The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1891-08-14
FAIRFIELD.

EFeueTlck .. Mei"lu, Wilo, With LIS
family, recently came to Black Rock
from Pueblo, died, Sunday, 81 years old.
He leaves wife and daughter. Funeral
Tuesday afternoon.
The selectmen met at C. S. French's,
Monday, to consider the Strengthening of
the road leading west from his house ;but
Lawyer Morehouse, whose land would
be required, was busy at the court house
and nothing was done.
A horse owned by Addison Mills, Jr
of Mill Plain died, last week, from inju-
ries inflicted by some one who, probably,
had spite against Mr. Mills and chose
this contemplate way Of revenge. The
horse had been turned out at night and
had been grazing along the street for
some time. A short time ago, Mr. Mills
found that the horse would not eat and
began to grow thin. 1t was taken to his
brother, William Mills, kept a few days
and then died. An examination showed
that the tongue had been cut as if with
dull knife, near the center; an acid had
been poured into the mouth of the ami
NAL, which was then left to suffer. The
cutting of the tongue had deprived it of
the power to eat and the acid had eaten
away the membranes of the mouth and
throat.
Philomena Leblanc, arrested by Sher-
iff Pike on charge of assaulting Mrs
John Lanyo, was tried before Justice j.
l.. Morehouse, Monday afternoon and
fined 81 and costs, amounting to $l5 So i;
paid. In the absence of Lawyer j. D..
Toomey, Jr, his partner, John Cullinan,
Jr, of Bridgeport prosecuted.
Frederick B. Fisher of Brewster and
Miss Hattie B. Johns of Greenfield hill
were quietly married at the Congrega-
tional parsonage, Monday, at 10 a m, by
Rev F. S. Child.
Onion quotations from Nelson Alvord ::
Yellow, So to SO so; white, 81 to Sd so;
reds, 81. The price is low, he says, be-
cause of the abundance of fruit.
The Black Rock Congregational Sun
day school will picnic at Parlor Rock on
the Goth.
About four months ago, Charles w.
Fox, the well known builder of Bridge
port, bought six acres of land of Her.
bert M. Knapp of Bridgeport, desirably
located on Main street. Mr. Fox put up
barn, some time ago and, last week.
began work on cellar for the new house.
The house is to be 30x50 feet, two and a
half stories high, with wide piazza on
the front and Sides The many-gabled
roof will be slated. TO the top of the
first story, the house will be sided !;
above, cut single will be used. There
will be ten rooms, besides servants quar-
tiers in the attic. The house is to be
built from plans by Mr. Fox himself and
he is to furnish all material for the build
ing. The mason work is to be done by
Lewis Bernard of Broad street, Bridge
port, and the carpenter work by Daniel
McFayden, who has long worked for Mr.
COX for years. The masons began work
on the foundations, this week. The
house will probably not be completed
until next Spring, as Mr. Fox does not
care W occupy ~ DciOIt hpIH 4. ~ Will.
however, be enclosed by Fall and the
work of finishing the interior in hard
wood will 60 on during the Winter The
house will have plumbing and modern
conyeniences. Mr. Fox talks of putting
up large windmill and tank, to supply
both his new house and that of Frank
Morgan, adjoining. The grounds about
the house will be put into good order
and the orchard OF about 400 young fruit
trees will receive special attention.
There will also be a garden of an acre or
two. Mr. Fox says that, although all
his interests are in Bridgeport, he is
pleased with Fairfield and intends to
make his home here, next year.
It has been suggested that this would
be a good time to pay the pledges made
to the fund for the new building Of the
Toresters. The pledges were made with
the understanding that they should be
paid when the building wars actually be-
gun. The cellar was dug, some weeks