The Newtown bee., 1880-12-15
Bethel.

-DuSllttSS oi dll hIlN%' IS SSfy dttI1, anu | the circulation of money is out of fashion.
 The weather was intensely cold last Friday the eoldest day of the Winter, so far.
 Mr Davis Knapp has commenced sort l ing tobacco. and employs twenty-six hands.
 Gilbert Bros. have just received 8 large cargo of lumber. This begins to look like business.
 Assistant PM Woodman has placed a new box for the depositing of lette at the store of Cole < Green.
 Mr. Julius Dickens has resigned his po- sition at Clarks hand-hox shop and taken d position in Cole < Greens store.
 The Ladies Sewing Society, of the Episcopal church, met at Mrs. Orrin Benedict's, last Thursday evening.
 A son was born to Mr. A. T. Noxon last week. Al has our sympathies, or con- @ratulations, which ever pleAses him hest.
 The signs of the timos indicate that on the evening of Dec 3lst Putnam Lohge K. of P, will have large attaudanco at their b Il.
 MT William Lawrence has returned from his visit to Brooklyn, and we are 1 pleased to sec his blooming countnnance once more.
 Last Friday evening the Bethel Cornet l Hall. Music was furnished by Reed and BOughton.
 Fox Bros presented us with fine lot of fish, consisting of pike and perch, which were highly appreciated at the pa- ternai hive.
 The illness of Rev. G. X. Parkngton, ot New Haven, nwakens the deepest anxi- ety in this community, where he is known and highly esteemed.
 Next Monday evening the K. of P, Putnam Lodge, will nominate officers for the next term and it i7 desirable that ev- cry Knight he present
 Mir. Henry Lyon has been quite i'll. An operation was performed upon him not long since, and it is rumored that anoth- CT one will be necessary.
 Mrs. James Hurlburt, daughter of the late John Hart, died at her home in Bridgeport, amdhe remains were brought to Bethel for burial yesterday.
 Mfr John Cornell, of Ridgefield, is in town, and will remain for the Winter. He will miss his room-mate, MT. Nat Raymond. who has gone South to keep warm.
 A meeting of Co. A, 4th Regt.. will be held next Saturday, the 18th. for the pur- pose Of considering the invitation to-at- tend the Inauguration of the Pr sident- elect, March 4th, next.
 Mr Rufus Short went tu Bantam Lake in company with some fri-nde, last week, and while walking to the ice fell and su*- tnlned serious injuries. Last "Wednesday Mr. Short was brought home, and Dr. Barber attends him.
 The funeral of Mrs. Annis Smith, who died last Saturday at her late residence in Elmwood, took place Monday after noon, Rev. Wm. Brown officiating. Rev. 2. C. Pattison was sick and could not at tend. Mrs. Smith was 73 years of ago. 4 daughter was born to Mir. Chas. |. Hoyt, Sunday. Mir. Hoyt was seen SuIl- day morning, early, walking hurtiedly down the street, and as he turned into Rector he sat down on the ice suddenly. We were too far away to inquire his hur- ry or to ask if ile was hurt but we laughed ali the same.
 ) Messrs. Fox, Sloan, r. Cole T. Parks l.. Stone, and others, who were fishing at Bantam Lake, returned home Friday evening. highly pleased with their week : visit and the success they had in fishing = Mir. Watson Fox and Mir. Oliver Sloai caught 195 pounds of fish. The others 5 did not do quite so we'll, yet they were satisfied with their luck. The entire party r were the guests of the Isllnd Hotel, anC . the landlord, Mir. Bradley, entertained them finely There were a few mishn. < [ and ircidents. One or two have reachet : us. The most prominent was the fr4ez V ing Of Mr. Sloan's ears. Tais he had no - provided for. though he wore a:i ulste : when he went away and relied somewha : upon its lowering qualities to shield him l but he was induced to exchange his ulstr [ for d pea jacket, and it could not, CT di,
 
 z ceeded in thawing them out, still the : look very rosy. Hawley Jennings wa e up at the lake also, and in his wandering q saw fox tracks i'll the snow and when h y reached the hotel he informed MT. Brad y ley of it. Mr. B. immediately set to worl 6 to put his chickens out of the reach of th e fox, and in the hustle of it some of tn [ guests wanted to know what was tn If cause of the extra precaution, and, whe < told immediately communicated the fac
 to others; and soon our friend, Mr Wat
 son Fox, became aware that Mir. BratlIe
 could not get them. It was d good jok
 on Mr. Fox, and it was heartily enioye !, by all when the matter was explained
 When Genera Grant was in Milar Italy, on his tour around the world, Il was met on the street one day by a well # dressed woman. who stopped him an e asked the general if he knew hel e "Yes," said he. ''you kept an appi } and fruit stand near the gale leading t h the war department in Washington. s He asked her what she WAS doing i e Milan, and she replied that her son ha