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FAIRFIELD.

Work is being pushed rapidly forward
at the change OF the grade crossing at
the Chemical Works. Redfield & Sons
are contractors, both for filling in and
building the abutments for the bridge.
According to the latest reports, the
crossing at the depot will be closed by
the railroad and the road run north
about 20 rods on the north side of the
track, than crossing by an overhead
bridge and coming out near j. A. Stay
backs carriage shop. This is done TO
avoid the heavy damages which must be
incurred if the tracks are crossed by a
bridge where the crossing now is.
At the business meeting of the Con-
gregational Y. p. S. C.E., before the reg
ular evening service, Sunday, Miss Hat
tie e. Burr and John L. Morehouse were
appointed as delegates to the State con
vention of the Z. p. s. G. u. at Wilt
mantle, October 6 and Z. Three dollars
was also voted to the State Union to help
defray convention expenses.
A petition signed by % citizens was
handed the selectmen at the last annual
| meeting on Monday, asking that a vote
/ be taken atfthe annual town meeting on
the license question.
Subjects on which Rev +. S. Child OF
| the Congregational church will speak tC
his people, Sunday evenings, commenc-
ings with last Sunday evening Joseph
the Prime Minister Moses, the Law
Maker, Y Israel and Egypt Gideon
Farmer, Soldier and judge iona
than, the Royal Friend, y Israel and Ca
naan, 2 ssSolomon, the Sensualist,' z ssJere
miah, the Reformer,' = Israel and Nine
veh,'' ssDaniel, the Seer and Prince,
Y sCyrus, the Conqueror,n Israel ane
Babylon y Judas Maccabeus, the Patri
OF, 70 Herod, the Accused, = and .'Israe
and Rome 2
The school board passed the following
4 vote, Monday:
Voted, That in the complaint of James Sore
der against Miss Annie G. Abbott, teacher il
Stratfield school, for unjustifiable punishment
of his daughter Lottie, we find thai, while Mis-
i Abbott had much proyocation in the insub
ordination of the pupil, she has used unjusti
n fable means and severity in the punishment
and that she erred greatly In adIninisterin:
4 the punishment while In state of anger.
In view of these facts, we direct that Mis-
a Abbott make public Acknowledgements befOr'
the school that she has done wrong in thi
matter and make D proper apology to tn
family of the complainant.
Furthermore, we as a Board cOnd TIL
use OF a Fawhide in the schools as an instru
ment OF punishment and hereby prohibit 1T
use and, at the same time, condemn the aci
IN pres enting the rBwh hide 70 the teacher wit
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
SPORT HILL.

Regular monthly union at the Congre-
gational church, next Sunday evening.
Sacrament of the Lords Supper and
new communicates received at Center
street church, Sunday at / 80.
The ladies' aid society of Lees chapel
are preparing for a harvest entertain
ment at Good Templar's hall, Tuesday
evening, 18th. Literary program by the
young people and good supper. Twen-
ty-fiye cents admits to all. If stormy
Tuesday, first pleasant evening.
j. w. Sherwood is having his house
re-shingled.
Friends on the Hill regret the removal
of Mr. and Mrs E. y. Disbrow to Bridge
port.
Miss Emma Roberts has been in New
York.
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ASPETUCK.

Mrs j. j. Foster was called to Long
Island by the sickness of her daughter,
Mrs Charles Burdell.
Born. September 20, a son to Mr. and
Mrs Charles Lobdell.
Miss Jessie Kellogg visits friends in
Stamford.
The Center Street church votes on al
lowing women to vote in conference; n
full attendance is desired.
Sunday was desecrated by hunters
the reports of guns were heard all day.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
COLEYTOWN.

III. Il. Goodsell is assisting in catering
to a hungry public at Wadham's market.
Mrs William Sherwood is gaining and
is now able to sit up.
E. n. Sipperley and George A.Sturges,
after having visited the Waverley, NJ
fair, the Albany fair and relatives and
friends in Melrose, N. Y, have returned
and report a fine time.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03

Mrs Joseph II. Skidmore and Mrs Gil
bert Thomson entertain their sister. Miss
Elizabeth Wheeler of Cohoes, n. Y.
Mrs Joseph E. Bixby. who has recent
ly visited friends near Samp Mortar, has
returned to her city home.
Joseph Skidmore has bought yoke OF
oxen of Joseph Virgins.
Mr. and Mrs James Pratt have visited
Fred Pratt of Norwalk.
Miss Oracle and Allie Nelson enter =
tanned friends from Southport, Sunday.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
TASHUA.

