The Newtown bee., 1880-11-03
Local and Otherwise.

We send tho BEE for eight months for sl.0o.
 Yesterday was Q lovely day, and votes were plentiful.
 Mir. John McMahon Is having house built just above the tunnel.
 It Is rumored that there are to be sev- eral marriages in town In a short time. Rev. F. w. Barnett and wife, of Wilton, are the guests of Capt. Joseph Blackman. Mir. David BradIey's little son, Bernie, Is quite sick. pr. Vile Is attending him. H.G. Crawford is clustering the new >ille.
 Mrs. W. W. Perkins, who has been wis iting friends In Uxhridge. Mass, return ed home Friday evening.
 Next Friday evening the newly-clected officers of Granite Lodge. G. T., Sandy Hook, will be installed.
 A little girl. daughter of Mir. Thomas Malloney, died Sunday evening, and was buried Monday afternoon.
 Mrs NJ. c. Wheeler has been Prostra- ted the past week with measles, but pros poets are now of Il speedy recovery. Frederick Johnson's engagement as assistant postmaster closed last satur- day. Fred will attend school during the Winter.
 Mir. Andrew MeNurney has the con- tract for the mason work on the new house which Mir. Wm, Platt is going to have built.
 The new railroad through the Glen seems to have great attractions Large crowds visit the sce..e of mod@s operd"d' every Sunday.
 The threatening weather of last week culminated In Q rain storm. Our first snow storm Is in the future, and we hope not very near.
 A democratic caucus was held In Glow CTS hall. Friday night, when Mir. Patrick Mccarthy and Mir. Wm. l. Sanford were nominated for representatives.
 All persons wishing to have articles published In the BEE must bring them be- fore Tuesday noon. Anything brought after that time will have to lay over till the next week.
 Mir. Frank P. Botsford Is sick, suffering with malaria, and has been confined tt his bed several days. He is under the care of Dr. Monroe Judson, and Is i'm proving rapidly.
 Rev. Dr. Beardsley and wife were tho guests of the Grand Central Hotel The venerable Doctor was requested to con duct the services in the Congregations church. and did so-
 Mir. Abel StiIlson pulled up from hi garden, on last Friday, common whit' turnlp, which measured, both ways, two feet seven inches, and weighed sever pounds and seven ounces
 Mir. A. McNurney, who has taken thu contract for tae mason work for the three depots In this vicinity, on the N. '. & N E. railroad, Is at work on the foundation for the depot in the Glen.
 MT. Noble Bowles of New Preston, Ct has just finished and erected very i'm ,Gothic-fnisn Italian marble stone, owe the grave of Mrs. Bridget Griffin, in tn Catholic cemetery. Sandy Hook.
 Rev. Mir. Upson of New Haven, wh was announced to conduct the services | the Congregational church. last Sunday did not appear, but sent telegram O Saturday saylng that he was sick.
 The bo;s bass of the season was caugl In Taunton Lake last Wednesday morI ing by Mr. Andrew Nichols. It weighe i've pounds. It must have been n re, beauty. Andrew can "take the cake"
 Tho track Is laid on the new bridl across the Housatonic river, and as a bridges and cuts are about finished b. tween here and Waterbury, the laying ( track will be rapidly pushed through that place.
 MT. G. A. Hough, accompanied by h grandson, arrived home last Wednestlg from his trip West. Mir. H. reports thi he found pretty severe Winter weather Michigan-snow six to eight inches det when he left.
 A breeze has been stirred up in Ha' Ieyville. and injunctions served upon u N Y. X N. l.. railroad company, to pr vent them from laying pipes to conv' water to their tank. MT. Benj- Hawl claims that 1t will injure his mill pro erty.
 The nursery firm of k. G. Chase < Cc of Geneva. N. Y., will be represent here for few days longer by their ager A. D. McLaGerty. who will be glad to fl nish people n thls locality anything Spring setting only.
 E. c. Morris & Co.,, of Danbury, ha sold two of their celebrated Baxter fl naces in Newtown. recently. one to N S. Ambrose Blackman of Hawleyvil who will soon move into his new houi ard the other has been purchased Rev. Father McCartan for the new p' sonage.
 We have been at some pains to not those indebted to us for advertising a subscriptions, and we have not hea from good number. Our friends W attend to this matter, and those findi this item marked with pencil will kn Its meaning, and let us have the amo, due us immediately.
 MT. Nelson Noble and family. aceo panied by Mir James Somers, arrived