The Newtown bee., 1879-10-29


fail to call upon them.
Local.
The best pet for winter-tippet.
Bring your job work to this Office.
Eggs are selling fortwenty-four cents
per dozen.
Politicians and store men are the
busiest men nowadays.
Mr.. James Farrell lost a COW from
horn-dlstemper, Saturday.
John Mccarthy commenced the North
Center School on Monday.
Another telephone wire is to be put
up from Danbury to Bethel.
Last week the Railroad Commission
ers examined the Housatonie Road.
Remember tho price OF this paper has
been reduced to one dollar per yearl
Mr.. A. b. Prindle is having his resi-
dence re-painted. A. P. Smith Is doing
the work.
Subscribe for the BEE: 1t Is now the
cheapest newspaper published in Fair
field County.
Hickory nuts are bringing seventy
five cents bushel, hardly enough to pay
for picking them.
This section was visited by one of
the severcst rain storms Of the season
yesterday, Tuesday.
You may note in your diary that the
first snow storm OF the season occurred
on Friday, Oct. Esd.
In past years Newtown has had a
debating society Why couldn't one be
organized this winter?
"A collection was taken In st. Roses
Church, Sunday, orthe benefit OF Bishop
Purcell. OF Cincinnati.
Augustus Warner, Esq, of Chicago,
paid flying visi to his relatives and
friends in this locally, last week.
Mr. Henry Sanford, while on visit
to New Haven, last week. contracted
severe cold, from the effects of which he
Is at present confined to his home.
"A man living in the vicinity Of Sandy
Hook has given up the idea of putting
set OF patent springs under his wood pile
to Accommodate gentlemen dodgers.
We are in receipt OF the Temperance.
Gem, neatly printed sheet published
Mt Hartford, In the interest of the Good
Templars. Success to 1t.
She how'd to a young man on the street
She had a dear little te-back on,
But, an orange peel slipped from under her feet
Alas ! her tie-baek Como
She arose from the walk. with very grave air,
And picked up the things she bore.
She acted like one that wanted to swear
But. then she never awore
Andrew McNurney, the professional
brlck-layer, has taken the contract for
doing the mason work on John Foran's
new house on Walnut Hill.
Hunting is all the rage at present.
Sportsmen seem to meet with good sue
cess, generally bringing home with them
goodly amount OF game.
The Bridgeport Sun, William H May,
editor. will appear in new dress this
week. enlarged to double its former
size. We are pleased to note this sign Of
prosperity on the part of our neighbor.
We will consider it a great favor II
our patrons will see to renewing their
subscriptions, and also settling all adver-
Using accounts.
The last rose of summer has bloom
ed; the last "birdie" flown; summer
boarders are non est, while we are left to
political seclusivepess and buckwheat
cakes.
The Morning News, a neatly printed
four-column folio, was resurrected in
Bridgeport. on Monday. We wish it
prosperous future
Mrs II. e. Beebe and daughter, of
Bridgeport, who have been visiting at
Mr.. Bronson Bulkleys, returned home,
Friday.
The Sterling House, Bridgeport, Is to
be relltted and greatly improved. The
old windows In front are to be replaced
by plato glass, and many other improve
ments will be made.
Tho Grand Jury, Thursday, found an
Indictment against Mrs. Mary T.. Louns-
bury, OF Stratford, charged with the MUIR
der OF her husband, Rev. Dexter L.
Lounseary, by shooting him In his bed
on Sept. gath. No time has been set for
her trial.
MIR. Julius Sanford, brother OF our
townsmen, Messrs. Henry and Frederick
Sanford, well-tmown In this town, has for
the past two weeks been very sick at his
home in New Haven. He Is now con-
sidered out OF danger.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad Company employs 1000
men. pays about 100000 per month for
salaries, and pays for material needed
on the road an average of $75, 900 a
month.
--Danbury was excited last week by
the story that Danburian named Kane
had killed man In Bridgeport, and had
been tracked as far rs Bethel by officers /
The story was untrue.
On Wednesday the steamer Rose
dale, OF the Peoples Line and the "John
Sylvester" OF the Bridgeport Steamboat
Co., had trial Of speed, between New
York and Bridgeport. tho Rosedale "
winning. making the trip In exactly three
hours this Is the fastest time on record.
The price Of single copies OF the BEE
will hereafter be three erts, and can be
secured at the following places This
office. Sandy Hook p. o.. George Tyler,
Woodbury. Southbury p. o.; and at the
Hawleyville r. o. Each OF these places
will also receive subscriptions.