The Newtown bee., 1891-09-25


 gal. The arch-episcopal tribunal at Bos- ton reversed this, but Bishop McMahon took the case to Rome, where the verdict of Vicar General Hughes was sustained that the Roman Catholic church recog- nizes marriage by Methodist minister as binding. The Roman Catholic church takes noble and Christian stand on the subject of marriage and divorce.
 Ex-Supervisor Cogill of the Housatonic road has made failure of his fish mar ket and has cleared out owing about $200O.
 Alderman Tom Wood, now that the Post has kicked him out and the Stand ard has stamped him into the mud, votes with the Democrats to help them over ride Mayor Marigold's vetoes.
 George E. Keeler, secretary of Nichols, Peck < Co.,, was married, last week, to Miss Annie Warner of Wilton.
 Charles w. Blakeslee is laying foun- dations for storage building for the Malleable Iron company, 23x103 feet, for moulding sand and will lay foundations for Charles H. Hartman's brick block, Hamilton and Hallett streets, which will contain two stores and three tenements.
 Mrs John F. Riehl has bought lot at the corner of Barnum and Bruce aveunes of B. Nichols tS Sons. Harriet Dung worth has bought the lot adjoining on Barnum avenue. Harriet E. Sterling has bought the lot adjoining on Bruce ave- nue.
 Two lots on Carroll avenue, East End, have been sold by Bradley Nichols & Sons to John Newson, who has already begun six-story house on one of the lots.
 Members of the Epworth League of Grace Methodist church, West End, en- joyed an outing at the home of MT Seel- ey, Black Rock, last week.
 Mrs A. W. Banks of Stepney has spent week at the West End home of Super intendent A. J. Parker of Warmers fac tory.
 People passing along State street of an evening are attracted by the blaze of light which streams from both floors of the magnificent new building of the Sea- side club at the corner of State and La fayette streets. Of it's kind, the building is the most sumptuous in the city.
 Officials of the Consolidated road promptly denied the rumor that Lewis point, East End, had been bought by them and would be used as a terminus for the Naugatuck division. Color was lent to the rumor by the fact that the southern terminus of the spur track which the road is to lay at East End will be near this point.
 Despite the scarcity of water, the hy- draulic company continues to lay new pipes and reached the horse car stables at East End, Saturday.
 Mrs D. s. Brinsmade and daughter Fanny of Shelton have spent few days with Mrs Brinsmade's sister, Mrs Brad lev IN lcnOIS OI FdlTIleIU dNcuue.
 Superintendent Hopson of the Strat- ford land and improvement company is stlIl at work on the changes at Stratford salt marshes, but has been assailed, for the past few days, by swarms of mosqui- toes. They have not appeared earlier, owing partly to the dry season. The dikes have been finished, but not the sluice ways and the arrangements for draining the meadows are not complete.
 John T. Sterling, the Main street crock cry dealer, has sold three lots on Broome street to William l.. Wolfram, grocer of East Bridgeport.
 Bradley Nichols & Sons have bought fine horse of W. L. Wolfram.
 F. l.. Smith of Maine has opened a new shoe store at 631 State street, Cartier's block, West End.
 At next Mondays meeting of the board of education, the question of the new readers to be adopted will probably be settled. There is an idea that the new Franklin readers favored by some of the are the Franklin series now in use; but it is an entirely new edition. In the first four books of the series, but one used in the old series appears in the new.
 F. W. Read and wife of Warren street have visited MT and Mrs Martin at Steel ton, Pa.
 J. B. Cunning and family, former res dents of this city, have moved back to Bridgeport from Baltimore.
 Mrs Crossman of Norwalk has visited friends here. Willard Gilbert and wife of Waterbury 'isit West End relatives. The Seaside club took formal possess on of it's fine new club house, Saturday vening.
 LONG HILL. Miss Mary Sweezy has visited Miss < Tettie Lake at New Milford. ,