The Newtown bee., 1878-11-28
W0OlbUry.
MARY M. BEACH.

MARY M. BEACH.
 Wo0dbury.
 NUMBER SIXTT-FOUR.
 l. is q great wonder thut wc do not have more serious arridrul5 ill our town. h many Ot the most truyrlcd roads, the carriage path b very uurrOW in nHMy places, hot Niie enUu-h to allow two teams tO pa5s each other. This is true even of the stage routes from town. ln many places Where these are dangerous TCaccnts from the roauIed, there is no railinIs to prevent serious accidents from the "shyn3g' of Frightened horses, or from getting cut OI LAe path in dark nights. Surely We paJ enough in taxes to nave oul road5 propyIy ul,-io aud pro- tGrlcd. Last year @e appfupr.alca 53, GOO I0t improving and koD ping lAe rOld5 ill repair, and specially ltatructe:s the oeluul- men uU oC9 Luat t.O work };ila properly done. There Was some iIAyrJyCmeuJ but 1t takes a moderate 9iIej I!icruscope 10 discover il. repent il u5 ;4 great won ter We do not have lHuIe accidents. but We nave tHcm enthusiastically.
 About week ago lIr5. t. B. Judson met With quite a serious accident. While attempting to pass team a4 JL7t; of thtsc narroW Mird9tun roaIa, her horse be- c4mu frightened. ran uI.3, U}uriurned Jae carriage, which was sadly ucmoll5huu. Mra. JudaOn Gnu u I.uy ITleuu were thrown out amt received some very sc- rious cuts and bIUl5He luL fortunately no fatal Injury, though LAey were in inn mineuU peril. It i5 understood that Mir, Judson will cuII OH the town for just damages. I5uppose the authorities will not attend to tAI5 business til some fear Iul accident, involving life and DuriaI aa well u property, snail awaken them into action. It would Ue mucl better to Go this before such fearful HalliuE Is re- ceiyed.
 Capt. Eli Spcrry, who resides at Biz Grecl, Russell County, hauo;t8, where he took up Government land by virtue oi plising ito Of yore. When he went to thai place there were lew settiul5, but ; good many families nov iuiiuJit there. i lie has succeeded III having q ost UIhct eoLaDllaheu tnere, of Whicn his wife, Mrs Emily c, Sperry, is r, M., lnd he him sClt carries Ine mail to Russell, the Coun i ty seat Two or three, Weeks 5lgo his sor Charles was married. He and his family seem to be taking root ill that new coun, Itry. Success attend the Captain is tht prayer of his nlany friends here.
 l Walter ?. Marshall, a native of this i towh, but for many years a resident O i Pittsburg, Pa, died in the latter place week before last, and was brought tt | WOOdbury for interment in the family burying ground, in the South Cemetery He was the grandson of Rev. John k Marshall, the first Rector of St. Paul's deceased held ill high veneration. Dur ing his whole business life ill gPittSburg some thirty years, he made his anHua visits to the old home in WOodbury where his mother, now near 90 years oid l resides. He always came with a full, bC neyoIent hand for the old church He was a man of pure and blameless life d christian gentleman, i'll the full SGn5t of the word, endowed wIth a gentle, loE ing heart, and greatly beloved by all who knew him. He did not live to be OI( passing away ill the meridian of life anC usefuluess, at the age Of tifly-seTen years 1 An earnest, christian worker has ascend ed to his reward on high.
 Deacon James II. Linsley. who for tn last fifteen years has betiti5n perintenden of the Sabbath school and connected witt the First Congregational Ci;Grch, has re signod, and Prof. Wilbur V. Rood ha been appointed in his place. His dutie as deacon and leader of.the choir, togeth CT with the duties of Superintendent, il IadditiOn to his large and varied business were more than he could well bear. H. was obliged to relieve himself of q par of his burdens. He has been a faithfu servant in all these varied duties.
 After four dry seasons. parching tn earth long way towards it's centre. tn question of water supply forces itsel upon the attention of''ou people. Hal of the wells are now dry, and the res very low. In case of a fire, we are abto lutely without the means to check it We have no fire engine, and no water U supply one. There is much solicitude ol the subject, and the matter Is bein mooted by our leading citizens. A write in the DeEby TrGdscrtpt suggests, tha there is a neYer-failing spring On the Ian Eof D. s. Lennon, iu West Side, about mile and quarter distant, of sulicien altitude to send water into the street l But it would be necessary for tine main to cross the Pomperaug river, and it doe not occur to the writer that there is ali possible place fer a reservoir. There is i ineyer-failing spring of water on the lau of Bradford l. Hall, about a half mil from the Town Hall with cOpi0us suE ply of purest water. which could yer readily be brought roinId the south en of Orenaug rocks to a large natura l reservoir. near the house of the late Dl Webb, which would hold an abundan store of water for all down-town street which reservoir would cost little or noth l ing, and would be at least 100 feet aboy the tops of the houses in Main street This would not only permit pure watel 1 but would be a great safeguard agailis fire. It is greatly 0 he hoped, that th matter will continue to beagitated til result is obtained in the right dierction NAHELEss.