The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-08-07
NEWS SUMMARY.

Sleepy Tom, the 2:1e4 racer, goes
blind.
Mrs Hull's personal estate is paced a
$4,000.
Cuban ladies still trim their dresses
with living fireflies.
The Dismal Swamp, in Virginia, is sub
ject to devastating fires.
Senator Wade Hampton's leg still give.
him great deal of trouble.
All the bottle houses in the country art
now running full time and full handed.
A man in Venice, ILL.,, has christened hi.
cat sOthello, or the Newer of Venice"
There is another defalcant treasurer in
Fall River, Mass. His name is Durfee.
Sixty thousand quarts Of blackberries
are daily shipped from Vineland, New
Jersey.
A young lady of Fairfield, Conn, ha.
made 1 500 pounds of butter and sold il
herself.
Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte follows
the peaceful life of a farmer in Essex
England.
There are $50 lady dentists in the United
States and three times as many learning
the business.
A Charleston boy Of 13 years killed a
tramp who was attempting to rob his en-
ployer's store. go
The Lowell machine shop has over 300
names on its pay rolls at present; and is
running full time.
The Custer statue is finished, and will
L. .,A
Point in September.
The Zulus can not comprehend revolvers
and never take them from the dead bodies
of their English foes.
The New Haven Register thinks the
northwest passage contains too much ice
to the amount of water.
There is in Fleming county, KY, a child
named Doyle, two years old, weighing two
and three-qua.ter pounds.
"Mark Twain's" brother has obtained
the situation of mailing clerk in the
Leadville (Col) postoffice. .-,
The indications of revival of business
in the Lehigh valley are very great, both
IN mining and smeltlng.ores.
Less than 200 Boston women have taken
the necessary steps to be able to vote for
school committeeman next fall.
A recent authority on swimming says
that good swimmer can go two miles an
hour without the aid of the current. ~
1t is reported that the insects discovered
at Killavuncllen, near Cork, Ireland, have
been fully identified as Colorado beetles.
The actor who personated Our Saviour
in the San Francisco passion play is now
q tl<A h sx,S ct Acc
Gen. Beauregard denies the story that
he refused to give up the body or the ef-
fects of Col. James Cameron at Bull Run.
George Washington was recently hang
ed in Kentucky, and now Napoleon Bona
parte has mounted the scaffold IN Missis-
sippi. z'f
The Yonkers Gazette thinks it is proof
positive that Noah was not bald-headed
man, or he would never have let fly into
the ark. ---. r. f.,
. Samuel Emery, Q clever London actor,
excells in personaiing the devoted hus-
band; but his wife is suing him for maiu-
tenance. = 2-o-5 &. l,-7--..- l''- i,sito
A we'll at Washington, which was sup
posed to be impure, is found on analysis to
be mineral water valuble for medicinal
purposes. .s
At competitive baby show in George
town, Ind, two mothers had a rough and
tumble fight over the relative charms of
their exhibits.
The 'areustat,n - or air boat, is the name
given to a new machine for navigating the
air without the aid of gas, hydrogen,
steam or hot air. ~-.5',=z-s.,-
A Times dispatch from Paris says: at
has been stated in tho French Senate that
the phylloxera has attacked the vines in
forty departments" &; -
DIR. w. II. Russell, who has gone out to
the Cape as correspondent of the London
Telegraph, received, it is said, before his
departure q fee of $15, 900.
Bishop Huntington congratulates Am
herst college ON not having any amateur
pedestrian, and expresses preference for
study over boating and ball.
The deepest running stream that Is
known is the Niagara river, which, just
under the lower Suspension bridge, is 200
feet deep by actual measurement.
Annie Brown, of Lowell, thought she
mad taken prussic acid, and lay down to
die in front Of the police station, but the
suspecting druggist had cheated her.
During the past weeks 50,746 cases of
boots and shoes have been shipped from
the Boston market, the shipment being
the largest ever made in the history OF the
trade
At Pittsburg, Pa, Peyton Foley was set
upon by party Of roughs and SO badly
beaten that his wife, who saw the affray
from the house, dropped dead from
fright.
/ T. hat he
belonged 10 q party of three which burned
an East ST. Louis house to get the insur.
ance, and destroyed man, woman and
three children.
| The Rev G.. N. Shishmanian, full
blooded Turk, lately was graduated from
the Kentucky university, Lexington, KY
married Kentucky girl, and will take
her to Turkey to live.
| A family named Ouellette, residing
near Ottawa, Can, was. poisoned few
which had been feeding ON potato tops
sprinkled with Paris green.
The figures have been developed as tc
charges in England for land rent. The
price is go per acre, or an aggregate o.
1856 200 900. No land in the world car
pay this and support the farmer.
John Gross, Richmond negro, got NJ
la lottery in which every purchaser of {
ticket at $2 was promised hog, COW, o.
la horse; but no prizes where really given
and Gross has been officially whipped.
Francis, Countess Waldegraye, who ha
for long time occupied prominen
place in London society, and who ha
done much to bring together the fashion
able and artistic worlds, has just died a
her famous home on strawberry HILL"
Nearly 800 engineers, on strike q
Bradford, England, are prepared to emi
crate to the United States and Canada, il
accordance with invitations received from
various branches of the Amalgamatet
Engineers Societies in the principal en-