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The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22
SOUTH BRITAIN.

Air and Mrs Andrew braaiey Htea home from New Milford, Sunday.
 Notwith standing the unpleasant wealth CT and heavy travelling, the church soci- able at Mrs D. M. Mitehell's was we'll at- tended. considerable work was accom- piished and all had ? pleasant soeiall time, as we always do at Mrs Mitchellss.
 Mir and Mrs W. A. Fem of Shelton spent Sunday at Mrs Fenn's old home in the Purchase.
 Miss Mary Perry is spending the week with her uncle, H. F. Mitchell.
 F. W. Mitchell was home, last week :; something unusual for him to spend q week it home and give his friends an op- portunity to see him at church.
 Mrs $. [. Pierce has been in New Mill ford caring for her sister, who has been very sick with pneumonia.
 Mrs E. 5. PlatJ has recently returned from visit with her father and sister.
 Birdsey Gilbert is still very sick.
 Mix Bradley is also very feeble.
 Our popular dressmakers, Misses Ben nett, are busy as ever.
 Miss Lottie Curtis has recovered from grip and commenoed sehaol agaia.
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WOODBURY.

We think it safe to say that never be- fore was there so sickly a time in Wood bury. In p days from December IS, 2( deaths occurred in total population o1 1900, more than one per cent of its peo- pie in that brief time. Seven persons awaiting funerals at one time. Several persons died of old age, but the general causes of death were grip and lung dis eases.
 Mrs Mary, widow of Abner Deming, died, 10th.
 Charles Betts, aged Sl, died of pneu- monia. 12th. Thus has passed one of the most estimable of our citizens, after a long and useful life. He was in every sense of the word Christian gentleman. He has been for many years SC nior war den of St Paul's church. His disposition was remarkably genial and kindly. He looked on the sunny side of life and endued with this spirit all with whom he came in contact. After a life of well doing, he has passed on to his great re- ward.
 Willie, eldest son MT and Mrs Charles NJ. Harvey, died, Monday, llth, aged seven, of spinal meningitis. His funer- al was largely attended. There was a large number of floral offerings from the district and Sunday schools and from other friends. The entire community sympathize deeply with the sorrowing parents in their great loss.
 Dr and Mrs Shove are dangerously ill: Great fears are entertained that the doc- tor may not recover. He has violent attack of pneumonia.
 Mir and Mrs Dewes of Pomperaug dis trict are quite ill, as are MT and Mrs John Warner on High street.
 Frederick A. Smith and daughter will spend the Winter with Mrs Smiths brother, Frank H. Barnes.
 Mr Allen of Pomperaug is very ill, az is also George Wooten, hrotherin-law of Lawyer Warner of Flanders distriet. Mrs Wooten is also quite sick.
 AnSon A. Root and Richard H. Bald win are recovering. James $. Stone continues on the sick list:
 Miss Gruut Is ili.
 Mrs Mary Hayes, who has been quite Ill, is better.
 Thomas Bodicut Is still feeble.
 
 Charles Cozier still continues very sick. Dr Shove was so dangerously ill that tiOn.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22
BRIDGEWATER.

Born, 11th, daughter. to William II Marsh.
 Died, Wednesday, 18th, Mrs Harriet Clark, aged 52 years and 9months. The funeral was held from the house, Friday at II m, Rev k. l.. Whtcombe o1 Brookfeld officiating. She leaves a daughter and an aged mother, who are almost heartbroken over their loss.
 Mrs J. G. Melton died, Friday, 18th, aged 72. The funeral was held from the house, Monday, 18th. Rev MT Isham of Roxbury, who officiated, was the minis ter who united Mir and Mrs Welton in marriage 47 years ,agoir The deceased leaves husband and two daughters, Mrs Lester Worden of Syracuse and Mrs Phineas Clark of New Milford.
 Both Mrs Clark and Mrs Welton died after only about weeks illness, grip in each case developing into pneumonia. The remains of both were inferred in Center cemetery.
 Mrs Lester Worden and daughter Ruth of Syracuse are at J. G. Welton's.
 The families of William Marsh and Robert Mallory were each made happy by the advent of daughters, the llth and 12th.
 Mir and Mrs Walter Clark of Stony Hill, Danbury, formerly of Bridgewater, are the happy parents of daughter about two weeks old. Weight, two pounds.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22
Michael F. McCarthy,

