The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-29
NEWS SUMMARY.s
There are 552 churches in Philodelphla.
Bicycle races are in vogue in New York

l Will alU IN the OO60EV.
York. f'' y 1'o"
| Of the 500 hymns most used ss the pres
ent day, more than 100 bear the name of
Watts" @+a -
Minister James Russell Lowell has no
intention of returning to this country this
summer. fiG.; ira szf.1 has -i-ss--
The same cholera which is doubling up !,
| the population OF Upper India is also re-
ducing it one-half.
| Thomas Jefferson was twenty-three
years old when he wrote the Declaration
of Independence. L -34@l.t 'F4iiss's
Thieves broke into Gen. Buffers house
at Lowell, drank freely of his best wine,
and carried off his silverware. s..-ts7s,.4, q
Cornelius J. Vanderbilt declares that
the present value of the Vanderbilt estate
is considerably over 500, 600 600 aP' -
The ridiculous story is going around
that st. Louis man drank two and q half
pints ofIwhisky and died from; its Effects
I In his thiry-nine years of journalism
the late N. de Vllemessant established
| seventeen papers besides the Paris Figaro.
The consumption of beer is said to be
largely on the increase in Paris The
amount now exceeds 100, 1000 600 litres an
nually. 81 h1ee9f5zi :; ssiar .
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Bancroft, of Me Z
nominee, Wisconsin, celebrated. on the
1st instant, the seventy-f first anniversary of
their marriage. 81
Two pupils in Sunday school at Nod
away, Mo-, quarTeIled In church, and
went out together to field near by, where
one killed the other.
Theodore 1. Poole, of Syracuse, has
been appointed Pension agent at Canaan
daigua, N. Y. The Office is worth from
$4,000 to $4,000 ayear. .si s..5 -
Father Roberts, nephew of Cardinal
celibacy by marrying an English maiden
who confessed to him her love.
Freeman, the Adventist who murdered
and bears many other evidences of pos
sessing mild, harmless nature. IL a.
Senator Kernan's eldest son has gone
abroad to study for the priesthood at the
same institution at which General Sher-
mans son Thomas is q student.
A leather bag containing $25,O0O was
recently found in q London billiard sa-
loon, where it was left under settee by
its careless owner. He recovered it next
day. 4aa -.
Jim Elliott, the prize fighter, is said by
the Wilkesbarre Plaindealer to be really
Jim Munroe, who recently emerged from
q Pennsylvania state prison after serving
eight years for shooting policeman
A letter has been received from Profes-
sor Nordenskjold, of the Polar expedition,
from Eastern Siberia, dated September IS,
1873, announcing that all connected with
the expedition were well. ~
Dom Pedro packed his contribution to
the Washington monument in fine Bra
lillian wood, and this material, made into
q beautiful model of the monument as
planned, has been returned to him.
The Sioux City Journal deplores the
pernicious effort being made to stop immi-
grafton into its state by circulating Q re-
port that Iowa has 224 brass bands.
jumped from the cars in the depot at Fort
Madison, Iowa, before the train stopped,
found himself in the hands Of officers, and
was fined $5.65 for his carelessness. IA
Hon. Isaac p. Christiancy, the new
American minister. was officially received
by President Prado, at Lima, Peru, on the
10Th of April. The late representative,
Mr.. Richard Gibbs, is en- route for the
United States. .@' za-ea-sssa-ss s-=--ss-s=.ses
+ Mr.. LIE Due Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, is said to have given man $1O, GOO
to purchase sugar-cane for experimental
purposes. The man has not been heard
from, and the House is likely to invest:
gate the matter.
't Two men traded horses on meeting in
the road in Newburyport, Mass, and while
making the exchange one of the horses
fell down and died. Then both claimed
the live horse, and they had fight about
it, with lawsuit to follow. @
! Every Sunday, in various places in Tex
as, the notice is chalked up, This is Sun
days" but, says the Buffalo Express, as no
Texan can read, the day is observed just
as if i: were one of the ordinary ones
Frank Leslie is complaining because
the New York creditors, who hold claims
against him for 800 900, are anxious for /.
the payment of 5 per cent. dividend, de,
clared by the assignee in bankruptcy.
Elias Hampton was so particular in
buying revolver in Buffalo store that
the clerk inquired for what purpose he
wanted it. "1'm going to shoot my father
in-law and brother-in-law," he replied.
The clerk thought he was joking, but he
wasn't, for before night he had lodged
bullet in each of those relatives.
Mr.. William Tomlinson, a prominent
merchant of Louisville, viii be divorced
from his young and beautiful wife on &C
caudt of his young and wild cousin-Mr.
Stanley Bowman. Mr.. VIM. II. TOmlin-
son is a nephew of Mrs. Secretary Belknap,
and Mrs. Tomlinson was three years since
Miss Jessie Buckner, reigning belle Of
the blue grass region.
Miss Emily Soldene and her husband.
Mr.. Powell, have won case in London
against the manager of the Philharmonic
theatre. for violation of their cOpyrightiin
producing "Genevieve de Brabantra with
owned by Miss Soldene and Mrs Liston,.
the latter of whom, now dead. gave the
theatre license to produce the piece, but
without consulting the other joint owner
In Washington City is living curiosity
in the shape Of boy Of many colors,
known around the neighborhood Is
"White Head Sam" His name is Samuel
Lewis. and he is the only child Of his
mother. with whom he lives. He 10 about
| II years old. and is remarkably we'll
grown, hut presents q very singular ap-
pearance, his face being of a light yellow,
his checks darker than the other parts OF.
tine face, and his head covered with short,
| fieccy hair; his eyebrows are yellowlsh
white, and his eyes, once of pink tint
ar6now dark red, and they seem contin-
ually on the move His body, legs and
arms arc as white as the fairest Caucasian,
and the tops of his feet and the backs OF
his hands are rs black as the ace of spades,
and besides these peculiarities, he has q
double row Of teeth. He is boy of more
than ordinary intelligence. and attends
ichool. ,anIs-