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SOUTHRuRY.

Herbert Peck of Naugatuck has been with Adam Guthrie.
 Regular quarterly convention of Wa terbury district, I. 0. G. T., at Torring- ton, 16th, 10 q Ill.
 The adjourned town meeting was held at the Town hall in Southbury. Monday afternoon. It was voted to add 3 mills to the 12 mills tax already laid and that the office of collector should elet to the lowest bidder, that the number of select men should be three. instead of four, as at present. Of the four candidates, the three having the highest number of votes occupy the office.
 The proposed Demorest medal contest by the young people of Woodbury which was to take place at the M. E. church, has been postponed for few weeks. Due notice will be given.
 Misses Hattie and Mary Sullivan have been at their fathers.
 Miss Kate Judson is with her sister,
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WESTON.

George Everett and John Norman, re- gently bound oyer to the Superior court for robbing Selectman Rowland's chick en roost, have secured bonds and are at large.
 Dewitt Grey has returned from a visit at Red Hook, N. Y.
 Howard Knapp of Fishkill, N. Y., was in town, last week.
 The services in the Forge school house conducted by Rev William Cogswell are we'll attended and will be continued Sun day evenings at 6 30.
 Miss Gregory of Milford visits her brother, John Gregory.
 Miss Fannie Seeley of Easton is with her sister, Mrs George A. Sturges.
 Mrs L. Randall and sister spent New Years with their aunt, Mrs R. K. Mich ols of Westport, the S0th anniversary of her birth. Friends and relatives were present from New York, New Jersey New Haven, Hamden and Weston.
 Mrs Philander Fairchild has been al Middletown with her son to see her hus band, at the asylum. The doctors think that he is slowly improving.
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oRoNoQUE.

The entertainment at Putney chapel January l, by Miss Jessie Bailey, elocu- tionist and Miss Christine Dyer, violinist, of Derby was satisfactory to those who braved the weather. Miss Bailey is pos sessed of superior talent and marked improvement was manifest since she was last heard here. All were more than pleased with the violin solos by Miss by CT, who, with the practice of future years, must become a real artist.
 Mir and J. c. Roland begin the new year with bouncing, healthy boy.
 c. D. Blakeman takes the cake with 530 pounds in one pig skin.
 E. G. Ryder has been down with Ia grippe and his duties as mail carrier are attended to by his sons.
 II. II. Johnson, our village smith, has been afflicted with rheumatism since Spring and neighbors, wishing to show sympathy and esteem, made him New Years presents, among which was a purse of sG0 or S70.
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ed citizen, died after short illness, Jan uary ?, Sl years old, at the home of his son, w. J. Beardsley. Funeral on Sat- urday at the house, Rev Mir Gilbert con ducting the services. Interment at Trum- bull, where his wife was buried, some years ago.
 Eli Winton visits Plumb Hawley of Stepney. Walter Smitif~ of Fairfield visits his uncle. Rev D. J. Ogden was not able to preach last Sunday, but expects to preach next Sunday. .e=.----s-..s-.. Miss Hawkins commenced her school again, Monday.
 Burton Marsh is teaming for Wheeler Bros.
 Edwin Lane recently sold young cattle to F. k. Beach of Rock House.
 Mrs John II. Wheeler has visited M. H. Thorpe.
 Mrs Ed Booth and little Edna have been guests of W. F. Selleck.
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W ESTPORT.
sAUGATUCK's $ FIRE.

SAuGATuCk ; FIRE.
 The most disastrous fire that has ever occurred in the quiet village of Sauga- tuck was discovered in the Saugatuck house about o'clock, Saturday evening. Thoughtful minds, immediately grasping the perilous situation. ordered the bells of the church and the Saugatuek Manu- featuring Co. to ring ont their loudest warning and, before the flames burst out, or any light indicated the location of the fire, the inhabitants for more than q mile around were thoroughly aroused and willing hands and stout hearts were hur- rying toward the Saugatuck depot The fire, almost at it's first discovery, seemed to be in the cellar and on both floors.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-10

J. Jennings, a prayer meeting took the place of the Sunday morning service at the Congregational church.
 The 0. F. held a successful meeting at $. B. Gorham's. Miss Emma Rumsey favored the audience with piano sole and Mrs A. B. Hill and Mrs J. E. Miller a piano duet. "Cradle Songs of All Ma tions" were next rendered and the per formers did full justice to the characters, Mrs Hill and Mrs Miller again played and Lucius Boughton and Miss Lane of Danbury sang.
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HOYDEN'S HILL.
SHERWOOD-JENNINGS s

