The Newtown bee., 1891-09-18
SOUTHPORT.

Patrick Fennessy has moved to the house he bought of Mathew Anderson.
 The artesian we'll at Hands point had reached depth of about 1SO feet, last week and water was then flowing at the rate of between two and three gallons 8 minute. Mica rock was being drilled.
 Seven candidates are to be initiated in- to Fairfield council, o. U. F., this week Friday night, increasing the membership to about 50. The council is in flourish ing condition and has recently paid two assessments from the reserve fund.
 Mrs E. $. Bishop and daughter of New London have visited Dr Chapin.
 Dea Charles Lacey has sold 8 strip of land to the railroad for $l250 and grad ing has already begun there.
 Dr Chapin and family were to leave, this week, for Springfield.
 The contract for plumbing the new house of Charles Sooysmith at Greens Farms has been secured by Woodward & Spicer and work has already begun, the firm hiring additional help. The house is to be plumbed in the most complete style, with handsome and expensive fit tings. Woodward & Spicer will pl oba- ply have work there all Winter.
 A pair of false teeth was found in the roadway near the Congregational church, Sunday, by Miss Gertrude Corbusier.
 Too many Bridgeport bicyclists are in the habit of monopolizing the sidewalks in town, especially on Sundays. Through Fairfield village, there is trifle less of sidewalk riding than formerly; but no restriction is feared in Southport and the riders wheel or coast recklessly along. Many have been run into, but, happily, none seriously hurt. Several of the ri- ders have been hurled into the street by angry pedestrians. Last Sunday, a wheel man who was cOasting down the hill into the village ran into Mrs c. w. Wells and Mrs A. R. Brown, about midway between their home and Watson's blacksmith shop. They were on the sidewalk and heard no warning bell or whistle. Mrs Brown was struck on the side and thrown partly forward, while the rider was pitched from his wheel. His companion rode rapidly on, while he recovered his wheel, which, in the meantime, had been run over by a passing team. The 'cyclist offered no apology, but marched off, pushing his battered machine.
 Workmen at the Hand place enjoyed an imrromptu clam bake, Thursday.
 Desiring to celebrate in fitting manner the opening of the improved and macad- amized Kings Highway, George B. Bun nell held lawn tea and reception in it's honor, Wednesday, l6th, at , o'clock, at his handsome residence in the Farms. The occasion was, as are all occasions when MT Bunnell is chief, a success of the first magnitude.
 The railroad has removed the fence from the land bought of c. o. Jelliff and has been grading the land.
 Mrs Emeline Meeker is on Long Isl and.
 Daniel O'Dell and Isaac Benedict are digging we'll for c. A. Wheeler.
 Mrs J. V. Ryder has entertained her sisters from Long Island.
 Quotations from H. Zabriskie:
 Red onions, $l 75; white, $3 50; small white for pickles, $4 to $7; yellow, $1 70 to $2; pota toes, $1 D to $2.
 A new drum corps, the Pequot Jrs, has been organized in Southport.
 The Fauna left, Saturday, for a trip to Glen Cove, L. l.
 Dr Gleeson and family expect soon to return to New York.
 D. D. Hunt, who has been in charge ot E. N. Sipperley's artesian we'll rig at Hands place, has returned to Provi- dence.
 Under the superintendence of Rufus F. Sherwood, ship ways are being construct ed at John H. Coles place. The ways are for convenience in drawing MT Coles yacht Inez out of the water.
 Some time ago, timbers for the first floor of the Hand place were laid and the walls of huge rough stone advanced for the timbers of the second floor, some of which were to have been laid, this week. The walls present rather unusual but not unpleasing appearance, the founda- tions being so constructed as to seem as if rising as part of the solid rock out of which the foundations were blasted. At trrction is added by the windows, circu- lar and otherwise, and by the arches at the porte cochere on the east. Around these, long thin stones are set edgewise, sticking out like dull rays of light. Though some of the arches are IS feet at the base and 10 feet high, their true size is hardly appreciated, because of the magnificent proportions of the whole. The stone walls are lined on the in- terior with terra cotta to absorb damp ness. The partitions are of brick. At the rear, the barn is raised and enclosed and in it is stored lumber for the house. Work has been somewhat delayed by lack of material.
 Cream and white, with dark green blinds, are the colors put on Mrs Charles Rockwell's house by Painter Rufus F. Sherwood. The interior is to be painted and papered throughout, save in the bay windows and bath room just added by Carpenter Charles Gray, which are fin- ished in hard wood. Wheeler & Furniss are plumbing the house throughout, wa ter being obtained from l000-gallon tank placed in the attic by MT Gray. The plumbing is first class in all work about the house. MT Gray has yet to lay new floors and make repairs and make repairs on the windows and walls.