After suffering for several weeks and being treated by local physicians and Dr Gordon of Bridgeport, the 16-years-old son of Michael Mccarthy of Walnut Tree hill district, whose home is near the first crossing above Sandy Hook on the New England road, died, Monday night He had suffered with grip, from which he partially recovered when spinal trouble, said to be the result of a fall from freight car, set in and he steadily failed, The funeral was from St Rose, Wednesday,, and the burial in the Glen. Besides the bereaved parents, there survive three sisters, only one of whom, Maggie (Mrs William Lester), is married and two brothers.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Emin Pasha is now rowing about Central Africa quite on his own hook, so to speak, having been disowned as the representative of the German govern ment, which sent him out before it en- tered into the agreement with Great Britain as to territorial boundaries. The reports from Emin indicate that, whether his belief as to the exact origin of the Nile is true or not, as least he has dis covered the mouth of an important river not hitherto visited by white men and which must bear an important relation to the river and lake topography of the country. Mr Stanley thought be had es- tablished Alexandra Lake and it's inlet as the source of the Alexandra Nile. He did not, it is true actually visit this lake, but he followed the course of it's sup posed inlet, the Kagera, and, on native testimony, connected the river with the lake. Now the reports from Emins par ty say that he has discovered river called by the natives the Kifu, which ri- ses somewhere northeast of ujiji, flows over POO miles, passing Mount Mfumbiro and emptying from the south Into Lake Albert Edward. This would make the main course of the Upper Nile to be the Kiln, Lake Edward Albert Edward, the Semlikie river and to Albert lake.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

That divine economy, therefore, by which miraculous cures have been re- moved from the church, since the time of the Apostles, is in perfect harmony with our Lords own conduct in the mat ter, when He was upon earth. He Him. self withdrew them, in the course of His own ministry, when they had been wrought sufficiently for their general purpose, lest the minds of men be misdi- rected to seek for the relief of their mis- cries in physical, rather than in moral regeneration. He permitted, as it were, flashes of light to gleam from Heaven, revealing the hand and arm of the Lord and giving assurance of their power and of the gracious purpose He had in view and then He threw the veil over them again, lest men should seek for the real power of the kingdom of God elsewhere than ill their own sOuls.-T Quoted by Rev MT Linsley, Sunday, from Wace's "Central Points of Our Lords Ministry"
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Mrs Foster, widow of Gen John A.
 Foster, once United States district attor- ney in New York, ,devotes all her time to work among unfortunate women. She visits the police courts and prisons look ing for those who may need her help. So quietly and modestly does she do her work that, although she has been engAg- ed in it some years. she has attracted al- most no attepsinp. Mrs Fosters head quarters are tue Tombs and the conrt of special sessions, for here center most of
 the unfortunate women who get en- tang led with the law. Even the jailers in the prisons attached to the police courts send to the Tombs for Mrs Foster sometimes, when they have untnanage- able women in their care whom they think she would like to see. One of these men said the other day: Its per fectly amazing what power to comfort that woman has. I've had poor creatures here who would howl and screech and
 swear and shriek in rage by the hour, in spite of everything we and the matrOn could do. And then Mrs Foster would come and just sit down outside the bars and. in five minutes, them she devils would be on the floor inside holding her hand through the bars and crying fit to shake their heads off, but quiet and sub- dued like, you know. And she don't say
 much, either. That's what beats me out"
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22
BETHEL.

Miss Emily W. Owen, member 0! the Daughters of Liberty, died at the Danbury hospital, last week Thursday 80 years old and was buried here.
 Daniel Murphy led the grand march al the ball of Wooster council at Nichols opera house, last Friday evening. Some 50 couples danced to the music of Eureka orchestra and the supper was nicely served.
 Grand Deputy Skiff installed the Knights ef Honor officers, last week, an oyster supper winding up the exercises in fine style.
 St. Thomas guild will give an enter tainment at Nichols opera house, with music, readings and tableaux.
 Edward Roe is at Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
 Mrs l.. D. Howard has been quite sick at New London.
 Grassy Plain hose company will hold a fair at Nichols opera house, February 3, 4 and ,; the High school will give an entertainment there, February and, the week after, l2th, St Mary's people will open their fair to raise funds for the new church organ.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22
The Bee Buzz.

