The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-08-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

The cattle trade of Arkansas is incrcas-
ing greatly.
Wool-growing is becoming Heading in
dustry in Western Texas.
The prospect of fine crop of corn was
never better in Alabama.
The Philadelphia ship-yarls have only
about 750 mon now employed.
The acreage of the Arkansas cotton crop
will be per cent, larger then last year.
Out of the nineteen window-glass factor
les in Pittsburgh, fifteen are in opera
, ton.
A Chicago preacher advertises that his
sermons never exceed twenty minutes in
length.
Boston claims that its tornado. if not
the biggest, was at least the most intel
lectual.
1.-THE total exports from Wilmington, n.
c., Tor the year ending June 30, were $4,-
GIL, S3l.
| Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte follows
the peaceful life of a farmer in Essex,
England.
The apple crop of western north Caro-
lima was almost wholly destroyed by
severe frests.
Archibald Geikie, of Edinburgh, dis
tirguished geologist is to lecture in Bos-
ton this year.
i Iron rails are s. a ton higher now than
last year at this time, steel rails 50 and
pig iron 81 to So.
Agricultural implement manufacture
report large sales and brighter outlook
than for years before.
The French are losing their love OF
dancing. Carpets have come In style
and carpets and dancing do not agree.
Il J.H. Riley, Of Philadelphia, has COM
pleted contract with the Government foi
1000 army tents, delivered in Jefferson.
vile, Ind.
I. American coal is selling at Geneva,
Switzerland, slightly cheaper than French
and German coal, and isregarded as much
superior.
Francis Murphy is said to have lost in
San Francisco, by stock gambling, all the
money he made by his temperance revi
val work.
Reports from Constantinople say that
the political excitement is so great thai
the Sultan is in constant fear that he Will
be superseded.
The employees at the Westinghouse air
brake works, Pittsburgh, are and have fol
some time past been working over time
thirteen hours day.
Under new rule at Auburn prison con
vlcts are not allowed to receive any news
papers giving them puffs on the way they
took in the sentence.
Savannah has shipped to Liverpool tht
largest cargo of resin ever exported from
this country. 1t contained $3.50 barrels
worth nearly $4,000.
The London Truth gravely tells its
readers that New York ferryboat car
"carry half a dozen carriages and above 6
hundred passengers,"
A Springfield (Mass) man has named
his four boys Ara, Era, Ira and Ora, and
they are "all alive and as mischievous as
if nothing had happened.
There are 10000 unmarried women in
Massachusetts,, and yet, sayI the Phila
delphia Chronicle-Herald, Ben. Butler
still remains a widower.
A lady in scotchtswn, Pa, has a pet cal
which feeds at the table with the family
1t sits up with bib pinned abont its
neck, and is fed with a spoon.
1t has been customary among glass
manufacturers TO shut down every yeal
: for a couple of weeks in July, but so fal
none have shut down this year.
During the year ending June 80, 1879
141, ,931 immigrants landed in New York
against 1O3, ,O62 during the previous two
years. The tide Is steadily rising.
The Whitaker iron works, Wheeling
resumed few days ago. and will run
provided no accident occurs, for min,
months. The mill is running full.
Manton Marble used to say that it wa.
as easy to love a rich widow as a pool
school girl, and when he got ready to
love he loved a widow and $15O,OOO.
Herr You Varnbuler, Wurtemberg MIN
lister and virtual anthor of the new German
tariff has received a very distinguished
decoration from the German emperor.
An emigrant association has beer
formed in Sheffield, England, for the pur
pose of aiding the workingmen to obtair
livelihood l. the western states of Amer
lea.
In spite of the reduction of the tobacco
tax, the receipts OF internal revenue for the
year just closed amounted to $l13, ,91S, ,465
being 2,S20, $50 in excess of collections
for the preceding fiscal year.
1t is said that Courtney, although not &
rich man, gave every cent of the $500 he
won in the contest with Riley to Mrs
Tripp, the widow of q man who was
killed in q saw mill few months ago.
1t is officially denied that DIR, Talmags
intends to remain abroad. He will star
for home on the Goth of August, and re
sumo his functions in the Brooklyn Taber
nacle on the first Sunday in September.
Cotton, grain, and provisions figure
largely as the chief staples of the Amer
ican export trade. But Pennsylvania pc
troleum far outstrips all three in its world
wide demand and universal distribr
ton. -a-
John E. Patty has discovered in Aureli
US, N. Y, a stone containing several petrl
factions, one of which is said to be ape
culiarly shaped screw, used only by thu
japanese. The great question is how i
came where it was found.
Chief Justice Chase's grave at Oak Hill
near Washington, is marked simply by {
block of gray granite, bearing only tho
record of his birth and death following
his name. There could hardly be plain
er monument nor one in better taste.
John Nichols took the two Misses Blu
menear out riding, at Ellenville, New York
and they requited him with coldness. BY
way of retaliation he sued their father fol
a, which was his valuation of the ride
but the magistrate decided against him.
The crop year for coffee begins the 1st o
July, that being the date at which sup
plies of new coffee begin to arrive in
quantity at Rio Janeiro and Santos. The
last crop is estimated at 100000 bags
and the new one at from 2,390,O00 TO 2,
100000 bags.
The authorities of Montreal Catholic
church receives so many bad coppers in
their contribution boxes that they find il
necessary to melt them once a month. In
fbis wav thew hone to mt them ont o