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The Newtown bee., 1878-11-28
The, le cture.

Last Tnuro,ray night, Jeeh 1Nl,ita and cupied the boards at Sanford's Hall. The audience was large one, much larger than it was at first thought possible would be present considering the dark ness of the night. The opening exercises of the evening was an original poem by Geo. Pratt, who portrayed in rhyme the life and doings of Josh. The poem was . good one, but most of it's fine points were lost because Of the low tone of the speaker, and the noise made by per sons entering the hall. The lecture of Josh was on many points, and jumbled up so that the proper name for it would be literary hash. It carried out to the letter what it was designed to be, yet some of the audience did not relish the lecture, again some were pleased. Josh was dressed in an elaborate style, huge collar threatened to cut off his nose and would have done so probably had not the large spectacles that he wore guarded it from such an attack. He wore white cot ton gloves and made use of kerchief probably a hotel table cloth, and we would say that if any hotel has lost such an article they need enquire no further Josh is honest.
 The next lecture takes place Dec. 5th, in the Methodist Church, Sandy Hook. Subject Northern Italy, and will be illustrated by stereoptican by Rev. MT. McNellie of Bridgeport. See adver- tisement.
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LnYERTIgIka nKAn HRATl.


 Romo time ago q ffm representing themselves to bo located Ht 3g0 Fulton street. Brooklyn M Y,, under the name Of Ash < Robbins, sent us two Gdys, one for tho cure ot lits and the other for tho cure ui consumption, The llrst made by Q Dr, Goulard and the soeond hy br, Kisner. We publlihal the asy's, md seat for our WomiaeJ pay but tho firm hns not responded, Since sending the bill we learn thut the thing Is fraud and that Hunter < Co. exposed Ash Robbins as dcad beats some time ngo We learn that these same fellows changed their name and dodge around 80 tha they cannot be found. The renders O th" Bag Nill remember that Ash X Rob bing nrr Icud beats and we take thi method "' exposing them. We will als' |mId ahulhcg dead beating firm, Whiel sailed somo lime ago, uiler the nam
 of ], II. Busworh X G.. IT Washing
 ton St., Boston, Mas. Parties whom "
 douot know will when sending ndys sen
 cash at the same time.
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Fd2 Willie AluuIon Arthur oabUma Lena punat hIi Charles and lamss poan Howard Cole, sBi Eddie Kyle, s5F Noalid Mckenzie, q Jenuie Low, ID
 A, c, LOGAN, Principal,
 Mir and AIrs Edward stone were sur- prlsed Inst Monday evening, by about seventy friends and relatives wha came prepared to remind them of their silver wedding, and they did 20 in royal style, Mr. Stone was presented by Alr, |, Ho- maine Bamum, with thirly'seyon silver dollars. Roe made tho speech and did It in his usual gifted Way Other pres ents of value, lamps, cnstors, etc., were left as memontoes of kind regards. A supper that satisfied and pleased every one presentwas served, Dancing wns indulged in by the lovers of the pastlme. Mir. Fred' brick Cole. of Bedding, was the maslelan.
 Miss Nellie E. Booth returned home Tuesday, to Monroe. after pleasant visit of one week nt the residence of Mir Wm. II. Judson.
 Mrs. Charles Rockwell, Sr,, and Miss Sarah Hull, visit Mir. Henry Robinson o Monroe, this week, and left town Tues day.
 Mir. D, T, Hubboll Is putting the water into his ston. Gilbert Bros have spokor to David for q water supply, and DayiC rcsponded-Amen.
 The Mountain Pond mystery has beer solved. 1t was an old diseased hors, that the owner knocked in the head anC | killed.
 Who struck John Ronk ? A carefu search after facts revealed that John In terviewed the scales in front of C, II IIawley's store, and got knocked down his mouth cut and his store teeth dun aged John and Mr. D. T. Hubbell com pared notes and found that they both ha, been there, Those scales ought to b moved.
 | MT. Geo. E. Ives promptly prc5ehlc the cake that he drew, to the G. r. Hos Co.,, and it was sold by them. The oak ycildcd over eleven dollars. Thanks t Mir, DcKlyn,
 NJ. c. Schoonmaller is painting tn house of Michael Lee.
 Knights of Pythia5 will bear in min that next Monday night will be an i'm portant meeting of the order.
 The spelling match progresses finely Lest Friday it commenced at thre o'clock and the end is not yet.
 Mr. Harrison Ferry and 3lr. Henry T manuis have taken the water, Mir [. J Yeomal5 did the plumbing. B.
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Arrivals ana Departures.

