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The Newtown bee., 1889-06-07
Better results from this fertilizer than any other

H. J. Baker & Bro, NY: Dear Sir-ln reply to your inquiries, will say have your grass about one and a half to two tons Of hay per acre. but of course there is to be considered the age of the meadows and the exhausted properties of the soil. Will say in word have had better results in grass with your terullzer than any other. I shall try it again another season. Yours truly, Freeman Riper, BIT mingham, Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1889-06-07
LnNG HILL

1OnG .n1Abs
 Amariah Mallett, who has been i'll, is at James Wilson's in Stratford.
 Peter Ferris's son was severely bitten in the face by horse.
 Miss Clara Hall is quite sick.
 Mrs J. Haugh and daughter are here.
 Miss Irene Sacket has visited Mrs D. Mahoney.
 Mrs J. Fulford has a boarder from Tousey's shop.
 The M. E. Sunday school are doing practicing for their Children's Day con cert, which will take place, June 16.
 Philo Northrop and family desire to return heartfelt thanks, through the BEE, to thelr friends aud neighbors who extended help and sympathy in their recent great bereavement the sickness and death of their daughter, Mrs W. H. Barnum.
 terprising and wide awake business men, has purchased the business ot the Park city Cloth and will make lively and interesting times for clothing buyers. To begin, he announces that the entire stock of clothing will be sold at half price. The stock consists ofmen's, youths apd boys suits, hats, caps and furnishings. All go; half price or less. You can't afford 10 miss this great sale. Besides, the wonderful vacuum tipped arrow pistol, all the rage now, is given away to each purchaser to the amount ot $2 50 or more. Don't forget; Park City Clothing House, 454 Main street, Bridgeport. Special sale of cOrsets and ladies' under wear by the Copeland Bros. Co. They quote prices and also remark on their elegant stock of hosiery and gloves, not forgetting their bargains in millinery.
 Headquarters for the latest styles in straw hats and fur hats at bottom prices at E. F. Hawley's.
 | ID. N.Clark, the Shelton hardware merchant, | is personally known to many or the BEES | readers and, now that he is in sole control or l the business formerly conducted by Ruggles | X Clark. his announcement, which appears in | this weeks BEE, will be read with added m | terest. He can furnish anything from Buck 1 eye mowers to barb wire, with baby carriages paints and oils, lime and cement thrown ln. l E. K. Hawley has just received the best as | sortment of ladies' muslin underwear and | corsets in town; also please remember that | he has q young lady to show them. | The new advertisement of Downer & Ed wards is worthy the consideration of every | housekeeper. Their special sales have met with more than ordinary success, which |; proof that their offerings are all genuine bar gains.
 It's for the interest of every farmer who in tends to buy a moving machine to examine | the Worcester Buckeye at E. +. Hawley's, a: 1t has four Improvements over any other ma chine made and is sold as low as any. l A box of Ayers pills has saved many q 1t sickness. When q remedy does not happel to be within reach, people are liable to neg feet slight ailments and, Of course, II seriou illness follows they have to suffer the conse quenees. "A stitch in time saves nine
 E. F. Hawley has the largest stock and bes
 quality of having tools of all kinds, cuit1Vat
 ors, one horse blows, etc., In town.
The Newtown bee., 1889-06-07
pLATTSVILLE,

M. B. Lacey is improving his place with new front fence.
 Mrs Monson Banks is housekeeping for l.. B. Gregory.
 Mrs Eli Godfrey and son of Brooklyn spend the Summer with his mother, who has others from the city.
 Miss Fannie Seeley has a new piano and plays well siuce taking lessons from Mrs Charles Clark.
 Mrs George Sturges has been with her parents.
The Newtown bee., 1889-06-07
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The cemetery addition has been com pleted under the supervision of $. B. Clark.
 Waite Clark is having his barn repair ed.
 Elmer Latin has gone to Chesire to work.
 II. II. Bliss is the champion trout kill Ter, having caught three weighing l-2 pounds.
The Newtown bee., 1889-06-07
ToWS FOR SALE-Five young new mileh C Cows, with calves by side. C. W. ED WARDS Stepney Depot, Conn.
DIsTRICT ToFNEwTowN,s ,ss. Probate Court,