Much has been said of late about eminent physicians, ,Dr W. A. Hammond, Dr T. N. Brothers, pr +. N. Carpenter and Dr Cyrus EdsOn, published a very interesting and instructive discussion of the subject in the September number of the North American Review. These are all men who speak with authority on medical questions and it is significant that in this important matter the doc tors all agree.
 They tell us that the habit of drinking always tends to excess and that the lon- ger the indulgence is continued, even with moderation, the harder it will be to stop. Habit becomes a. chain, which en- slaves the will until it has not the pow CT to break its own shackles. In time, this habit creates an artificial appetite which is more difficult to overcome than the force of habit. Not only has the habit weakened the will, but it has made for itself a craving desire which can ney- CT be satisfied because it is deprayed.
 ilC iilblD tLik tliC iPI1CblGC dlC hO" boon companions and the victim is bound with a double chain. If he would break the habit, he cannot resist the appetite which has become as a part of his nature, so that he may well say: ''rhe good that I would, l do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do.''
 Moreover, the artificial appetite, at length, becomes d physical disease,-a most terrible disease which poisons and deprayes and derAnges the whole man, body, soul and spirit.
 Drunkenness, in it's last analysis, is the sum total of all kinds of evil: Sin, crime and disea SC, the final result of which is utter ruin. The will is broken, the req son is dethroned, theA ead is shattered, tne heart is corrupted and the body wrecked and polluted. The drunkard has no inheritance in Heaven,
 Nor is this even the most of 1t, Drunk epnesa is hereditary. The causes of 60 our of 100 cases of habitual drunkenness they assure us is heredity.
 ''The parents and grandparents have been continuous, excessive users of spir- it's, or have been insane or mentally de fective, or have been consumptive or have had rheumatism, or gout or some othel constitutional disease before the birth ot the child. These physical states have been transmitted and have burst into ao. tivity from exposure to some peculiar ex' citing eause."
 What an inheritance is this for unborn generations.
 Sixty per cent. ofthe victims of drunk. enness are the victims of the sins or mis. fortunes of others!
 The lisfortunes of a false artificial soeial system sadse 4a per cent. more.
 But, they tell us. drunkenness is curable Far more eurabie than insanity. And yet complete recovery from habitual drunkenness is not the rule, but the ex- ception.
 Cures for drunkenness are now the or der Of the day.
 Let us hope and pray that every cap tive may be set free and that the study of the sad facts of the case may serve eff fectually to warn the unwary of the ia tal snares of the tempter.-lO. o. Wright.
 Waste no money. Buy Salvation Oil Il kills all pain, Price twenty five cents bottle,
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Specimen Cases.

s. H. Clifford, New Cassel. Wis, was troubl- ed with neuralgia and rheumatism, his stomach was disordered, his liver was affect ed to an alarming degree, appetite fell away, and he was terribly reduced in flesh and strength. Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg
 H., had running sore on his leg of eight years standing. Used three bottles of Elee. tric Bittels and seven boxes Of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is sound and well. John Speaker, Catawba, O.. had five large fever sores on his leg, doctors said he was incurable. One bottle Electric Bitters and one box Bucklen's Arnica SaIve cured him entirely. Sold by E. F. Hawley's drug store.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

The Pope has consented to loan to the United States, for exhibition at Chicago the famous Diego Ribero map of the world, begun in l494 and finished in 1929. This is the first map of the whole world as then known, It was bcqueathed by Cardinal Borgia to the Vatican library. cellent state of preservation, clean and unworn. It begins with the Molucca group and ends with the other half The Nile is traced to three lakes. Russia and Siberia are put down as barren and unknown countries. America makes a showy appearance, with Iucatan, Brazil and New Spain distinctly indicated, the north terminating with Labrador.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

