The Newtown bee., 1880-08-04
DaEEDssry Eeoimgs.

 News has gone on a vacation.
 There were two funerals here Sunday.
 Hating is rather dull. Builders are busy.
 At this writing the weather is quite warm.
 Our street sprinkler, who suspended business for lack of water, has resumed.
 The late heavy rains did some damage to the embankment of the new railroad in different places.
 Miss Lima GrifiDg made a visit to Mil 1 ford Beach last week in company with Sandy Hook friends. -Ners.
 The Danbury Odd Fellows picniciied at Brookside Park Tuesday, where they met brethren from various lodges.
 Brookside Park is now connected with Danbury and Bethel by telephone. Un- derstand it is in contemplation to connect all the stations on the Danbury x Nor walk road.
 The fremen's picnic last week was decided success. It is said they netted over $200. The attendance was large. It 1 is estimated that there were at one time as many as three thousand people on the ground.
 The Shields Guards are out with pos ters announcing peach festival onTiIura- day and Friday evenings this week. Dan- 1 cing is to be feature. This is the init l ial number of the coming series of peach | festivals.
 Mrs. Henry Stevens of Nebraska, ar rived in Danb!ry last week and is visit ing relatives and old-time friends after an absence of about eight years. She is at present the guest of her father, Mir. Hiram Pulling.
 Not on the fence. He ran a neutral machine. A broom peddler was in town last week with a span of horses sporting nice cool blankets, one of which was let tered Hancock and English" and the other Garfield and Arthur" His new blooms were suggestive. There are nine deaths of children un- der one year old chronicled in the Demo- crat of Saturday, that have died in town l era infantum mostly. We hear of it out of town also. People from over the line towards Brewster5 report cases of it.
 It is understood that trial of skill in checker playing will take place here ] "Wednesday and Thursday. Noted play CTS from out of town are expected, amon~ others your MT. Wilson of Sandy Hook, to give Danburians 3 pull. Place of the conflict at the Hancock and English club rooms.
 Prof. Vennor was right on the first part of July and partly so from the 25th to the 30th, when he was to have frost and snow It is safer to predict hot weather iE July than cold. Still there might have been l frosts in Alaska and snow furries among 1 ''Greenland's icy mountains" He is the prophet of all North America Now we are ready for another batch of presic- tions.
 l On Sunday week Mrs. Ida L. Ellis, whom some of your Newtown readers knew, was carried to her last resting place. Funeral services were held at the residence of her father, Mr. Hiram Pulling where she died the Friday before. Fer remains were taken to North Salem, N. Y, for in- torment. By her death three interesting l children are made orphans. Their father died some three years since | You have heard that there are cases of the smallpox in Danbury, aud undoubted- l ly you have heard exaggerated accounts ot it. There have been few cases, some six well authenticated and one death The town authorities have put up a house | on tho town farm to which cases Of con tagious diseases can be taken and treat ea They have taken other precaution- ary measures and there appears no dan ger of the disease spreading to any great extent. We hear of no new we'll authen- ticated cases.
 HORACE.