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LONG HILL.

A. W. Coan and wife spent Sunday in Shelton.
 Members of Grace church choir were presented with bouquets of beautiful and fragrant arbutus, Sunday, by Marcus Nichols. X new feature of the service was solo sung by Miss Dora Beach during the offertory.
 W. c. Sniffin and daughter of Bridge port were with Henry Wills, Sunday.
 H. R. and ". c. Wheeler, administra- tors, have sold land with buildings on Myrtle avenue, Bridgeport, to I. Grow Ter.
 Next Sundays offering at Grace church will be for the diocesan convention.
 Beach Hall and F. T. Booth are at work for M. o. Wheeler.
 William Mallett and wife of Tashua were here, Sunday.
 Suffering from severe cold, Rev MT Boylston omitted his intended sermon on the laying on of hands, Sunday, but made few earnest remarks on the necessity of confirmation and again invited all to meet at the church, Friday evening.
 John NJ. Wheeler and family were Sun day guests of NJ. o. Wheeler.
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BRIDGEPORT.

George Gowdy is preparing to open a tack and nail factory in the shop at West Stratford.
 The New York Sunday papers have will be obliged to sell them at 6 cents a copy. The World has given notice that copies of the daily issue are no longer re- turnable.
 Thomas Walker, formerly with A. L.. | Wnton on Middle street, is no longer with l.. B. Vaill of West Stratford.
 The annual meeting of the Associated charities will be held at 305 Lafayette street, Monday, Eth. Officers will be elected and other important business transacted.
 W. D. Bishops steam yacht Venture has been heightened five feet.
 W. F. Swords and wife are home from Florida.
 Memorial day will, as usual, be well observed in this city. P. Wade, Jr, is chairman of the G. A. R. committee.
 Don't refuse to respond heartily when asked to help defray the expenses of Sat urday night concerts at Seaside Park, this Summer. Bridgeport is justly proud of her splendid Wheeler & Wilson band, but the music never sounds better than when it floats over this great breathing pluce of the city of parks and bridges.
 The Rambling Wheelmen had a club run over the city, Friday night; 15 mem- bers participated.
 Mrs Mary Wooster of Birmingham has spent several days with her son, Patent Attorney A. NJ. Wooster.
 The funeral of the wife of Rev C. Ray Palmer at the North Congregational church, last Friday, shows what hold a Godly, devoted woman gains on the hearts of business men and citizens gen erally. The floral tributes were lavishly beautiful, including memorials from the Chinese for whom Mrs Palmer labored and President Dwight of Yale prOnounc- ed the funeral eulogy. Mrs Palmer was prominent in every good work and her memory will be sweet in many heart for months to come.
 William MecIel, the painter suicide, died at the hospital, last Friday.
 Druggist Edwin shelton died, Satur- day evening; funeral on Wednesday.
 Ruth, widow of AIonzo Jennings, was buried, Monday, from the residence of her daughter, Mrs Josephine M. Downes of II Harriett street. She died, Saturday, so years old.
 George, son of Eugene I. Bunten of Prospect street, was drowned in Pem- croke Fake, Saturday.
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EAST VILLAGE.

Mrs Sarah Blackman attended the fun eral of her brother, Lewis Booth, at White Hills.
 Charles MeEwen has purchased q pair of oxen of Bonnet Nichols.
 Charlie Sherwood has moved into A. J |. Beers's house.
 Ed Johnson has exchanged his sorrel horse for another.
 W. W. Bliss was home, over Sunday. The setting of Will Clarll's incubator nroved failure.
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MONROE.