Miss Fife Glover of Wellesley College, is spending her Thanksgiving vacation at Chelsea, Mass.
 Mir Henry T. Peck of Cincinnati, ar rived last week, and is the guest of his father, E. NJ. Peck. Esq. of Cold Spring.
 Mir Eli Clarke IS home for the holidays.
 Mir Edward Taylor and lady drove to Wallingford last Tuesday, on visit. and returned Saturday night.
 Miss Belle Lake returned from New York last week.
 Miss Carrie Northrop, who has been spending few weeks in New York, re- turned last week.
 Dr. R. N. Betts, Jr., and family, visits Woodbury, this wesk.
 Mr. Ed. Wilson and wife returned from Easton on Saturday.
 Mir. P. Gaffney arrived home last Wed. nesday evening. from Johnstown, Pa, where he has been for a week putting uI belts for the New York Betting and Pack ing Company.
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Local Jotings.

We wish all of our readers and friends a pleasant and joyous Thanksgiying.
 The key that will unlock many a poor mans heart to-day-tur-key.
 The Academy was opened last Monday for the winter term.
 TURKEY! A fine enc on hand for Thanksgiving, we will explain how we came by itnext week.
 Mr. 2. s. Peck. shipped to New Haven. one hundred barrels of apples last week.
 The annual donation to the Rev. J P. Hoyt will take place hext wedncs- day evening.
 A new lamp has been placed upon the depot building of the HoGsatoniS railroad at HawleyviIle.
 Mr. Henry S. HasIey. has fitted ur small store in the shepaug depot where ha intends to keep for sale grcearles. etc. Hon Wm- H. Barnum. we learn. is out West purchasing one hundred cars for the HoRsatonie read An exchange sars. Strong drink and exsrse language go together. Slang iz the past tense Of sling
 To Greece we give sur shining blades. 7 is ths nosto Of shs butchers nor-s-dzs- 3.
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" But yea he vas ashleep in ped,
 So quiet as n mouse.
TOM. AND HIS RU2BERS.

Tuesday evening, 12lh inst, was very dark one. and added to the darkness Was the pouring rain, and bowling winds. Tom, tyou know the Tom that we mean ? was out that night and wore pair of GoW rubbers, and when returning homo, and near to it, Tom thought he felt his rubber slip of, hut as he was walking fast he got 4ome distance beyond the point where he thought he lost that new rubber. So he turned back and as near as he could .;unss it. made fer the spot to hunt up tho lost YuJAer, stopped down and commenced operation. Iie felt here little and there alittlc, He made long and short reaches, made half circles with his right hand, and changed off to his left, and reaching far away behind him fell back wards into the mud. This misbap added more trouble, Tom let go of his umbrella, and the wind carried it away. He raised himself, got on to all fours and then tried again, moving slowly toward home on the scent for that rubber and umbrella. Having gone far enough to be sure that he did not get so far when he missed the shoe he stopped long enough to get rest ed, and again started the raking but it was no use. He found the umbrella bat instead of the shoe he found mud enough on his back and hands to supply farm. Tom gave up the hunt. sadly renesting that the shoes had cost him seventy-five cents and he did not like the notion oi losing it. But he had spent time enough turning the mud of the turnpike into mud pies, 50 he went home entered the house, and on looking down to his feet was amazed to see that he had been fooline away an hour hunting for that which had not been lost, for there was the missing shoe on his foot. Tom says that the road in the vicinity of Judge c. c. Warmers house looked as if all the hens in New. town had nI0t ir, oe,a~nntinn and scratcbe( 1 for a wager.
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DOES FARMING PhY'

