The Newtown bee., 1892-05-20
BRIDGEPORT.
A. Fox has returned to work after an absence of about week with the grip.

departed, Wednesday afternoon, on fronting expedition toward Monroe, but returned home, early Thursday morning, thoroughly disgusted with his trip, hav-- ing only caught one bull head and trout weighing a half pound. Ex-Sheriff Jim Dolan accompanied MT Hill and returned with about the same results and severe wetting.
 Sherman Hubbard, Park Place, has been at the Grand Union, New York.
 G. Stoddard returned from New York, Saturday, after weeks business trip.
 Miss Kittie and Sam Sanford sailed, for two-months' trip abroad.
 Miss Floy Allen of Stratford has been singing iii the carnival of opera.
 It is too bad that fine public school like the Bridgeport High school should start on the same principle as the police force'has been run on. Yet for all such learned professors at the head of that in- stitution, letting those under them do as they please in awarding the merits of the senior class, is downright shame and not justice to young ladies who were looking for honors in their class. To throw them aside for a student living on the East Side who is not within 20 of them in rank If elected by the class, his name would not be even mentioned for the honor. Right is right, every time.
 Dr l. DeVer Warmers yacht Daring, Henry street, all Winter, went to Black Rock to go on the ways there, last Fri day. When completed, ,she will go imme- diately up the Hudson river, to cruise there until Mir Warner returns from Eu- rope.
 Mayor Marigold and Chief Rylands visited many of the saloons, last Satur- day night, which created quite surprise, but, judging from the appearance of so many old timers on the streets, Sunday, it had good effect, else these people would have been safely housed in some bar-room. Citizens and taxpayers ought to feel proud of the present manage ment and assist the work in every way and it will not be long before the saloons will be under control and Sunday liquor selling will be thing of the past.
 MT and Mrs D. w. Thompson of New York spent several days among friends here.
 David Trubee is confined to the house with slight attack of malaria.
 Miss Bennett of New York is visiting Mrs B. D. Pierce of North avenue.
 Sterling and Nichols new house on Colorado avenue is ready for the masons.
 Contractor John Rutherford is digging the cellar for the large addition to the Thompson X Langdon corset factory. He will commence, this week, on stone work.
 David 5. Beach believes farming pays with l 1-2 acres of land, all of which is covered with glass except 70x150 feet |; little attention is given to flowers. Lettuce and cucumbers are a speciality, covered with 50,00O square feet of glass; 6O,OOO lettuce plants have been marketed, this Winter and 2,000 cucumber plants are already running on trellis. The six greenhouses have hot water running drought them, heated by large heater in ha h sons, the elder named after his Grand father Beach.
 The Legrand Sterling property on the corner of Main and Congress is being rapidly removed. Steam drills are con- stantly at work on the S750 yards ot solid rock. The cellar is to be ready October l. Aphotograph of this proper ty, 50 years ago is at Scully's.
 J. H. Lutz, druggist, made an assign ment, Friday, May 13, to Fred W. Ira cey.
 Henry A. Hurd has suffered for two weeks with painful eye, caused by a cinder from the cars while crossing the bridge.
 A literary and musical entertainment was given by the Epworth League of the Newfield Methodist church, East End. in the audience room of the church, Thursday evening, 12th, to a large audi euce. The exercises were opened with a piano solo by Miss M. Ada Sands, fol- lowed by recitation by Miss Emma Roberts; an instrumental quartet by AL bert Clark and George s. Hawley, man. dolin, w. Pauson Clark and William Beach, gnitar, received a hearty encore. A bass solo by George s. Hawley was loudly applauded and responded to. The whole program was we'll rendered and reflects credit upon the management.
 Rev w. F. Ferguson, pastor of one of the Long Island churches, occupied the pulpit of the First Methodist church. Sunday morning, 18th. In the evening, anniversary exercises were conducted by the Epworth League of the church under the direction of the president, Dr F. c. Graves, who said that, in the name of the Epworth League, he most heartily welcomed you tonight to this third an- niversary of the League, comprising 5000 chapters, 100000 members and an official organ, the Epworth Herald, reaching 5S,OO0 subscribers. He then introduced the speaker of the evening, Rev W. P. Ferguson, who gave an interesting ac- count of the object of the League, en- phasizing the importance of Chapter No. at Epworth in Lincolnshire, England, under the management of Susanna Wes-