IJ June l, 1889.
 Estate of JOHN BEERS, late Of New town, in said district, deceased.
 The administrator having exhibited his ad' ministration account with said estate to this Court for allowance, 1t is ~
 ORpERED-That the Sth day of June, 1889, at o'clock, afternoon, at the Probate ofhee in Newtown, be and the same is assigned Tor n hearing on the allowance of said admins tration account with said Estate, and this Court directs the administrator to cite all per and pIaee by publishing this order in some newspaper having Il circulation in said Dis l trict, and by posting copy on the public | sign post in the Town of Newtown where the | deceased last dwelt. Attest, | WM J. BEECHER, Judge.
The Newtown bee., 1889-06-07
Summer on the Hill, will bring another little son.
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Rev N. T. Merwin and family left for their new home in Windsor, Thursday.
 Miss Dora Brinsmade is greatly im- proved.
 Letters remain in Trumbull postoffice for Mrs Michael Casey, Miss Annie Congo, Mrs Ira Wildman, Mrs A B. .Scoyille, Mrs Oh. Klein;
The Newtown bee., 1889-06-07
Newtown nnctored

The thriving and active Danbury med ical society held it's regular monthly meeting on Wednesday evening of this week at the home of Dr E. M. Smith, Vice President Dr A. k. Barber of Beth el presiding. The paper promised for the evenings discussion was by Dr O'Connor of Danbury, entitled, "The Aseptic Seg- regation of the sick in every dwelling" but, owing to the enforced absence of the author, the paper was not presented. After the transaction of routine business, Dr w. $. Watson of Danbury read the history of an interesting case from his own practice, which elicited consider able discussion. After Dr Lacey of Dan bury had related interesting and anus ing experiences from his early practice, the business meeting adjourned to dis cuss matters of interest to "the inner man." for whose wants Dr and Mrs Smith had amply provided and doctors enjoy good things themselves, no matter what they preach to their patients. After some selections by the Glee club, the doctors bade musical goodbye to their host and hostess, promising to visit New town again. The gentlemen present were Mir k. W. Gardner, the manufac- turing chemist of New York, Drs Todd and Weed of Ridgefield, Barber, Hart, May and Benedict of Bethel, Lacey, Vile, Watson, Brown, Stratton, Gilbert, Pierce, Follansbee and Lemmer of Dan- bury, WilcoXson, G. A. Peck and Smith of Newtown.
The Newtown bee., 1889-06-07
hIsTRICT OF NEWToWN, ss PRoBATI

nIsTRICT OF NEwTowN, ss PROBATE
 C COURT, May g, 1sS9-
 Newtown in said district, deceased.
 The application of Sarah Hull of said Newtown, praying that administration be granted on said estate, hereby represented fntestate as appears by said application on file having been received, therefore ORDERED-That said application be heard at ? o'clock D m, on the 10th day ot June, 1853, at the Probate office in said town and that notice of the time and place of said hearing be given by publication two times in the New | town BEE, a weekly newspaper printed In Fairfield county. Attest,
The Newtown bee., 1889-06-07
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Miss Abbie Wakeman is in Hulfs Farms.
 Bradley Wood has been quite sick. Mss Laura Dowd has been in Bridge nOrt
The Springdale news., 1889-07-19
CROPPING THE HASH.

