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The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
The Sermon.

Beloved, my text is from the precepts of the Great Barnum:
 wholesome recreation conquers evil thoughts"
 We have often thought, I doubt not, that when we-had done any work, we had added our mite to the treasury of do- ing good. If, as Greedy suggested, we had made two blades of grass grow where one grew before, we called our selves public benefactors. But have we thought of helping our fellow men by giving them healthy recreation? A very successful minister not long since gave it as his opinion that he could do more good to the boys under him by playing an hour with them than by preaching sermons at them for month. And in a Massachusetts town, not long since, the boys actually chose the minister as the derful what a vast number of evil thoughts Satan will put into q mind that is vacant. Hence the Christian man ought to do something to fill the mind of the youth with wholesome thoughts springing from wholesome recreation. Besides all this, wholesome recreation puts new life into people. The saying that "All work and no play makes Jack dull boy is quite musty. But for all that, it is very true. Yet how many a farmer keeps his boy in the corn or hay field day after day, with never thought of giving him wholesome recreation. And then he wonders that, when his boy is of age, he wants to get away from home and father. l tell you, my hearers, there is slavery yet in the world and it is oftentimes son and daughter slavery. You make your children work hard with no let up and no recreation or sport thrown in to brighten life, like ham be- tween the dry slices of sandwich and then you complain when they get grown up, because they do not seem to love you very much. And you find fault because they are not as bright as Merchant Browns children or as pure in life as Parson Stones boys. The great show man was right, beloved. Mix in more holidays in your own lives and in the lives of your households. Teach your children to look forward to sport and recreation after the work is done. They will work faster, will be more contented, will be more ready to please you and to conform to your wishes.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
STEPNEY.

MT Whittlesey, wife and family of New Haven are at Mrs Mary Beers's. s. G. Nichols is raking in the hay from 75 or 80 acres, this season, with the help of Levi Downs, Ed Botsford, Horace Os- borne. He finds the crop much heavier than usual.
 Miss Libbie Hawley of Bridgeport is with Mrs Mary A. Everett.
 Mrs r. J. Squinobal of Long Hill is at Mrs Caroline Gilbert's.
 Alleging that the volume of business has increased until it exceeds the facili- | ties for handling it, the Southern New England Telephone Co. will place Step- ney and all offices south on a separate or branch wire, which is now being strung. The main or trunk line, which runs from Bridgeport to Falls Village and branches off to accommodate Dan- bury and Bethel and over into the Naug- atuck Valley, will be devoted to through business. A copper wire will also be run from Waterbury and Winsted across to the Housatonic and north, affording a better circuit for that business. While all messages from points north must under the new system, be sent to Bridge port and then back to Stepney, much better circuit from Stepney to Bridge, port will be established. It will cost more, too; the old price, $50 year,is to be raised to nearly $75. Poles for the new wires north have already been dis tributed and the wires will be strung al once. When this is finished, the new wire will be completed. MT Curtis says that he will not change his prices fol messages, except as follows: All mes sages inside the Bridgeport division, il which Stepney is situated, will, as be fore, be sent for 10c each; all outside the division will be 25c. Bridgeport .di vision includes Bridgeport, Stratford Nichols, Trumbull, Long Hill, Fairfield Southport, Greens Farms, Stepney. The new wire will probably give greatel facility for talking with any of these, al it will not be so much affected by electric storms.
 Father Donahue of Newtown will holl mass at Mir Honan's, every month. H. is well liked here.
 Miss Marie Knibloe, who makes he home at Mrs Mary Beers's, meets witt success in her readings and entertain ments.
 Miss Frances Donohue has sent in he resignation as telegrapher at Step ney and will remove to New York. NJ Short of Katona, N. Y., has been on dut, at the station.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
LCNG HILL.

