The Newtown bee., 1879-07-23
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NhaiStcphVi Nbup piuiS ehh oSSN ioi ihSi of Waterford. committed suicide with laudanum.
 A box turtle was found recently, in AL lington, with "J. W. D., 1S19." marked on It's shell.
 At Middlctown, on the Sth, during scuflie, Il young man named Metcaf se verely stabbed Thomas Hogan in the chest.
 Robert Britton. of New Fairfield, has been bound over to the Superior Court for trial. for attempting to murder his broth> er-in-law, Levi Gorham, with scythe.
 The New England granite works of Hartford are erecting granite monu- ment to the late Glover Sanford, in Bridgcwatcr weighing twenty tons and costing about s6,OOO.
 Nineteen female base balllsts were near- ly mobbed, when they played u game in New Haven, the 14th. To crown their bad luck, the manager ran away with the funds accumulated by their tour through the country.
 Silas E. Cheney, of Lltchneld, the late Horace Greeley's brother-in-law, got mad at the local barber the other day and has had Q rival shop started, where shaving costs only five cents and hair cutting ten
 The oldest building in New Milford, erected i'll 1772, with oak timbers nine teen inches thick, has just been razed and the site will be occupied by u S5. 900 dwelling.
 Jacob Fritz, while standing on a Vol cotville street recently, was struck in the elbow by pistol ball. Fortunately, it passed between the bones near the elbow joint, so that no serious, permanent ln- jury will follow.
 reunion of the Connecticut regiments which served under Gen. N. P. Banks in the Department of the Gulf, will be held at Fenwick Grove. July 18th. Gen. Banks will address the gathering on the "Ameri- can Volunteer Soldier"
 The following was published in the Connecticut Gasette, Of January 15, 1764 :- 'Just imported from Dublin in the brig Darby, parcel Of Irish servants, both men and women, and to be sold cheap, by Israel Boardman, at Stamford.
 South Canaan's mathematical prodigy, Robert Wilcox, Jr., recently told Captain Gaylord. who Is eighty years old, how many seconds old he was, in less than half minute, and has performed even more rapid feats of rapid computation.
 A Rockville man picked up a black and white kitten in the fields the other da, It was the wrong kind of a cat, and nc " he. says that his worst wish for that animal ts-"O. wad some power the giftie gle him" to smell himself as ithers smell him.-[Willlmantic Enterprise.
 Inspired by the success of the New Haven and Fairfield celebrations, the citizens of New London propose to hold some exercises, on the sixth of next Sep- tember. commemorating the Centennial of the resistance to Benedict Arnold's in- vasion of New London and Groton.
 The counterfeit s bills on the Pawlinc, N. Y., Bank-one of the most dangerous of the recent counterfeits-can be detect ed from the fact that the T's in the print | ed matter on the back of the bill are not all crossed, and the reading on the up- per part of the back runs too close to the | border.
 The article in Harper's magazine for August. by the artist w. H. Gibson, on 'Snug Harbor and Hometown" Is really | A nh every one familiar with those places | readily surmised. It is very readable | and finely illustrated article Connecticut seems to be furnishing considerable food for magazine devourers just now.
 The semi-annnal returns of Odd Fellow Lodges In this State are now being made. They are up to July 1. Tables showing the standing of the order are very seldom made at the six months period. For many years Odd Fellowship has increased in this State every year. The hard times have had very little If any effect upon the order, but in some other States the busi ness depression bears heavily upon It.
 For a marriage license, the Connections statute fixes the charge at 50 cents Many have been In the habit of taking more than that sum, but it was not until the Rev. Mir. Bacon, New London minister. moved in the matter that any legal action vas taken against the practice. MT. Bacon prosecuted Mir. Thompson, the Sew Haven registrar of vital statistics or charging him s1.50 for a license to ( marry couple. I very singular case occurred recently n hoxbury. little boy was seriously Il With diphtheria. He was the owner 'f small dog, which had been denied lOCeSS to the sick room The doc ,,,n,,