There is not many farmers In this town who devote the whole capacity of their powers in making and marketing butter, as there is milk.
 Eli c. Barnum, Esq, of Lakeside Farm Taunton, is the only one, and he connects stock raising with it, or at least to raisc his own dairy.
 Mir. Barnum has kept the past year, seven head of Alderny cows and he has marketed seventeen hundred and forty pounds of butter, which at the market price of 25 cents per pound, which has been about the price for good article, would amount to four hundred and thirty five dollars, or sixty-two dollars per COW. with but little extra feed. lie taking no account of the milk and butter used in his own family.
 From April 1stto Nov. lst, he marketed fourteen hundred pounds, or two hundred pounds each per seven months, netting one dollar and six,y-six ccn.s week without any extra feed. Now We l.uyv estimated the butter at twont y-iye cellt5 pound, want to just Shy to you private ly land they do say that an editor never can keep anything private) that think ho gets from five to ten cents pound nor than the market price, that would net him from ten to twenty dollars more to each COW, and then he had milk to raise his calves on, which would have brought him fifteen dollals q head at eight weeks old, for to raise they being high bl6oded Alderny. And then he had the skim milk to fattcn his pork on. and more thaI. enough for his family use. Think the milk man must take the back seat. Whc Is the next man that has kept all account and is willing to let his brother farmers know the result. CLUE.
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RnmaEpoRr. Nov. lllh, |

bRlndEroRT, Nov, lilh, 1878,
 Mn. pRtRcE DEAR STR ;--Elensa sand me your paper for one year, Enclosed please find ;l,00 for same. onen a copy has been read with pleasant remnlaenc6 of the past. It Is thirty years since loft Ncwtown, my native place, fourteen years since have enjoyed It's lovely scenery, delightful summer breeses, lls winter at. fractions. all now by-gones. Hour at- tnctye paper supplies varied iniorma- ton, and l trust lt may find welcome Increasing from year to ybar. to many that have passed happy .houf5 among loved relatives long lgonefto Gelr lAst homo, Dear grandmother and grand, iither passed away before our memory Tho old house Is still standing In Tinker field, Q few rods from Bridgeport turn pike, @ curiosity even to a stranger, witl l it's qunint slantIng roof, 4 few now re muiulng can remember her, noble wo man, Tho Indians that used to com, with their wares to sell from the bact road west, used to cell her the whit, woman, because she w,u5 of Il fair hand somo complexion, Ia docendant of th' first female child born in NUWtown, An nic Dooth). widowed in l8ll, luid away il 1858, one only now living of eleven chll dron, all but two lived to be over 70 years all married. To each family of thi ono household, although many are ia distant, Nowtown Is loved village il their memory. A welcome visitor t their households is Y copy of Ethe Now town BEE, consequently when I get then many of them this paper shall sec.
 Yours, Respectfully,
 MAPy M RPACu
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DaIlbuI'y.

You should sec Horace now. With the BEE i'll lis eye he has seated himself al his task, laid his head to one side, put lis tongue out 0i,d IS miudiug his pot hooks. lIh 7ay5 il there are mistakes ill these l,ci.l7, where they appear, he HIil yU" 1t io nOt his auil. There, oir, Pl.4Ier, just look at that cnirO6raphy. lDOu'U let the type put that last word ''GuIlu8 Hiu."J Every { is dotted ani every is crossed. Horace Greedy ill his lust daJs could not beat it.
 Ati again. This time it is MT. White of the Ae,rS At this rtte aiI t..e young men Oi lbc Netr8 will be old men le Local is older than he Was, you Ueg. We'll, early marriages are SQiu to be the hup- picsG. Poor Richard, the noted neWsp;.- per man, had this happy affair ill view when ne got oI ti!I5 happy paragraph aJoul-Earl1 ~ to ri7o and growing healthy, wealthy and wise.
 Rev. Mir, Townsend, former pastor of the Episcopal Church, now oI Washing ton, preached neIc Uu Sunday week.
 Saturday night, week ago, three men were thrown from one blackboard, on White street, ba Uhe breaking down of the seat. One Was considerably hurt. Rough Oil the blackboard.
 A pupil of the public school was run over the other day and considerably though not fatally, injured. The boy Wilo careless.
 A few evenings since boy was horse whipped on Main street for throwing stones at passers.
 Beckerle | Co. are about building new houses.
 One of the Globe men had valuable oyercoat stole from him ut Brooktield. People have to settle the new question about Turkey this week and " Bel. schazzer feast" is put of to more con. yenient day.
 Union Thanksgiving services are to be | held at the Methodist Church. Rev. Nil Hershey of the West Street Congregit tional Church breaches the sermon.
 The Knights of Pythias are expected to dance on "Wednesday evening.
 MT. and Mrs. JudsUn White had a sur prise party. Substantial presents were l passed ill, und u good time io reported l Il. Lester Comes had birthday party | IL resulted III u NdlcH ana Gnlln to llm and oysters and dancing to the surprisers
 It has never been settled how mucl there is in name. We have Trianel, street. On that street a boy fell iron d fence few weeks ago and broke hi, arm. What angle the fence is we do no know, but judge it is an acute angle. { week ago the little chap concluded to try the same angle again, whatever it ma, be- and fell from the same fence anC broke the same arm in the same place his name is Jackson and will yetbe heart from.
 Rev MT. Bray of the Methodist Churcl preached sermon Sunday on praise ai d feature ofpublic worship, and deliver ed all argument in favor of instrumenta music in churches. Mr. Geo. E. Ives who leads the world on the cornet, wa there and assisted the choir. When the usual collection was being taken ht charmed the audience with corne solo, and riyited the attention to such degree that many forgot to throw il | their peunihs HORACE
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racroRY rAcTz.

