mahaiwe cemetery.
 Rev Joseph Hardness, who is preach ing to the ipeople of Austerlitz,N N. r.. lectured at the Methodist church Mon- day evening. Subject: "Chips from my life."
 The news comes from Chester, Mass, that George L. Jones, formerly of this town, is in the last stages of consump- tion.
 A temperance convention of workers in that cause from the South Berkshire towns will be held at the Methodist church this afternoon. Mrs Daniel Warner, who Is nearly 84, and has been quite i'll, is improving un- der the care of Dr Richard Beebe. Charles Meyers, an aged German, who once kept a meat market in this village,
 was taken to the house of Mercy at Pittsfield, Saturday.
 Luther B. Brusie expects to open a | hotel at his house on Main street this | spring.
 Though the weather was very cold the market day sale at the Miller House yard Saturday afternoon was successful Several head of COWS, horses, sheep and swine, with farm produce and various ATtlClo6, W6To SOiu hb HALT pTlCOS Rev R. J. McHugh, Catholic priest, aged 29, died here on Saturday after long illness of consumption. He was a writer of graceful verse and had been called by the late John Boyle O'Reilly | "the poet priest of Berkshire" A vol
 ume of his poems has just been pub lished in Pittsfeld entitled 'The Knight of Achenthal and other Rimes. '" | He was borrl in Ireland, but came with
 his parents to this place to live, where his father. now deceased, was in busi-
 ness. His sister, Annie and Maggie, are still living. The funeral occurred yes terday at St. Peter's church at 10 a. ID. Ward Lewis. of this place, and George | Harding, of Boston, bid of the Lenox- dale glass works Friday. at mortgagees' sale for $9908 This property includes the large iron glass furnace formerly | operated by Page. Harding & O., a portion of which was torn down several weeks ago and sold for old iron, large | mum Der of tenement houses and the site of the big wooden mill burned last year. | Ward Lewis has since sold the sand lot in the town of Washington to O. w. Norcross, of Worcester. M. B. Tobey has been sick eight
 weeks with the grip but was able to wis | 1t his store few minutes last Monday | for the first time since he was taken ill The interior of MT Tobey's store is un- | dergoing complete transformation at | the hands of carpenters and painters.