Jake Miller works for F. ". Wheeler, Charles Shelton is building black smith and joiner shop.
 Allie $. Edwards has a pair of pet calves, Susie and Speck, broken to the yoke.
 H. ". Edwards of Johnson hill adver- tised ? pigs for sale in the BEE and could have sold 100, he says. Custo- mers came in person or wrote from Bir- mingham, Shelton, Huntington, Nichols, Trumbull and Bridgeport. All that ben eft for only 25e.
 Master Clarence Clark of Bridgeport has visited his aunt, Mrs Austin Gannan.
 The petition for the new road from the foot of the hill near Abram Purdy's to Stepney Depot was signed by A. B. Cur 1 tis, John Benedict, Charles H. Hawley, D. L. Sturges, E. A. Daily, Solon B. l Wales, Eli B. Seeley, H. F. Burr, Q. G. Sherman, John Olmstead, George 5. Grey, c. A. Abbott, Frank Beardsley, l John D. Beach, E. NJ. Beardsley, F. W. Hawley, B Curtis, F. c. Beardsley, Will l liam E. Brothwell, Philo J. Burr, c. M. Robertson, ". B. Lanphear, J. F. Olm- stead, E.. s. Olmstead, Henry Sherman, Louis B. Beardsley, Charles s. Booth, George ". Clark. The petition for the two and | half miles of new road to H. E. Plnmb's Wildwood flag station on the Derby extension was signed by Alex Sinclair, H. Burr, Legrand Osborne, Waite Clark, Charles NJ. Beardsley, H. II. Bliss, Edward E. Johnson, l.. T. Sharpe, Emory Futile, I. H. Lockwood, William \. McEwen, Andrew T.. Burr, Thomas Osborne, s B. Clark, Oscar J. Sherwood, John ". Waterbury, A. J.
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Brace Up.

You are feeling depressed, your appe- tite is. poor, you are bothered with head ache, you are fidgety, nervous and gen orally out of sorts and want to brace up. Brace up, but not with stimulants, spring medicines, or bitters, which have for their basis veay cheap, bad whisky, and which stimulate you for an hour and then leave you in worse condition than before. What you want is an alterative that will purify your blood, start healthy action of liver and kidneys, restore your vital ity and give renewed health and strength. Such medicine you will find in Electric bitters and only 50 cents a bottle at E. F. HaWlev's.
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TASHUA.

Abraham Klein moved, Saturday, out of Dr Hills tenement to the house he has been building.
 Adelbert Hubbell moved into Dr Hills tenement, the last day of April.
 Mrs Mary Everett's house, after being shut up all Winter, again shows signs of being occupied.
 Clare c. BuIkley, the rectors brother, spent Sunday with his family at the rec tory.
 Miss Sarah J. Nichols was one of a party of II that partook of the birthday supper of Margie Bulkley on her fifth anuiyerSary
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STAMFORD.

John Lattin's bakery is nearly ready for business. Siuce he began the build ing and oven, the weather has greatly retarded operations and most men would have suffered annoyance; but the many vexatious delays have seemed only to in- crease his stock of stories and love for a good joke.
 MT D-Orsay of New York, an expert in building and altering church cdifices, Is to meet the members of the NJ. E. church, this week, to suggest plan for alteration of their building.
 The funeral services of Mrs Graves were held under the direction of Presid- ing Elder Cheney. Quite a number of ministers were present and took part in the exercises
 Curtis Judson, s4, was buried, Tues day.
 The family of Rev MT Walker, rector of Christ church, have returned from q visit of some weeks at Cromwell, Conn. Mrs Walkers health seems much im- proved.
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TRUMBULL.