NJ. d. Mallett's horse barn, 36x4O feet
was raised, last Saturday.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03
CHESTNUT HILL.

Myron Patchen's little son has been
quite sick.
Agur S. Beach spent Sunday at Deep
River.
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The Premiums.

CLASS I, GRAIN.
81 90 Yellow flint corn, n French, Trumbull
zoe Yellow flint corn N Brinsmade,
SOC Half dog ears sweet corn, II Lockwood,
Monroe
csc Half doz ears sweet corn, George w Drew,
Huntington
81 Half bushel rye, A Kraemer, Monroe
soc JIG johnson,
81 Buckwheat, sherman,
soc G FBrinsmade, Trumbull
~ Halt busheI yellow dent corn, Charles
Beard, Huntington
soc s b Clark, Monroe
soc Halt doz ears popping corn. Beard,
25c George w Drew, Huntington.
SOC Half bushel white dent corn, w III. Brins
made, Trumbull
CLASS 2, FRUIT.
81 Dozen salway peaches, II l. Fairchild,
Trumbull
SOC Trumbull
81 Rhode Island greetings, II s Sterling, 4"
zoe DE Plumb, ."
~ Golden russetts, F $ sterling.
soc w III Brinsmade,
81 English russetts II S Sterling q
zoe l. ID Lane, Monroe
81 Concord grapes, N French, TrumbuIl
SOC Mrs q Clark,
81 Roxbury russetts, win N Northop. Newtown
SOC Geow Knight, Huntington
81 Seek no further. /"
soc John Henrietta, Trumbull
Al Keller pears, ii p Nichols, Trumbull
soc N s French. .
al sheldon pears, j Field, Eeston
SOC Fla Archer, Derby
Al Baker apples, l. Thomas, Trumbuli
soc l. ID Lane, Monroe
al Louise bonnie de Jersey, NJ Lake, Monroe
SOC L ID Lane,
~ Pound pears. Miles Burr. Monroe
s0c John NJ /"
AL Orange ounces. Lyman Latin, Huntington
al Beurre clairgeau pears, ID Hollister
Monroe
Ac FLA Archer. Derby
Al Belle Lucrctia pears, y sherman. Monroe
soc Ed HOLSTER,
Al Vicar OF Wakefield pears.F Sherman,
zoe VIII Brinsmade, Trumbul
Al peurre D,Anjou pears, A Archer, Derb.
zoe o b Plumb, Trumbul
II Bafrum pears, De
soc BPiumb
Il Lawrence Plumb,
zoe
u Howell DE
5Oc
81 Newtown pippins DE
81 Baidwlns HE
~ WE
A GsilInower. John D Tomiinson. Huntingto
soc Samuel Bcardsley, Trumbn
a. English Brittle, C N Fnirchild,
6r Plumb,
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FAIRFIELD WOODS.

funeral of niece in Ridgefield, last weei
Tuesday.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1890-10-03

25c III e French, TrumbuH
81 Rag carpet, Mrs Agur Beardsley, Monroe
/ 90 Field
soc Knit rag rug, Mrs George w shelton
csc Daisy Seeley
90 Silk quilt, Mrs Grandson Hnbbell, Hunt
ington
soc Mrs John Henrietta
soc Infants crochet sacque, Mrs c J Radcliffe
Long Hill
25c LII Wales
90 Patchwork quilt, Mrs L b Gray, Hunting
ton
soc Daisy Seeley
2 90 Embroidered silk quilt, Mrs G Hnbbell
90 Miss b Plumb, Trulnbull
Silk quilt, Mrs Grandson Hubbell
silk quilt, Mrs John Henrietta
csc dis Zouave Jacket, L II Wales
soc dis Rag rug, Mrs Ell Wales
25c dis Bureau cover, Edith L Porter, Monroe
csc dis Wool gloves, III French
25c dis Shirt, Emma Wales
25c dis Hand made collar, Mrs Geo w Shelton
25c dis Knit silk mittens, Jennie Northrop.
Ncwtown
SOC dis Counterpart, Mrs Grandson HubbeH
soc dis Pillow shams,
| 25c dis Silk stockings,
| 25c dis Outlined apron, Mrs G B Plumb
| &c dis Crochet hood,
| soc dis Patchwork quilt
| g5c dis brentwood mat Mrs w w Lewis
| 81 Embroidered afghan, Miss Rose sinclair,
Monroe
| SOC Miss Palmer
| &c and 25c Table mats, Miss l. III Wales
SOC and use Finger bowl doyiies, MRS Wales
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Notes About old Folks.