At the residence of the brides father, Ava Jennings, on the evening of Jan uary l. under an arch beautifully trim med with Christmas green, flowers and holly from Long Island, Rev Thomas Gilbert pronounced the words which made Everett B. Sherwood and Miss Lillian E. Jennings husband and wife. New Years day is henceforth to be to them an epoch of unusual interest. A large number of relations of both famil- ies witnessed the ceremony, extended their hearty congratulations, partook of the tempting and abundant collation and pronounced the occasion one of the most pleasant they had ever attended. It would have been difficult to find young man who seemed more heartily satisfied than did the groom and the bride, in dove colored ottoman silk, with cream colored silk trimmings bouquet of white rose buds and smilax, was pronounced beau tiful. At l2 o'clock, Mir and Mrs Sher- weeks visit at Rockaway Beach, the home of the groom's mother. The pres ents, beautiful and useful, ,are as follows $50, Ava Jennings.
 Set silver knives, Mir and Mrs Edgar Jcn nings.
 Pickle castor, MT and Mrs D. Nj. Reynolds Lamp, Wilbur F. Jennings.
 Silver cake basket and napkin rings, Will liam F. Sherwood and lady.
 Carving set, Charles Sherwood.
 Pickle castor Mir and Mrs Leslie Jennings Lemonade set, MT and Mrs Martin Jennings Silver napkin ring, Miss Emma Johnson. Silver napkin ring, Mir and Mrs L. W. John son.
 Lsmp, MT and Mrs c. Salmon and Miss Fan nie.
 Silver butter dish, Mir and Mrs J. Treadwell Pitcher, MT and Mrs Royal Whitaker.
 Salt cellars and cushion, Mrs Chas France Silver spoon, Wilbur F. Beardsey.
 Cushion, towels and mittens, Mrs r. A. Jen nings.
 Lemonade set, A. Brown and lady.
 Pillow cases, Mrs Henry Lockwood.
 roning board and broom, W. II. Lockw ood Handkerchief. Miss Emogene Whitaker. Towels, Mir and Mrs Jesse Wheeler.
 Vases, Mrs Eber Gould.
 Cup, Master James Lockwood.
 Sauce plate, Bertie Lockwood.
 Mrs Henry Lockwood is in Bridgeport
 Mir and Mrs E. B. Sherwood have re
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STONY HILL.

J. D. Vail commenced sorting tobacco, New Years day.
 J. D. Vail takes the cake for large porkers, having butchered three averag- ing over 300 pounds each; the heaviest tipped the scales at 560.
 Henry Nichols of Huntingtown is at J. D. Vail's sorting tobacco.
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STAMFORD.
MRS W. II. SMITH,

Asenath Sumner, wife of Watson II. Smith, died, Wednesday morning, after a long and painful illness. The funeral services will be held from her late home, Friday afternoon, at 30. Mrs Smith, who was born at Foxboro, Mass, has been a resident of the town for some 30 years, coming here with her husband from Kent. She has been q teacher in our public schools for part of the time. An active member of the Congregational church, she has been ever foremost in every charitable and religious work con nected with the church of her choice. She was particularly successful in inter esting the young in the study of the Bible and, as long as her health would permit, conducted u large class in the Sunday school. The loss of so thorough ly Christian character from the church and from our community is d serious one and the sympathies of all are with the afflicted husband in the great loss he has sustained in the breaking up of his pleas ant home. Mrs Smith leaves no child rcn.
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HUNTINGTON.