$. E. Beach and A. A. Hall were Dem ocratic delegates to the State convention at Hartford.
 The entertainment of the Nameless club, last week Thursday evening, was as successful and well attended as it's predecessors. The program consisted of shadow pictures, representing several unusual feats in surgical practice, by W. $. and A. k. Plumb and o. B. Burton , tabieau, Jealousy" c. F. Plumb, Misses Florence Merwin, Jennie Wheeler; dia- logue, "Only a Working Girl" Q. B. Burton, A. E. Plumb, Mrs ". 5. Plumb, Misses Alice Burton, Cora Beach, Natal ie AIerwin, Jennie Wheeler; tabieau, ssThe Soldiers Dream,H MT and Mrs N.
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Beers, M J. Mallett, Charles l.. Plumb, c. T. Sherwood. This road was describ- ed as starting nearly opposite the late Sheldon Hubbell place and running northwest to Zoar Bridge across the pri- vate way through lands of the estate of the late Timothy 5. Wells, Charles Me Ewen. Henry E. Plumb and Samuel Stephens, to cross the old Webb road and the Housatonic railroad by an overgrade crossing about 800 feet west of the bridge crossing the Little Boys Half Way Riv- CT. The town now owes S3006 on ac- count of Zoar Bridge, borrowed from the town, deposit fund and has q floating debt of $1600, Seiectman s. 5. Hurd hay ing paid off $500 of the latter recently,
 The town has arranged with Oxford to build a horse shed at Zoar Bridge, Mrs Henry D. Wheeler has taken the contract to keep the poor another year
 George W Clark has been doing some fine copying of late, particularly Swiss scene and, prettier still, 'sIhe Evening
 Hour.''
 The blizzard turned Uncle Charles
 Bennett head over heels into a drift, SC
 that he could hardly crawl into his house
 and it was several days before his old
 steed got food or drink.
 Miss Fanny Burr has pursued her art at New | Yorlz through the Winter. |
 L. s. Patterson, for 15 or 16 years in the employ of the Housatonic road, re- gently gave up his position, rather than move his family to Bridgeport. Mrs Kate Hall has left Jesse Turner's l i'll Pepper street and wants .a place fol the Summer.
 F. w. Wheeler's new horse barn, 40x2e l feet, built by Philo !. Burr and Freder- ick ". Hawley, is daisy, fitted up with
 latest conveniences. It has room for six stalls, with every arrangement for feed on the second floor and is to be joined to the old barn by a shed 20x24 feet, which l will break northwest winds and give q
 shed to drive under. Mr Wheeler has had fine horses on hand, one with a
 Clay sire and Hooker dam, a Vcrmonter six years ole, ,an Ohio colt and 1.-two Walkill Chief and Morgan horses from Vermont.
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The familiar voice of Smith McLane IS o .ce more heard in our village.
 David Blackman makes ready for inn provements on his house; H. H. Bliss and son do the work.
 James ". Clarke of Orange has been in town.
 o. J. Sherwood has a new horse.
 Oliver is trimming up the place of D. Blakeman, his father, and painting the house. Benjamin Miles of Beacon Falls has moved into the Nichols place on Barn hill.
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s. Plumb, o. B. Burton, w. N. French; song, MT and Mrs O. B. Burton, Mrs Plumb, ". N. French; duet, MT and Mrs o. B. Burton. This was followed by such supper as the Congregational ladies know so well how to prepare. Re ceipts were about $11. Among those present from out of town was MT Dibble of Birmingham.
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fine mixed coffee, 25c pound; Japan and Oolong tea Bee pound, I pounds Sl; fine currant jelly pounds for 25c; choice buckwheat flour 15 pounds 50c, at ". E. WILLS, 5S State street, between Main street and Post Office, Bridgeport.
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Hardware!

