The Press., 1897-03-25
WELLINGTON. (CorrnsnondencaN
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(Correspondence.)
 Geo. A. COsgrove is improving.
 Grange meeting tomorrow evening.
 Capt. Lathrop Manning is seriously i'll.
 The Baptist horse sheds are tumbling down.
 Mrs. Faltham Is visiting her parents at Cowles farm.
 No, we haven't got over the grip yet And there are others.
 Whenever boy says he is not hungry it is.a sign he is polite."
 Arthur Noble has moved from Samuel Nichols place, Osborne's mills.
 Charles Copeland has moved to Mer- row, and is working for Demond & Bram- ble.
 Miss Emma L. Brown is visiting her brother, J c. Brown, Jr., at Brookline, Mass
 The Courant's articles on legislative knives, stationery, pens, etc., are some- what entertaining.
 "When member of a literary society writes an essay out of the cyclopedia he simply puts the essay back into bad Eng fish,"
 Mrs Maggie Nichols Pease's health has mended perceptably of late. Her neighbors in Ellington say she never looked better.
 N. Y. Tribune: Corbett is squelched. If the whole crew of prize fighting scoun- drels could be put in cells for long terms all decent people would rejoice.
 Annie E. Dimock Is in Moline, H., hav- ing been summoned thither on account of the illness of her uncle, Judge Gould, who is now recovering from an attack of pneumonia.
 We are sorry to hear the Springfield Republican say that the Atlantic Monthly is going down hill. It is moved to say so chiefly because the "Contributor's Club" has vanished.
 The excitement over the recent prize fight in certain quarters of the town was great. The assassination of Lincoln and the battles of Cold Harbor and Antietam were nowhere.
 The Daleville school, Mrs. A. B. Dave teacher, closed last week. Eddie Jones absent only one-half day, Florence Walk CT one day, Flora Walker three days on account of sickness.
 John G. Wightman, Stafford, has placed an attachment on c. H. Hobby's proper ty. The writ is returnable before Jus tice A. N. Nichols, March 27th. Lawyer Stevenson for plaintiff.
 We had pleasant call from Charles H. Preston, Danvers, Mass, last week. He fssreceiving data regarding the Pres ton genealogy. His proposed book will be quite voluminous as we'll as elegant
 Elijah Barrows thought he'd give George Knight crack last Friday night at Will lington depot. W. H. Brackett com plained, and Justice Essex fined the de- fendant one dollar and costs-the latter amounting to $8.25.
 The winter term of the school in Dist No. 4 closed Friday, March 18th. Miss Lillie I. Fenton, teacher. Scholars not absent during the term: Della Enc, Mary Enc, Robbie Enc; not tardy, Della Enc, Bertie Enc, Freddie Juul, Carrie Juul, Walter Pulsipher, Henry Hanson This school has closed a pleasant and successful term; the teacher was faith full, the children were interested, and ex- cellent progress was made. The school was union of Nos. and 5, and has proved success. The next term will be held in the Potter (No. 5 district.
 South Wilmington Correspondence.
 School in this district will begin the spring term next Monday. Miss P. Grace Baxter is the teacher.
 Miss Helen Vinton Potter, of New Britain, but formerly of this place, is vis- iting her mother, Mrs. Orrin Lockwood.
 David Barrows, who recently gave up work here and went to Andover to work on the railroad, was in town last Satur- day.
 Nearly everybody who owns horse is having it clipped now, and the boys are having lots of fun taking them to Stafford by the pair.
 Orton Southwick injured his finger quite badly last Friday. He was at work roughing, and in some unacountable way he let his forefnger get into fight with the buzz-saw, and the saw got the best of it, ripping it open through the nail, clear to the bone, making a very painful cut. Dr. Johnson dressed the wound, and sOrt" is at work again.
 In the future all who have occasion to visit West Wilmington need to be fully armed, for that place is getting bad rep- utation. There have been two assaults there in the past two months The last one happened lest Saturday night. It was kind of mixed-up affair, and there were only two witnesses, neither of whom know anything about 1t. It seems that George Knight, as he got of from the boat train from Stafford, was assaulted by man named Elijah Barrows. Bar rows kicked Knight in the stomach and then picked up a club and knocked him down with it. Knight was taken into Charles Nichols where his eye, which was badly damaged, was bathed He then came down and made complaint to Grand Juror Brackett. The reason of Barrows' assault was that Knight had told him, jokingly, that he was going to take Barrows' horse some night and drive home with it. This made Barrows angry, and the assault was the result. Barrows was brought before Justice Essex, in the school house, last Saturday, aud he plead guilty. He was fined $1 and costs, which amounted to about $1O.
 The fifth meeting of the South Willing ton Literary and Debating society will be held in the hall next Monday evening. The meetings so far have been instructive and very interesting, and it is hoped that