The Newtown bee., 1879-01-07


 The following committees of the Dan bury Agricultural Society have been ap- pointed On Police, E. s. Davis On Tent and Buildings, H. B. Platt, E. F. Foster, E. $. Davis; On Grounds. S. II. Rundle, B. c. LyneS, Henry Crofut; On Locating Stock, etc, l.. F. Camp, A. $. Mygatt.
 MI. Crane, one of the victims of the Adelphi explosion last Fall, has not yet recovered from his injuries. His limbs were badly burned H.. has tried two or three times ts get about, bat on attempt ing to bend his limbs ln sitting or walk ing the skin would break and open the injuries afresh, and he has been com pelled to lie quietly to give them time to heal. It is now thought he will soon be obout again.
 Other. things besides the humps are catching and seem to move in waves, pedestrianism, for instance Danbury has It slightly. Two Danburians challenge any party, who is not beyond his ma jority, to walk fifty miles for S25. Three men also, named Pitcher, Chapman and Cunningham, walked from Danbury, | starting at point near the railroad ma | chine shop, to the Iron Works, at Brook | field, the ether day. Cunningham reach ed the new bridge about ten feet ahead, Chapman being next. On the return the Pitcher was soon broken at the fountain and gave up the job. Cunningham again come out ahead. The distance from Dan bury to the Iron Works has generally been reckoned nine miles. From their starting point it must be over eight miles. They made the round trip, say seventeen miles, in three hours and ten minutes. And this may be contagious. The Nep8 says it's "iocal" IS wrestling with a pe- culiar and specific unsuppurative iniama- tion of the parotid glands" which is Webster unabridged It is, in fact.
 catching" and "they all do it."
 Speaking of waves, dear, dear! was not that cold wave, last week, tirst-class and high-tened! We have not had such
 blowing since the days of Belshazzar. During the high winds the clock Of the
 1St Congregational Church, as if doubtful
 how the contention of the elements would
 result, declined to strike and did not com
 init itself for thirty hours. It then took
 an advanced position and struck six hours ahead of time, and continued to do SC
 until it's friends pulled its skirts and re-
 minded it that it was doing more than it's
 duty, and reduced it to the present reckon
 ing. Moral: Keep up abreastof the times
 but don take too high grounds TOT commit
 yourself till you know which way the
 wind blows.
 The Wooster Council recently elected
 Jos H. Welch, s. J. M F. R. Nash, P
 C.; E. D. Ritton, Treasurer; Wm.G. Ran dall, Recorder; c. J. Allen, Capt. Guard NJ. w. Scott, Conductor; II. Dickens Sentinel.
 l The schools commenced the Winte
 term Monday.
 One of our churches wanted old clothes and requested any having such to sen' packages to Morris music store. On
 such package was received. The reade must not infer from this that there ar
 no old clothes in Danbury.
 , A large number of packages containing f good things for the needy were brough . in to the West Street Church Fair an
 were sent out where they would do tn
 most good.
 r Here are two looks at the present stat l of the temperance work in town. 'Blu ! Ribbon" in the NeoS says there ar : those engaged in selling rum, under n . sanction of law, yet pcrSisting in maxim a paupers and criminals, setting aside an 6 defying the law that declared, by 2S |. majority, that their nefarious bushes @ must cease." The treasurer of the blu c ribbon men, in his recent report, says d "Hardly a night has passed when the 6 rooms have been open without new sis c natures to the pledge. They are doin
 more than the most exciting meeting could do. They reach men at the ''' work, i'll the shops, everywhere. The regain those who have fallen" a Our preachers improved the occasion i- and shaped their sermons Sunday for u .s Thew year season. Good lessons wei il drawn from the past and good conns t imparted. Many have sworn off agail l. and VOW they will do so no more. e A Happy New Year to you, MT. Edito
 and to your correspondents and numero, P readers. May every working bee in u ,o hive as we'll as the queen bee, and evel 10 little bee have a happy seventy-nine. Ms r, the hive never lack honey. May yo' .d One Thousand subscribers be multiple In by two and three, and so on to the end
 the multiplication table, is the New Ye wish of HORACE.