The best place to buy Hard ware and all farmers Supplies is at the SHELTON HARD WARE STORE, where can be found a full line of Agricultural Implements, G:rden and Grass Seeds, Paints and Oils, Baby Carriages, Masons' and Builders Supplies, etc. Agents for the Genuine Buckeye Mower and Tiger Horse Rake, also fo Mart inez S Longman's Best Prepared Paints. Large lot of Poultry Netting at lower prices than ever. Bradley's and all the lead ing brands of Fertilizers in large stock. Call and examine our goods and prices.
 RUGGLES < CLARK.
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MEssRs PRocTER & GAMBLE Clnluuah
 Gentlemen Although stranger and testimonial entirely certainly unsolicited, take pleasure estyng the excellence of your Ivor Soap and thanking for putting it the market low price It has entirely supplaned the of Castillo and other fine snaps household for several past being in inferior and from fifty seventyfvc per economical good find for the purity of soap try with brush for cleansing the teeth and the taste of the vo Soap used perfectly sweet and clean.
 Very Respectfully Yours, w. S. BAKER M D.
 A WORD OF WARNING. many white soaps represented be Just good the Ivory ARE NOT like all coue lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine Ask for Ivory" Soap and Esis upon getting it.
 1885 by yprner & &Gqmblc
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DLASTER FOR SALE-About 20 tons O l Nova Scotia Plaster for sale. Apply tC F. A. MALLETT, Newtown.
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WHAT IS COMING Now Rabbits and Welcome soap cake 25c; best Pi illsbu1y and Jones patent flour soc bag; choice creamery butter 2ec pound, pounds s1 !;
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NTOTICE-The copartnership heretofore ex. 1N isting between H. $. Blackman & Co. oi Hawleyville has been dissolved by mutual consent. H. S. Blacl<man assumes the part nership debts and all partnership credits are to be paid to him. H. $. BLACkMAN, JOHN T. LANCASTER. Newtown, April 2S, 1888.
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TOR SALE-The barn standing on the S grounds of the Congregational society, Trumbul Center For particulars inquire of $. B. BEACH, Committee.
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\, OTICE-I would have it distinctly under
 stood that will pay all bills of my own contracting, without having them charged to any one else. ARTHURJ. WILSON, ,Newtown. April 26, lSSS
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DIGS FOR SALE.-An extra nice lot of \ young Pigs, ready to go May l0 at the served No chromos or cider, 'and don't you forget it." F. D. HOLLISTER, Monroe, near East Village.
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FTRsT.-This is the best value ever offered and the exceeding low price, 49c, places it within the reach of all.
 SECOND.-It has a 3-ply pure linen bosom, md the body of the shirt is of Utica muslin, acknowledged by all experts to be one of the most durable shirting cottons manufactured.
 THIRD.-The seams are all fellcd and facings
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George Gowdy is preparing to open a tack and nail factory in the shop at West Stratford.
, 1888-04-10
rOpOsals

Proposals for construction of Bath
House at Fort d. A. Russell, Wyo.
Depot Quartermaster's Office, Cheyenne
Depot, Wyo., April 10, 1888. Sealed
proposals, in triplicate, subject to the
usual conditions, will be received at this
office until u m. Wednesday, May 9,
1888, at which time and place they will
be opened in the presence of bidders, for
furnishing material and constructing a
Bath House at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo.
The government reserves the right to re-
ject any or all proposals. Preference
given to articles of domestic production
and manufacture, conditions of price and
quality being equal, and such preference
given to articles of American production
and manufacture produced on the Pacific
coast to the extent of the consumption re-
quired by the service there. Plans and
specifications can be seen, circulars con-
tanning instructions to bidders, and blank
forms of proposals can be obtained on APP
plication at this office. Envelopes con
tanning proposals should be plainly
marked: Proposals for construction of
Bath House, land addressed to the under
signed, Charles f. Humphrey. Captain
and Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. A.
, 1888-04-10

Constable Goddard left for Sidney last
evening, and will return to-day with Mil
ton Marriug, charged with the larceny of
$50 in cash.
Marring was entrusted with a check for
the amount named by his employers, cat
tlemen near Fort Laramie, and sent to the
post to convert the paper into currency.
Instead of properly performing his mis-
sion, the scamp pocketed the !SIoney and
continued to Cheyenne, subsequently
~journeying to Sidney. AT the latter place
he was arrested on a telegram to Sheriff
Eubanks, and incarcerated to await the
arrival of a Laramie county official.
Marring is said to have previously borne
a good reputation, but in this transaction
his guilt and evil intentions are so appar-
ent that he will probably be prosecuted
without pity.
, 1888-04-10
Roland Reed.

