The Press., 1893-03-30
WELLINGTON.

WELLINGTON.
 (Correspondence.)
 Fist day services in Baptist church, at p. m.
 Life is too short for resentments. .- Samuel Boaoles.
 We had the pleasure of receiving a call last week from Phillips Bacon, an old comrade, now of Simsbury. We were brother corporals of Go. e." 18th Conn. Vols, serving in Louisiana and Mississ- ippi We enlisted in 1861-for eleven dol lars per month, and no bounty He is assisting MT. Weed, the Congregational supply, in evangelical work for few days MT. Bacon is also 8 crusader against to- bacco.
 | Bertha Farnham has been visiting Alice Holt. She is now with Mrs. c. T. Preston.
 | Mrs Anne Robbins resumes her teach ing in the Hollow district next Monday. The spring term of the center school also begins on that day, Miss Dolly Slingsby, teacher.
 Bert Sparrow, who had hired the Ty- Ter place, near the Hill, for the coming year, has gone to Yantic to work.
 Leonard Roswell fell from the seat of his farm wagon as it was passing over a rough picece of road Tuesday, and was badly bruised.
 ! rfa 1nfvu station and Woodstock Valley, that Nor ton, the driver for a number of years, is to give up 3Oth June next, is going beg ging for a successor. The contractors agent is now in this vicinity hunting for one. When it is considered that the pres ent pecuniary reward is $1.2O per day, IS miles, and the day beginning at 8. m. and ending at 10 p. m., there is no exces- sive hahkering for the job. Morton has taken new route from Eastford to North Windham.
 An old resident and an extensive pat ron of the New London Northern R. R. for many years, says we were in error when we said in The Press recently that Holland once had as large Cif not larger) a business with the road as Wilmington. He asserts that Willington's business has always been thirds larger. "All aboard Cat Willington) from Tolland!"
 A quiet home wedding was solemn ized by Rev. c: H. Brown at J. B. Car penter's last Sunday morning, the con- tracting parties being Jamie Carpenter and Nellie Woodwork. The wedding party subsequently, attended church, where the bride, who was very tastefully and be- comingly attired, and the groom received the congrs tulations of their friends.
 Remember that Baptist ladies' social this evening. Geography match" etc. | Covenant meeting, Saturday, 3 p. m.
 There is considerable excitement in this vicinity over the alleged abduction of a twelve years old girl on her way home from church last Sunday, whose home is in Westford, just over the Wilmington line, by young man who was employed at South Willington, and disgusting de- bauch with her by two other young fel- lows during the following night at that place, whither she had been carried. Ar rests, legal CD prosecutions, future de- yelopments."" etc., are rumored only in this quarter, so we leave further elabora- tion for the alert newspaper correspond ents at South Wilmington, the source and ground of the news. There is something tangible and serious now for folks to talk about. .-.s South Wilmington Correspondence.
 Mrs, James Stills and son, of Hart ford, have, been spending few days with her son, Homer Neil. X <, ,'-- l Miss Clara Hall from Boston and Miss Rosa Hall from New York have been home for the past week.
 -G. B. Marble has rented his farm in Holland to MT. Labonte, and will move on the place which he lately purchased of Selden Curtiss. 5.,
 The law on trout fishing will be of Saturday, and fishermen are getting their tackle ready for the sport. But South Wilmington has had one more Fish than it wanted. It is said that fish stories are often exaggerated, and we fear this will be in some respects.
 If reports are true, the girl mixed ur