The Newtown bee., 1880-11-24
Danbury.
(Left over from last week

Business is dull. particularly hating.
 MT. F. J. Elwell has been visiting Europe.
 The J. M. Ives company are enlarging their premises.
 The fourth wire for telephone commu- nication with Bethel is being put up.
 Election excitement Is over, and we are now looking anxiously towards Thanks giving.
 The campaign banners have been taken down. We miss the familiar faces of the candidates.
 Messrs. Seth A. Downs, Geo. ". Ham, ilton and Geo. E. Ryder are drawn as iu- TOTS in the Court of Common Pleas.
 Fifteen licenses have been granted in this town. There were thirty-one appli- cations. Two of the fifteen are for beer selling.
 It is said some Danburians illuminated for both sides at the late campaign pa- rades. Nett result-got laughed at by both parties.
 Many of our streets have been much improved of late by laying new walks and repairing the old. particularly Liberty and Elm streets.
 Mir. M Leahey. of the Opera House sa- loon, has been before the court for al- legged violation of the liquor law, and fined heavily. Appealed.
 Recently Mir. and Mrs. John Raymond celebrated their golden wedding. But very few ever celebrate the fiftieth ami versary of their marriage.
 One Cunningham cut his wife's head badly by blow with carving-knife, the other day, because she refused to go for the liquor. She refuses to testify against her husband.
 Rev. MT. Ferguson of Bowling Green K, has been engaged to supply the pull pit of the Disciples church, for few months, with some probability of perma- nently settling here. | The flyers Sisters, who gave an enter tainment in the Opera House on Saturday evening, Nov. 9th, undertook to repeat it on Sunday night, but the authorities in- terfered and prevented 1t.
 On Saturday, Nov. 18th. Mrs. H. B. Botsford If Sandy Hook. and Misses Adella and Lottie Botsford of Palestine. visited Danbury. Mrs. B. stopped over Sunday with Mrs. F. H. Austin.
 MT. N. c. Pond, former principal of our public school, with two other school m en, were in town, recently, looking into our public school buildings, with view to the erection of school buildings in | Portchestcr, N. I.
 On Saturday, Nov. 18th, Mir Edward Hurgin trundled Mir. A. A. Scott on a wheelharrow from Holley's factory to the Court House, in payment of an election bet. They were accompanied by crowd of hilarious boys. DanbuIy has three citizens who have 1 lived under every presidential admins traitor the country has had. These are Amos Morris, Eli T. Hoyt and Barnabas Allen. Uncle Amos was born before Washington w"s chosen for the first term He and Mir. Allen gave their first vote L. Madison. Mir. Hoyt cast his first vote ! for Monroe.-Ne,rs.
 Danbury Is we'll favored in tho way oi public officers, and finds TO fault. Wt have Hon. D. F. Nichols, State Treasu Ter; c. H. Crosby, County Sheriff: Judge l. D. Brewster. State Senator. D. B Booth. who Is elected representative, has served three terms in the Legislature He Is talked of in connection with the speakership of the House of Representa- tives.
 Danbury has beaten the world on tur nips. There was one on exhibition here last week very closely resembling the human form in everything except head It was raised by Mir. E. s. Davis. It is s curious freak of nature. In the days o the old American Museum it would have beer a Gud-send to P. T., who would have put a head on it and given q detailed his tory of it back to the Cannibal Islands It would beat his Fiji Mermaid. It must be seen to be appreciated. HORACE.