The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-03-27

The chairmanships of Senate stand
ing committees were accorded to the Reput
licans, viz: Revolutionary claims, pr!vat
land claims and engrossed bills.
The Republican members of tn
Senate in a caucus meeting on the 1911
adopted a resolution declaring that the bus
ness and other public interests of the countr
will be best promoted by combining legislatio
at the present session to making the neces
sary appropriations for the support OF tn
Army and for the Legislative, Executive an
Judicial expenses of the Government, an
that all bills and joint resolutions exceptin
those for the aforesaid purpose shall be re
ferred to the appropriate committees and no
reported until next December.
LARGE subscriptions are being mad
to the four per cent. refunding certificates.
THE caucus Of the Democratic Sena
tors, held on the ?0th, nominated Col. Johl
c. Burch, of Tennessee, Secretary of the Sen
ate; X. j. Bright, of Indiana, for Sergeant
at-Arms; Ex-Congressman Shober, of Nort
Carolina, Chief Clerk: III. Bailey Peyton, o
Virginia, Executive Clerk, and Joseph q. Bul
lock, of Alexandria, Va, Chaplain.
A GENERAL court martial has beel
ordered for the trial of Co'onels Stanley
Twenty-second Infantry, and NJ. B. Hazen
Sixth Infantry.
The Executive Committee of the n a
tional Greenback party has issued an addres
to the people of the United States, Stain!
that there is no dependence to be placed ol
the professions of ayowed friends to tn
cause: that financial relief within old part,
lines has been extinguished, and that the.
have been misled in several instances by th'
nj he others
tanned its support
FRANCIS A. WALKER has been nom
mated Superintendent of Census by the Presi
dent.
The War Department has received s
letter from Major Walsh, commanding tn,
Canadian mounted police, that Sitting Bull 4
showing a very insubordinate spirit and evi
IDENTIFY intends mischief. The Department
has ordered a regiment of infantry to the
frontier.
The Democratic caucus committee:
have decided not to go into general legislation
THE President has appointed John B.
Hamilton, of Illinois, Supervising Surgeon
General rice Woodward, deceased.
1T will require nearly S5,O00,000 to
pay the quarterly interest on the four pei
cent. loan April 1st.
The East.
Two FREIGHT trains collided on the
Northern Central Railroad near Cumberland,
Pa, on the l1th. Charles Delvaney had a leg
torn off and one of the conductors was
slightly injured. The engines were wrecked
and thirty cars thrown into the Susquehanna
River.
The Irish benevolent and literary
societies in the United States very generally
celebrated st. Patrick's Day by parades, liter
airy exercises and social festivities.
A SUBSTANCE resembling sulphur fell
at Reading and Allentown, Pa, on the 18th.
When ignited it burned as readily and emit
ted the same fumes as sulphur.
THE New York Times, on the 10Th,
published reports of the actual condition of
trades, manufactures and other industries in
fourteen States, and business certers in those
States. showing that the condition of the bus
iness interests OF the country, as compared
with the outlook a year ago at this time, gives
promise of a profitable season, the beginning
of the return of National prosperity and as
surance of general and apparently lasting
revival of business.
SCIENTIFIC examination of the "sul-
phur" which fell in showers over the Lehigh
Valley in Pennsylvania on the 18th, proves 1t
to be the pollen from a species of pine caught
up by the wind and carried from the Jersey
forests.
SURROGATE CoLvIN, at New York,
on the 18th, in concluding a very length deci-
sion in the Commodore Vanderbilt will case
said that he was of the opinion that the pro-
bate of the will and codicil should In all things
or decree to be presented for settlement and
on two days notice.
By an explosion in the Pottsville,
Pa, shaft colliery, on the 10Th, Louis Murray
and James Mulhenan were instantly killed,
and William Murray severely and a man
named Boas slightly injured.
The following ticket was nominated
by the Rhode Island Democratic State Con-
vention on the 10th: Governor, Thomas W.
Segar; Lieutenant-Governor, J. w. Bailey;
Secretary of State, David 5. Baker, Jr.; At
orney-General, Chas. II. Page; Treasurer,
Patrick Farrell. Resolutions were adopted
hailing with joy the return of the Democratic
party to the control OF Congress, and regret
ting that fraud, bribery and perjury kept the
Democrats from the Executive Department
The Republican Convention renominated the
present State officers.
AN explosion of the boiler in DeFor-
,st's steam saw-mill at Springfield, Mass, on
he 2lst, probably fatally injured James Tay-
or and Horace Langdon, and severely wounded
wo Others
PATRICK O'SHEA, a well-known Cath
,lic book publisher of New York City, sus-
pended on the 2lst. Liabilities, s10O, 600; as
ets nominally, 100000.
The direct United States cable has
,een repaired and traffic resumed.
OF the coal miners arrested for riot
long the upper Monongahelas several weeks ago
eventeen were found guilty of simple riot
md the Others were acquitted. The court
entenced the guilty ones TO pay costs and
warned them if again arrested they would
lave TO pay the extreme penalty of the law.
AT Gilmore's Garden, New York
ity, on the 2ad, John Simpson, Rowell's
rainer, ran ten miles in one hour fifty and
seconds. Norman Taylor, of Yer
mont, ran twenty miles in two hours, nine
minutes, fifty-eight and three-quarter
The next meeting of the Supreme
-odge os the Ancient Order of United Work
ngmen will be held at Boston.
THE Rhode Island Legislature, on
he oath, refused to adopt a resolution sub
hitting to avote OF the people the question of
IN amendment to the Constitution granting
outrage to women.
The striking coal miners of the Up
,er Monongahela district in Pennsylvania re-
use to go to work for less than three cents
Der bushel. general strike is apprehended
n that section.
Two Excise Commissioners of Roch-
,ster, N. Y, have been convicted of malad-
in Office. 1t was also reported
IN the 24th that the Grand Jury had indicted
he Mayor, two Police Commissioners and
Eighty saloon keepers.
The Treasurer of the Reading,
Mass, Savings Bank, Nathan P. Pratt, is a
iefaulter.
REV. DE WITT TALMAGE appeared
'or trial on the oath before the Brooklyn Pres
,ytery, on the charges preferred by that body
several weeks ago. DIR. Spear, his counsel,
moved to ouash the principal specifications