The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-24
NEWS SUMMARY.


cessful fruit grower.
Paul. II. Hayne, the poet, is in Charles.
ton In very feeble health.
South Toe is the queer name of a post
Office in North Carolina.
The red tinge sometimes seen on dried
Goldfish is caused by minute plant
Serious disturbances have broken out
below the town of Bhamo in Upper Bur
NAH.
Mrs J. Hungerford, of Waverly, Van |
Buren county, ~, has forty varieties OF
roses.
The army wcrm is doing q great deal
of damage in some portions OF Nova
Scotia.
Prince Alexander has arrived at Tirnova.
His reception was one of indescribable
enthusiasm.
The new ruler of Egypt is a much more
economical man than his father. He has
only one wife.
Ogle s Pickard, co:ton-spinners, of
Burnley, England, have failed, with liabil-
tiles of e25, Geo.
Rome has, In its new Opera-house, q
rival to the famous La Scala, of Milan, in
| scatlng capacity-
Sara Bernhard is exceedingly thin.
Perhaps she's spread herself too much in
the newspapers
| Two thousand eight hundred and
ninety-one emigrants arrived in New
York last week.
The report that three men were carried
over Niagara Falls Saturday proves to
have been false. -.....
There are ever $175, 900, 900 in bullion
in the Bank of England-the largest
amount on record.
DIR. Mary Walker not only dresses in
male attire and carries a cane, but she en-
Joys a good smoke.
For the daily supply of the British
metropolis about $500 live beasts are sent
to the London market
Nearly q hundred and fifty thousand
baths were taken at public expense in
New York last week.
A man in Yarmouth. Mass, exhibited
well-preserved shingles which have been
on his house 192 years.
There are advices from Kent that the
hop crop threatens a more disastrous fail
ure than for years past.
Mr.. w. r. Balch, the reporter who dis
covered Cox in Boston, is the son of an
Episcopalian clergyman.
An Italian engineer has invented reg
lister by which the distance traversed by
cab is accurately estimated.
The Sutro Tunnel is a success. The
pumps along the whole line now discharge
into it, and the capacity is ample.
Senator Thurman travels in linen dus-
ter that completely envelops him, there
being on his head large silk cap.
The Duxbury and St. Pierre section of
the French cable was repaired at a. IN.
July and is working all right now.
Gen. Beauregard denies the story that
he refused to give up the body or the ct.
fects of Col. James Cameron at Bull Run.
The average heat at New York last week
was "a degrees. The Gothamites appear
to be enjoying what they call heated
term"
The Salt Lake Herald is informed that
the grasshoppers in that region are at
tackled by an enemy, whose sting Is
death.
A BIRDS nest with two eggs was found
at Providence recently in q bunch of
bananas that had just arrived from the
tropics.
Rev. DR.. Jay s. Bacus, formerly Secre-
Itary of the American Baptist Home Mis-
sion Society, died thursday at Granton, N.
Y. Age 20 years.
George Fordham, the jockey, under the
terms of Baron Lionel Rothschild's will
receive present of $4,000, and an annuity
of $500 year for life.
Ward, the British Minister, reached
| sN III Irrlxy IN
Seward, the American Minister left Shang-
hal for Pekin July 4th.
Bishop Huntington congratulates Am
herest College on not having any amateur
pedestrian, and expresses a preference for
study over boating and ball.
Baltimore Methodist ministers have de-
cided to give no encouragement to camp
meetings which do not protect themselves
from the evil of Sunday trains.
The Standard Oil Company of New
York has bought $4,000 twenty acres OF
land on Staten Island Hills, with two
hundred feet of water front.
In the North of England confectioners
sell funeral biscuits in bags on which is
printed a funeral hymn. The same lines
have done duty for generations.
The last slave sold in the Confederacy
was in 1865, near Richmond, q negro man
who was bought for 800 heads of cabbage
Cabbages were worth 81 head.
Annie Brown of Lowell thought she
had taken prussic acid, and lay down to
die in front of the police station, but the
suspectIng druggist had cheated her.
Nr. Edison has been exhibiting to his
friends a new telephone, which is of sucl
power that the receiver need not be placed
at the ear in order to catch the sounds.
The authorities of Detroit have voted
5000, 900 for the purchase of Belle Isle, in
the Detroit river, near the city, for city
park, and $75, 900 for the erection of new
market house.
Mr. Francis Murphy has concluded his
very effective work in San Francisco, moi
only without remuneration for that work
but with personal loss in the matter ol
expenses of $319.
Vennor's latest prediction is that we are
going to experience a wet summer, with
frequent cold relapscs and severe frosts
He anticipates that next winter will be
again severe, with heavy snowfalls.
LHcretia Mott, recently elected president
of the "Peace Society of Pennsylvania" is
in her eighty-sixth year. In many respects
she is a remarkable woman. For over
sixty years she has held q prominent place
as munster in the (Hicksite) society of
friends.
The residence of Mr.. ]. d. Powell, near
Katonah, Winchester county, was entered
few nights ago by burglars. who forced
open drawer in the safe and took there
from 81 900 government bond and notes
amounting to 81 500.
The southern fast mail service is soon to
be extended from Washington to jackson.
vile, Florida, by way of Charleston and
Savannah, and from Washington TO New
Orleans nv way of Richmond Atlanta