Mrs Emily Peck reached her S3d birth day, last week Thursday and it was eel ebrated by a family gathering. Mrs Peck is in remarkably good health and enjoyed the occasion as well as any o1 her guests. Mrs Nathaniel Hall, Miss Clara l.. Hall, Mrs Charles r. Jennings Mrs Frank Sherman, Mrs Alonzo Sher. man, Mrs Monson Mallett, Mrs Charles A. Hall were among those who attended Mr and Mrs Wayne and family o1 Bridgeport are at c. F. Hadley's tenant house for the Summer. Summer boarders are not as numerous as usual, this season and rumor says that accommodations are not easily secured
 Phil Dyer of Trenton, N. J., is with his aunt, Mrs M. A. Porter.
 Mrs Elizabeth Bowdage of St. Louis is with her aunt, Mrs H. A. Warner.
 Mrs L. G. Beers has visited in Brook lyn and Bridgeport.
 Mrs Sarah Curtis and daughter Hattie of New Haven have visited old friends here.
 Mail Carrier Hurd left purse contain ing large sum of money on the counter of the Peoples Savings bank, Bridge port, one day last week, and came home in blissful unconciousness of the fact. About noon, however, he missed it and after considerable mental perturbation, he had Station Agent D. s. French tele- phone the bank and was assured that the money was all right. The next morn ing he recovered his property.
 Oryille s. Mallett is proud of the colt which he obtained by trading with w. F. Benedict of Easton.
 Miss Brown of New Haven has been guest at B. Turney's.
 Mrs Lucy Nichols and Mrs A. A. Hall have visited in Shelton.
 Miss Belle Dayton of Bridgeport has spent week with Mrs M. A. Porter. Services in Grace church, next Sunday at 30p p. m.
 Miss Carrie c. Mallett of Bridgeport spent Sunday with her aunt, Mrs A. A. Hall.
 c. N. Curtis, who was suddenly at tackled by collie, last week, is much bet ter. He was found in the hayfield, where he was working, lying like one dead He was brought home at once, but faint ed several times on the way.
 Beach Hill is improving his home by interior decorations and renovations, ,Iand by new roof. R. E. Ingersoll of Bridgeport does the work. @
 $. B. Beardsley now runs his press by steam.
 Miss Nellie Hurd and Burton Clark o1 Bridgeport have visited P. c. Hurd. Sylvester Robertson, who was quite sick, has recovered. Clarence E. Radcliffe, who is some , what interested in bee keeping, has jus received an Italian queen from Ohio R. E. Ingersoll, at Beach Hills place entertains friends from Norwalk. ] Mrs J. W. Tyrrell has visited in Fash ua and HattertOwn
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
HUNTINGTON.

Miss Edith B. Clark has returned from week at Yonkers, N. Y. Miss Eva Otstot of Fairfield visits her grandfather, Wells Allis.
 Lena Baldwin goes to live with Mrs Burr Hawley.
 Mamie Weeks is at Mrs Hooper's.
 Miss Catharine Wells was buried in Lawn cemetery, Rev A. J. Park officiat- ing. The service was held at the house of her brother, Henry Wells.
 Mrs W. F. Bedell, Master Willis and Miss Bessie are at E. J. Buckingham's
 Robert Latin and wife of Waterbury have been with Mrs Lattin's father, George Bidwell.
 Twenty-Five persons attended the sew ing society's meeting with Mrs G. D. Nichols; & were realized.
 The home missionary society will met this week Friday, with Mrs Sarah A. Nichols.
 The Y. F. s. c. K. will hold q mission ary meeting, this week Friday evening at o'clock; all arc invited.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
w0oDBURY,

W0ODBURY,
 There are various laws exemptin0 the property of soldiers from taxation. Mar shall Cam of Clay Bridge district keeps divers dogs of both sexes and claimed that they were exempt from registration. After night in the lookup and an inter- view with the justice, he found that the authorities had contrary opinion. The fine and costs will reduce the profits of the having season.
 George Harvey has been engaged to clerk in Dr Ketcham's drug store.
 Law Student Higgins is interviewing the hay fields during his vacation from study.
 Miss Frank Curtiss is visiting in Wood bury, as is Mrs Bradley, mother of Mrs Alexander Gordon, Jr.
 Miss Alice Knight visited Miss Downs at Mapleton, last week. M. D. Crawford of New York and H. J. Crawford of Bethlehem are successors of Clinton 1T. Jordan in the meat busi- ness, to which they add fish. F. R. Smith and family visited Cheshire, last week.
 Cornelius J. Minor is sick. He has hitherto borne his burden of v years re- markedly well. We hope to see him about the streets again in few days. Guests at Mapleton are F. F. Tarbell and family, Mrs Harwood and daughter of Brooklyn, Mrs F. A. Baker and daugh- ter of New York, Mrs A. Nichols of New York and Mrs E. B. Upson of New Haven.
 Nathan ". Tyrrills farm has beer sold to Howard Minor for s30O0 and ht has resold parts to his neighbors. Charles Hinman and family of New York visit Mrs Burton Candee, his grandmother.
 We are overjoyed to learn from th' editor of the Reporter that he sstakes nothing stronger than ice cream in his. Mrs Powelson visited friends in Hart ford, last week. .-
 Two persons were added to the Firs church on the 7th.
 Mrs Henry Dawson visited Bostol Corners, last week.
 George Squires is sick. l Lyman Terrell, formerly of Woodbury died very suddenly at Roxbury on thu 9th.
 Philip Ross of New York visits hi brother-in-law, Dr Ketcham.
 MT Leach, who was born at tn house of Thomas Bull, deceased, abou 70 years ago, visited here, last week the first time since the Mexican wal He still retains an ardent love for hi birthplace. He is visiting many town in Western Connecticut.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19

