The Newtown bee., 1878-03-07
WOOdbury.
NUMBER THIRTY-FoUR.
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There is very little news to record for your present issue-indeed, l think l send you too many items. judging from your last issue. You put in about halt of what sent you lust week, and closed the article right in ihe midst of Il para- graph. leaving it in such condition as 10 make perfect nonsense of it. The reader might well say, Well, what ot its don't wonder you sign yourself 'Nameless. You ough not to have any nsme." Now, Mir. Eii.or, as 1 know you are Good Tcmplar, feel sure the accident cannot be attributed to you i; so I am forced to fall back upon your wicked "printer's deyil," and l will not excuse him, even, unless he can satisfac- torily prove he had "been on lark the night before. Anathcmaiize him from ne and inform him thai he cannot afford 10 make another such amislakG, as an uptown friend of ours remarked lo his pastor op certain occasion. Inform him further, that his best way out of the matter is to repeat in this number the emasculated last paragraph in your last issue, and print the remainder, so that it may be seen what il was ill it's entirety.
 \ heavy thuuder-shower passed over our town on Sunday morning, indicating the breaking up of Winter.
 We are.not sure. but that we have had q mad dog of our own. A strange dog came along East street last week in much excitement = biting at hitching posts, trees. or anything that came in his route. Nr, F, T. Strong, observing these stxangs proceedings, ran into his house, aeised his gun, and shot the animal. In Z 4hsso times we have right to fear any dog showing unusual ferocity. do not know what people want to keep q ogs for, especially nine-tenths of all the kinds ws constantly sec.
 During tho great storm of Friday the cellar of Lawyer Cothreu was flooded, putting cut the furnace fires Of his steam heater, which supplys the whole house with warmth, and his family was with out fire. save in the kitchen, for twenty four hours. Mr. COthren, in working with his men, to overcome the difficulty, saught a severe cold, and was confined 70 his bed for nearly week. He is now tblc to sit up again, and will be hurry ing around, as usual, in few days.
 Our friend Tyler has been very unfor- tunste of late. Within the last five months he has lost four horses, the last two dying Feb. 18th and l7th respect iyely. It is very serious matter for him to bear these losses just al this seas on of the year. There seemed to be no adcanate explanation for these deaths. He Is fully persuaded, in his own mind, . that they were caused by foul play, aid were not natural deaths Some clues have come to his hands, which may un- veil the whole matter. If his suspicious are correct, such mean, cOnlenptlble way of showing malice to man, cannot be excelled. Take one of your own size.n Let the dumb 46easts alone. If ihe suspicious life true, ii is To be hoped : the perpetrators will be caught and pun ished
 Ccreuo Saxtcn, our well-kHown citi- zen. is very low with typhoid pueulno- uis. He is iot exp, cled to recover. His wife was absent, ii attendance dei sick daughter, when nc Was taken sick, and he was alone in the house tor two days before her return, being unable tO leave the house, CT attract the attention oi any one passing. lie has had every atten- ton since then that loving and anxious hearts could bestow.
 His next neighbor south, Mr. Albert N. Judson, is very dangerously ill of acute rheumatism, or rheumatic fever.
 Mrs. A. B. Stone is very Ill of pneu- mopia, and her little child of diphtheria. The weather is ot the worst, and sick nese abounds.
 Our new jeweler and silversmith hat ..swung out his big watch. " at Hitch cocks block, late Woodruff's. has ar ranged his forces, and is prepared fol battle. Success to him.
 NLMELEss.