The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1890-08-08

tells Bee reporter that there is no truth
In the published reports that u new stone
church is TO be built at Fairfield, to take
the place OF the present frame structure.
No plans have been drawn and the whole
matter is so far in the future that 1t has
hardly been thought of seriously. ssYou
may say" he added, ''that we would
very much like a stone church here, but
that 1t Is go far beyond our present means
that II Is impossible to say if it will ever
be built"
Rev ID. w. Prentice of Greenfield oc-
cupied the Congregational pulpit, last
week, Rev Mr. Child being absent on a
weeks vacation. lie expects to ofiiciate
as usual, next Sunday.
Attorney Bacon Waieman accompa-
MES a party of about % Black Rock,
Bridgeport and New York people who
expected to start, Thursday, for an out
ing ut Lake Waccabuc.
! It has been decided to hold the picnic
of the Congregational Sunday school at
Fairfield beach, next week Thursday or
Friday.
A number of st Johns church people
from Bridgeport attended service at st
Paul's, Sunday, when Rev Mr. Tidballs,
a warm friend of Rev DIR Lindsay, for
merly of st Johns, ofliciated. He deliv-
cred an admirable semon on 1.-The post
humous work of Christ"
The anticipated meeting of the COM
mittee on the new Congregational church
was not held, Saturday, because the
plans which were to have been discussed
were not ready.
Two accidents, neither of them serious,
have occurred at the railroad bridge
which is being put up at the Redfield
crossing. Last week, II man who had
the toes of one foot crushed by a plank
falling upon them was brought to DR.
Donaldson for treatment. Saturday, an
other man was partly buried by the cav
ing in of bank and was somewhat in
jured internally.
A handsome new flag, 10XlS feet, was
flung to the breeze from the staff on the
town house, Monday. 1t was recently
bought of Swan q Bushnell, Bridgeport.
Another flag is in possession of the town,
but it is too large for the 20-foot staff on
the town house. This was presented to
the town in the early days of the war by
John Glover, grandfather of the present
judge of probate, to replace one destroy
ed by southern sympathiZers.
A French cook, Antonio Costa, who
has been employed by Il. w. Pearsall of
Black Rock, was found dead in bed, last
week and was buried in st Augustine
| cemetery. lie was a member of the
cooks union of New York and was once
eighth cook in the household of Queen
Victoria.
The history of the Congregational
church and society, issued in connection
with an appeal for funds to aid in the
construction of new church, is made up
of facts presented by Rev Mr. Child in
his historical sermon and in the sermon
delivered after the burning of the
church. The whole has been entertain
ingly rewritten and considerable new
matter added.
One of the older houses of the village
is that occupied by Town Treasurer Ho-
bart. 1t was built in 1865 and, with 9TH
crs, was fired by the British when they
made their memorable raid upon Fair
field in l779. The house was saved how
ever and is still in good order, notwith-
standing the hole burned in the floor,
which still remains.
The hearing on the case of NJ. j.
Hayes, charged with selling liquor on
Sunday, was adjourned from Monday to
Wednesday at 10 II m, owing to the una
voidable absence of j. B. Klein of De
! Forest & Klein of Bridgeport, counsel
for Mr. Hayes.
L. w. Harral and f. ]. Kingsbury, Jr,
with Mr. Townsend of Oyster Bay, are
off on yacht cruise to Newport and 9th
er points of interest, expecting to be alb
sent about fortnight.
Mr. Darcy, the Yale stndent who has
charge of the beach and pavilion at Fair.
field beach, is an excellent man for the
place. The pavilion is designed exclu
sively for the use of people of refinement
and the aim of the managers is to make
it. as at present, perfectly safe and pleas
ant for unattended ladies or children
Occasionally, however. an undesirable
party takes possession of the beach be
fore its true character is observed ant
sometimes creates unpleasantness. \
, party which recently visited the beacl
will probably never return. The mem
bers, who conducted themselves in al
= unbecoming manner, are known now.
The project of a combined guild roor
and chapel for st Paul's church is agail
revived. The building, if put up, woul'
stand southeast of the church and be US
: ed as guild room, where all bushes
and other meetings of the guild woul
a be held and as church parlors generally
The ladies have about $1,000 ON hand an
an additional thousand would probabl
D be amply sufficient for the purpose.