Rev W. l. Magill has resigned as rect or of St. PauIs church, to take effect February l. MT Magill has call to the Episcopal church in Greenwich and has accepted it, [Sentinel.
 Charles Weeks died of typhoid-pneu- monia, Tuesday afternoon. He leaves a wife and six children, five of whom are living at home. A very sad case.
 Silas R. Linsley of Chattanooga, Tenn, sprays of holly.
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Mrs Katharine, widow of John Tucker, was buried from her late home on Mon day, Rev Joel S. Ives conducting the services. Interment at Union cemetery. Mrs Tucker was life long resident of this town, daughter of the late PhilO WilcOXson. Two brothers, Charles and George, died some years since and four sisters survive her. Three of them, Mrs William Perry, Mrs Wilson Fairchild and Mrs Caroline Thompson still live in town and one other sister, Mrs Lewis, is West. Her husband died year or two ago and her only remaining child, Miss Jennie, was buried but q few months since. She has been in failing health for some time. She died, last Friday night, and was born, December P, ,lSll.
 Annual meeting of the library assOci- ation, next Monday evening.
 Annual meeting of the Congregational society, to have been held, Monday, was adjourned till Monday afternoon, 18th.
 Mrs William Perry has been i'll, but is reported comfortable.
 Several are talked of as possible pur- chasers of the coal yard and business of the late William F.. Wheeler. The latest rumor: That William Blamey may be the man. He Is well known in town and has the confidence of our people, so that it seems as if his success would be assured, If he concludes to take hold of the busi- ness.
 Letters from Rev Mir Livingston state that there Is n marked improvement in his health. Such news makes glad the hearts of many friends in town.
 F. II. Reed of Bridgeport has moved into house on Prospect hill.
 A fair audience was present at the lee ture given in the Town hall by Dr Will liam Van York on Tuesday evening, the subject being "Cave Men of Devon." The lecture showed thorough knowl- edge of these ancient people and was in structive.
 Lieut. Gibner has declined accepting the captaincy of Co. K. This necessi- tates another election and will probably result in giving the office to Stratford man.
 Society people here looked forward to pleasant time at the annual ball of the Cupheags, Thursday night. Arrange ments were made to have the early morn ing train going west stop at our station to accommodate the Bridgeport guests.
 Mrs Lcavitt Is seriously i'll.
 Indications point to several new houses in town in the Spring.
 Maple drum corps elected these off cers:
 President, W. II. Fryer.
 Secretary and treasurer. Robert French.
 Drum leader, M Fryer,
 Fife leader, Eugene Beardsley.
 Executive committee, s. W. Meachen, Al fred wakelee, Arthur Sammis.
 The railroad company have purchased the Agur Curtiss property. This is the first imporlant move toward a new sta tion and changing the grade crossing al Main street. Price paid about $2000.
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BRIDGEPORT.

The Bridgeport Light Leather Co.,, now running full time, made their first ship ment, Monday.
 Both A. Siismund and J. V. Bradshaw of the dime parcel express have been laid up. One doctor reports 5 cases of la grip pc in the 4th ward.
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DIAMOND HILL, BEDDING.

Miss Jennie Bonney of Lawrence, L. l., has visited Miss Emma Olmstead.
 Marion and Eloise Selleck have been sick with diphtheria.
 The school will have another weeks vacation; Miss Boughton has malaria
 On account of the sickness of Rev ".
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NEW MILFORD.

Levi Hemingway of Claverack is at Dr Bacon's.
 John P. Treadwell and sister of Nor walk were in town, last week.
 The Cinderella social at the Wigwam was great success.
 4 surprise party was given Henry Adams, in one of the new houses at the silica mill, Lanesville.
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THE FACT OF THE
 MATTER IS,

We have more Overcoats and Listers on hand than we care to carry. Do you want one? If so, we will make the price an ob- ject for you to buy. At any rate, we cordially invite you to call and examine our varieties and, if you don't buy, it won't be be- cause the price aint right. Eve " Overcoat in our stock is marked down, with the deter mlnation to reduce stock before taking inventory. Some start ling bargains will be given. At the same time, we wish to call attention to our lines of
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ASPETUCK.

Jeremiah Grumman is with his mother in Bedding.
 Mrs Ephraim Osborn and son, Misses Emma and Edith Osborn, Mrs Abigail Williams visited Mrs Coley M. Abbott.
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EAST VILLAGE.

Reuben Stowe has purchased anoth- CT tract of woodland in Easton. Clinton Woolsey has returned from visit up the Hudson.
 J. w. Waterbury sold wood to Bride
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BETHEL.

Mrs Jane Riley, 44, died at her home on Chestnut Ridge, last week. Rev G. P. Terrence otficiated at the funeral at St. Thomas church, Monday afternoon.
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STRATFIELD.

