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school duties at Poughkeepsie, N. r., on Tuesday of last week.


 school duties at Poughkeepsie, N. r., on Tuesday of last week.
 MT and Mrs George IT. Couch left their home, last Saturday, for a few days vis- it with friends and relatives in New York city.
 Howard Hopkins is much better. The fever has all left him, and although still requiring constant care, the prospects for ultimate recovery are now good.
 'Tony' Pixley of Bridgeport was again at the Lakeside house, last week. E. E. Main (tin dealer) of Plainville, for the last week with his wagon of mer- chandise.
 B. Griswold, ST., is at present on the sick list.
 Mrs Abbie Platt, mother of Mrs Hen ry Upson, is quite ill at Rev Mir Upson's. A ''calico" party was given at John Moore's on Wednesday evening of last week, B couples being present. Dan- cling continued till daylight on Thursday. Dr R. Todd, late of Watertown, was in this village professionally over last Friday night.
 F. J. HosfOrd, with force of men, is kept busy, this week, in cutting and fil- ling J. NJ. Ford's creamery ice house in Marbledale. About 400 tons will be housed. The ice house connected with the Worthwhile creamery is also, this week, being filled from this lake.
 Mrs W G. Granniss of Ltchfield was again at her parents here over last Sun day.
 Misses Ida and Gertrude Burr of Brooklyn, N. Y., wishing to enjoy the country in winter for few days as con- nected with skating and sleighing, came up from their city home on Friday and stayed with Mrs E. II. Beardsley till | Tuesday of this week. | Mrs E. Hull continues about the same as last reported. She does not improve as fast as desired, but is not considered critically ill.
 Mrs Sherman Cogswell, Jr., has been confined to the bed for two weeks with a cracked rib, caused by a fall from 8 chair in which she was standing.
 Robert II. Armstrong, while passing his vacation from the employ of J. B Stillson of this place, intends to start fol North Carolina about February l, to wis il his brother there.
 Hon c. P. Lyman, Ex-R>presentative F. 5. Brown, J. B. Stillson, F. J. Hos ford, E. II. Beardsley, with their wives enjoyed a straw" sleighride to Wash ington on Wednesday evening of last | week.
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NEW PRESTON.
ANOTHER FIRE.

1t seems for the past few months that the fire tiend has lowered close to this place. Four times in twice as many and three times out of four has resulted in the consuming of the build ing fired. Once, assuredly,by lightning. time by burning chimney from which soot rattled through an un- used stovepipe hole in pile of combus- tible material; but twice has there been an unmistakable and unexplainable mys- tery connected with the origin of the fire The last fire here was last Friday night about midnight, when the new cattle barn of Mrs H. R. Sherman was dis covered from village by Dr R. Todd and Frank J. Hosford to be in flames, and so far burned when seen that no effort was made to save it. A neighbor proceeded as fast as possible to the scene of the fire and found Mir and Mrs Sherman, with all the other occupants of their home, locked in deep slumber, but no real cause can be or has been assigned as to the origin of the fire. In the barn basement were seven head of cattle, two yearlings, three cows, one pair of young oxen, which were so securely fastened that it was impossible to extrictte them before they perished; in fact NIT sherman thinks they were all sutfocated and dead before he reached the barn. A few tons of hay and some grain was burned with farming tools, etc. The loss is estimated on all from $2000 to $t GOO. The buildings and contents were insured for part of that amount through c. A. Todd of New Milford, who vii
 probable adjust the same with the uu
 al promptness and satisfaction. Best O
 all MT Sherman's new horse barn ant
 his residence also, being placed at d lit
 tie distance away and the wind th.t
 night quite strong by blowing away
 from the other buildings mentioned, es
 capped any injury. The question pro,n
 inent in many minds here at present i
 ''Where will be the neXt?'
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DANBURY.

