The Newtown bee., 1888-09-07
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l AAo Scneci sclooi tdA IS HoW uue V. I E. Senior is collector.
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 Nathaniel Cothren, lawyer of New York, is visiting his brother, William l Cothren.
 I The junior Republicans have formed a Young Republican club, Henry c. Smith president, with about 30 members. They appointed delegates to the Young Re- publican League of Connecticut. X cam paign Republican club, with about 40 members, George F. Morris president, has been formed.
 There was pleasing musicale at Mrs H. D. Curtis's. All who took part in the exercises bore themselves exceedingly well.
 Mrs R. S. Woodruff is at William Goth ren's.
 | Later guests are arriving to enjoy the Autumnal and Indian Summer glories, the most enchanting of the year.
 The will of the late Benjamin F Fabrique has been probated. He leaves property to about the amount of s50,000 to his three nephews, Charles and Asa Fabrique of New Haven and Dea Sherman Futile of Southbury.
 George Crane was home lately on va cation. He is attentive to business and , | fa ;. Miss Eva Davis of Birmingham has visited Hattie Bacon
 Mrs M. $. Page has visited here. r Charles Fabrique, who came to care , for his uncle, has returned to New Ha- l ven.
 Henry Gibson has returned from his visit at Plainville. George F. Smith and family have re turned from the seaside. Mir and Mrs James Tyler of West Ha- ven have visited friends in town. Rev Mir Freeman has resumed his Ia. bors in the Old South.
 4 Mrs, Ann Wheeler and Mrs Lester o1 Naugatuck and Perry Averill of New York have been at Walter s. Curtis's.
 Misses Hattie and Mamie Walker are at Hotchlkissville.
 : Bennett A. Sherman and Enos Benham 5 voted for President William Henry Har- ? rison in 1S40. They are liable to vote fol : his grandson. We believe that the fol. g lowing were in the same category: Solo g mon Strong, Isaac Strong, Seth Strong : and Charles ". Kirtland. We are not : aware what the political predilections oi e Father Willard were in 1S40, or what they n are now. He represented the town as : v Republican in 1860.
 r There was singular freak of electric n ity in the lane of F. F. Hitchcock. bright flash of lightning like a burst O !. flame from the water tub was observed $ The next morning it was discovered tha 5 the tub, or cask, which had been set il ' the earth, had been thrown out a littl, v distance and hole in the ground wa [ excavated as large as hogshead, tn ' water pipes being bent and twisted. l
 seemed to be a good specimen of q cas
 where the electric fluid seeks the clou'
 from the ground, instead of passing iron 0 the cloud to the ground. A lightning
 rod on neighboring building enters tn l. ground near the tub. Many years ago
 lightning struck small tree in ID
 Steele's door yard about 40 feet fror where the tub now is and twice the light 2 ming has passed down the First churc t. rod, making terrific detonation, on on
 occasion entering the church, but doin n little damage.
 Died, at her residence in New York Mrs Rebecca Bacon Hotchkiss, widow { " the late William B. Hotchkiss, aged 6
 She was daughter of the late Gen Chaul k; cey Crafts. Forty years ago, Mir Hotel
 kiss was a fiourishing manufacturer her IS A short time ago, there boarded at u T. Parker House young man known ok the name of Colt, whose lady love ali d. boarded there. The course of true lo' :, did not run smooth and he was allow'
 to take his discharge papers, whereup'
 he attempted suicide. He did not su nd ceed, His true name is said to be w sts liam F. Clark. He turns out to be cle
 CT rogue. He has been shadowed by
 tectives for month and has been arre.
 ed. He has been arraigned at the Ess ,m Market police court for extensive forg'
 ies, from the avails of which he has v
 tied Newport, Woodbury, etc.
 Homer s. Tomlinson succeeds Da, s. Bull as treasurer of the savings bar wis The first newspaper printed in Amer
 was the Boston News Letter, issued
 Boston. The first number is dated Ar o 24, l7O4. William Cothren has fac-si
 ile copy. Only three copies of this fl tic number are known to be in existence a ach those are in the historical societies. ]
 some time previous to the appearance
 this, John Campbell. postmaster, was
 the habit of writing the News Letter
 hand upon the arrival of the news fl nto Europe.
 ster n. p.ru,.s;o.- of r.~..-. the Is about lO00, and we would gay at least (
 half are troubled with some a66ctiOn of
 ltlroah and lungs. aa those complaints are cordl1nfcto statistics, more numerous than ast. CTS We would advfse m ouf readexs n is 1 ses s pRosas @ P ss S ss5 q