The Newtown bee., 1877-11-29
COUNTY, STATE. AND GENERAL
 NEW6

A prohibitory slang law is proposed by Maine paper.
 The mania with ladiss for decorating pottery continues.
 Long slender brooches with earrings ,o match are the fashionable forms of new jewelry.
 A man in Ncwburyport Mass, is fat. tsning 500 frogs on Indian meal, for market.
 It has not been shown that Oakley Hall is guilty of any crime, but he intends to lecture all the same.
 Nllson will receive $1400 night dur. ing her engagement a. St. Petersburg and Moscow.
 Senator Morton's widow will make New Haven her home until her son Oli- yer graduates from Yale.
 One of the latest weaknesses of fash. ionable human nature, is the issuing of cards as the birth of son or daughter.
 Ray. Jonathan <. Woodbridge, a well known Congregational tbeologian and editor. died as Hartford, Conn, Nov. 18th, sgod 75 years.
 From all the accounts received at Washington it appears that this years wheat crop is the largest known in the history of the country. When the owner of . little house in Cleveland went to collect rent he found that the tenant had put it on wheels and moved it away.
 The dearest hyacinth bulbs from Hol' land go to England and the United states tho smallest and cheapest to France Holland does big business in hyacinsh and tulip bulbs.
 Among the new garnitures for hats and bonnets are bunebes of lemons, an inch and hxif lonE sad abou. the same fore csbbages or surnips will adorn ha.ss Invisible ink was ssed by Lowell lover in writing q letter to his sweet. heart but it turned black of it's own ac. cord, 50 that when it fell into the hands of the girls father he was able to read All about the plan for an elopemens.
 New York has q "penay restaurant" " where small cup of coffee, bread and butter, pork and beass, a slice of corn beef, mush, oatmeal, and boiled rice may bs obtained at cost of one cent for each item. It isa newspaper mans enterprise, was started on the 9th inst, and is prov. ing . success.
 A Montreal man went to California twenty years ago, and pever wrote back to his wife. She deemed him dead, and married again. The sccond husband died, and last Spring she took s third. Now, tho first returns and claims her. shs has separated from third, bus intends to return to him if she can get a divorce from the Hrts.
 An Omaha man sues for divorce be. cause, while the color of his own and Ais wifss hair is je, black. her babys hair is bright red.
 Chinese slsight.of.hsnd and sn Ansri. ean faculty for swindling were united in An Foy, an Amsricanized Chinaman in San Francisco. He presented q. sev. sral brokers coun,srs go in gold, and asked for silver roll. After pocksting the roll he would change his mind and ssk for trade dollars. The roll that he returned would bc found to bs piecs of lead pipe with silver piece a. each end | This game was successfully played also on some of his countrymen.
 Manager Miles of Cincinnati says .ha, the press has done much to destroy the influence of the drama and of theatrical representation by destroying the illusions of the stage. "The old, delightful mys- isry," he sxplalns. "iurrounding the lit. sle world cf stage has been dispellsd. and with it has gone half the fascination of iho play house. Every detail ef the spectacular is laid bare and sll illusion aispelled. The actors and actresses, from being creatures of another world he world beyond the world beyond the lootlights-haye become ordinary men md women, every one of whose lives is known to the people in the auditorium, and to them. too, is kpowp the secret of every bit of artificial mechanism and 'very pretty illusion that used 10 make hem wonder or laugh"
 ti0.000 AwARpED.-aI was 70 sick md low-spirited tha. l thought I would tive anything to get well, and if ssy one lad ensured nc the good health produc. sd by using Simmons Liver Regulator, md charged me . thousand dollar, 1 would willingly have paid ii if had | lad it-in fact, ten thousand dollars { would De worth less io me ihan what Ii las dcns fes ne.
 reBo. ?. BARRDrI, Maeon, Ga