The Newtown bee., 1878-10-17
WOOdbury.
NUMBER SIXTY.

Your correspondent, at this place, in your last number asks What has be- come of Nameless." Well, living with out name, he has been wandering around "Dll5y here and thore," but on account of his severe misfortune of .hav- | ing no name, he cannot register at the hotels and so cannot be easily traced.
 Apples here, as everywhere else, arc very abundant. They are worth about a dollar per barrel. Cider is sold for from one dollar to two. In Middlebury it brings S2.5O-in Waterbury, s3'
 Our election passed off very quietly the Republicans having about 100 majority on light vote. No license was voted by 1 49 majority. No one supposes sales will be any less. It is a difficult matter to manage.
 Miss Mary F. Peck will speak before Memorial Lodge, OCT, of Danbury in behalf of the Juvinile Templars on Friday evening of this week and will meet with Orenaug Lodge of Woodberry, on Satur- day evening for the same purpose.
 clip the following well-considered TO- marks from weekly paper, which ex- presses my opinion very closely on two abomnble fashions of the day. Why women will hang two or three yards of dress upon their persons, longer than the person herself, to drag on the ground. seems marvel. Then the spectacle of a woman making wild, mad dive at this superfious mass of clothing and holding it up to the hip, while looking behind her ten or twenty times to see f she has raised any more drapery thap she meant to-, is absolutely ridiculous not to say l II ic Stp ar xfp dress that is becoming lnd comfortable cannot be used.
 BANGED HAIR AND CLOSE DREssEs.-In regard to couple af unpleasant fashions | n Iw r. vague, a oeitlcman writes the fol- lowing to the Bsston bomGu's Joasnal. l Every dayfI meeo' ill the streets of Boston vourg ladies who would ether wise look iiteligcnt, reduced to the ap- pearancc of idiocy by q peculiar method of con,lng the hair down over the fore head. The hideous dcformity is evil dently copied from the patients of lunatic asylrnls and schools for the feeble-min- dcdJ The effect is shocking. Although notfastidious, shrink from these ladies. aschldrcn shrink from a hideous mask. E it prot est against being strong-mind- led that the young woman thus assumes Ithe garb of idiocy? l am told that lady thus degraded is said to have her hair banged" But 1t seems to be that s her sanity must be badly banged to thus dcform herself.
 The present hot weather Is made more intolerabe by the spectacle of women with dresses which cling to their forms with closeness positively indelcate- dresses drawn back by some strong at tachnient behind, which letters every movement. If the ''banged" young wom- an has made my blood run cold, the pull ed-back lady throws me into | profuss precipitation out of sympathy with her self-innicted martrydom. Will the ladies of the New England Woman's Club kindly inform me why women thus make guys of themselves.
 Lcvi Hotchkiss, having obtained the contract for carrying the mail from Woodbury to WatertoWn, has purchased G. F. Smith's stage route, and now has the entire control of the line. He is worthy one-armed soldier and We hope he will be well patronized.
 4 very sad case of suicide occurred here on Saturday the 12th, at haIf-past five in the morning. Elizabeth S.@Cur- tiss arose and dressed herself, went into
 
 self through the heart. She has been de- pressed in spirits for some time past. but no one in town could have anticipa ted result like this. She has been married about seven years and leaves little child of about five years of age. She was a member of the First Congregational Church, devoted, active, worthy Chris tian woman, interested in all works of benevolcnce and charity. Her husband and a large circle of friends are in great affii ;tion over this untimely event. She was very happy in her family, devoted to her husband and child. k. B. Martin, Esq, called a jury of inquest. of which W illiam CothFen was foreman and James Huntington clerk. After hearing the evidence, the jury returned verdict to Justice Martin that Mrs. Curtiss came to her death by pistol shot wound, infiiet- eI by her own hand, while laboring un- der an attempt of temporary insanity. Mir. CgIrtiss heard the shot and hastened to her. the door being open, he thought she had been shot by some one outside, and cried murder But she had strength to say. Il did it myself. :" thus exhonora- ting all others The family have the heIrty sympathies of the entire commit nity. NAMEI.Ess.