Close confinement. careful attention to all factory work. gives the operatives paid faces. poor appetite, langusds mis- era5ie feelings. poor blood. inactive liver, kidneys and urinary troubles. and all the physicians and meslieifzes in the world cannot help them unless they get out doors or use Hop Bitters. made of the purest and best of remedies. and especially for such cases. having abundance cf IeaIlh, sunshine and rosy cheeks in them Eoae need suffer if they will use them freely They cod but triGe. See a1other column,
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The speetaepiar ransieal prama

Of Belshazzar, King of Babylon, will be given at DaDburg, De-. 9th, 10th and 11th, under the auspices of the Soldiers Monn- ment Fund, and management Of 1Ir. A. H. Ten Broeek of Boston. who gave "Queen Esther So successfully last year, which was attended by so large a party from Newtown and Sandy Hook. i spec ial train will be run 10 Newtown for the Belshszzar entertainment, and the party will be under the management of Mir E. F. HawIey, who will furnish tickets and full information. This will. without doubt be the finest series of entertain usnts ever given in this section. and Q large party wiIl sttaasi from this locality. The train will pretably run on Monday evening, the 9th. Trains viii also be run to New Milford and ether points
 Al parties wishing to attend said en- tertainment will please s-ass zk~ar Eames with E F. Havley. .as Sanford Hasissss sfore-
 Fars for round trip. including resersed seat in Opera Hoaze <1.I0.
 xIli eo over ez the -33 train and re- <.1=u en special Immediately zfser the rutsrssinmut vhfch eiosssst lo.IsP ID.
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A0usATasIu a R,

Through tickets can he procured and baggage checked at N"wtown htation fu. North Adams. Troy. Hartford, lbiIaJpt phla, Baltimore. and Washington, D. c. South Norwalk. Stamford, Utica, Rome, Syracuse, Auburn. Geneva, Rochester
 Buffalo, Suspension Bridge, or Niagara Falls, Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Cincln' natl, Indianapolis. Chicago and St, Louis
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MILK FARMING.

EDITOR OF TINE BEE DEAR SI1--l wish to explain some of the statements made in last weeks issue by your corrcs- pondent " Farmers Club" I vas able to show him very high average yelld per cow for the number of cows actually kept, by selling several COWS when nearly dry, tat quite a sacriiice) and buying fresh ones in their place. The average number of COWS was thus established too low. Had l kept the same COWS through the year, could not have averaged over 70 cans per COW, which is large yeild. The butter we made in June only lasted us through the three summer months in- stead of six. Now very few of the items of expense. l have the past year bought and fed on the farm about $30O worth of grain. Hired help $200, Rent of the portion of adjoining farm for pas turing COWS, $75. Interest money and taxes paid, S100, leaving only $480 of the S1155, to meet the other "thousand anC one" expenses of a farm and family.
 L. B. LAKE.
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Bethel.

Score one for Bensel.
 Bollesl Did you got her
 John Fennell. Of Wolfpits. complained to Grand Juror Capt. Charles Peck, on Monday. of John Costello. for an assault. Deputy Huse arrested John and brought him before Justice D. T. Hu5bell. who on hearing FenneIfs statement dismissed the case. as his own testimony acquitted the accused and the town paid the cost.
 The house Of Mrs John Benedict. in Plumtrees. has been painted by Mr. Geo. Keeler- The house has not been painted for a period Of forty years. which shows how much better paint woald last than it does at the present day
 The grounds around tfe PIzntree school house are to bs ornamented with shade trees. Nr. EdEard RoekrsIi made
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TGt Bee
rhursany November, aslh. ISIS,
OUR DELAYS

For some tune past Rs have been un' fortunate in gol getting out our papnf in time. helng some weeks il day behind, aH ll,st week. This wenk NO are a little earlier, and hope 10 get out our paper On time every week hereafter Our friends will bear witt Us, and excuse tho pa5t de lnys
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Library Meeting.