Mr and Ms F. G. Wilson have been at E. l.. Walkers, Huntington.
 Miss Grace Cornell has been sick, but is improving; Mrs Kepler Nichols is very sick
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port parties te be deliverd at Stevenson. A. J. Beers enclosed part of his barn. Emory Futile has lost an OK.
 Rev W. Chamberlin has bought II. A. Buckingham's farm in White Hills.
The Newtown bee., 1890-01-10

It is sad to thInk that Nebuchadnezzara after his gay life had to go to grass, but sadder the thought that so many men of promise and ability find early graves by carelessness in not checking cold in its early stages by the use ot Dr Bulls Cough Syrup.
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EASTON.

Wheeler Beardsley, an old and esteem
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SOUTH BRITAIN.

The Congregational pastor came down with chill and high fever, Friday even- ing. The Methodist pastor, ReyMr Rob- inson, will lead the meetings ofthe week of prayer till Mr Keeler is able to help him.
 Mr sellew, the Bible visitor, returned, Monday.
 Mrs French is quite i'll with chills.
 Two boys, Peachly Roswell and Smith, were tried in the Town hall for stealing hams from the smoke house of Mir Beardsley near Bennett's Bridge and were sentenced to New Haven jail for six months. The hams were found hid- den in lot near Roswells.
 Ia your issue of the Sd, you stated that the Congregational society of South Britain yot- ed to reduce the salary of Rev MT KeeIer. That statement is false.--IS. F. Ayerill, chair man of the meeting.
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Mrs Henry Lockwood is in Bridgeport Mir and Mrs E. B. Sherwood have re- turned from Long Island.
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Mrs French is quite i'll with chills.

Mr Sellew, the Bible visitor, returne. Monday.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18

The Sumterville (Fla.) Times tells a
remarkable story in connection with
phosphate excitement. It SAYS that
several persons have been drowned in
the Withlacooche River while diving for
hidden treasures. A colored man
named Abrams is the last victim. and
his case is a very peculiar one. A party
was sounding the bottom Of the With
lacooche for phosphate, and when an
extraordinary bone or tooth was dis
covered Abrams would dive down and
bring it up. At last he saw a very
large bone and dived for it, but re-
manned at the bottom. Waiting a few
moments and seeing his body at the bot
tom, graphing hooks were obtained by
his comrades and his body was brought
to the surface. AS he came up a huge
horn or tusk was seer sticking out OF
his head. Upon examination it was
found that, in diving, he had struck
head first a huge elephants tusk that
was standing on the rivers bed in an up-
right position It had pierced his
brain, causing instant death. The tusk
was over four feet Ion G.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18
Knew What Hurt Most.

Little Nan, of four summers, consid-
ering it her duty to entertain a ladv
who is waiting for mamma, enters into
conversation.
Man-Have you got any little girls I?
The Galleries, l have two.
Nan-D-do You ever have to whip
'em? AAp
The caller-I'm afraid 1 have to
sometimes.
Nan-What do you whip 'em with?
The caller amused = Oh, when
sneyve been very, naughty I take my
Nan most feelingly as mamma en-.
h,ess}-l-yo-you ought to use n hair
or9sn; my mamma does. and it hurts
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18
Head Against Head.

Bellows Falls is where the dime md-
scum freaks are developed, and the
country store actors fitted for the stage
and $50 q week. Last week q reporter
passed q night at the Commercial
House, and in company with handsome
and witty MI. Minis, the proprietor,
went over to an adjoining stable to see
a son of Africa test his head against the
head of q flour barrel.
Before the trial was made MI. Minis
took off the hoops from n end of the
barrel and drove fifteen or twenty long
malleable nails through the chimes, far
down into the edges of the head. After
this he drove the hoops on securely and
nailed them. Then the barrel was
placed firmly on q box, raised about
three feet from the floor; the further
end was fastened against a horse stall,
and all was ready.
The colored man had on a big knitted
cap, and when he drew off some two
rods away to make his run fire flashed
from his eyes like sparks from an cleo
trio car A sharp run, a skip. and a
mad, headlong leap, and his Uranium
came up against the barrel with a crash.
1t was no use. He winked demurely,
scratched his head obviously, and re-
tired for another run.
make my S. bet a $1O," said Minis,
who had been betting against the ath-
lete.
Done" replied the reporter, and
again the battering ram went forth to
meet with repulse. The third time he
came up he was evidently discouraged,
though not disheartened. Failure again
awaited him. During the lull which
followed Minis went up to the barrel
and began to pull bits of bark and
slivers from the hammered barrel head.
"See here," he said in an undertone
to the reporter, "Ill pay the $40 and
call it off. That fellow has beaten
those boards all to basket stuff, and he
is bound to finish it the next whack.
I've lost, and will pay now."
mo, sab. you doan't," cried the COL
ored man. Hold on ter yer money,
sab: Use gwine to finish him now,
suah."
Saying this he backed clear across
the stable, gave o snort and q jump, and
went for that barrel like a common bull
and target. The air looked blue as he
sped along. The usual dull, sickening
thud" was the result. The negro lay
on the straw, a rod away from the bar
rel, gasping for breath, and the barrel
was intact. 1t was fully five minutes
before he could speak. At last he
said:
II must Civ dat one noah trial befo' I
go to Bosting to the dime museum to
work"
He scratched his head and walked
away, and the reporter came to Boston
alone.-BOStOn Globe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18
Horse Meat for Eating.

