The Newtown bee., 1888-11-30

 He washhd everything together in flour B, pan, wiped them on whatever he could st ird loose and it was a week before we H got the pantry in order again. That ne night, after bragging of what a break ye fast he was going to get, MT Bowser was M taken with chills and collie and when the G doctor came and showed him the beef tv and biscuit, he said: pt s'Mr Bowser, if you hadn't the stom- cl ach of shark you'd have been dead an W hour ago. You'd better quit this sort of D, nonsense, if you want to live the year lii Out.' St
 th President-elect Harrison has two child St ren, Russell, who married the daughter P of Senator Saunders of Nebraska and h, runs stock farm at Helena, Montana W and Mary Scott, wife of J. R. Mckee, an p, Indianapolis merchant, who lives at the te home in Indianapolis, where pl baby Benjamin Harrison Mckee has re- gently been joined by little sister Mary. Gen Harrison's father-in-law, Rev Dr u William H. Scott, is clerk in the Washing in ton pension office. U
 h. Experts who have examined the unde- tf veloped petroleum region of Wyoming predict great future for that section. Several wells have been sunk, which flow ir l ,0OO barrels per day. The means for storing and transporting the petroleum z, are not now at hand, but preparations ], are being made to utilize this product in = the Spring. 1s Mrs Bowles Colgate, Mrs Anderson Fowler, Mrs Peter A. Welch are to or r, ganize the M. K. order of DeacOnesses . ITO minister to the poor, visit the sick, pray with the dying, care for the wan y dering, comfort the sorrowing, save the shining and, relinquishing all other pur- c suits, devote themselves in general t, way to such forms of Christian labor as V may be suited to their ability.' Morton will be the first vice president in 2s years to add to the lustre of Wash ington's gay revel. Nearly all the vice presidents since Lincoln came in have T been widowers; but Mrs Morton has al- ready shone at the national capital,- when her husband was in Congress. She is Mir Morton's second wife and the mOth- CT of five daughters. Ellerslie is the name of the Morton home at Rhinecliff on the Hudson. John A. Porter has bought an interest in the Hartford Post and will become it's editor.
 The Popular Science Monthly tells of race between bees and pigeons at Hamme, Westphalia, year before last. Twelve Hamme bees (well dusted with aour) and IF Hamme pigeons were loos- ed ut the same instant at the village of 1 Rynern, about a league from home. The first bee reached Hamme quarter of minute ahead of the first pigeon and the remaining bees and pigeons came in neck and neck, so to speak.
 ssThere are many counties ill Georgia" says Clerk Orr of the educational bureau of that State, which heretofore have nev- CT had schools that are now dotted with schoolhouses, somewhat primitive, it is true, but still comfortable schoolhouses." What is home without dog? l have had dogs and dogs. l had a pug once, an excellent watch dog. You could al- ways tell if any one was around the house, because the dog was either asleep ' or under the bed with his tail between his T legs.-[Burdette.
 r Nearly every prominent Hebrew in ' New York city has signed the petition T for communication of punishment in the > case of Adolph Reich, the wife-killer, sentenced to be hanged this week Friday. Il If the sentence is executed, it will be the T. first instance of the hanging of man of II Jewish name and race in New York, q town having nearly or quite l20,OOO y Jews.
 l. Allen c. Thurman has written q letter D. to prominent Democrat, in which he SC says that he shall never be a candidate
 for office again, but shall never cease PIT while he lives to work for his party and
 does not despair of it's ultimate success, in Judge Luzon B. Morris carried two h. counties of the State at the late election ed Fairfield, where he was born and New ,g Haven, where he has made his record of Mayor Bulkeley carried the other six 1t counties, but none of them by 1000 plu.
 rality, Windham giving him the greatest a plurality, 9s6 and New London the least $, lO4. The official vote for governor gives in Morris 75,074, Bulkeley 73,659, the Pro b. hibition vote being 463l, Labor 263 and at 21 scattering.
 he Mrs Henry Johnson, once Harriet as Lane and mistress of the White House il nj the days of President James Buchanan n is still living at Washington, widowed at and childless.
 Conservative Connecticut calls com " ment with only 336 votes between Cleve land and Harrison in total of 153,97S ed --------..--------
 'n There is always miserable little fir a' in every guest chamber about the size O a- Democratic majority in Connecticut.- % [Burdette.