The annual meeting of the Ncwtown Library Association will be held Tuesday evening, Dec. 3d. As the election Of officers will take place that evening It Is to be greatly desired that every member Will be present.
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A TRUE INCIDENT,
JUDGE NOT FROM APPEARANCE.

JUDGE NOT FROM APPEARANCE.
 A true woman's heart is always rcspon- slye to the touch of tenderness. Some times very little thing strikes the chord and tho whole sympathetic nature Is awakened, as little glcam of sunlight upon landscape often calls ont the bcau- ties of picture, and surpriscsand charms the behoIdcr. A lady in Ncwtown took up the Inst BEE, and gluncing over the first page. her cycicIl upon thatllltle poem " Yawcob Strauss" by Charles F, Adams uni not rrIshiug the style she turned to her husband and said, "why do they put such stuff in the papers ?" "StuG ' said he, " just let mo read that for you" He took the paper and read the first verse describing the busy childish rogurics of the boy and the yexation and wearine5s of the parent till became to tGc last verse when the little busy body had found rest in slceT-
 " But yea he vas ashleep in ped,
 So guiet as mousse
 Iprays der Lord, Dakc anvdings,
 But leave dot Yawcob Strauss, the sympathetic chord ofa mothers heart was touched, and turning suddenly away she buried her face in her hands and burst i@to a flood of tears. She had lost two jewels and had seen them ijddcn away in the grave and had missed the batter of their tiny feet a;.d the music of their checry voices, There is a touch of pure nature in those simple words.
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PELr AND FLANNEL SKIRTS
TRIMMINGS

aro mostly of fringe aud passemetire with crimped silks and braid. forming the fash ionabIe and widely known qsq1ss trim asiHgs. CECIL
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The Latest Fashions.
NEW YORK, NcY. 19, 1871

NEW YORK, Nov. D, 1878.
 One forgets the gloom and drizzly at mosphere these November days are bring ing. when they enter the magnificent new marble store, lately erected by Messrs. Stern Bros, on Twenty-third street.
 h looking over the very latest fashions, We find everything worn or wanted by the feminine gender, from the tiny morsel of humanity, to Barnum's fat woman, who has comfortably packed within her cpl dermis good G00 pounds. ayoirdupois. While the weather is so fcl,le We most especially need
 WALKING SUITS,
 of which there is q wholesome display, suited to the tastes of all grades of per- ! sons or purses. 4 very pretty cornbina- ton suit composed of baskst Jrocads Of u. e lsrss toasF eolors now so much in vogue. In this case they were the infariable bronze gold, dark garnet. and navy bIue. made with princess skirt, which means that the drapings are all fastened closely to the narrow cut dress. and nothing even stimulating an oveT-skirt is to be seen. Box plaitings on the under skirt with straps four and six inches in length by tNo-and-a-haif in width, fastened by a gilt button. extended from the waist to the trimming on bottom. The hasauet broeade was merely the trimming of an undsrskirt placed on in graceful loopings the fastening of which could not be seen and was only known by the unique and artistic fall of the goosIs-..beauty never runs in straight lines The basque was perfectly plain, bound round the edre with 5 simple cord of same material. as the anderskirt and straps before deserif- clone of the lat1er fastened with A double gil, batton formed the only sleeve
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FURS.

Ermine once more steps to the front and claims admiration from is pure beau ty. Cloak5 made in circulars are selling for &s5 up to S145; if Dolman shapes from sl15 to $50. CAineIilla is used for the finest trimmings on the best garments. Silver fox i5 in such demand, and the supply always So small that merchants cannot fill their orders. Seal sacques are about the same as last Winter. They have gradually to resign their strong hold on the fashion element. Silver be.s- yer and long black lynx will be greatly used as the Winter advances.
 RgLr AND FLANNEL SKIRTS
 are trimmed with three rows of knife plaitinss in two eolors of equal width, red Icing most used with the color of the skirs, and the pleating are made 1 1-2 inches wide. one-half of the skirt color and the other of red or blue flannel or felt, as the material of the skirt. 1 fold Of inch wide bias materials heads each ple8.ing. and is edged with minute pinked sealop of the red or each side of the band and stitched down with tho sew ing machine.