The gravitation from bad to worse in French politics continues, scarcely check ed longer by the presence of the visitors attracted to Paris by the Exposition. Besides the customary daily disorders and scandals in the chamber of deputies, we now hear that an attempt is to be made to convict Boulanger of embezzle- ment and that counter charges of the grossest official corruption are publicly brought against his energetic enemy, Minister Constant. We also hear of dis turbances in the Paris streets that are suggestive of worse things to come. Paul DerouIede, the German-hating pop ular poet, is again the hero of the story. Forbidden by Il police officer to make q speech at the foot of the Strasburg stat ue, he led the crowd in a cheer for Bou- langer. Arrested for this, he turned ug- ly; the crowd set upon the officer; q body of police in waiting set upon the crowd arrests were made by the dozen i; then the turbulent demonstration was re- newed in front of Boulangist newspa- per office where Deroulcde had taken refuge and the affair ended, for the time being, with the clearing of the streets by the police and the locking up of another large batch of excited patriots. Cour- ant.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
SHELTON. .

F. s. Sanford will Illuminate the Shel- ton pharmacy with electric lights.
 c. E. Lewis, who for a long time has served as clerk in the employ of c. P. Nettleton, has severed his connection with the business and will enter the store of George c. Bedient of Birming- ham. Miss Rose Sterling Goodale of smiths college, Northampton, having visited Mir and Mrs E. l.. Staples, Parlor Rock, Tashua Hill and other places of local interest, started, Saturday, for New York.
 John IT. Barlow has nearly finished his house on Coram avenue.
 Miss Emily Perry accompanied her uncle, Miles E. Berry, on a pleasant visit to Stockbridge.
 William Ward lost an infant child, Saturday morning, from cholera in fantum.
 J. A. Bostwick, William N. Starbuck and Col Stevenson were in town, Satur- day morning, ostensibly for the purpose of arranging for the new depot and other improvements which are contem- plated in the village. Meanwhile, the ''hole in the fence" becomes more and moro interesting.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19

Fancher & Ten Eyck report rushing trade and say that orders were never bet ter.
 Charles w. Durand, formerly employ ed by the Wisner Shoe Co.,, is now sue cessfully established in the livery busi- ness at 326 Broad street. He bought out F. II. Bronson, the former proprietor, short time ago and is now conducting the business under the firm name of Charles w. Durand & Co. It is desirable loca- tion, on land formerly in the family of Marcus c. Hawley of Newtown and MT Durand is supplied with 13 horses to let, B carriages and buggies of different kinds and boards IS to 20 horses for city people. MT Durand's fiddle has made him many friends among the BEE readers who will be glad to learn of his contin- ued prosperity.
 Miss Belle Clarke is on Summer trip through Washington and points en route.
 Andrew F. West, the old manager of the Park City clothing house, is a mar ried man, it seems, for he and his bride are reported among the number making merry at Camp Sherwood near Samp Mortar.
 The term of service of George R. Stow ell in this office will be 40 years in Sep tember. There are seven compositors in the Standard office whose terms of ser vice aggregate 18S years or an average of 2S years, while others have been with us 10 years and upward Standard.
 Howard G. Hubbell's office at 465 Wa ter street is nicely furnished with the equipment discarded by the City nation al bank when they blossomed out with new upholstery
 William H. Perry is considering plans for three-story block on the corner of Main and Lumber streets, to hold II stores and to be over 247 feet long.
 M. c. Keane has bought a house and three lots on French street of E. D. Al word. But Mir Keane owns valuable lot at West End and would like to build a home for himself on it, if he can sell his new purchase.
 County Commissioner J. W. Johnson is off for vacation at the Rangeley lakes in Maine, accompanied by his sons P. l.. and l.. M., Capt W. A. Osborn of Virgin ia, Rev William Rice Newhall and Will liam B. Eaton of Springfield and O. E. Johnson of Boston.
 NJ. G. Keane, the jovial proprietor of the monumental works on Housatonic avenue, has the contract to furnish the stone for the Y. Nj. c. A. building. The building is hung up to dry for the pres ent, since it is found that it will cost more money than was at first thought necessary, The $40,000 subscribed will be only drop in the bucket, as the rough mason and carpenter work alone calls for $64, ,000 and it will require some $25, ,000 more to finish off the interior in good shape. The uncertainty as to where this $40,000 and more is to come from gives the work a temporary pause.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
THE s OCULAR PULPIT.
Go uls of Thought.

