The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-04-17

ly disappeared. They are now officiallv
employed, on an equal footing with other
members of the faculty, in many hospitals
and in many provincial districts.
A South Carolina journa. protests
against the practice of carrying concealed
weapons, SAYING that peace and order
should reign in every southern state, but
that people pull out pistols and kill each
other at the least pretext. Quondam |
friends cannot enter into any argument, |
no matter how trivial, without hot words, |
and they draw their pieces, blazing away
at each other until one is disabled or their
pistols empty.
A colored voter in Mobile had been en-
ployed by merchant to take some kerO- |
sene to the Mobile s. Ohio Railroad de-
pot for shipment. He informed the gen.
tleman who employed him that he was
going to vote the Democratic ticket
wouldn't think of voting any other. On
his return from the depot he was asked |
for the receipt for the kerosene oil. Put
ting his hand into his pocket, he pulled
out q citizens ticket This isn't it," ex-
claimed the merchant. BLESS dc Lord, !"
the kerosene oil ticket"
The following nationalities live under
the sceptrc of the Gar of Russia: Great
Russians, Little Russians, White Russians,
Poles, Firms, Estons, Samoyeds, Laplan-
dales, Tartars, Bashkifs, Kirguiz, Kali
muks, Tchefkessi, Ossettini, Lesguini, Ar
menien, Lithauer. Tchnvashi, Ugalenzi,
Coloshen, Tchukchi, Grusim Koriaki,
Eskimos,. Yueagniri, Lopari, Truchmen,
Kofels. Vaguls, Tchapogiri, Tchechenzi,
Gypsies, Hebrews, and Mennonites.
Each of these speaks its own language,
which Is foreign to all others.
During the war Robert o. Willis buried
$65, 600 worth of gold and 0,OOO worth
of jewelry in a cave on his farm at Mar
row, Boone county, KY, imparting the
knowledge of it only to his WIFE A few
days afterwards he disappeared, and has
not been heard of since. He is supposed
to have been killed by guerrillas. His
wife lived on, hoping for his return, but
made known the secret of the treasure to
no one till on her death bed recently, when
she told the story to her pastor and attor-
neys After her death the treasure was
found in good condition. She bequeathed
her jewclry and $4,000 to her old serv-
ants, also the old homestead, rich farm
of some 200 acres. These heirs were her
former slaves, who have nursed her faith
fully through her old age.
| This is the way in which Louisville
girl dispOses OF a young man, according
to the CourierJournal: She says: "YOu
have asked me pOintedly if can marry
you, and have answered you pOintedly
that can. / can marry man who makes
love to different girl every month. / can
marry a man whose main occupation
seems to be to join in a gauntlet in front OF
churches and theatres, and comment audi
bly, on the people who are compelled to
pass through it. can marry q man whose
only means of support is an aged father
can marry a man who boasts that any
girl can be won with the help of good
tailor and an expert tongue. can marry
such man, but w-o-h.'tr"
A week ago some New York merchant.
, lost three cases of valuable furs which
were stolen in q very bold manner. Tht
} cartman who was carting them to the stort
!, was induced To enter a house, where hi
, was locked in, and escaped only to fine
horse, cart, cases and all gone. The los
} was advertised with reward of $500 fo
the recovery of the goods, and befOr,
, night the property was id the owner
T hands. The detectives then took the mat
T ter in hand, and from the very slight clev
, afforded traced the robbery to one JONI
Nelson, noted confidence man and high
way robber, who has just returned from
, Canada after serving a sentence of sil
: years for robbing a bank messenger il
, Montreal. ,-
David Peters, negro who is about t.
be pardoned out of the Rhode Island stat
prison, after having served clever year
of q fifteen years sentence. is said to hav
become an accomplished linguist by stud,
1 during his leasure hours. This fact is
creditable not only to Peters, but to tn
!, officials who have given the once ignoran
| cOlored man facilities to improve hi
mind. Rhode Island seems to be as ia
ahead of some other states in the human
1 treatment of criminals as she was owe
two centuries and half ago in advocating
] the grand principle of liberty of conscience
Rhode Island abolished the gallOws man
. years ago, and seems TO get along very wei
!, without capital punishment, and the pla
l pursued in Rhode Islands chief city G
giving work to all tramps who are willin
l to toll for food and lodging is said to b
more efficient in suppressing vagabondag
than the severe penal enactments Of Ne'
Hampshire and Connecticut.
The cost of congressman Whiteaker
hurried trip from Oregon to attend tn
> opening of congress, including the specis
palace car from San Francisco to Oregon
! ! is estimated to have been from 81 500 t
J "a, 500. He went to his home from Sa
u Francisco, which he had not seen IL
nineteen years, by steamer. The voyag
was very stormy, and he was sick, hun
CRY and exhausted when he reached tn
n Golden Gate. 1t was his purpose to n
y cruit his strength by a stay of some day
e in San Francisco, but he was seized in
4 mediately on landing, hurried across Sa
/, Francisco Bay to the railway station {
: the Central Pacific railroad, where a spec
l. ial locomotive and palace car were wal
d ing, with steam up, and was whirled ava
J, with nothing in the way of food aboar
) except some cold luncheon, nor did tn
C car stop anywhere to get q warm meal fo
C the dropping congressman until the reg,
e lar train that was sure to bring him
1 Washington in time was ovcrtaken.
, took about twenty four hours to do
n during which double the usual time W;
g made. Who is to pay the expense of th
n extraordinary trip has not been stated, b,
G it is not Mr.. Whiteaker-
n President Hayes will not after all go
the Pacific coast during the coming sun
e mer and saws he expects to BASS most