wide, shady porch with weather-stained
 floor A chintz.coverea chair by the low kitchen
 door, Where eyeward the glories aspringly run With flowers to the shadow and leaves to the
 sun. On the sill, with big wooden bowl in her lap And her ehopping-knife swinging a cheerful
 rap-tap, With her cap-border crowned by an old-time
 calash, Grandmother Grigson sits chopping the hash The robin that lives in the lilacs close by Cocks his head in surprise and makes ready to
 fly, But fingers to listen. the wise little elf, While Grandmother Grigson talks low to her.
 self: 'There's beef an pertater, an cabbage an
 beet, That goes to the maxim of hash good an
 sweet, And hairy one on 'em. take it alone, But makes poor meal, as you'll willin'ly own. 'There's joy an there's sorrer, there's peace
 and there strife, That goes to the maxim of what call life; An nary a on 'em, come to the pint, But makes poor life, somehow, all out O
 lint. ''For joy, yes, or peace, take it year arter Are tame 'thout the seas'nln of sorrer and
 fear I've ct of the hash an I've no fault to find. And I'm thankful that my life wasn't all O one
 klnd'
 Alice 0. Darling. in Good Housekeeping.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-19
HOW DESPOTS RULE.
Horrible Punishment Inflicted on
 Exiles in Siberia
Living and Dying in Chains-Scourge ed, Starved and Erozen-The Fate of Human Vulture-Half Has Not
 Been Told.

Alexander Baranoff, who was a Rus sian ar my officer, and who was sen fenced to Siberia for alleged com pile ity in revolutionary schemes. spoke to Boston Advertiser reporter as fol- lows:
 Were it not for the charity of the people of Russia and Siberia no con- vict would ever live to see the end of his journey. The charities of the City of Moscow, from which so many pris- oners start for Siberia, are great. It is the custom of the convicts to choose one of their own number as foreman when about to start on their long jour- ney. When our company of eight hundred men and women, escorted by the soldiers with fixed bayonets, left Moscow our foreman went up and down the lines of people gathered to witness our departure. He collected aims from the crowd, the money be- ing put into bags and carried along to the first station, where 1t was divided. The amount collected was so great that every man had twenty-seven dol lars.
 ''The Government does not interfere with this alms-giving on the part of the people. In every little town through which you pass each villager takes off his hat and crosses himself, and throws in a penny for the benefit of the poor unfortunates, as the con victs are termed by the people.
 ''All that the American people have heard and read about the sufferings endured by the prisoners exiled to Si- beria is true. The half has never been told. The soldiers in Siberia have a name for the convicts which we'll ex- presses their condition. It may be translated freely as you are dead but not buried This is the truth. It is a living death
 "Typhoid fever is the worst scourge of the exiles More convicts die of that than of any other cause. Itcould not be otherwise The indescribable filth and frightful atmosphere of the crowded sleeping places at the sta- tions along the route are steady and sure breeders of the disease, which
The Springdale news., 1889-07-19
How Clugston Rolled an Enemy.

That poem you published this morning was rather clever. Mir. Clugs- ton,' remarked the caller, "though to the critical reader it might have seemed a trifle incoherent and discon- nected.' y
 That poem," replied the editor of lhe Doodleville Yelper, fishing fly out of his paste-pot, twas a contribu- tion. After we had the forms made up we discovered it was an acrostic con- veying the intimation that 'Clugston is darned chump.' We had no time to wait, and hadn't any thing to take the place of that poem, so 1 told the foreman to change the order of the verses and mix up the lines so that the first letters wouldn't spell any thing, and go to press. It spoiled the thing for an acrostic," continued Mir. Clugston, with a heavy sigh indicative of the burden that expresses the mind of a man charged with the destinies of a oreat journal ssbut it didn't seem
The Springdale news., 1889-07-19
HUMOROUS.