A new club denominated the Daunt- less has been organized consisting of Catholics. John r. Walsh, president; J. A. Quinn, secretary; Patrick Cunning ham, treasurer. The object is social in- tercourse and general good fellowship.
 A series of extra religious services are being held in the Methodist church, with encouraging success.
 The marriage of Theodore W. Gillette, a typo, native Danburian, and Miss Hattie NJ. Hawthorne of Philadelphia, transpired last week in Philadelphia, where Mir Gillette is at present in Lusi- ness.
 The St Vincent de Paul society aide d the needy to the amount of $644, last year.
 The Danbury agricultural society elect ed 5. H. Rundle, president; G. E. Sears, vice president. The secretaryship and treasuryship were combined and John W |. Bacon appointed to the united sofiices-a good appointment.
 James Osborne has been appointed al- derman to fill the place of Alderman Raymond, resigned. A first class ap- pointment.
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RAPID RAILROAD TRAVELLING

Mrs Alfred Cable, under the new regu- laLions on the Berkshire division of the Consolidated railroad, found it a. differ ent matter to reach her sons family in Ansonia, from New Milford, the same day. Getting on the wrong car, she was switched off on the through line to New York city, and did not learn her mistake until she reached Danbury. Then talk ing another car and train, she was acci- dentally brought back to New Milford, where she decided to remain until the next day. She then took the morning train and by waiting an hour in Bots- ford and making finally the right con- nections, she reached her destination 24 hours later than she intended.
 Watson Cogswell was taken suddenly ill on Wednesday night of last week and has been confined to his home since, re- quiring attendance night and day. MT Cogswell has thought for some time that he has heart trouble and suffering with severe cold almost produced con- gestion and heart failure. It is hoped with good care and nursing, which he is now receiving, that he will be out again in a few days.
 Mss Alice Humphrey returned to her
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TRUE AS PREACHING,

Much has been said of late in regard to cars both for and against, and the ques- tion is of especial interest to the people of Danbury and Bethel just at present, as the Danbury and Bethel street railway company are seeking permission to in- trOduce some system of electric loco- notion. We do not propose to enlarge upon either the merits or demerits of any particular system, except to say that the trolley system is the one more generally in use and in fact seems to be about the only one, practicable for rapid transit. Much of the opposition to it we believe
 to be born of suspicion and prejudice, and not based upon actual results. How ever, be that as it may, the time has long since come when something ought to be done, to improve upon the present sys- tenn. We do not kick against the trolley system, but we do kick Straight from the hips," against the present accommo- dations provided for the long suffering public. Some of the cars are hardly fit to draw wood in, and the person whose fate it is to ride in them does so with pneumonia staring him in the face. The condition of the track is very poor and some portions of it would put cart path to shame, if likened to it. And again the time consumed in making trip to Dan bury and return is something painful, to one in any kind of a hurry. Indeed, they had much better walk if quick trip is to be made. The time was once when, if any entertainment or amusc- ment was going on in Danbury, some provision was made for the transporta- tion of those who saw fit to attend from Bethel back to their homes. But that has gone by. Now, if Bethel people wish to attend an entertainment in Dan bury after said entertainment is over. they find, after waiting a greater or lees time, that there is car capable of accom- modating perhaps 30 persons at the most, into which from 60 to 75 people have to crowd and jam, in order to reach their homes. It would be greatly to the inter- est of the company to remedy these faults. They should also extend the Bethel end of their line out through Elm street to Frank Judd's corner.
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AN EXCITING INCIDENT.

The choir rehersal was held at Sher man Cogswell's, on Friday evening. Thomas Renfrew, Jr., on coming out to go home. was unable to find his horse where he had hitched it. After unavail- ing search with others for the same, his sister and himself started on foot for home, three miles, stopping at the tel e. phone office here to tell their mother by wire not to worry if the horse came home alone. Here they found neighbor who carried them home and within a mile of home they met Mrs Renfrew, hoodless and shawlless, walking to meet them in great anxiety, for no horse had appeared and she worried as to what had happen ed. At MT Cogswell's, meanwhile, much thinking had been going on, and MT Cogswell's son, Howard, decided before going to bed, to make one more search so found him by the side of stack of bedding eating, with the sleigh attached, all in good order except broken tie rein. After tiuding, Howard decided to take the horse home that night, and on ac- count of fish and ice holes (where ice had been taken out) on the lake, he de- cided to keep to the highway by c. E. Beeman's to MT Renfrew's. In the meantime, young Renfrew at his home decided to take another horse and come back to this village and to MT Cngswell's again in search of the horse, but he de- cided to take the sleigh path on the lake, so the young men missed each other on their drives and Mir Renfrew reached M r Cogswell's before he knew the horse had been found and taken home. Howard was so weary with his exertions during the affair that he remained at Lakeside till Saturday evening, making for him. self quite lengthy rehearsal.
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GEMS or THOUGHT.

