The Newtown bee., 1878-09-12


 The Ners, with considerable enterprise, got ont an extra early on Friday morning. containing n full account of tho iiremen's parade. and distributed it free gfatis, which was within Inc means Of all.
 Our banks are receiving ten cent con. tributlons for the relief Of southern suf- ferers by yellow fever
 Miss Willard of Chicago. gave tenn poranes address in Inc First Congrogn- tunal Church, Sunday evening, A union meeting was held, most of the churches suspendng their usual services. sha Is very eloquent. As n llrst-rlass speaker, she rankS with Mrs, Liyermore and Miss Greehwood. She speaks almost with ln' splration and impafts n degree of her in. spirntion to her audience. Modest and unassumlng, she does not so much pro- sent Miss Willard td tho audience aa she does her theme. In fact. you almost loose sight of tho speaker In the light which she throws around the subject or forget her presence in the feelings which are stirred within you. She Is to spoak at the Opera House on tho l7tn.
 The hat-nakor send Messrs. Hiram Falling and - McDermotte to represent them In the Hatters Convention at Orange N. J.
 Not long since we hnd occasion 10 speak of a contest which our friend J. II. Bots ford, of Palestine, had with his bees, In which he was roughly handled but came of eonquoror. He has had another cxpe- ricnce in which they came near getting the best of him. week ago Inst Monday kylil.. ha unI bil m n lNnFk his house, they stirred up nest of bum ble-br .5. They immediately commenced battle. Shingles and other missiles were fense, and the battlo ragged hotly. At last one stung Mir. B. on the back of the neck. At first ho thought lightly of 1t, but soon he began to feel Il strange pncking sonsa- 1 ton which he represents as difficult to describe, which extended all over him. His neck swclled, and even his hands and feet. Purple spots appeared on the sur | face. He went to stream and bathed his neck, face and hands, but experience | ing no relief went to the house and was barely able to toll his wife what had oc- cured when he fell helpless to the floor. She immediately gave him drink of strong spirits, and bathed him in salt NdlfI, SdltIuluo hdtClt NAts III liis SchioS of half an hour he recovered his strength, and in an hour or so resumed his work, but he felt the effect of it week. Our medical men must explain the pher'me- non. Our good friend undoubtedly en- countered the boss bumble-bec. who must have been in league with the bees that he encountered last Summer.
 The great event of the week was the flremen's parade on Thursday. There was great disappointment on account Of the rain Great preparations had been made and everything done that could be thought of to insure q success, but tho elements were unpropitious. It proved the most unpleasant day of the season, except it may be decof1 ion day last May. It had been thoroughly advertised and the whole surrounding country was ripe for it. There probably would have been throng Of people in town had the day proved pleasant. It will ever be one of the great events that might have been. The past is full of such events. But the firemen were all on hand, and the plucky boys carried out the advertised pro- granme almost to the letter. They f,rned about noon in drenching rain. There were as nearly as your cores pondent can make it, twenty-tlIree fire companies, and twelve bands of music, besides four drum corps. The total num- Der ill line, including the Danbury fire police, could not have been less than a thousand men. With their bright "ma- chimes" glittering like gold and silver, and some of them were beauties and sle- gantiy decorated, and the bands Of music, and the bright uniforms, one can imagine what Il a.nificent appe rance they would have made under bright sun. It would have surpassed anything that ever occurred here. While forming they bore the rain patiently and good-humoredly, joking while their feathers were droop- ing. Indeed firemen are not afraid of water but when it pours they prefer to be at the ether end of the stream, When the word "forward" was given they moved off in splendid style, the bands nearly all playing, literally discoursing liquid mu- sic, the water dripping of their horns. They marched through the principal streets, and when they returned 10 the point whence they started the rain liter ally p. ured. It seemed as if the clouds over Main street had been ripped open and their contents spilled out in sheets of water. To say the boys were wet would be joke. They were soaked. There was not dry thread on the whole thousand. At this stage their joking was the iolliest, and their cheers rang out the loudest. Their dinner was in waiting in a huge tent at the Turner House grounds and good people were there try ing to keep it in eatable order. They marched down there and proceeded to dine without unnecessary ceremony, lodging the drops as best they could. They soon spoiled what was not alreaey damaged. There had been enough pre- pared for two thousand people. Some of it was wasted; but all had enough.
 Chief L. l.. Hubbell was presented a chiefs hat by New York house that make the manufacture of firemen's out fits d specially. The Old We'll Hook and Ladder Company presented the Washing ton Hook and Ladder Company of Dan bury their photographs elegantly framed. Both of these presentations were pleas ant incidents of the day.
 Some of the best bands of music in the country were here. The Newburgh com panies were accompanied by Prof. Col lins' and Prof. Pianos bands, both first