The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

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sted News was tried before jury of the
: superior court last week on the charge of
assault, and resisting an officer. He was
t acquitted, the jury being out only five
+ minutes.
The exhibit OF the New York and
New England road for the month ending
August 81 shows its gross earnings to have
been s2O4, 215,4 As; its operating and Incl
dental expenses S95, 1927, Sc; leaving, as it's
net earnings for the month, Sos, 287'92.
Mallinger, the German prina dona, has
married q man named Schimmelpfenning
1t Is well that she kept her maiden name
for stage use..
The Tuscaloosa, Ala, Gazette tells
of negro who came out Of the war with
STA, and now owns Il farm. stock, etc.
worth s20,000-all made by legitimate
farming.
William Kidd, the captain of the
canal boat Defiance, lying at Jersey City
wharf, had a tootr extracted by DIR.
Downes two weeks ago. The bleeding
from the cavity left in the jaw continued
despite the efforts of several physicians,
until Monday Kidd died in his boat |
from exhaustion, caused by the loss of
blood.
All the coal companies, except the
Pennsylvania and Lehigh Railroads, have
signed a partial agreement, regulating
the production of coal. The Pennsylva-
mia Road is expected to cooperate in the
movement, however.
The balloon in which Professor Wise
and George Burr assembled at st. Louis, s
Sunday before last was last seen al IL 40
+. M, Monday, from La Porte, Indiana, t
when 1t was drifting toward Lake Michi- t
gan, and the aeronauts are supposed to '
have been drowned like Donaldson and [
Grimwood i'll 1874. Professor Wise serv-
ed the Union army with his erial recon- {
noisances during the war, and he has v
done more for the science of aerial navi- d
CATION than any other man in America. /
The Gentlemen's Driving Associa-
ton, OF Norwalk, proposes to hold it's l
October meeting on the 18th and 10th
inst, and give such an exhibition of speed l
on Its new and well graded track as has
never been equalled in Norwalk.
James Goold, of Albany for nearly g
of a century manufactu- i h
rer OF coaches, cars and sleighs, died on d
Wednesday, aged eighty-nine years. He tt
WAS a native Of
. self-made man, the owner of a large
amount of property. and of an unblem- n
shed Reputation. W
The Hartford general committee hav II
ng had in charge the battle flag parade
Ind there Is surplus of 81, TIL Is left on i,
heir hands after all the expenses are "a
,aid, and have voted that it he given to- vi
wards memorial of the soldiers and "a
sailors of the Union, from Hartford. A 70
committee of fifteen was appointed to In ia
measures to secure suitable pl
memorial. #
On Friday Mary E. Gregory of North ca
iaven, aged eighteen years, died of IL IL
N overdose OF morphine, accidentally e.,
AIKEN. Miss Gregory was the daughter 50
4 ex-Councilman George Gregory. She 81
'as attacked with severe neuralgia o.
aims on Thursday night. A physician
'as called, and he prescribed solution
morphine. At one o'clock Friday ba
forming she grew easier and the family
stired. They found her sleeping quiet
7 at daybreak, but it proved be a sleep
l0ncan nv mnrnhinn tc
sached for glass of water and took the r
orphine instead. Medical skill was ex- r
tod without avail. n
Or the European nations Germany I'll
ands first as to fighting trim. She can I'll
1t In the Held at twenty-four hours' I'll
'tice twelve hundred thousand men of II.
Q line, the reserve. and the Landwehr. II
no grand total Of the Gearman army is ~
% million two hundred thousand mon. *
elusive OF two hundred thousand not 81
ckoned on field strength, but educated In
garrisons. The strength of the second ii
'ndwehr and the Landsturm is generally III
but they are thoroughly eff u
lent soldiers, the best in thesarmy.
ance has a nominal strength Of three
lllons and half men, but practically
must de decreased to two millions and
On OF this total very large proportion
still In process Of organization. It lis
believed that France could place In g
first line more than eight hundred p
,usand men