The long and short of the Phelan mat ter, d conference between the two hOps- es of the Legislature to consider the claim of John J. Phelan to the office of secretary of state, is this: The Senate member. presenting the Democratic side. claimed that Mir Phelan was elected, even allowing for the ballots which the Republicans claimed were illegally re- jected, except those ballots thrown out because they were double. They offered to open the matter to investigation to de- termne the legality or illegality of the double ballots. Mir Phelan asked per mission to come before the committee and prove his election, declaring that his right to the office should not be left sub ject to the claims of others to offices for which they were candidates. The House members. presenting the Republican side, refused to consider the case of the candidate for secretary of state apart from the case of the candidate for goy- ernor and candidates for other ofiices.-
 American.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

The advertising patronage of the lead- ing metropolitan papers has come to such proportions in most of the large cities of this country that competition has forced two conditions ill adapted tn make better papers. One is the over. grown Sunday issue and the other an in- adequate subscription price. The result is, that 10 great paper ill the country
 could be maintained out of it's subscrip- tion revenue alone. Hence dependence upon the adyerti>er,a subservience to Iris
 eapricious desires, which works much of i'll in the general makeup and character If all newspapers. Charles W. Knapp.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Rev MT Delze'l preached extemporane- ously, Sunday, from the text, ssNow if any man build on this foundation, he himself shall be saved." He brought out strongly the doctrine of the final perse- verance of saints. Next Sunday, Mir Delzell purposes to show how the saints may yet suffer loss. Rev Mir Delzell will be superintendent of the Sunday school for the coming year and J.aJ. Northrop assistant. Miss Susie Scudder read let ter telling how d dollar sent from the infant class to visiting nurse of Chica- go bought sled, a box of blocks and wheelbarrow for three poor children. Rev MT Delzell did not baptize the daughter of James Drake, as stated in last weeks BEE.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Increased orders have been coming in at the Rubber shop; many foreign orders have been received and unusual activity is seen all through the shop. Edward Minor, Ralph Whitlock, Lawrence Lillis and two of Henry Madigan's boys are among recent new hands there. Martin Blake, John Finnell, Charles Costello, John keape, formerly of the Mantle, are now also employed. More new hands have been added in the various depart ments and many are working over time, some hands making 15 hours day,
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

II have seen d man hunt in the hills of English bloodhound is bred and, when the dogs came up with the men they had tra:led, they only showed delight at their success aud, by their cessation from barking, indicated to the huntsman that they had found their game. The blood hound is not only not savage, but does not look so. On the contrary, he is ans fable in disposition and has a sipgularly dignified and benevolent expression.''
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Postmaster E. Rlatt was surprised by a pleasant Bridgeport party who brought Dick Bradshaw along to make fun for them.
 The following officers have been in- stalled at Parlor Rock council, o, U. A. M.:
 C., J. H. French. V. O., $. B. Beardsley.~ Jr. EXC, N. H. Robb. Sr. EXC, F. 5. Shelton. Sec, Frank W. Hadley. F. Sec, William Gabler. Treas, Feter Gabler. Ex., w. Y. Eastwood. Ind, William Waller. l. F., s. l. Dayton. o. F., P. Hall. Trustee, F. s. Shelton.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

One of the few times 1 ever saw Brow ing, he was deeply interested in and his talk was full of the revised version of the Old Tesament. l have been told that he knew the Old Testament in Hebrew by heart. That is probably wide of the truth, but his knowledge of the two English versions was certainly remarka- ble. Challenged as to whether,as poet, he did not prefer the older renderings- he had just been citing the famous caper- berry variation ia Ecclesastes-he said he did not. The newer version seemed to have gained in faithfulness and that, he said, never carried any loss along with it, Frederick Burlingame.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22
TASHUA,

Miss Helen Hill spent Saturday and Sunday at Dr Seth Hill's,
 Rev K. II. Bowles's family has had the grip.
 Sociable at Mrs Franklin B. Mallette's, Thursday evening.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Mr Powderly has written letter call- ing attention to the fact that the Chinese restriction act will expire May s and urg- ing the passage of another law to exclude Chinese absolutely from this country.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

A Haines upright piano from the mu- sic store of James Baker of the Arcade, Bridgeport, has been placed in Glover's hall by St. Johns parish. The instru- ment Is q large one and gives satisfac- tiOD
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

In view of the stringent money market that has prevailed during d greater part of the year, the large increase in depos- it's indicates not only the increased wealth and prosperity of our citizens, but also the confidence they repose ill the sound management and security of our savings sttutions.-[ Report of State Bank Commissioners.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

