The Newtown bee., 1890-02-28
BRIDGEPORT.

BRIDGEPORT.
 Capt N. Rowland, who runs the steam CT Medca between Five Mile River and New York, is building an elegant new house on his property near the Fisk place, Five Mile River, which will be fit ted with modern conveniences and be both ornamental and beautiful.
 A 10-pound girl arrived to gladden. the home of Mir and Mrs William N. Row land, recently, at Five Mile River
 Mrs Capt NJ. Rowland has been with friends in Five Mile River.
 Born, sth, daughter to MT and Mrs s. E. Wheeler of Plainfield, NJ. Mrs Verona French has had the grip, but is better.
 Captain Terry and family think of go- ing to the city in the Spring, if his broth CT from Long Island will take his farm.
 From 80 hens, George Sherwood gets over 100 dozen eggs a month.
 Patrick Haugh has been cutting the brush in front of Capt Terry's land :; quite an improvement.
 Mary Jane Haugh is better.
 Mrs Charles E. Beers of 103 West ave- nue has been under the doctors care.
 Misses Carrie Spagele of Long Hill and Aonho1auyeIys hnx af hn pleasant home of Miss Carrie Wentz on North Main street.
 Never has Bridgeport been so stirred in certain sections as now. Owners, les sees and managers of gambling and poli- cy shops were raided by wholesale, Mon day night and will be tried, March l.. Chief Rylands deserves the good words said for him.
 William McNamee has been sentenced to two and half years in State prison for setting fire to Dorman's stable.
 o. NJ. Shepard, for 26 years in railroad service, once on the New England s western division, has been chosen to sue ceed the late Superintendent Turner of the Consolidated's New York division.
 Michael Fitch of l3 Wallace street, a painter Respondent at the death of two children and the sickness of his wife, cut his throat from ear to ear with razor, last week, and died at the hospital.
 Rev Henry B. Beard of Minneapolis, who Is East for few weeks, was guest of the Yale alumni at the banquet over which Rev Dr Plumley of Greenfield Hill presided, last week. Over 125'were pres. ent and it was called the best banquet yet.
 Thousands visited the new Bishop ar cade, Saturday evening, when the formal opening took place and the Wheeler X Wilson band rendered music. The arch over the entrance attracts much atten. tion and favorable comment. It is oi buff sandstone and beautiful specimen of Romanesque architecture.
 An East Bridgeport man named Flor ence, who has been sick from the conse- quences of swallowing or inhaling the dust from ground glass at Wheeler & Wilson's, died, Saturday and was buried Monday.
 One of the largest funerals in to wn for a long time was that of Michael Fitch, the dlsheartened painter who cut his throat, last week and died, Friday. The funeral was Sunday at his home on Wal lace street.
 Scarlet fever, which is beginning to be prevalent elsewhere, has made it's ap- pearance at West End. Three children of Robert McDougall of Hancock avenue were attacked, last week; Agnes R. died, Saturday and was buried, Sunday after noon. The others are somewhat better.
 F. T. Barnum, Bridgeport's king tax payer, is assessed on $60S, S,66s, about a thirty-sixth of the whole, $2l, ,942, ,2s2. Wheeler < Wilson come next with $475,. 750 of valuation, then it's president, Ma thaniel Wheeler, with $243,025.
 Albert Knees, recently employed by our popular shoe dealer, H. N. Ayers, at his farm in Trunbull, has moved near the home of the late Peter K. Wentz on North Main street and will take the mill, business formerly conducted by MI Wentz.
 E. D. Pierce, UT, the street commission. CT, has force ofmen empoyed at point known as the Rocks on North Main street and near the house of John Willis St, blasting rocks and widening the street His stone crusher Is doing duty neal by with the aid of a steam engine.
 Couch < Wisner's shoe shop Is full oi orders and men are working nights.
 Hermann Kempinski, who has been re leased from false Imprisonment in Rus sia, Is to return to America at once.
 A large Summer hotel is being built at Miller's Place, about five miles east of Port Jefferson, L. l., by the auxiliary so-