125 YEARS AGO

December 7, 1887
Everyone rejoices in the bounteous rains of last week. It is thought more rain fell on last Saturday than during any one day since the previous March.

Mr. Stanford Mitchell, who was to have sung this week at the Universalist church, has just suffered a terrible affliction in the loss by scarlet fever of two of his children, a girl 9 years old and a boy 7, and his third child lies dangerously ill with the same disease. In consequence the church meetings have been postponed until February.