The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-01-23

number of Stratford boys had embarked
for the oyster grounds of III. =. Lewis at
Georgia, was caught in the storm and
compelled to go miles out of her course.
! She was nearly three days late in reach
| ing her destination. Another party of
Stratford oystermen was to have left for
| Georgia, last week, but some of them de-
clined to go.
Two valuable dogs were poisoned with
strychnine at the lower store, Friday
morning. One was pointer belonging
to John Bond and the other spaniel
owned by Edward Garry, the storekeep-
l. r.
Liveryman Philo Osborne, who was
sick with a cold, has been much worse
| and unable to attend to business. His
son-in-law having gone South, he has
| been assisted by young men of the town.
"a journey among the stars" was the
| interesting title of lecture at the Town
hall, Friday evening, by Prof butcher of
Yale University and and was listened to
with close attention. 1t was the first of
the second annual series of the popular
lecture course and the hall was we'll fill
ed. Prof butcher, who is an easy and
interesting lecturer and thoroughly con-
versant with the subject, entertained his
hearers with not only the modern and
generally accepted theories of the evo-
luton, government and composition of
the celestial bodies, but gave many of the
views and theories, absurd enough to the
people of this generation, held by the an
clients. He spoke of the sun and dealt at
some length upon its composition, Its
probable origin, the source of it's won
drous light and heat and quoted many
authorities on these matters. He adj
vanced arguments in support of the the
DRY commonly held, that the sun is a vast
mass of seething heat which is gradually
cooling and contracting; the natural re-
suit of this will be the final extinction of
the sun as producer of light and heat
and with it the earth will circle darby
in space, frozen globe, lifeless and
voiceless. The professor felt safe in as
surfing his hearers, however, that this
change would not occur in the immediate
future. He grew quite enthusiastic on
the subject of comets and explained the
theories held by the ancients and by the
savants of our own day, in regard to
these mysterious bodies and their mutual
attraction for the other members of the
planetary system of which our sun is the
center. Prof butcher explained with
considerable care the methods of deter
mining the distances of the varions plan
cts and stars from each other, the earth
and sun and the relative powers Of light
and heat. The next lecture in this course
will occur on Thursday, January 30, at
the Town hall and Rev Beverly E. War
ner of Christ church, Bridgeport, will be
the speaker. His subject, one with which
he is fully able to cope, will be liking
John in history and in Shakespeare and
will be an exposition of the character of
the king, as set forth by the historian and
the playwright. The proceeds of this en-
tertainment will be devoted to the benefit
of the library and it is hoped that good
audience may be present.
Thomas Bridges, Jr, who was employ
ed by Mrs Leavitt and left suddenly, one
morning, has returned to Stratford with
his father, after an absence of three
months.
Rev c. l.. Pardee has been absent from
town for nearly week.
Miss Nettie E. Anderson, who died re-
Gently at % Frelinghuysen avenue, New
ark, was daughter of Mrs Thomas An
derson, who occupies part of the house
of Mrs S. A. Barrymore. She was but
II years of age and had suffered for
short time with consumption.
Capt Parker has been quite sick.