Who makes quick use of the moments is a genius of prudence--[ Lavater.
 The greatest and sublimest power is of ten simple patience.-I Horace Bushnell.
 A man can do without happiness and in stead thereof find blessedness.- Carlyle.
 The ltw shows you that you are not straight grace straightens yOu.-C Moody
 There are seasons when to be still de mands immeasurably higher strength than to act. Composure is often the high est esult of power.-[ Charming.
 IL is the general bent of il mans life, by his heart impulses and secret desires, his spontaneous actions and abiding motives, that his class is declared.-[D [Drummnud.
 The anly thing that makes society any better than an industrial ant-hiil iS the love between women and men, blind and destructive as it often i<.-[ Charles Dad ley Warner.
 It is one thing to praise the bratitudrs ii is another thing to practice their spirit Any one can do the former; it requires grace to succeed in the latter.-T United fTcSDS IeFidn-
 The light of friendship is like the light Of phosphorus-seen plrineat when al around is dark.
 Success is full of promise till men get it and then it is a last years nest, from which the bird has flown.
 Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence which bring up on you any noble feeling.-[J. Ruskin
 Talkativeness has another plague at- tached to it-idls curiosity; for prater; wish to see much. thlt they may have much to say.
 If you love the people of God, sign the pledge; for drunkenness is the worst en- emy the true faith has this day to contend with.
 Outside of law equally applied to all conditions there is no hope for anybody in this republic or elsewhere. But law cannot be enforced, the judges cannot judge, the .juries will not hold even scales if the moral sense of the people is warped or confused as to private relations or pub- lie obligations by the literature which is the food of the mind as grain is of the body.-[ Charles Dudley Warner.
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THE SERMON.
The Preacher Talks About Forgotten New Year Resolutions.-Gemso of Rich Thought.

The Preacher Talks About Forgotten New Year
 Resolution of Rich Thought.
 For he beholdeth himself and goeth his way and straightway torgetteth what manner of man he was.- St James.
 The text to-day, beloved, is taken from the pages of Holy Writ. It describes man who is not in the habit of having a mirror in which to behold himself, who on some special occasion sees himself in one of those ancient mirrors of polished metal. The reflection is for the moment revelation to the beholder. But he straightway goes about his business and forgets what sort of a man he saw in the glass.
 The text well describes some of us who have been making good resolutions about January l, 1893, but who now have for gotten them.
 The New Year is a mirror of revelation of self. We saw what we were. We wished to be different. But month has not passed before the good resolutions are forgotten and our miserable selves no longer spur us up to better living.
 SUPPOSE THAT FOR LITTLE we imagine few of the people who have started the year with the good resolu- tions and now have forgotten all about it.
 There/is Jerry Loverye. Jerry is a capital fellow. But he has one terrible fault which is wrec!sing his life. He will follow the craving of his appetite at the expense of his brains. In other words, he puts demon in his mouth who steals away his senses. Jerry determined at the beginning of the year that he would live temperate life for this year. He mentally signed pledge that he would not touch single drop of beer or whis- key for all his life. But Jerry forgot what sort of man he was almost before he had finished his resolution. For he went down to Tom Twister's saloon to talk with the boys and before the week was out needed crutch of man on each side to help him home. Why should he have not seen that he was liable to fall and so keep out of temptation? l should advise him to wear looking glass over his mouth all the time except when he eats his meals. Perhaps then he would see himself as he is and be able to escape from temptation.
 ANOTHER FELLOW WHO MADE good resolutions for the beginning cf the year was Fred Quicktongue. He has terrible temper you know and when he gets mad, the air is fairly sulphurous with bad language. The lads at the Hol- low call him the ssFiery-mouthed raver," because he talks so terribly in his rage. Now New Years day as lie thought of the enemies he had made and the repu- tation he had acquired by this bad habit, he resolved to keep his temper and shut his teeth all the year long.
 But he took no special means to pre- vent his evil habit from conquering him. He saw what sort of a man he was and then forgot all about it. When the old man slipped on the sidewalk and sent
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NEW YORK. NEV HAVEN & HART. FORD k +.
 December H. 1899
December IT, lSS2.
RERKsHIRE DTYI-InN,