Mr. Vanderwalker, of Weyawega, Wis,
died few days ago at the ripe old age of
80 years and months.
Mrs. Sarah E. Braman, of Georgetown,
Mass, recently celebrated her 99th birth
day. She received numerous messages of
congratulaton, and when reporter called
to pay his respects she grasped his hand
with such vigor that he found it difficult
to realize she had nearly reached the
century line.
Isaac Lutz, of Clinton, Mo-, win soon
celebrate his ninetieth birthday. Mr..
Lutz is the envy of many men twenty and
thirty years his junior. He has no idea of
feebleness, has not gray hair in his head
and up to quite recently put in full time
at his trade, which is that of bricklayer
He has great aversion to tobacco in any
form.
Mrs. Mary Bruner died recently near
Derry Church, Pa. The deceased was
born May II, 1887, and was consequently
in her 103d year. She had been in excel
lent health upto this week She was the
mother of fourteen children, eight Of
whom survive, the oldest being so years Of
age and the youngest 64 years. Her de-
scendants number eight children, thirty
FIVE grandchildren, 125 great-grandchil-
dren and three great-great-grandehildren.
! Mrs. Bruner was an invetera.ee smoker
and possessed remarkable rAemory, being
fond of relating the early history of the
century,
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1T WAS EASY FOR HIM.
Opposition to the Rod by the Man Who
Had No Bows.

Had No Boys.
eyes, I believe in thrashipg a boy,n he
was saying IN loud voice to Cass avenue
carful of passengers "the more you thrash
a boy the better it is for the boy"
II think, SIR" remarked meek-look-
ing man next to him, ''that your language
is very Incorporate"
What do you object to, may l ask
Is it the word thrash? You wouldn't
have me say beat would you? Perhaps
fog would suit you better"
81 cannot see the necessity of hogging
boys, sir"
"What would you do with them, may
ask?"
"Reason with them. Talk to them in
mild and encouraging tones. Remember
that you were once boy yourself"
81 do sir; and 1 am thankful every day
of my life for the personal chastisements
my good father bestowed on me-"
'Cruel, cruel" murmured the meek
man. SIT is degrading to boy to be
whipped like brute beast. No boy re-
quires it. He can always be managed with
Kindness"
Every woman in the car looked curious
ly at the meek man, and the advocate of
thrashing had a temporary chill. Then
he leaned forward and inquired of the
other:
"Can you manage your boys without cor
poral punishment"
al haven't any boys" was the serene an
swer, and everybody laughed.
1t is so easy to bring up other peoples
children.-DetroH Free Press.
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Novel Way OF striking Roses.

