The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-17
NEWS SUMMARY.

Italy.
George Bancroft is again i'll at New
port
George Elliot expects to come to Amer
ica next year.
The Harpers, of New York, have a cot
tage at Newport.
Five large Saratoga hotels entertain less
than 500 people.
An army of creditors is chasing the Khe-
dive through Naples.
A61-year-o'd girl is training at the gym
nasium at La Crosse.
Brigham Young collected $13,OO0,OOO to
himself from the Saints.
Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress, is
the mother of four children.
Kansas housewives make pancakes that
a man can be knocked down with.
A Greek actor, M. Aristides Cacha, ap-
pesred as Hamlet lately in London.
Clouds of white and yellow butterflies
recently swarmed over South France.
Rowell has gone into training in Eng
gland for the next contest oil the Ashley
belt
| Vanderbilt has purchased controlling
interest in the Troy and Boston rail
road.
At the London Fourth of July banquet.
Miss Thursby sung the "Star Spangled
Banner"
| The practice of pairing of in Congress
was never introduced in that body till the
year 1s4O.
The faculty of Williams College have
Il Ak Il nfvr ~,
erals. etc.
/ Mr.. Gladstone has been making a vigor
Gus plea for more study of natural history
in the English schools.
The steam tramway from Rome to Ii
voli was recently opened with quite q
popular demonstration.
The Siamese Envoy who recently ar
rived in London rejoices in the name OF
Phya Bhashakavawongee.
Totanka Yotanke Is Sitting Bulls proper
name; one of the great beauties Of it is that
he can't part it in the middle.
The United States slOop-ofwar, Wa
chussett, has got off Providence Barr and
returned to Vicksburg, Miss, for coal.
The retrenchment movement IN the Gin
cinnati board of education has succeeded
in the abolition of all the night schools.
An Ohio boy, Harry C. Benson, son oI
Professor Benson, of Kenyon College
Gambler, leads the West Point Freshman
class.
Mrs. Sears sued the Texas Central rail
road for q, 600 for killing her son. Ths
iury returned q verdict in her favor fol
5000.
Salem, N. c., small town, has shipped
during three years over 100000 pound.
of dried blackberries, for which il received
$45OOOO.
population of Nebraska is about 1856 400
or nearly 100 times greater than it wa.
twenty five years ago.
/ 1t is said of the Astor family that wher
they arrived at Newport the other day
they had thirty-seveA trunks and eigh
large packing boxes.
Henry Page set out to preach Mormon
ism in Georgia. He had made about 1O(
Iconvcrts, and taken six wives, when he
was arrested for bigamy.
One of Nelson's mariners, James Car
by name, is still living, having attained
the age of 80, and is the object of charit
able Philanthropy in England.
: A Boston commercial traveller, brothe
of Thomas w. Piper, who killed q littl,
CIR. in a church belfry, has changed hi
name on sccount of that affair.
Lille Duer, who shot and killed Ellel
Hearne at Snow Hill, Md, has written
love letter for the Philadelphia Times an,
contemplates a lecturing tour.
1t is rumored at ST. Thomas, w. 1. tina
President Guzman Blanco. of Venezuels
will propose to Holland the sale of tn
island of Curacao to Venezuela.
General Tom Thumb, while sailing in
yacht On the Assawampsett pond, at Mic
dleboro, Mass, last Friday, capsized, an
was fished out with a scoopnet.
NJ. Got SD enthusiastically !admires tn
English that he has sent one of his sons I
the Charter House School Ito acquire tn
character of an English gentleman"
A school house recently erected IN soutl
west Georgia is in three counties 1t
placed centrally over the corner {
Marion, Schley and Taylor counties.
The Sutro tunnel cost $4,000, 600, an
has taken ten years of time. night and da,
for completion. Its purpose is to discharg
the water of the ComstOck silver mines.
The cost of the late Durham strike
England is estimated at 81, ,2O0, 900; nearl
half is borne by the men. Without reckon
ing interest," il is computed that il wi
take 94 years to make up the sum lost.
The total average attendance of eac
pupil in the Chicago public schools is OF
ly 40 days, yet the system of instructiO
contemplates a course of twelve years. TT
facts are said to be about the same in a
the large cities of the United States.
The prospect of a cessation of the famin
in Cashmere, India, are gradually impro'
ing. The spring crops look slightly be
ter. The arena of the autumn sowing e,
ceeds expectations. and the importatio
of grain is proceeding satisfactorily.
DIR Justice Mellor, who lately retire
from the English Bench, strongly objecte
to mustaches worn by lawyers. He WI
quite deaf, and heard as much with h
eyes as ears, and mustachcs interfere
with his understanding of what was sal,
When Juliet said to Romeo, "Oh, swcs
not; buy the moon," she indicated, in I'll
first place, that she took Romeo for ii
teacher of a young ladies' Bible class. an
in the second clause, for a national ban
or the president of a sleeping Car comp
ny.
The expenditures to the present time f
the construction of the Brooklyn IN Y
bridge are over SIC. So, ,574. A cantract h,
been awarded for 1928, 900 pounds
steel and $4,000 pounds of iron. III
Trustees say the bridge will be finished b
= January, 1881.
One London dispatch states that whe
the Will of the late Prince Imperial WI