The prince of American comedians, the
Simon pure, IS-karat article of fun, the
compendium OF art, humor and drollness,
will begin a two nights engagement at
the opera house Thursday evening. There
is but one Reed, and he is t day the
peoples favorite,
There is about Roland Reed a peculiar
personality that makes him popular. He
is an eccentric comedian, with all the in
dividuality hat is so marked in Florence
and the late Raymond. He has a eli
entale all his W and a magnetism that
attracts and attaches to him: many
friends wherever he goes. 1t therefore
transpircs that it matters little the nature
of the comedy in which he appears. His
new piece. The Woman Halter, is prob
ably the most cleverly constructed comedy
that Mr.. Reed has yet appeared in.
Mr.. Reed, with a good company, pre-
seuts Humbug, a delightfully."- comical and
breezy farce comedy. Thursday night, and
his new and popular play, The Woman
Halter, Friday. The Reed engagement
will be a pleasant relief to the theater-
goers, who have recently gone through a
rather trying ordeal.
, 1888-04-10
GOSHEN HOLE COAL.
A Fine Bed of Black Diamonds
Sixty Miles Away.
.Twenty-six Inch Vein at a Depth
of Fifty Feet.
The Coal Equal in Quality to the
Colorado Product.

Persons who have been accustomed to
semi-occasionally remarking either exult-
ingly or sorrowfully, that Laramie
ty has no coal, must cease their prattle.
1t is too true that the absence of this
commodity is a serious handicap, and it is
a fact that denizens OF this bustling burg
have upon several occasions been seriously
incommoded by the lack of a sufficient
supply of coal. At the same time no one
will forget hat fuel is now placed on this
market at a price comparing very favora-
bly, with the tariff imposed in other towns
along the line OF the Union Pacific, and
that this condition of affairs is largely due
to the efforts of Cheyenne business men.
For many years it has been well known
that coal occurred in Goshen Hole, this
county, but the quality and quantity of
the deposits have been until quite recent
ly unknown.
The first fair sample of Goshen Hole
coal was exhibited in this city yesterday
by Mr.. Bariana, the a~rtesian well borer,
who has prospected quite extentively in
that vicinity.
The specimen was a block about fifteen
inches square, and greatly resembled the
Colorado article. 1t will not slack unless
exposed to the elements for a lengthy
period, and in this greatly resembles the
famous Rock Springs coal, a Wyoming
product marketed as far East as Iowa.
The Goshen Hole coal beds are about
sixty miles from Cheyenne, and in close
proximity to u survey of the Burlington
and Missouri extension of the Broken
Bow, Neb., line. The vein is twenty-six
inches in thickness, and the shaft from
which the specimen was taken is
only fifty feet beneath the sur
face. The mine is perfectly dry at
present, but Mr.. Bariana figures that at a
depth OF $50 feet the vein will become
damp and the formation of the coal change
from soft to hard, a closer approach to the
priced Rock Springs article.
Goshen Hole ~ranchmen have used the
fuel for years and pronounce it of excel
lent quality. Cheyenne people who have
tested the coal also sound its praises.
The mine is owned by gentlemen resid-
ing in this city and interested in Laramie
county. They will prosecute the work of
development with due diligence, realizing
that with the advent of a railway their
property will become very valuable.
1t is not at all improbable that in time
Goshen Hole coal will be transported to
Cheyenne over the Burlington line.
In the neighborhood of the mines is on
one side the fertile lands of Goshen Hole,
watered from the OVERLOOKING Platte, and
on the other a mining region, both of
which will eventually consume considera-
BILE coal.
By the way, it might be suggested that
Goshen Hole would not be a bad place in
which to prospect for natural gas.
, 1888-04-10
Real Estate.