-Customer--"Say Rothstein. who's that man doing all that yelling and screaming and swearing at the clerks in the rear of the store?" Rothstein -''Oh, dot vos Rosenberg. der silent pardner. Puck,
 The curtain had dropped on one of the tragic acts of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room," when one youth turned to another and said: Pretty strong, ain't it?' You bet! Let's go out and take suthin'. .'-Boston Courier.
 Judge man by his eyes, but woman always by her lips" said Ben jamin Franklin. Now we understand why Benjamin happened to get so deeply interested in the study of elec- trical phenomena -Somerville Jour nal.
 -'Is your wife very busy with her household affairs?" .'Yes, buster than ever." "Too bad she will insist in doing her own work, isn't it?' ''She doesn't any longer. She's got a serv- ant girl to look after now. Howell Citizen.
 The Road to Ruin. --Keenly- There's young man who Is going to the dogs rapidly.' Sharpley - "What's the matter with him9' Keenly-''IIe trying to satisfy an appetite for wine on an income for beer. .'-Cincinnati Commercial.
 Destroying His Prospects. .-Fa- ther-"See here, Robert. why do you make such a fuss about going to school?' Small Boy (tearfully)-.I- 1 don't want no education, pa, cause if I get one 1 shan't never have soft seat on jury like you. .'-Burlingto ton Free Press.
 The boozy man in the corner of the crowded car awoke from a nap and discovered a bulky lady hanging to strap and glaring at a row of unob- served men intent upon their newspa pers. The boozy mans gallantry as- serted itself. 'I'll be one 'venny two gen linen in zish car t get up an give tn lady seat,' he said. - Kansas City Star
 Kind Lady-"Here's pair of trousers my son wore at college. You can have them. Tramp (sadly)- ''Madam, I'm only tramp, but have some consideration for the communi- ties through which 1 travel. 1 shouldn't want to arouse the people from their slumbers if l should hap pen to pass through a village a, night. Life.
 The mother of family showed the ticket-collector on the railway couple of half-fare tickets for her two children. The latter, after looking at them doubtfully, said: "How old are they?' They are only six, and they are twins" "Ahr' Then, after moments pause, the man inquired: And where were they born?' The mother (unthinkingly) = This one was born in New York and the other in Paris. French Paper.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-19

among us When we were at lOOolSk, and the prisoners died at the rate of thirty or forty day. 1 was sick with the fever myself. The prisoners re ceived medical attendance, such as it was. Tobolsk was a great stopping place for transients, and at that time there were three thousand convicts confined in various barracks opening upon a large inclosure which was strongly fortified
 "Another thing from which the con- victs suffer in Siberia is the cold. The cold of Siberian winter is intense, and the convicts on the line of march, unable to walk fast and keep their blood in circulation because of their chains, suffer much. 1 remember one day, near the City of Tara, in the Province of Tobolsk, when it was so frosty that some of the baggage horses even lay down and died We lost three women and five men that day, who, chilled through and through by the dreadful cold, succumbed and died in the road, their bodies being picked up and brought along to the next sta- tion.
 "Some of the prisoners died in this way every week, especially in the Bratski steppe, and yet it was only the ordinary Siberian winter.
 Convict life in the mines of Siberia is we'll illustrated by our daily routine at the gold mines of Nerchinsk. We got up at four O clock in the morning and had a breakfast of black bread and bowl of gruel. We worked in the mines till noon and then had din- her, consisting of more gruel and black bread, and also a piece of meat The meat was often horse meat, and young horse, let me tell you, isn't half bad, especially if you are prisoner in Siberia
 I've worked Tn the mines again un- til dark. Supper consisted of ca abbage or some other kind of soup, meat every two or three days, potatoes or other vegetables, which were fre- quently rotten, and black bread. In the mines we worked in true miner fashion with pick and shovel and lamp on hat. We still wore our chains. They never came off. The convicts had to live in them and die in them.
 ''Such a life, of course, sooner or later, caused the death of many con- victs. The political prisoners, many of whom were of high rank and totally unused to manual labor and to such diet and manner of living, suffered the most and succumbed generally the fastest. The ordinary offenders, thieves, common malefactors, etc., who came from the lower classes, stood prison life much better, for it daily toll their former life. 1 have known ordinary offenders, men from the lower classes, who were stout and strong, who had lived and worked in the mines for twenty years.
 "The women prisoners at the mines were employed in scrubbing, washing and clothes-making. The delicately- nurtured ladies among them who were political offenders did not generally live long.
 "Some of the seventies practiced upon conviets in Siberia are justified, it must be said. Many of the convicts are the worst sort of humanity, in- cluding murderers. thieves, highway men and all kinds of offenders. We had one murderer in our community who had killed twenty-seven men.
 "The political prisoners were forced to mingle with this class of convicts, some of them the dregs of humanity. In our company of ei0ht hundred
The Springdale news., 1889-07-19