Lo, am with you always. Christ.
 When the forenpons of life are wasted, there is not much hope of a peaceful and fruitful evening.
 What we need to do for this hard world every day is to put something of Christ into it.-[Dr Goodsell.
 A word rashly spoken cannot be brought back by a chariot and four horses. Chinese Proverb.
 Every duty we omit obscures some
 The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering and the most comfortable way of dying. -[Flavel. ......
 You have not fulfilled every duty un- less you have fulfilled that of being pleas ant Buxton.
 The great fact is, that life is service. The only question is, Whom will we serve?- Faber.
 feel that through life opportunities are not the things needed by us, but grace to use them graciously when pre- sented.-[A. N. Groves. Pastoral work is ''the cure of souls,' and should be the main work of the pull pit. Often minister can do more in a pastoral visit of 10 minutes than he could do in the sermons of 10 years.-[Rev R. $. MacArthur, D. D.
 There are many ways in which it would be well for us all to carry our childhood with us, even on into old age, if it were possible-in it's trustfulness and open heartedness, and willingness not only to love, but to show that we love, as well. Why, that last, alone, would cure many a heart ache of tO-day.-[May F. Me- kean.
 II have made great mistake in wait ing for opportunities to do good to men. find that if l would really do anybody good must make the opportunity my self" So said a man in one of our noon prayer meetings recently. It is a remark worth pondering.-[ c. F. Pentecost.
 Let us not talk of rest down here, we have all eternity to rest in. This is the place for work. Our work shall follow us. We shall leave n record behind us, if we are only faithful. We can set streams running here in this dark world that shall flow on after we have gone to Heaven. A good many people have made a sad mistake. They think the church is sort of resting place. Let us not think of rest or pleasure down here. We shall rest when Christ comes, but not till then. T D. L. Moody.
 A man need have little care for the fruitage of his life, but must be most careful for the sap of his soul. The sap being right, the fruit will be right. Jesus teaches that the laws of the intellectual and spiritual world are as settled and as regularly operative as those of the phys ical world. Where there is a really good and beautiful life there must be really good and beautiful soul.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
OXFORD.

David Meigs, who has been i'll for a long time, died, Tuesday, 9th. Funeral, Friday, 18th. His age was 57 years.
 Cora V. smith, who has visited her uncle in Ansonia, has returned home.
 w. s. Bradley of Monroe spent the Fourth with her sister, Mrs B. A. Treat.
 Mrs D. B. Sweeten, who has been i'll for long time, is slowly gaining and has gone back to Yalesville.
 Q. c. Osborne, T. c. Beardsley and B. A. Treat were summoned as jurors to the court of common pleas at New Haven, this week.
 Miss Fanny Magalyanez of Philadel- phia Is visiting her aunt, Mrs George Tomlinson, who Is in poor health.
 Edgar J. Leavenworth and bride make their home with Mrs Augusta Lum.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19


 There is q greater hustle of warlike preparation in England, this Summer, the New York Illness London man re- ports, than preceded the starting of ot the Wolseley expedition for Khartoum. Daily councils of war are held and the great shops at Woolwich and Enfield are kept running day and night. Ostensibly all this feverish energy is directed against "the dervishes, now skirmishing around in upper Egypt, but the perspicacious correspondent isn't to be taken in by so shallow a pretense as that. ssIt is tpler- ably safe betting, he cables, that the Connaught Rangers will see the Straits of the Dardanelles before they do the minarets of Alexandria. Courant.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
TASHUA.

