The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-12-03

THAT corn man took advantage Of the
darkness and rain on the night of the 18th,
with the help of his boon companions,
and slid out OF town, and has not been
seen here since; report says he acted UNI
der the advice of his counsel If that is
80 his counsel must be after the stamp of
the noted Benjami +. Butler. Butler
was once allotted by the Court to defend
a man, and asked the Court for few mo-
ments private interview in order to bet
ter understand the case. Yes" said the
Court, " take him into the lobby and clear
him if you can" After time Butler
returned. but without the prisoner.
"Where is The prisoner ?" demanded
the Judge. "He has slid" said Butler
"yOu told me to clear him, and that was
the only way l could do it,,
The question now is who broke into
Doune's & Mitchel's store and used the
factory cold chisel, or one that made a
mark exactly like it, to .pry the window
up with.
The Grand Jurors Of this town held a
Court Of Enquiry on the 28th to enquire
into several depradations which have
been committed in this town. The result
of their deliberations L am unable to give
you.
George Tyler still continues to run
his daily express between Woodbury. and
Newtown, notwithstanding the illustrious
name of the new mail carrier. Tyler
gets most of the business to do. Mr.. "
Ter is very accommodating express
man, and there is no reason why he
should not have the mail only that he
would not creep and crawl to set of
mail contract spectators.
Remington Wilson, of this village,
aged eighteen years, was married to a
lady from Bridgewater, at the III. E. par
Sonage, by Rev. Mr.. Marten, ON the 25th
George Peck Price, Esq, is engaged
to teach the Center school, and is to
commence on sMonday, December 1st
Mr.. Price has the reputation of being
first-class teacher, and we feel like con-
graduating the committee on being able
to secure his services, as there is no
doubt we shall have a good school.
Edward l.. Mitchell. of the firm of
Dounes q Mitchell is the happy father
of q nice little girl; it is about four weeks
old.
Rev. S. j. Bryant received, Nov. 18th,
donation of one thousand dollars it
was in the shape Of hoy, and weighed
ten and one-half pounds. On Saturday,
Nov. 22d some one left q boy at the house
of George Garfield some say George is
going to keep II, others say he is tearing
mad again, there's another Gray in town,
and its fathers name is Cyrus; it's name
may not always be Gray, as it is a girl.
and weighed eight pounds.
Il am informed by one of the Girec-
tors of the N. Y. & N. E. r. r. that
Smith and Ripley and their sub-contrac-
tors will commence work on the road as
soon as they can get their tools together
and make their other necessary arrange
ments, which will be during this llonth.
Mr., George W. Mitchell has the ma
son work to his tobacco house fully under
way, and in few days we shall see John
ID. Seeleys smiling face and hear him
crack his jokes as he lays out the frame
Report says Ansen G. Winship has
bought the residence Of George H. Wells /:
if report is correct. Arson is going to
have some other business to attend to
besides pounding Iron, and he may feel
like pounding me when he sees this; bu
| cannot help it, wrote 1t before meant
to.