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 BETHEL. from Danbury. C F. : C.. 3s. ia. 1004 a m; P. a4, Is. Ys2, p m- For Danbury r 2i. : C7, ' i7, ID 4s m; IT. 4 il. i II, $ 70. 6 sS, 4 p ID. Sunday, sr.sm Danhury, F a. m. 5 12 p. m. For Dxubnry. 10 t7 a. m.. s 20 p. m.
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has reached the good old age of so

Hs has reached the good old age Of 80 years.
 William F. Tuttle's will has been filed in the probate court.
 Administration on the estate of Will liam J. Oatman of Southbury has been granted to Alfred N. Wheeler and Mrs Sarah E. Oatman.
 The will of James Allen has been filed in the probate court.
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ib. John Richards, age months day l8, Emily A. Grumman, age 54 years, 28, Henry 8. Ferry, age Il years. September
 5, Anna Brennan, age 32 years. ', Gussie Lodge, age 25 years. P, David Sloan, age Il years. 26, Clifford J. Bassett, age g years. October
 3, Harriet Mcdowell, age 66 years. 6, Mary A. Carney, age g years. 8, Orrin W. Thorp, age T years. F, Samantha c. Bevans, age 67 years. l3, Cynthia Taylor, age 84 years. II, Gertrude NJ. Pomeroy, age B years. November
 l, Abby c. Smith, age ? years.
 ', Katie Cahill, age year. II, Elmore Ridge, age months p days. December
 l, Henry A. Judd, age 34 years. ', Charles E. Judd, age 45 years. 13, George Fiddner, age 3l years. If, Willis Munson, age "A years.
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THAT WARREN STAGE DRIVER.

The Warren stage driver and mail carrier was so anxious and seemed SO delighted to thing he had got to the end of his route, one cold morning last week, that he made no effort to restrain his horse as he turned the last corner to- wards the postoffice here, and although his sleigh was one of the old centenarian style which is hardly ever known to cap size, still Louis found himself very sud denly, after making the last turn, on the cold ground near Watson Cogswell's grocery store, horse blanket, fur robe, whip, basket of eggs, two boxes of hooks and eyes, mail bag and loose let ters picked up on the way, all on top of him and the old horse waiting for fur ther orders.
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MARRIAGES

January
 ?, Ira s. Monroe, Lillie I. Allen. 3l, Gustot Victor Westman, Augusta Larson. February
 l6, George II. Bcebe, Nellie " Baird. April
 6, Charles J. Wheeler, Mary L. Hodge. I2, Thomas Jackson, Eliza Nichols. H. Robert NJ. Hill, Hattie A. Parsons. May
 3, Franklin Comstock, J. Lizzie Lannagan. June
 S,John II. Griffin, Julia A. Lyman. October
 5, Daniel Grifiin Catherine J. McDermott. l2, Alfred w. Brown, Hattie W. Hough. 20, Charles w. Comstock, Lena E. Meyers. %, Lewellyn A. Banks, Florence E. Banks. 26, Cortic s. Smith, Cora B. Ferry. 26, William A Miles, Etta J. Pultord. 27, James Blakeley, Lizzie Sculley. November
 ?, Clifford B. Morgan, Janette B. Benedict. s, John M. Henderson, Annie Martin. l6, Frederick H. Judd, Nellie E. Ambler. P, Albert N. Hickok, Jennie H. Hogan. 24, Horace M. Cole, Hattie Mcdowell. PC, John F. Costello, Ellen Foley. December
 2S, George H. Dimond, Martha Hart.
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SOUTHBURY.
A STRAW RIDE.

