The Press., 1888-02-23
WELLINGTON.

Wilmington, Andover, Bolton and Gov entry are the towns in Holland County, according to the bulletin of the state board of health, that had no deaths in January.
 Nelson Towne has exchanged the Elisha Arnold farm for John. A. Browns farm, the latter paying $1,000 "to boot, |" iE is said. MT. Brown thus moves out of town into Holland.
 Readers of the old Courant will be glad to know that new agricultural writer, in the person of John Hale of Glas- tonbury, has been secured for it's columns. It is to be hoped now that the Courant's farmer subscribers will be treated to less special essaylng, general sentimen tality, and so forth, and more attention be paid to practical matters affecting the interests of farmers all along the line of that valua- ble papers constituency.
 -'Surprise" parties are yet the vogue The last ones were at Chas. H. Riders and Dow Ide's.
 Discussions over tariff reform and protection begin to wax hot in our places of public resort.
 Mrs. Albert Sharp is somewhat out of health this winter. She is suffering from sort of malarial attack.
 Rev. MT. Cooper returned to Norwich last Saturday. His labors here, in connec- tion with those of Pastor Terry, have been quite fruitful, it is thought. MT. Cooper IS an excellent scripture expositor, and his easy, forceful style in his pulpit ministra- tion IS much admired. Quite a religious interest has been awakened in South Will lington, where all the meetings were we'll attended.
 Clarence B. Fuller is in South Will lington this week.
 The Monday rain-pour made bad work with our roads in many sections. An overflow of water from Albert Sharp's uew Hume flooded the floor of his mill Monday night, and caused considerable damage. A portion of the Aldrich mills dam was swept away. The Roaring Brook bridge. was carried off, Would it not be a good thing to raise the abutments of this bridge before another new superstructure ia placed upon them9. The bridge at that place was washed away two years ago. Tuesday the River road to the Springs was impossible, chiefly on account of the ice gorge at Babcock's bridge.
 The recent report that smallpox was prevalent in the hospital in New York, where Miss Annie B. Dimock is engaged "S d AUA0C9 OdGASCN E1Oab &uA10Cy among her friends here. But it transpired that the disease was not smallpox, after all
 Emory Williams is spending the win ter in this vicinity, now boarding at Palm CT Smiths. He is not in good health.
 -Rumor hath-it that the Alfred Knight place was sold for about $500. This.seem4 needless sacrifice.
 Corn meal at $1.45 hundred now. When will our farmers raise their own corn
 Charles Williams and George Wilson have bought the wood on the Leander Hull place, it is said.
 Rev. MT, Edwards of East Haddam will preach in the Congregational church next Sunday at the usual hour.
 The annual meeting of the ladies' be- nevolent society of the Baptist church will be held in the conference room next Thursday p. m. and evening, March 1st The ladies request 8 full attendance, even at little personal sacrifice, it may be.
 Look out out now for an "early spring." Chipmunks and black birds were recently seen in this vicinity.
 -G. G. Dave will give an elocutionary entertainment in the Daleville school house tomorrow evening.
 -Yhere was quite goodly attendance at the fellowship meeting considering the state of the roads. Rev. Mir. Hawley's discourse on Diversity of christian gifts, works and character, " contained clean cut, forceful and suggestive utterances. Rev.