The Press., 1892-05-05
WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON.
 (Correspondence.)
 | -Sancho, Cute and Jack are among the friends on the Hill who greet witt lconsiderable enthusiasm Butcher" Si 'monds on his semi-weekly trips.
 Everybody in this vicinity was famil far with Charles H. Riders handsome ane serviceable span of black horses, "Davio and Pilot," and will be sorry to hear thai Dave, the most valuable one, died sud denly on Friday evening last. They had been driven, to Willimantic that day by their owner (moving Frank Preston's household goods thither), who had cared for them in his usual careful manner The horse had appeared well all day, but died in great agony an hour or so after the span got home. At first the malady was thought to be wind collie, but now there seems,to be no doubt that the beau. tiful creature was poisoned. Dave hadn't an enemy in the world.
 Sherman Topliff says he has moved over fifty times.
 Mrs: Stephen Slingsby fell from the top to the bottom of her chamber stairs last Sunday morning, and narrowly es- pod serious injury. She is badly bruised and very lame, but no bones are broken. l MT. Langdon, of Plymouth, assisted Pastor Brown in the morning service, and conducted the Sunday school at the Bap- tist church last Sunday morning. He visited the Daleville Sunday school in the afternoon.
 l We owe an apology to F. M. Barrett, chairman of the democl attic town com- mittee, for not mentioning last week the caucus called to be held in the town hall last Saturday. It was entirely lapse of memory.
 -"Let us be absurd by all means, if that is the price which must be paid for something which is well worth it's price. "
 Mention should have been made earlier of the Daleville Sunday school Easter concert. There was well-carried out musical and literary program, the schooi-room was beautifully decorated with evergreems and flowers, and the large audience were highly pleased with the exercises. A prayer and praise ser vice and the reading of a sermon now precedes the Sunday school. The at tendance is. we'll sustained, and much good is being done. Miss Margaret Nichols, having de- cided to accept better position, her term of school at Glass Factory district will be kept through by Mrs. Harriet Robbins.
 Mi. Timothy Merrick, of Holyoke, Mass, has the sympathy of his many old friends here in the tragic death last week of his son, George. -Arbor day is Friday, May 9th. The ladies of the Baptist society will hold 8 sociable in the conference room in the afternoon and evening. Supper and gen. eral invitation, as usual. There has been some talk about improving the appear ance of the western entrance to the Hill. A general clearing up of the roadsides, trimming of trees, &c.,, would make 8 marked difference. "Many hands make light work" Our pleasant and pie turesque town might be greatly improved if all the inhabitants would take an inter- est in setting out trees and shrubs, and in a real Aunt Dinah "clarin' up time." Let us all fall to this year, and see how much can be done throughout the town.
 In some country places there are flower on the village green and at the forks of the roads, here and there. Take the little park near the home of Chas. Nichols, Sr., as an object lesson, and see what you can do with the insight ly waste places nearest your house. Sow seeds of common, old-fashioned flowers about the lodges, keep them free from weeds, and see if the result does not well pay you for your small trouble.
 ---Drs. Newton and Johnson were in consultation Monday over the case of Miss Alice Holman, who is quite out of health of late.
 South Wilmington Correspondence. There will be no school here Friday, on account of it being arbor day. Next week Friday evening the school children, assisted by older ones, will give an enter tainment and concert in the hall. Pro- ceeds are for continuing the grading and beautifying the school house. ground. Admission 10 and 15 cts. Should said evening be stormy it will be Saturday evening, the 14th.
 Miss Clara A. Hall, from New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, spent a few days at home the past week, accompa- nied by her class and roommate, Miss Sarah D. Linnell, of Chatham.
 = The ladies have mostly finished house-cleaning this spring, and the farm CTS voiceis heard in the fields, as well as Ethe warbling of birds.
 The much-looked for rain put in it's full appearance Wednesday morning, to the satisfaction of all.
 Some of our shad eaters attended the convention at Hartford this week. Miss Lillian Scott spent Sunday with her uncle in Stafford.
 Albert Richardson, of Holyoke, Mass. has accepted a position as spool turner for Hall & Go. He has moved into the house vacated by MT. McCarthy. CFrom Various Correspondents.) l A. D. Perkins Is this week setting uI his steam mill on E. w. Brooks lot, south of Springs. MT. Brooks expects 10 cut 150 m lumber, 1,500 sleepers, and 200 m shingles from this lot. The railroad com. pany are to give him side-track for load ing lumber and wood.
 The Holland County Superintendents Union held it's session at South Willing ton last Saturday. There was a fair aud fence present, though but few of oul superintendents. After praise and pray CT service, conducted by Rev. c. H Brown, w. H. Hall, of the State Sunday School Association, told us how to over come difficulties that Sabbath schoo l orip&opdontc and too ohoro procont h af