The Newtown bee., 1891-04-17
FAIRFIELD.

Little Annie Wellington lies danger
ously sick; pneumonia.-Misses Sarah
and Iibbie Bartram returned from st
Augustine, jacksonville and other cities,
last Friday.-Mrs \. NJ. Bartram. after
her return from Murray hill hotel, was
suddenly taken i'll with fever; DR. Hub
bard is in attendance.-Mr j. A. 5. Burr
is at Elmshade place, guest of Mrs a. Nj.
Bartram.
John r. Donovan has been sued by
James Sutton of Waterbury, who claims
that Donovan has not fulfilled a contract
in regard to Waterbury's garbage and
that pigs destroyed his vegetables, for
which he has been unable to get salts
faction.
Mrs Frank b. Wakeley, who has been
very sick with malaria and muscular
rheumatism, causing nervous prostrat-
ion, is improving little. She is cared
for by Drs Donaldson and Porter, while
Mrs Brown of Bridgeport is giving her
massage treatment.-Franklin JOY, who
died, Saturday, was so years old and we'll
years spent his Summers at the Manor
house and his Winters with his married
daughter in New York, or with his son,
Dr. Henry JOY, head of the medical corps
at Sailors snug harbOr, Staten Island.
Mr. JOY was native of Fairfield, having
been born in the house now occupied by
Benjamin Belts. He became prominent
in business circles in New Y 0rll and was
at one time secretary of the Pacific Mail
steamship company. lie accumulated
considerable wealth, hut was of too gen
erous a spirit to retain his earnings long.
He was member of a prominent Congre-
gational church in New Ork and was al
ways active and liberal in church work.
John b. Clemmons of New Haven has
been appointed administrator with the
will annexed on the estate of his mother,
Pamela Clemmons, Mill Plain.-Mrs John
Dunn has been seriously i'll with pneu-
monia.-Mr Howell of Bridgeport has
taken Mr. Bulkley's place in the carpen-
ter department of Slayback's shop.-Mrs
Hallet Green has moved back to Fairfield.
William B. Nichols of II Grand street,
Bridgeport, is administrator on the estate
of the late Daniel w. Hendrickson Cf
Mill Plain.-Col Il. L. Watson has NOV
ed to his Summer cottage at Black
Rock.-Edward Carney, a Bridgeport
painter employed by Coughlin Brothers,
fell from scaffold while painting the
Black Rock residence of L. w. Pearsall
and had his left leg badly broken
George Morehouse passed away, Sunday
night, at the ripe old age of 10 years and
| months. Heart failure had troubled
him through the Winter months and at
last caused his death. In his younger
days, he was prominent man in town
and, at various times, held large amounts
of property. He was an attendant of
Fairfield Congregational church and the
oldest member of the church. His wife
died several years ago and he leaves two
daughters, Mrs Abby Hubbell of Jones
avenue and Mrs Cornelia Wilson, who
has made her home with and cared for
her aged father.-No small surprise was
caused, Sunday, when it became known
that the Chapman property in Mill Plain,
Mill hill and elsewhere in town had been
attached by Simeon Baldwin, counsel for
the Housatonic railroad, to satisfy an old
Judgment of $47. 200. The attachment
was for $4,000 interest and charges in
cluded. AS the Fairfield property stands
in the name of Mrs Lucia l. Chapman,
and as she could not be made liable for
debts contracted by her husband or judg-
ments obtained against him, Prof Bald
win proceeded to place the attachment
upon 'sany and all interest of George D..
Chapman in certain described land and
property held by Mrs Lucia Chapman"
The Judgment was obtained in 1879. 1t
had then been in court 10 years. The
cause of action against Chapman on the
part of the New Haven and Derby road,
in 1869, was claim that he had not car
ried out a contract to build certain part
of the road. A year or so ago, Lawyer
John l.. Morehouse placed $4,000 at
tachment on the interest of George D..
Chapman in property in Fairfield stand
ing in the name of Lucia /. Chapman, to
satisfy judgment for about 81 900 held
by John r. Throckmorton &c Co. of Ohio
against Chapman for failure to fulfil a
contract to build part of the Scioto valley
road. This case has been dragging along
in the courts for Is to years judgments
= having been obtained against Chapman
in both Ohio and New York. A demur-
rer against allowing judgment against
Chapman in this State has been argued in
the Superior court, one of the claims of
the Chapmans, through their counsel,
Judge Glover, being that the Ohio judg-
ment was obtained by fraud and collus-
ion. 1t may be interesting to know that
the whole property, homestead and nine
outlying pieces, have nearly $4,000 of
encumbrances upon them: Attachments
for $4,000 and $4,000, mortgage for
$4,000 and builders lien for $4,000. Mr.
Chapman has of late been buffeted by two
severe financial storms, the failure of
Sistare's Sons, in which he was interest
ed and the absolute failure of his She
paug schemes. The $4,000 attachment
papers were served by Sheriff Pike. Sat
urday night.--Several members of the
board of health made their way to the
Smith farm Of John Il. Donovan, Monday