The following instruments were filed
for record In the county clerks Office yes.
terday:
Chas. Cushingberry to the Wyoming
Development company, section l, townsh'p
% north, range SO west, 63S acres; 81.
Union Pacific railway to j. G. Corey
lot 3, block 357; 5000.
Desert patent to Robert TAFT, for l6C
acres of land in Laramie county.
Bond for a deed for eighty acres of land
in section 81. township Is north, range
10 west, Warren 1--we Stock company to
A. W. Haywood; $24O.
Same to same for adjoining eighty acres.
$24O.
, 1888-04-10
A Range Outrage.

Special Dispatch to The Leader.
RAwLINs, Wyo., April .9.-Informa-
ton has just reached here of the incendi-
airy burning of the ranch dwelling house
of the II cattle company, a few nights
since, The loss is $1,000. This is the
second incendiary destruction of property
of this ranch in the last six months. The
first loss was $4,000. The II company
cut down the range wages last fall, there
by mourning the bitter luminosity of the
unprincipled aud reckless cowboy ele-
ment. Some months since Range Mana
ger Andrewsl twas shot at in a treacherous
Manner, narrowly escaping death. There
is absolutely no clue to the perpetrators
of the series of outrages.
, 1888-04-10

Y. NJ. G. A. hall was well filed last
evening with patrons of the gymnasium
and friends OF the performers and L. +.
Wells, the retiring superintendent. The
entertainment was all hat had been pro-
missed, being one of the finest of the class
ever given in the city. The club swinging
by the young ladies and Mr.. Harmon
was especially fine. Mr.. Wilcox sus-
tanned his reputation as an accomplished
cornetist. The solos by Mr.. Henderson
and Miss Patterson were artistically rem
dered, and Miss Lathrop and Pierce
Marksville read with their usual spirit and
grace. The horizontal and parallel bar
and turning ring exhibitions were very
good and we're loudly applsuded.
, 1888-04-10

James Pope Robinson, prosecuting at
torney for Sweetwater county. died at
Green River, Sunday evening at I o'clock.
Mr.. Robinson came to this territory only
recently from Illinois and was unques-
tionahly a man of fine mental attainments.
His sudden death is a sad ending to what
might have proven a brilliant career. DIR.
Garrard. an old friend of the family, left
for Green River on the flyer this
morning to make arrangements for the
funeral.
, 1888-04-10

The discovery of an innocent-lookinp
tin tube, with a charred fuse protfuding
from one end, near the little evening
Bladder Office Yesterday morning created
a panic among the attaches of hat estab,
lishment. Under the impression that the
cartridge contained either dynamite OF
giant powder, it was carefully carried tc
the police station. While the terror
stricken owners of the Bladder trembled
in the marshal's Office a policeman NUT
tered something about AL the fools not
being dead yet" and emptied a couple of
pounds of mud from the tube into the
gutter.
, 1888-04-10
He Loves Cheyenne whisky.

Honest, now, Judge" said Jay Gould
to his honor w. f. Lee yesterday; every
time l look across a bar some policeman
arrests me and swears that | was com,
pletely paralyzed, It's a dirty shame,
Judge, SO it is"
My misguided friend" quoth he Of
the ermine, ''your vile calumnies fall
upon barren ground this time. The charge
lodged against you Is vagrancy; what is
your plea?"
This announcement rather dumb
founded Mr. Gould, who is really quite
willing to work when sober. He almost
wept, and refuted the imputation by
stating that both Marshal Schnitger and
Officer Thomson would testify to his
deftness with a No. . shovel and a four
pound pick.
ALTER the charge to drunkenness, "
said the complainant, as Jay continued to
extol himself as a son of toll and main.
tain hat the ~workingman should be given
a chance.
Were you drunk said his honor,
severely.
well, l had been drinking a little,
judge" said the culprit.
"ln fine you $50 and costs. Perhaps
that will induce you TO promise to leave
town and cease clogging the wheels of city
government"
''Ill work it out if it kills me-" was
the prisoners parting shot.