St Johns orchestra deferred their oys- ter supper announced for Thursday, 14th and it was to come off Thursday, 21st; ladies interested in the success of toward the supper.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

The court of common pleas fined T. c. Stroud $50 and costs for violation of the liquor law on Taunton lake, piece of justice that should gratify all lovers of good government and neighborhood so- brietV
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Marriage is honorable in all, rich as
 well as poor. It has the divine sanction
 and upon it's sanctity and faithful obser-
 vance rest the peace and safety of the home. ''God setteth the solitary in fam
 ilies." Contrariwise, the divine curse rests upon the land which destroys the marriage VOW by easy divorce. Its down. fall may be certainly read in the adul- tery and vice that attend such state of things. If this be so, duty rests up- on every young man, especially every professedly Christian young man, to es- tablish home that shall be as bull wark against vice,a defense of all that is pure and good. The standards of society wisely require marriage to be publicly declared, but make little ado about the divorce that annuls the contract. AS a consequence, secret marriage is more re- pugnant to fashion and wealth than se- cret vice. Men with mistresses throng it's brilliantly lighted, luXuriously fur nished apartments, but the poor mistress herself is a social outlaw. This was not StduudiA III o'S NpSS of the woman taken in adultery. Still, there can be no question that marriage, as divine institution, should not be tri- fled with, nor married mates passed off as woman haters or desirable matches. Any one can easily understand how ma ny unpleasant complications might arise from such deceit, lawful as the union might be. The manly, ,ladylike course is above board and calls for no sudden rev. citations and surprises. Still, there is nothing illegal in secret marriage, ,unwise as it may be; and, once the surprise is overpast, it is polite and kind hearted to accept the facts and make the best of the conditions.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Carpenters at the Rubber shop have built a tub to replace the old one used for cleansing the old rubber after being ground and treated with vitriol. It is a huge affair 12 feet in diameter and about five feet deep.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22
BROOKFIELD.

Mrs A. +. Shepard, who has been quite sick for three weeks, is able to be about the house.
 Fredrick Hatch, an intnate of tue aims house, is very sick with grip.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

The whole subscription of St Peters burg for it's own poor has been stolen by government officials and l5,000, ,000 pounds of rye flour bought for relief proved to be so adulterated as to be un- eatable and, in part, poisonous.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Blacksmith Charles Botsford, George w. Botstord have been on jury duty at Bridgeport, but were thrown out while the case of TIC. Stroud was on.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

l think, if you will study the English language, that you will find it capable of expressing all the ideas that you may have. Be simple, unaffected; be hone st in your speaking and writing. Never use long word when short one will do. Call spade not a well known ob- long instrument of manual industry; let home be d home, not a' residence; a place, not a locality, and so of the rest. When a short word will do, you always lose by using long one.-[ William Gull len Bryant.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Kissing is as unknown in Japan as waltzing} and is thought, indeed, when witnessed among Europeans, to be a very animal and low minded way of ex- pressing attachment.-[Si Edwin Ar mold in February Cosmopolitan.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

James Donahoe, John Roach, Patrick Brew are new hands at the Mantle :; John Brew takes Charles Costelo's place in the engine room.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Charles Doran, the Danbury grocer CTS of Danbury's St Vincent De Paul society, was buried from St Peters, Tuesday.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

There will be meeting of the w. c. T. |. at their room on Saturday after noon, 23d, at } 30.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

The prevailing influenza has had it's in- tluence on the fashions, as Parisiennes have abandoned the faring Medici collar in favor of large ruches of velvet or cloth worn close and high about the neck to ward off grip Bazar.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

A dinner set belonging to Queen yic- toria is said to be the most valuable in the world. It fills two rooms iu Buck ingham palace and k guarded continu- ously by two men.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22
SHELTON.

The wife of John Hawley, the colored man arrested for killing the Munson woman, has been arrested as an accom- plice in the crime.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Montgomery Sears, d wealthy Boston social leader, paid the wonderful Pad erewski 5000 for playing at his home the other evening, before a company of invited guests. It is Mr Sears who has purchased: Abbott Thayer's new paint ing of the Madonna for $l0,000.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

George F. Taylor attended the furni- ture exhibit at the Industrial building in New York, 200 different manufacturers being represented.