The Newtown bee., 1878-10-03
New Preston.

New Preston.
 The Warmaug Academy will com
 mrncc ils fall term soon.
 Several of the hotels around Lake War
 amaug nave closed.
 The Lyceum Association will hold
 weekly meetings the coming winter.
 The New Preston ternperancc workers held meeting in Worthwhile last week
 Friday evening.
 The Rev. Mr. Lancu-hirc left on Mon
 day of last week to hc ahsrnt several
 weeks. He will visit Western New York
 and the Cascades during his absence. 1 The Improvements on AIr. Bolle, house and barn arc completed. His place is Il
 model of ncatncss and elegance.
 X temperance meeting was hrd in the Congregational Church SHt urlay evening Speakers from abroad were present.
 The "WarnnauG Mills" are doing a good business. Henry Brown, the man agcr is always al tho '.hclm' und ever ready to greet customers in gcntlcmanly manner.
 Your correspondent w;ls misinrormed about the gravel train (which run off near the Shcpau% station on Sh"paug Rdilroa,D consisting of only Nro" ears. The train consisted of tcn carS and over forty vn,l.utn, U.nrn nu InnrI
 The apple crop i7 very large in this lo- caljty, Potatoes are very scarcc and con- sequrntly lbo price is nigh. Onions arc plenty and selling for sixty cts perM'ohrl. Corn is worth sixty and cats are selling for forty-fiye cents per bitahcl at the ''Wurnmaug Mills
 On Monday Henry Lancashire left New Preston for Saratoga Springs, where he will engage himself to a well known drug firm. He takes with him the beet wishes of the New Preston people.
 Steamer Flirt will hiIt no more upon the bosom of Lake Waramau9 this sea- son. CogswelIs fine four horse coaches will remain quiet hereafter, and Hawle, , noted ''thuroug ghbred' wlli be left to her glory until another soasoH dawnS.
 F. E. JeHks q retirc,I and wealthy mcr- chant, has secured rooms at the residence of Mrs. Elisha CogswGli. It is said that Captain Miller will make his home in New Preston, he having secured the rooms in '.Bccman Block recently vacated by F. E. Jenks. We gladly welcome AIr Miller as one of foTpermanent citizens, and hopo that New Preston life will agree with him. Captain Miller was formerly a resident of tireenport, L. l.
 Mrs. Jessie Bardcn has recently pur- chased at great expense, and placed the same in her collections. an article of fur uiture ill the shape of an old chair said chair being over two hundred years old.
 The temperance meeting in Worthwhile ! last week Friday evening was very in- : .crcsting ono. Over thirty signed the pledge, and much interest is manifested Il that village. Vim. Spencer, of Wood lille, delivered d very powerful address Ipon the subject of tobacco and temper lncc, ill the Congregational Church ill this -ilage on Saturday evening.
 Among our recent arrivals we note that ,f Miss Minnie Bennett of Giroy Cali ornia, youngest daughter of Wn. Ben- o4+ ,,fN W., l hat Miss Bennett will remain long among s and that her visit may be d pleasant me, is the wish of all She is visiting at Ter uncIe H. 4. Bennetts. Tine cases before the present term 0, he Superior Cours of special interest in his village, have been that of the State 8. E. Lyon and 4. Barney, for stealing vo fat cattle and killing thesamc several lonths ago. Their trial commenced last eek Wednesday, and la,tc;l until Thurs ay, at which time the verdict came in of | Not Guilty" The New Preston people, J ,r some of them, have done their best make Mrs. Lyon and Barney guilty of ! le crime. Even the editor of the Ray | as remarked through his paper that ev- r ,ybody would breath with greater case Il !, CT they were locked behind the grated q on bars in our States Prison. Yet, read r $ of THE BEE on the face of all this l honorable judge and jury have given b their decision of mot guilty" Your n ,rrespondent in closing, would add that t' would be well for those who have bean r anrious to have Mrs. Lyon and Barney ii e tine inside of our State Prison, to re- d ember that fools are always ready to " ndemn the innocent without having any n oof to back their ignorant statements. al few in New Preston have always belie.- Il Mrs. Lyon and Barney innocent Of the .d' ime. Eight of the New Preston young ladies b' ve left for different boarding schools 10 VI absent the coming year Miss Jennie ie nc;lshire. Miss Annie Lancashire. Miss iii lia Averill and Miss Louise Beenan W Il attend Maple Wood Seminary sC ttsfeld, Mass. The Seminary is well fir own and very popular. Miss Nellie to lies goes to Mrs. Cad's boarding school, pf " Haven, Conn: Miss Lizzie Wllittlesey ar at Everitt, Mass. and Miss Emma tn arslsley and Miss Abbie Beeman have n nc to New Hampshire. The young tn lies have the best wishes and the kind eT hopes Of all. May their school fife N a long and pleasart one WHos no