a convict Is suspected of having further political schemes it destroys his hope of a pardon.
 Many of the convicts, as l have said, are desperate men. Here is story of the revenge some of them took upon a Siberian who had mur- dered some of their number This Siberian was one of the Mongolian race called Bratski, and he had farm about two hundred versts from Nerchinsk. It lay in the way by which convicts escaping from the mine gen erally passed. The region was mostly a dry desert, but this Bratski farmer had good we'll of water which att tracted the convicts, especially the green ones who had never heard of him.
 .I was this farmers custom to call to convict whom he saw passing by wearing a good pair of shoes or a good coat and entice him within reach, and then shoot him from a round hut which he had loop-holed all about. He killed and robbed num- per Ol COuF 1CGS III lulS Wdy.
 "One day a party of seventeen con- victs went by the farm, and some of the younger ones were for stopping. The more experienced convicts dis suaded them from doing this, saying that they would surely be shot. By means of a stratagem five of the con- victs captured the farmer unarmed and away from his loop-holed hut. Then the best means of putting to death the murderer were discussed Some were for hanging him, but one convict said T show you a better way than that. The farmers legs were ripped up with a knife from the inside of the ankle and lot of finely chopped horse-hair was rubbed into the wounds. The hair was obtained 1 from the tail of horse, which was cut off. The finely cut hair irritated the wounds much and put the victim in great agony. The convicts at Nerchinsk later heard, through the convict system of signs and communi- cation, which is spread all over Siberia, like the tramp language in this coun 1 try, that the farmer died of his wounds.
 "I remember convict at Nerchinsk named Butouska. who was an unruly fellow and often brought punishment upon himself. He used to get two hundred or three hundred lashes at time for stealing from the other pris- oners. Upon one occasion he was punished for some misdeed by being thrown into dark cellar, the inten- tion being to keep him there for two hours But the overseer, who was a drunken fellow, forgot him, and he was not released.
 "During the night the other con- victs heard an awful yelling coming from the cellar into which Butouska had been thrown. In the morning there was nothing to be seen in the cellar but Butouska's bones. The rats had eaten the rest of him.
 'I can recall many acts of cruelty to the prisoners. l remember one pOliti- cal prisoner, a young man of high rank who had been Captain in my own regiment. He was much beloved by us all. Weak and run down by the hard life of the mines, he found him. self utterly unable to work one day, and when they tried to make him keep at it he refused and declared he could not. He was taken to the hospital, where he died being kept without a mouthful of food for twenty-four l hours.
 There are about 1000 Christian | Nb tnl ,xyit hn
The Springdale news., 1889-07-19

There are about 1000 Christian Chinamen connected with the Con- gregational churches of California and Oregon. They contribute about $2, 300 for home mission work, and have organized foreign missionary society, and with $1. 100 IS a starter, Chinaman, back to China to do work there.
The Springdale news., 1889-07-19

Honor to whom honor is due Let it candidly be said that some hook arents arc bigger bores than
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Ciin Droperin 90 fet.

A LARGE STORE and basement let on leaoin,
n downtown street very Light, 200 feet mont; 5000
square feet power II desired possession nOw reat
Moderate. rutland WHITING, Beekmsn.st
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