The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-09

the west coast of Mexico, for the year 1873,
was, according to the annual statement OF d
Well, Fargo, & Co., $T, 702, ,622. This is
about $14, 600 600 less than in 1877. California
shows an increase in gold but a decrease in
over SIC. 100000, the yield Of Comstock being
sic, GIG, 667 less than in 1917. All probabilities
now indicate that the Weld Of gold and silver
from all sources named for 1873, will not
greatly exceed $70,OO0,OOO.
The thermometer stood at 10 to 2S
degrees below zero at Chicago on the I'd.
Cincinnati, II; Yankton, D. T., 25; Detroit, 13.
SPECIAL Deputy Collector James Da-
Wis was arrested at Nashville, Tenn, on the
ID. by the Sheriff of that county, on capiases
issued by the Circuit Court of Macon County,
on suits brought by persons alleging false i'm
| prisonment. Davis procured q writ Of habeds
corpus, which having been heard by Judge
Baxter, Of the United States Circuit
Court, he was placed in custody
privilege OF going where he pleased on a bond
previously given. Davis, while on a raid In
Macon County expected an attack from moon
sinners, who, as he believed, had sent down
/ four men to take in their situation and act ac-
| cordingly. These men he held as a matter Of
safety to himself and men until next morning.
Much interest is manifested throughout Ten
nessee in the pending conflict Of Jurisdiction
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questions growing out Of the enforcement Of
the revenue laws.
THE First Presbyterian Church. at
Quincy, ILL.,, was burned on the ID. The
church had just been completed. Loss. $50, :
600; insured for $4,000.
The entire south side of Chicago
causing loss Of about 800, 900; insurance,
| $4,000.
AN engine on the Central Pacific
Railroad blew up near Summit Station, on the
ID, killing the engineer and fireman and badly
wounding the conductor of the train.
THE Second Baptist Church, at st.
Louis, was destroyed by fire on the Sd. The
church cost sl7O, 900, and was one of the finest
and most imposing edifces in the city. In
sured for 100000.
| Two MEN named Noah Williams and
Modoc Gainey, who had made arrangements
| to burglarize a store in Oaktown, Ind, were
fired upon by some citizens who had pre-
tended visit, and Williams was killed and
| Gainey dangerously wounded. One Of the
citizens was slightly wounded by the burglars.
TEN convicts attempted to escape from
the Iowa penitentiary at Animos, on the I'd.
One was killed, three wounded, five recaptur-
ed and one escaped.
The Southern Pacific Railroad is
progressing rapidly and will reach Maricopa
Wells about the first Of next May. A station
has been opened at Adoude, thirty miles east
| Of Yuma.
SOME twenty persons, charge ed with
fraud at the recent elections in Louisiana, ap-
peared before the United States Circuit Court
at ON fb<Q hail t.,
$1,000 each. Fifteen others, who were ar
rested in Natchitoches parish by q Deputy
United States Marshal, had arrived in the city
j. Ii. SMITH, Secretary of the Mem
ptis Howard Association, has completed his
report, which shows the receipts to have been,
during the late epidemic, $4l7, $3.50 dis
bursements, s4l5, 79O.5S.
FOUR tramps were frozen to death at
Glasgow Junction, Ky, ON the night of tho Sd.
ALL vessels arriving at New Orleans
from South, Central America and West Indian
ports will be fumigated to prevent the intro
duction of smallpox.
A SQUAD of fifty men under a revenue
| officer returned to Cincinnati, IN the 4th,
from raid upon moonshiners in the border
counties of Kentucky and Tennessee. They
destroyed fifty stills and captured large
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FIRES on the 4th: The establishment
of the st. Louis Beef Canning Company; loss
from s75, 900 to 100000; insured. The Ran
stores underneath, at Columbus, Georgia;
loss, $4,000; insured for S22, 1000. The
general offices of the Michigan Central Rail-
road Company, at Detroit; loss, 5000. The
loss, s60,OOO; insurance, s25 200. s. Hughes
Touring mill, at Hamilton, O.. loss, $4,000;
insured. Besides these twelve other fires were
reported in various pats of. the country, the
losses on which were under 5000 each.
AT Carbon, Wyoming, on the night
Of the 5th, twenty-five or thirty masked men
broke open a baggage car, took out and hung
to telegraph pole Dutch Charley, who was
| en- route to Rawlins for trial, charged with
participation in the widow Field murder last
fall. He had been identified with number Of
stage robberies.
NINE of the party engaged in the
burning to death at the stake Of Mitchell and
| Ketchum, near Kearney, Neb., a few weeks
since, have been arrested and placed in Jail.
THE Governor of Virginia has been
ing of the foreign bondholders on the I'D for
the purpose of forming some plan for settle
ment Of the State debt.
The failure of Sutter Bros, tobacco
nists Of Chicago, with liabilities Of SIS, ZOO,
was announced on the 9th. Their assets are
| small.
Foreign intelligence.
In the recent encounter between the
militia and students at Kieff, Russia, eighty
persons, 1t is reported, were killed and
| wounded.
| The Pope has written letter to the
Archbishop of Cologne in which he says that
he desires peace between the Princes, people
and the church. His thoughts are turned, in
preference, toward the German nation, but
God alone knows whether the work is near
| success. He appeals to the German Bishops
to obey all laws not contrary to their faith.
THE reported submission of Y akoob
Khan is not confirmed.
MANY of the Russian students ar
rested for participation in the recent disturb
ances have been banished to Siberia.
THE Ameer of Afghanistan has about
seventeen regiments at Herat, and IL he can
retain his hold over them, 1t is said that he can
still offer formidable opposition to any one
whom the English may set up as ruler in
Southern Afghanistan.
MIDNIGHT arrests are being made in
Constantinople and fears are entertained of q
general riot.
THE country around Darlington and
Wrexham, England, was inundated by a food
on the LIST, caused bv a sudden thaw. Numer-
ous floods were also reported in Scotland.
GEN. BIDDULPH's division has reached
the plains Of Candahar. He passed Khojal
Pass without serious opposition.
The occupants of a wagon, three in
number, were drowned on the 3lst ult while
attempting to cross the ice between Richmond
and Melbourne, Quebec.