The Newtown bee., 1878-12-31
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%IyMBER SlYTY-EIGHT,

NUMBER SIXTY -El6HI
 I'm the matta1 ct tkge dad,aage7 to thes property of Mir R. B. JudsSsf, and the' injuries caused to his wife, by the upset tlng of his carriage. which, in tunn- was caused By the narnowness of the highway at Lower Nonnamaug. he ssaSh ths' selectmgqa haVs had n meeting @iSal d. view to settlem elt, and have: viewed the premises" They have as yet come to no settlement. ~TheTr nainds have, not met" as the lawyers say. Whether they will OF net- thn@ must determines but it iS to be hoped that rEe oceurrcnce will lead to the widening sn& Improving of the highway at that locality
 And the floods came, and tha winds descended, truly might Mir. Rodennek Att wood have exclaimed, in bitterness eH spirit, during the recent ssOfm snd tenn pest, as he saw the sad havoc made with his mills ard naaM -Gssns, whieh he has been for months erecting OH " DevE Plain," 50 called, in LoweE NonnewauS- Not only was there gaeat breach ia his dams, but the r0ad running by ths side of his pond was woefully torn and washed away, so that public travel is entirely ina- pedct But Mr. Atwood is a Aaam Gf pluck never says die, and so he has put on men and teams, notwithstanding the indictment weather, to rspaif the damage By the way, RodeEiek, thoangh a Demo- crat, dyed fr the wool, is strongly in favor of the election of Gov Andrews, to the United States Senate, and is vigoT- ously working to ashEeve that snd-
 A young school teaehezy who is -- keep ing schooT' in the eastern part of the town, who halls from the land of Rethle- hem-not the "Bethlehem of Julea'-- having several advanced ideas. s1got upon his ear" and refused to have tkse Bible read in his school The school
 visitors 'sat upon" his ease and proposed to st on him if he did Hot eaGse the Bible to be read It is understood that discretion being tho better part of xal0r. he reads.
 Lawyer Cothren Is engaged in the preparation of another book, to be en- titled :" Cothren's Genealogical Statis- tics of Ancient Woedbnry." including. besides the old town, Washington, South- bury, Bethlehem, and Roxbury, which, in process of time, have been set of from the mother town. Ii is to contain cor rect list of all the births, baptisms. mar riages and deaths in the ancient town,
 from the first entry, May s. 1870, to the present day. Mr. Cothren has already published two other volumes of l $50 pp.,
 in which occur many genealogies. The Ipresent work is to contain every recorded birth, marriage and death. so that any
 descendant of the first families can take
 the book, run through it and trace his
 own gcnealogy. so far as the records show, the items being collected in the
 book by years. It is well known that this town was first settled principally by
 immigrants from Siratford. To aid.
 therefore. in genealogical inquiries. the book will contain ali the recorded births. marriages and deaths in the Strstford re cords from it's settlement in 1639 to 170o. The book will also contain the name of every person now living in the five towns la complete alphabetical census. by families. of the number of subscriptions } warrant this extra expense. The work vii contain abc-ss 1liss, pP. octave. will Be