The Newtown bee., 1890-03-14
BRIDGEPORT.

On complaint of "a number of ladies, another house of ill fame has been raided.
 The ''White slave" plays at Proctors, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, March r, IS and 9,matinee on Wednes- day. ''Little Lord Fauntleroy" will play matinee and night, the second week in April and arrangements will be made with the Housatonic road so that people from Newtown, Danbury and New Milford can witness the mati- nee. The "White Slave" is Bartley Campbell's contribution to dramatic art. MT Cambell's heroine is really white girl of high parentage, although the re- suit of an irregular alliance; the estate of the judge, her supposed owner, but really her grandfather, is mortgaged by the girls lover, who is the judges neph- ew and business manager, the mort gagee being planter gambler who en- trapped the young man. A home is bro ken up, the negroes, including the hero inc, sold to the villain and the girl is res cued by her lover. There is q thrilling steamboat scene, followed by a fire and explosion; the couple drift down the Mississippi on fragments of wreck, are cast upon an island, captured by the villain, who in the end is shot by d sher if whom he has summoned to arrest the heroine and her lover and everything ends just as it should, thanks to a lawyer x.,I> ;,,t af |, exactly the proper documents.
 Longstaff & Hurd secured the contract to build the Seaside's new s30,000 club house, corner of State and Lafayette.
 Pr. Barnum's ice house at Marina has been filled, this week, taking about 90 tons of ice over 12 inches thick, which was shipped here by the Housatonic road. The house was never filled with clearer ice, this being entirely free from snow.
 A very large barge from New York has been filled with ice at the Houston ic dock. The ice is brought there on cars and side tracked, to be loaded with runs from cars to boat.
 Last Sunday was a great day for New field NJ. E. church; three joined. In the evening, crowds thronged around the al- tar; meetings three and a half hours long and plenty of workers to have gone on still. Some hardened sinners were seeking religion and others less steeped in sin. The great revival of the Winter has commenced anew and already 13 more have started. Special workers from abroad will be here, this week. .Sey- eral from the city are present to work who are not members. Meetings every night, this week and next.
 Charles Christmas and lady and Miss Mary E. Powers have been guests of Mir and Mrs w. l.. Powers of Toilsome hill
 Rev G. B. Day is very ill at his resi- dence on Golden hili.-[ Norwalk Ga zette.
 Part of the depot platform has been removed, to make room for the change of tracks by the Housatonic and Consol- dated roads.
 Conductor G. $. Colt of the Housatonic entertains Miss Grace Cooper of Houston, Maine, at his pleasant home on Iranistan avenue.
 The city meeting, Tuesday night, re- fused to devote s75, ,000 for the proposed new Barnum school building, but voted s44, 900 for the purpose, $600O for an ad- dition to the Jane street school and in- creased the appropriation for the Sum merfield school s50OO, all of which will add three mills to the tax list.
 A petition is in circulation for the abo- lItion Of the East Bridgeport post office, which has long been kept at Vail's at great inconvenience and much annoy- ance to the public. A post office whose