Physically it may be distinguished
from beef or mutton by it's appearance,
says the Nineteenth Centuru. It is
coarser in the grain than beef. In
this respect it resembles bull beef more
than any other. 1t is darker in color
and looks more moist than beef. It
has a peculiar smell and O peculiar
sweetness Of taste. Its flavor is eener-
ally eonsadorod W be hal1 way between
the f1avors of beef and game. It is
something like the flavor Of hare. One
reason why horse flesh is, as o rule,
darker in color than beef, is that horses
which are poleaxed or which have died
from injury, disease or old age are not
properly bled and dressed by the
slaughterer. It is, however, by it's fat
that horse flesh is most easily distin-
guished. The fat of horse flesh is not
generally mixed with the lean. It is
yellow in color. 1t looks more moist
than the fat of beef. 1t soon melts and
soon becomes rancid. Consequently,
unless a rapid sale is effected or the
fat removed, an advance price must be
charged in order to secure the butcher
from loss on unsold meat.
Lastly, horse flesh can be distin-
guished from beef by it's chemical
characteristics, and it is in this way
that it may be recognized when mixed
with other substances. Who can tell,
except the chemist, what are the COM
ponent parts of a sausage, polony or
saveloy? Or who can tell by taste
what these parts are? We do not
Judge by taste, we judge by flavor, and
in the making Of favor-to use Sam
Weller's phrase-"it's the seasoning as
does it."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-18
Now!

An English nobleman who d.,
Gently was frequently spoken Of sno re-,
his fellows as being "too good fo au tt!g
earth" He was excessively sas
minded when in society, and a mssal,
much of his time in solitude and passed
tation. HE was as pure md meal'
worldly" says his biographer. s sau aa'
ing of another sphere" 90 q De-
Looking closely at his life, hovor..
it appears, in spite of the large onne s'
tunities which his wealth and ranl Ippot'
him. to have been of little use or v s1se
to his fellowmen. Aspirations 'aaue
dreams, however high and noh bla
which never pass into words or ac uHule'
do not weigh heavily in the world
When Prince Bismarck retired frou
public life last winter, a member Of H t%a
Reichstag said, shrewdly, THE pow rae
Of the Prince for good or evil Law ;n .t'
use which he made of the present m rue
ment. He never worked for to.m NV
row, but for to-day. -"
Probably the same criticism con1d l..
made upon every man who exerts a l;rs
ing force upon his generation. H.
lives not to dream of the past, nor ~
hope for the future, but to work-now
The memoir of an old italian nay;o,.
tor ends with these words: His yos.
ages brought no advantage to his conn.
try because ne was a dreamer, and not ,
man of affairs. Though he had boon
all over the world, he never was in its
OF Goethe, on the contrary, it W..
said, He seized the passing hour as a
bee does a flower, held it, wrestled with
it, sucked it dry of all its honey, and
then left it behind forever"
The world has use for the man who
looks forward, who is in advance of his
time, who gathers facts which another
who comes afterhim may cause to Weld
their lesson, who theories and specu.
lates and discovers new laws.
But it is among the men who live in
the present and make it their aim to in.
fuence their own generation that we
find the Gladstones, the Bismarcks, the
Websters, the Lincolns-all the men
who force the world to call them great.
-YOuth'S COMPANION.