Recently | was conversing with police
man who is a rose enthusiast, and he told
me he had strong bushes of some of the
best hybrid perpetuals upon their own
roots, that he had rooted himself in way
quite new to me- Having obtained a
suitable shoot, or several of them, they
were placed in an ordinary bottle, which
contained some water, and this bottle was
hung upon the wall of the house in a
sunny position and there left, water being
supplied to make up the deficiency caused
bv evaporation. In this water, which
often becomes very warm from the heat of
the sun. the cuttings remained, and after
short period they callused, when they
were taken out and dibbled into pots in
the ordinary way, the formation of the
roots soon taking place. The above plan
was claimed as expeditions, as the cut
tings callused much sooner IN water than
they did in the soil. 1t is known that
many things root readily in water, and
oleanders are frequently propagated IN
that way, whilst some Sedum spectabiie
that have lately had in cut state had
rooted freely long before the flowers faded.
With the roses, if cutting is once nicely
callused, success is always a certainty, and
if this needed state can be brought about
bv immersion of the base in water, we
then have simple and valuable aid to
rose propagation, because If is much easier
to preserve alive cutting placed in water
tnau it is one in the soil during its early
stage Hicgs Magazine
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Mr.. and Mrs Cleveland will shortly
visit Florida.
The Queen Regent of Spain is simple in
her manners, and is slowly relaxing the
rigid etiquette of the Spanish Court.
Announcement is made that Governor
Mckinney of Virginia never swears, never
smokes and has never consumed more than
half gallon of whisky.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, as youthful as
his old age is, declines to follow the exam
Pile of certain of his great English masters
and issue volume of his poems.
Secretary Rusk was asked recently to
take hand at poker. He refused on the
ground that the crops fully satisfied his in
terest in the fluctuations of chance.
George w. Smalley's criticism of the
late Robert Browning's neglect of beauty
of form in poetical composition is receiy-
ing wide and well-merited attention.
1t is said that the Shah wanted Hadii
Hassein Khooly Khan to return to the
United States, but Hadji politely declined.
The freedom Of the American press was
too much for Hadji.
Mr. Stanley loDS ago feSeiEeu tne hee-
dom of the city of London, but not the
golden casket in which the parchment is
contained. That will be presented to him
on his return this month.
Among those who listened carefully 10
Mr.. Brackets inaugural address as Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, and applauded it
cordially, was Mr. Russell, who was his
rival in the electoral campaign.
General Alger proposes in few days to
set out in his private car on tour Of ex-
animation of the G. A. R. posts that will
embrace every department in the United
States. Such tour is prescribed by Gus
tom.
There is vast deal of public discussion
at Allegheny, Perm, as to the organiza-
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ART NOTES.

The regular and Saturday classes in the
Sacramento Scnool of Design E. B.
Crocker Art Gallery are now larger than
at anv time since the first and second
years of the school.
1t is proposed to open class in wood
carving at the Sacramento School of De-
sign, in the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery.
Wood-carving, as an industrial art, has
had great revival in Europe recently.
William Morris, the poet and designer,
is very unpopular in England just now, for
he has been telling the shopkeepeIs 4
two-thirds of the things seen in their win
dcws are "hideous in color and form, with
out the semblance of the artistic spirit in
them.
AT the late Exposition grand prize
was awarded Chelmouski, the Russian
painter, on a picture outside the rules,
having been painted in 1875. A grand
prize was awarded to Paul Bartlett for his
bohemian and Bear Cubs" and placard
to that effect fixed to the group. But the
placard was withdrawn, and young Mr..
Bartlett does not get so high an honor.
The southernmost house in England is
occupied by the distinguished Cornish
water-eolor artist, Thomas Hart. His
studio, to which connoisseurs and picture
fanciers are wont to make pilgrimages is
situated under the shadow of the Lizard
lighthouse, and the southernmost fixture
of the work of human hands on the coast
line of old England is Mr.. Hart's boat
house. at the foot of his delightful garden
and grounds.
Messrs. Bode, Miller-Walde, Lubke and
other experts of Germany pronounce gen
uine little painting which has been as
signed to LEONARDO da Vinci by the Di-
rector Of the Pinakothek of Munich. 1t
came from the Bavarian town of Gunzberg
and has been acquired by the museum.
| Paintings by da Vinci are extremely rare,
many which used to be assigned to him
having been proved the work of contem-
poraries.
The English painter W. B. Richmond
intends to open a school in London as a
means to counteract the growing tendency
of English students to migrate to Paris.
| At the Art Congress he maintained that
all the really great art Of France had been
produced under the influence Of Italian
masters and attributed the movement
among English art students to the fact
that capable masters in England did not
open schools. As Mr. Richmond is famous
for the worst faults found in British art it
may be curious to see the result.
sWe went this morning to see Carolus
Duran" wrote Marie Bashkirtsef in 1882,
two years before her death. "What a
charming and admirable being he Isl Peo-
pie are disposed to laugh at him because
he can do a little of everything. He
shoots well, he rides, he dances, he plays
the piano, the organ and the guitar, and
he sings. They say he dances badly, but
as for the other things he does them with
inimitable grace. He fancies himself a
Spaniard and Velssquez. His appear
ance is very attractive, his conversation
interesting, and there is in his whole air
something so amiable, SO frank and so self
satisfied he has so evident an enjoyment
in the admiration Of his own proper per-
son that one cannot bear him ill-will for
| it-on the contrary
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IN GRAND OPERA.
DONE WITH A MAP.
A Newspaper Correspondent Astonishes
the Cossacks.


