The Newtown bee., 1879-04-22

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 Mr. James Tyler is putting new roofs on his buildings.
 MT. G. B. Lewis i5 decorating his house with very handsome coat of paint. w. | J. Mallory is doing the job.
 The last account of the walking match, | was tha Charles Bartow has made p miles in five hours. NRED. Bethel
 The horse belonging to Mir. Hoyt Fen ncr which we reported sick last week, | died Sunday night at quarter-past II O o'clock. This is a serious loss to MT. | Fenner, as the horse had but recently | boon purchased, and he never used him. Mr. Fenncr employed those who were known as good doctors ill town and Dan bury, apd watched the horse day and night, doing every thing to save the an- nimal, but without success. |
 David KCnuey and Jack Halpin, brake men on the Shepaug Railroad, were in jured Thursday morning while ill the act of stalking d car. Halpin was struck by the stake which slipped and struck him on the ankle. Kinney was struck on his leg. but with the exception of a little lancno5s is able to work. Haldin is laio up.
 The grounds in rear of the building known as the BCe- Hive have been secured as the parade grounds and locations of the tables and speakers stand on the 1lth of June, the day of the great celebration.
 Wednesday, evening, w. B. AfIleck will lecture ill Fishers HaIi for the benefit of the Methodist Sunday School. Subject: ''WinC, Water Women and Wisdom" Ad- mission 25cts; commencing II to eight
 The Fire Department of Bethel is ordered out on Saturday, April, 26th lo'9 at 3 o'clocK ?. m., afternoon, near Cole X Amblcrs' shop for inspection.
 By order, J..E. DURANT,
 Chief Engineer.
 A CARD.-We the undersigned Commit tee take this method of returning, in be- half of the members Of the Citizens Cor net Band, our heartfelt thanks to the ladies who on the occasion of our late concert and ball presented the Band with the handsome loares of cake which they l found upon the tables at the supper hour, | in Fox Bros Hotel. This token of esteem and generous surprise will ever be fresh | in our memories. Respectfully.
 H. NJ. BURNS,
 l. H. SQUIREs, FRANK FELLOW.
 The list of letters remaining Tn the P. | O.: Mcssrs. Durham & Whaley, Geo. tTOulu, Fat 1Gc, MS. EllItI 1tIeEo.
 | A. WooDMAN, P. M. | Last Sunday the ordinance of baptf sm was administered to the twin children, Hurbert Curtis and Harold Wilson, sons of William Lyon, and grandSons of E. | Curtis Oakley, by Rev. E. c. Pattison, | Rector of St. Thomas Church. The children were born July 18th, 1878, and they are exceedingly fine children.
 Mr. Charles j. Foster will leave Bethel Saturday, May 3d. for Scotland and Eng land, accompanied by MT. Matt. Scott, engineer of Twoedy Factory in Danhnry. Mr Foster will remain several months for the purpose of recruiting his health. He | sails ill the Circassian.
 Howard Ferry cut off the end ot his fin ger with a paper cutter in the factory Of Theo. Clark on Monday morning.
 Mrs. N. B. Corning is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. Briggs, of Sherman, Conn, and will remain one week.
 Mir John G. Farnam has returned from Brooklyn and expects to remain in Bethel for while. .... ..-
 A man named George NJ. Butcher and a woman styling herself Mrs. Judge Watson, of Philadelphia, came to Bethel, Tuesday, from Norwalk, and in the even- | HE lldNlll8 ht'tlls dtlIIOulCGtl LnC T medium of hand Dills) lectured in the Congregational Church. The indictment
 weather alone prevented a full house,
 because Butcher, who was known as a
 temperance lecturer and d good speaker
 had a reputation and many friends, and
 beside this was the double attraction ol
 a reformed woman who would speak; but
 tho audience in point of numbers were
 not large Rev. G. F. Waters, to wh om . I ha rii n.th haI hnnT pirbINr an d. ed, introduced the speakers and opened
 the meeting with prayer. Butcher lead
 in the speaking and spoke fefvently and
 earnestly for nearly an hour. He fiatter-
 ed the people of Bethel by saying many
 good things of them. He closed and
 Mrs. Watson arose and related her eX-
 perience, and gave what purported to be
 a thorough history of herself, and claim ed to he the widow of Judge Watson of | Sun Francisco Cal, and daughter of a gentleman of Philadelphia. She gave a minute history of her life since she be- gan drinking, and also of her reforma- l, tion and what she was then doing for the
 cause of temperance When she had |. closed her address MT. Waters requested ! in behalf of the speakers a contribution, | and the sum of S17 was given. The I meeting closed and the audience dIs- l persed to their hCmes, many of them J that were not true, and that something was not altogether right; and in these t misgivings they were justified, when !, Deputy Sheriff E. c. Huse made known 5 the fact on Thursday that he had d tel t egram, asking for information concern 5 ing Dutcher and his companIon. The l1 Deputy Sheriff learning that the parties ! had gone to Danbury went there, and 3 stopping at the Turner House enauired l of the proprietor, Douglas Fair,hild, : and was promptly told that the man and l1 woman were ill his house and had en- 5 gagged rooms. In short time Mrs Butcher and a lady friend from Whining 3 ton, Delaware, arrived at the hotel and , an explosion of Iacts followed. Mrs.
 Butcher confronted her husband and 5 made a thrilling appeal to Butcher to = abandon the woman (Watson) and go l home and take care Of his six children. Dutcher was deaf to the heart-broken a wife and told her that he would not go [ home, and that he would soon put the v ocean between him and her. The lady 2 that came with Mrs. Dutcher exhibited 7 a letter written by .Mr. Watson some : years ago who by the way was not 3 r Judge but who before his death resided s in California. In tho letter MT. Watson e then urged his wife to return home alC c stop her disgraceful conduct. This was : tn 1871. All the parties remained at tEit : Turner House until Friday morning : when Dutcher and the Watson woman