The Newtown bee., 1878-03-14
WOosibury.
ECNnEK TNIRTY.FfYR

We hear great deal about up town ana dexn town, but where is the dividing line Where does up town end, and down town be Ein? Some forty years ago your correspondent asked this question. At that time there stood q huge elm (solse twenty-five OK thirty feet in cir camference) by the side of the main street, s Mssls north of the residence of Mrs. Augusta Ra con. It was struck by lightning some years ago. and badly dernoraliEed, and a tornadso nn, thed 1t year or two later This tree, while it stood, had always been known as the "bonnds' -ss the old people called ii-be.woen .p and ds,cn town. The father of Mra. Bacon, the lats Mr. Reuben Walker, told your correspondent more than thirty years ago, that this elm sprany from small twig which his father, Joseph Walker, had used as a "whipstick," 10 snnyen the paoes of his nag on a horseback ride from Sfranord to Woodbury. At the end of hie jour ney he thrust the twig down in the mud. and it grew and became great tyse, "antt the birds of the air lodged in the branches theree[." Jo- seph Walker was born in l73i. and Reuben, his son, in TIT. I- s7
 The large number of friends of George D. Lambert, formerly of ihss town. but now resid- Ing as No. l3 Geld street, New Haven, will tisep- ly sympathiEc with him In ths loss of his amla. bs wife, who has long been ae invalid, suffer. Ing ffosa that most insiiious disease. oonsump- ton. and who djed at her residenoe, on the 5tA Inst, aged about forty years Those who wsrs acquainted with her h her. garlhoea and wife hood were vFt aware of the many good quail. ues o< mind and heart which she ,possessed-a kind mother, ,dsysEbd sa the hssrssts of Der fam. iH;a loving daughter, and 2 wesnan of kssad hnpulses and gentla wsys, she Allssi worthily hsr piace in life. and her death wiu occasion hhat great sztef to her husband vhIcb oply tEe and loving trust In Kind Prov,deooe, can al hviats- 4 purs and gentle spirit has gope up higher. She, Nike her husbaAd, was native and resident of woodbury an within fsr years. She was buried :, NeS skxsen.
 Cyrcuus Ssxsos, whose Ke, at the sAte of my last writing, was deipsired bfs : slSwiy oonva. Ascang. As sisted in jsyner tpmuunIca. ton, Ar. Ssxtou was alone h bis house, after he vas taken sick. for the spses Of two daya- He vas, duriHg that tine, ssbjec, 10 extzsws ehills, and hs ssw says he belleyse hs shosld have perished hsd ssnat besRsS she renartA- bIs instinct Of is dog, whsch Insisted in getting into ths bed updey ths clothes witRhim Tho warmth of the'doy's body impaired warmth to Nr. ssIton. When hs sied te ftmo<s fpsn tho dog. bs the doy) would nestle e5o,e to him. This acton q. the dog aauoysd htm ,and be tried 0 eIpel bin from the bed, but could not The dog kasv popeshiDg sAs wsopg..
 hrr Besnet |. sherman ls very ill oftyphoId ever. Our rrmsrkble Winter hss pot been b hsslth.
 h the osse of Albert ". Judsen, who has been p iH with typhoid fever, the exisis Is pass ed. ssd he b slowly rseeTsring. as is also the family of 4. B. Stone.
 The people feel quite sure there were oos or pr more mad dogs In our streets on Saturday. \ ssrunys 6og passed through the village and bit peversl othey dogs Apethsr dps without sn yvper appeared b Css swsnp district and bit ibe dog of Hona 8. Tpnlinson I; continuing ou Iwo pilss sssas vil,sgs dcwu town he bit . dog ssr; sffH a6tsuiny bic southwsrd journey ss Poppapxg. epsre than naIe further. he b,t vs os thres Asrs dogs. the owner of one sf ihics vss Q sa1s she dog vas nsd that be In. hitsd n own dog tfaffsd been bit ss. Ith spressy good s,gn that dog Is nsd. Ehen be, not besng accompanied by any owner Y lssper, ru1s thres e four niles, bitng every Ioe is se4& Ie1lA < h ttns fu sH sutboH
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