The Newtown bee., 1892-01-15
BRIDGEPORT.

Capt Russell Frost, Go. D, South Norwalk lawyer, was chosen colonel of the Fourth regiment, last Friday.
 The last Ragan lecture, on the Adiron- dacks, will be given at the South church, Tuesday evening, 18th. John l.. Stod- dard's lectures will begin the same night, 18th, at Bunnel's, with Sunny Spain, fol- lowed January 26 and February l by Mexico, where Mr Stoddard went, last season; February 9 will be devoted to the Holy Land, closing, February l6, with the Nile. Mir Stoddard is to give up featuring, next Winter, as he is to take two-years' trip to the East to pre- pare lecture on China and it's neigh bors.
 A State convention to consider meas ures for the suppression of the saloon will be held in the Presbyterian church, Tuesday and Wednesday, January 19, 20. Practical and vital topics will be discuss ed by such able and effective speakers as Hon B. B. Johnson, ex-mayor of Wal than, Mass; Col l.. Edwin Dudley, sec retary National Law and Order League :; Rev Dr II. l.. Wayland, editor National Baptist; Hon Francis Wayland, dean of Yale law school; Miss M. E. Remington of "Welcome Hall'' mission, New Haven :; Rev J. l.. Scudder, founder of the "Peo- Hadley, superintendent "Jerry McAuley mission,' New York.
 The Aluminium Brass & Bronze Go. have 30 driven wells from 20 to 27 feet deep for supplying their shops with wa ter.
 The sensational article printed in the Evening Farmer of January 6 in regard to the burial of the late P. T. Barnum is utterly without foundation. All present at the services at the house could, with out any hesitancy, take oath that there was no exchange of caskets and all that was mortal of the great snowman lies in the family plot at Mountain Grove ceme- tery. The fact that no newspaper men were present at the funeral is easily ex-
 
 cure copy of the BEE of April 10, 1891, and read the article in which it plainly states, in his own words, his reasons for not allowing any outsiders to gaze upon his face after death. Owing to our pa per being a weekly, it did not come out until the day of the funeral. It should have been gOtteE ready the week before and Mir Barnum was very much displeas- ed when he received copy of the BEE on April 3, 1891, not to find his whole funeral arrangements in print, as he wished very much to see it. He himself dictated to reporter of the BEE as he sat by his bedside and this was without doubt the last interview he ever had with a newspaper man. There is no doubt that, could MT Barnum have known be- he did look in his casket, he would have been only too happy to have given the citizens of Bridgeport an opportunity to take last look at his familiar face; but the fear of his looking, as many great men have looked, who after death have
 
 of his last wishes, that none but the fam fly and nearest relatives see his re- mains. During life, this Greatest Show man on Earth and Bridgeport's great benefactor was often called the great humbug, but, at his death, all such non. sense ended and no such accusations could be charged against those who care fully and sadly followed out his last wishes.
 John c. Shelton, Jr, son of the alder manic member of the firm of Fairchild & Shelton, the soap manufacturers of Hous. atomic avenue, gave pink tea to 4 young friends, last Friday evening, to celebrate his 10th birthday. Smilax and pink tissue paper made the rooms bright and Master John received many birthday reminders.
 Charles G. Ploucquet of the opera house candy store fell in fit, last week, and was smothered to death by curtain that enveloped his face.
 St. Johns parish remembered Rector w. H. Lewis with a $500 New Years purse.
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