The Newtown bee., 1880-02-18
Danbury.

carpenters arc very busy
 The Kohanza boys are going to hold ! sociables in their parlors. A new room for fancy store is be- ing fitted up. in Baldwin's block. 1 -Beckerlie < Co. have put in u. cir | new factory a Corliss engine of 100horse l power.
 1 -S. A. Main and 4. J. Smith repre- | 1 sent the Knights of Pythias in the grand i lodge, in New Haven this week
 1 A special joint committee, on tenn l peranee, has been constituted i'll the Leg | islature, and B. F. Bailey made chairman | A freman's trumpet, an elegant af- fair, now on exhibition here, is to be vo- ted to our firemen. The Bethel boys are admitted to competitions.
 The borough officials have given or ders to the police to arrest loungers who hang on the street corners and ob- struct travel. Also detailed one to make arrests for fast driving. ! A special missionary sermon was preached at the Methodist Church, Suil- day morning, and missionary collection taken. In the evening there was very interesting service, ill which the children figured principally,
 The special religious meetings at the lst Congregational Church, have beep continued with increasing interest dur ing the past week, and are continued this week. G
 A Juvenile Temperance meeting was held at West St. Congregational Churc Sunday afternoon. An enteresting se4
 vice and fine singing. A solo, composed
 ty one of our Danbury professors of mu- sic, was sung for the first time publicly.
 A meeting-a kind of overhow-was also held at the Opera House at the samo
 time. NIr. B. F. Bailey, who has been
 absent several weeks, Was present and
 addrcs 5ed the large audience assembl
 to greet him.
 This, Wednesday, evening the Will
 lage Improvement Society, together with
 the Danbury Relief Society give Jap
 anese Tea Party, at the Opera House, to raise funds sfor village improvements, : etc, which has been looked forward to with considerable interest. It is unique in conception, and promises to he rich and interesting. X sale of cups will fol low tea, and presents of Japanese napkin = rings to purchasers, the gift of the Ne,cs. the whole to bo followed by d game of t the flight fantastic"
 U The Young Mems Dramatic Associa- - tion gave a fine entertainment at the Op- 5 era House on Monday evening week to a '- large and well-pleased ed audience. They e rendered Robert Emmett" in very l. acceptable manner. They are amateurs t but good judges in such matters pro 'l nounced their acting equal to most pro " fessionals. On the following evening the, gave the " Drunkard to snIal CT nous S though by no means small audience T. The entertainments were given for thu V benefit of the Village Improvement Soci
 etv. The financial result was quite satis Ut factory.
 h. Representative D. P. Nichols is O i'd the House special committee on contin ot gent expenses. He is also on the com 0l ,d tives to consider the location of the pro le posed branch Insane Asylum. Danbur ,e bids for it, also our neighbor of Ridge ld field Mr. Nichols has taken the fish ( 5e HeversInk Pond under his ~ Ea ii c troduceu n bill, which is passed, prohli ,y itfng fishing in said pond from Nov. ] in to April 15. This selected little lake ut in New Fairfield just over the borders st It is said this bill is aimed at N. r. Sal
 bath-breakers. Of course it don't touc ov Danburians.
 ~ MT. Jesse H. Lord, formerly of tl f ', Neacs now connected with the bostc i,, Journal of Commerce, has written vel ,, readable article on hat making, eXplal .. ing the n.od,ts Operaadt, which is interes ,oe Ing, not only to hatters but to all othe - who are interested i'll the productive
 f dustries of our country. Hi reproduce os in the Ne,cs This recalls MT. l.. .. mind: he IS well-remembered here ... many, Your correspondent has not ft ., rotten him since he introduced himse tho He had called once in his wanderll 'tn about us d To cal seeking whom he mig catch. On his second call we had f' E., gotten his name-we are not good at membe, ing names, and long ones esp
 ially give us "Jesse;" we called Il
 Mr., but could not get beyond the h;
 dle. .'Why," said he, don't you $ i'll your prayers? My name is Lord" ,n then remembered having heard that na o. somewhere After that we had no di .aa culty in knowing the contemplating loci
 Saturday evening, about half-p eight, we heard d cry of !" fire and he 4r,, a rush of many feet and looking (
 saw the Humane boys rushing up stI
 with their machine, followed by St Of of boys, and the throng on the street sick Danbury seem ed to be out,) was surg vul- toward the depot; the 1st church cted rang out an alarm, and the whole pc ding lation was in whirl of excitem'
 Now, we thought for an item. Going Il In to learn what was up, and going up st mch a few blocks, we met the firemen con at back at 6 leisurely pace, while mos neat the people wore a broad grim, and III sells were smiling audibly. As nearly as BEE could learn the cause of the racket S
 one in the ncighborhood of the Woo and House, cried out q mnrder:' whethe
 , had met Schenck, and thought he Nay killed, it does not appear, and then s v one for experiment probably, cried .'f ;oyad or < Sophiar. which others cauSht
 and 50 it was passed down street. days MT F. T. "il oniio n'' ~ - ,rtain house and grounds to the New Eng -; ,bt Railroad Company; understand he