John Casper Kachele has a new horse.
 The barn at Thomas Kohlar's has been recovered, by Abraham Klein and Hen ry Wills.
 Charles B. Seeley has added horse fork to his barn conveniences.
 Henry Burton of Warren, Mass, made a flying trip to his old home recently he is still in the employ of the American Telephone and Telegraph Go. ]. The family of s. J. Burroughs of Long Hill, with Miss Gregory of Marblehead, Mass, have visited Charles B. Seeley.
 George and Arthur Clark have a couple of cowboys fresh from the West, assist ing them through having, and they are first rate help.
 John Kachele of New York is home, visiting.
 | Mrs Charles Everett of Easton has vis- ited Mrs Samuel Seeley. F. l.. Burton, our popular carpenter, has been on the sick list.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
NICHOLS.

Seventeen residents of Nichols, all own. CTS of burial lots in the Nichols cemetery signed petition asking Town Clerk Beardsley to appoint sub-registrar in Nichols, who should have the power te grant burial permits. At the request o1 some of the petitioners and with the con sent of the selectmen, Constable Charles E. Nichols, treasurer of the burial ground association, was appointed and is now authorized to issue burial permits.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19


 What one shall do in his vacation days. no one but he can decide. But it is safe to say that the best result win not be se- cured except by doing something and do ing it with will. One busy man may get the best by climbing mountains and drinking in great draughts of the pure air of tht hills, while his mind takes in the inspiration of Natures grand picture gallery. Another will get most of satis- faction from the pursuit of the elusive trout among the forest brooks. Ham mering the secrets out of the rocks, or studying the mysteries of plant life will give to another the variety and impulse that he needs. Rowing boat, padding canoe, playing tennis or croquet, long tramps in the woods, gathering shells along the beach-any one of these, or q dozen other things, may be the sort of restful activity you need. But it is quite certain that you don't need to be lazy and that if you mistake indolence for rest you will miss the recreating impulse that your vacation days have it for their highest purpose to give you. [cam- bridge Tribune.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
SOUTH BRITAIN.

Miss Lillian Post of Bennett's Bridge, who is graduate of the Yale business college, has gone to New Haven to ac- cept a lucrative and responsible position rendered her by Prof Loveridge in one of the leading business houses on Chapel street,
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19

What have we to do with sorrow, We who on the Lord believe, While on him our hearts are resting, What should make us feel or grieve? Since the daystar of salvation On our night of sin has shone, Let us walk no more in shadow, But beneath its light alone.
 -TRev R. H. Stearns-
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19

While Johnstown grumbles over the distribution of the relief fund and holds public meetings to protest at spending 25 per cent. of the fund in it's distribution, the Flood Relief Commission, having in charge the distribution of money and other gifts for the benefit of the flood sufferers, have decided that the fund is in the nature of d charity to the needy and not as a general indemnity for losses and that it must go to the most needy sufferers. They decide that distribut- ion per capita would be unjust, as it would go alike to rich and poor, no mat ter what their needs and, for similar reasons, distribution by percentage of losses would also be unjust. The fund will rot be used for the benefit of any public or private corporation. Judge Hugh H. Cummin has been selected by the commission to personally supervise the distribution in the Conemaugh Val ley. While the contributions of relief have been very generous, the require ments of the needy will more than offset them.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19

Ira D. SanlSey, the revival singer, has bought some 30 acres of beautifully situ- ated land at point between Seatuck river and Little SeatucS creek, Long Is- land, where he will build handsome residence.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19

Words cannot express the gratitude which people feel for the benefit done them by the use Of Ayers sarsaparilla. Long standing cases of rheumatism yield to this remedy, when all others fail to give relief This medi
 cine thoroughly expels the poison from the blood.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19

The Bristol miners claim to have struck it rich in the copper mine. though it is
 not stated how much stock the report is expected to sell.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
RoXRURY.

It is Rev Clarence Ernest Ball of St Johns, Rockville, who visits here.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19

Miss Lizzie Colby of Massachusetts, Will De with her cousin, Mrs Nicholas Wakelee, until September I.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
STAMFORD.

Mrs Elmer Beardsley will leave for Lakeville, August l, to spend month or more.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19

MT Leach, who was born at the house of Thomas Bull, deceased, about the first time since the Mexican war. He still retains an ardent love for his birthplace. He is visiting many towns in Western Connecticut.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19

F. $. Sanford will illuminate the Shel, ton pharmacy with electric lights.
The Newtown bee., 1889-07-19
BRIDGEPORT

Fancher & Ten Eyck report rushing trade and say that orders were never bet