About 19 of our boys and girls took a straw ride to Southford, Friday evening, the 20th, to attend surprise given Miss Nellie Curtiss at her home in that place. Although the sleighing was not very good in places, and the night cold, the young people seemed to enjoy themselves, judging from the noise they made with horns and their gay young voices. They report nice time at the party.
 A large number Of our people attended the social dance at the Good Templar's hall, South Britain, Wednesday evening, January Is.
 David Ambler is home on a visit.
 Mrs M. E. Leonard is visiting friends in New Haven.
 The meeting of the Juvenile Temple, Friday evening, the 20th, was postponed.
 Rev o. J. Range lectured on Wednes- day evening at the Methodist church, subject, s'Some reasons whyp' Notwith- standing the intense cold, Q good audi ence assembled to listen to this popular lecturer. MT Range generously gave the proceeds of the lecture towards the purchase of the new organ.
 Mrs Lotus Gibson, daughter of Mr and Mrs Lucius Lounsbury ofthis place, died very suddenly at her home in Wood- bury on Wednesday evening, leaving two children one of two years and the other one month. The funeral occurred on Monday.
 Samuel Bassett, an aged resident of Huil's Hill, is quite feeble. An easy chair has been purchased for his use, and the neighbors have kindly cared for him, furnishing wood, provisions and re pairing his house.
 The cold wave has rolled over this
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DEATHS.

January
 l, Laura G. Baird, age 10 years.
 6, Lodowich D. Howard, age 5S years. 9, William F. Cole, age 50 years. IT, James T. Parker, age 39 year. 21, Verona L. Pultord, age sl years 2G, Ellie Crofut, age 25 years. 30, Della A. Benedict, aged F years. February
 Q, Isaac c. Barnum, age 7S years. Il, Mary Sniffins, age 80 years. H. Maud B. Chinn, age years. Is, Minerva J. Ridge, age 49 years. 23, Mary E. Barnum, age 72 years. 26, Zalmon Whitlock, age S2 years. 2s, Eunice D. Norton, age 63 years. March
 8, Joseph A. Banks, age 5G years. Il, Josephine s. Nichols, age years. IA, Maria l.. Crouchley, age 72 years. b, John F. Fitzpatrick, age P years. I5, Mary Williams. age 70 years. 20, Leland s. Ambler, age years. 20, Ethel T. Farnan, age IT years. 24, Patrick Regand, 2nd, age A years. 26, Aloysions Keane, age year. April
 3, James Hunt, age 73 years.
 6, Gilbert N. Pendley, age 55 years. 8, Grace Hopkins, age years. 13, Hannah Gilbert, age 78 years. 16, Orlando Morgan, age 62 years. P, Azor Mead, age s5 years. 22, Elwer D. Green, age years. 23, George Bush, age years. 26, Alonzo Beers, age l9years. 30, Eliza M. Cole, age 69 years. May
 l, Philip Hennesy, age 46 years. 26, Aaron s. Lacey, age 65 years. June
 5, Lamira P. Farnum, age 79 years. IS, Betsey A. Wilson, age v years July
 6, E. Josephine Hunt, age 15 years 10, Marion A. Crofut, age l4 years. l6, Harriet c. Nichols, age 67 years. 23, Estella J. Crotut, age 3s years. 25, Etta Northrop, age l9 years. August
 l, Alice Mccarthy, age months, l2 days 4, Charles Wichman, age years. '; Helen c. Russell, age year. Il, Grace M. Taylor. age 10 months 2s day II, Thomas E. McCarty, age months l6 Il, Alfred Be1knap, age 37 years. F, Louis A. White, age IS years. 13, John Murray, age months 10 days.