A newspaper correspondent, David Ker,
travelling in Central Asia, came one even
ing upon a Cossack camp. Fires were
blazing and round them stretched the
men, resting after hard days march.
The traveller had been long on the road,
and with his white Russian forage cap and
travel-stained clothing, looked so much
like the Cossacks themselves that he en-
tered the camp quite unnoticed. Then he
sat down on a stone and took out colored
map of the country, knowing that the
strange sight would bring the men about
him Immediately.
$50 itproved. Isuddenly became aware
OF gaunt, sallow, gray-mustached visage
so criss-crossed with saber scars as TO
look like railway map-peering over my
shoulder. Then another and another
came edglng in, till I was completely sur
rounded by wild figures and grim faces.
"'Whats that picture, father? We can't
quite make it out
"' 1T is not picture at all, brothers
it's plan that shows me the very way by
which you have come here from holy
Russia, and all the places you have passed
through
IHSH, llOt W IlOlICS IllS IOOhS
of unbelief and the meaning grins with
which my hearers received what they con-
slider to be most outrageous lie, went
On:
cup here at Orenburg, you passed the
Ural river, and then marched eastward to
Orsk, Shsre you crossed the frontier and
turned to the southeast
SO we did comrades shouted half
dozen voices at once. He speaks the truth
so we did,
"'Then we passed Fort Kara Butak,
crossed the Kara Koum desert and halted
here and here and here'-naming and de-
scribing the various posts.
'The Cossacks listened open-mouthed to
the familiar names, and the excited clamor
was followed by silence of utter amaze
ment. Then one said:
"'Father, can you show us the very place
where we are nowY
"gro be sure | can, my lad. See, that
black spot is the village yonder; there's
the river twisting and winding, and here
is your camp
There was another pause of blank be-
wilderment, and then the Scared veteran
with the gray mustacbe asked in an awe
stricken whisper:
"EBut, father, tell me for the love of
heaven, if we've marched 1000 miles since
leaving holy Russia, how can it all go into
little scrap of paper no bigger than an
Easter cake?"
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tion and management of the library
which Mr.. Carnegie is founding, which is
very pleasing to Mr.. Carnegie, who looks
for wisdom to proceed from such counsel.
Lieutenant Andrew G. Curtin Quay, u.
S. A, son Of Senator Quay, is in Philadel-
phia. He is short young man, with a
small mustache. He has come East on
his first furlough. He was graduated at
West Point last June, and is stationed in
the far West.
Mr.. Lloyd, the owner Of the London
Daily Chronicle and Lloyds Newspaper, not
only makes his own paper, but also grows
the grass from which the paper is made.
Up to the hour of going to press he had
not succeeded in making the seed from
which the grass is grown.
The oldest living graduate of the medi-
cal college of the University of Pennsyl-
vania is DIR. Isaac T. Coffmap, of Phoenix
vile, Pa. He was So years of age on New
Years Day. He was graduated in 1929,
and has been in active practice ever since.
He does not look over 60.
Great doings are going on in Edison's
works at Orange, n. J., and the little chill
dren of the earth are to be the bene-
fciaries. For what is Ediscn doing but
making $4,000 dolls with monographs in
side 'em. These wax babies are to be
made ready to talk and sing in any Ian
guage for which Mr.. Edison shall provide
phonograph cylinder. These cylinders
are to be stamped with all sorts of melo-
dies and Mother Goose nonsense, and all
your little one has to do to convert her
English doll into doll of another nation
is to open the dolls back and change the
cylinder.
The London correspondent of the Man
chester Courier writes: 81 have taken the
trouble to ascertain from an undoubted
authority how the Prince of Wales really
is. My informant told me that this spring
the Prince was indeed ILL., Like almost
every member of his family, he has a ten
dency to gout and to rheumatism. Some
years ago he suffered from va1icose vein,
and, as ill-luck would have it, a sharp at
tack of rheumatic gout came on at the
very time when the varicose vein had
swollen-as is frequently the case-and
was bad This necessitated the Prince
resting, and he is a man with whom rest
is the reverse of beneficial He needs a
great deal of outdoor exercise, and that of
rather violent character, and confne-
ment has not improved his condition.
There is also no doubt but that his kidneys
have been much out of order, but there is
no permanent disease"