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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26

In the middle of the. fight at Rorke's
Drift, when the Zulus had fired the hos
pital, q rush was made by band of the
enemy to fire the stOrchouse, the other
building which Outlasted the defense.
As fast as these Zulus came on with fire
brands they were shot down, but one
managed to escape the fire and got in
close TO the wall of the stOrehouse. The
defenders, with their rifles through the
loop-holes, could not slope their weapons
to kill him, and 1t seemed as If his pur-
pose of firing the thatch on the roof of the
house should succeed. Fortunately, a
young corporal of the army service corps
named Atwood, bethought himself of a
plan to rid the camp of the Zulu. As
luck would have it, there was. q small
square hole in the wall which had been
used as q window, and the Zulu happened
to get below this. Atwood, with his car
bine. made his way to this hole, and push
ing out his weapon, let it hang pointing
to the ground. 1t was impossible to take
aim in his awkward position, so he trust
ed to fate. The Zulu had by this time
stuck firebrand on the end of his assegai
and was in the act of rising up to set fire
to the thatch when Atwood, not seeing the
Zulu at all, but knowing about his po-
The shot probably, in fact, saved Natal
at daylight was found at the spot with his
skull smashed in, and the assegia, with
the firebrand stuck on the end Of il, held
tightly in his dead hand.-(Durban letter
in Edinburgh Scotchman.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26

We are having considerable excitement
over lead and silver discoveries-in one of
the old Indian mounds on the Patterson
place, two miles south Of Guntersville. An
Indian by the name of COrnstalk, son of an
Indian OF the same name, and well known
to many of our old citizen, came here
from the Nation, claiming, when a boy,
he saw large quantities ofore taken from
the mound. He told Mr.. Patterson that
he would soon come to white sand and
fire Goals where they had a furnace to re
fine the crude ore The white sand and
fire Goals were found just as he had stated
they would be, and several pieces of the
ore, some of which has been sent to New
York for analysis. One piece of the ore
was taken there by Mr.. We'll, of Hunts
vile, and was found to contain 1212 per
cent. silver, most of the rest lead. Mr..
Patterson has been very liberal in his
terms and proposes to give the Indian
two-thirds of the profits as he is the dis
coverer. Cornstalk seems to have no
doubt at all of the complete success of his
J project-lGadsden (Ala) Times.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26
women-s Growing Independence oi
Men. >

Perhaps" says the Boston Transcript,
sit is because of the growing scarcity of
available men, perhaps it is because OF the
increasing independence of the fair sex
whatever the reason, it is tact patent to
sll who frequent places of amusement that
ladies venture abroad in the evening with
out male escorts far more frequently than
they did ten years ago, and it is greatly to
the credit of our city that they can do so
with impunity. A lady would hardly go
out alone of an evening, but if accompan-
led by another of her sex, especially if one
of the pair be tolerably along in years
it is not necessary to give exact figures
shoth feel comparatively safe. The result
ID that young men are not quite so much
of necessity as they once were, and are
made to feel that they are no longer indis-
pensible. Time was when young man,
simply because he was man, was permit
ted to feel that he was a very important
creature, but now that male escort can
with propriety be dispensed with on Occa-
sion. he has been made to descend from
his high horse. He was wont to impose
his cheap horse and slang on his lady
friends, and was permitted to parade his
conceit and ignorance. simply besause he
was necessary evil; but times have
changed all that, and he now often finds
that unless he can command respect by
his knowledge, his character or his gentle
manly department, his room is considered
more desirable than his company. All of
which is having an excellent effect upon
the average young man of the period"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26

Another thing, son; you want to re-
member that wearing iWentytwo inches
of coat propped out across sixteen inches
of shoulders doesn't make gymnast of you
by any means any more than a straight
back, a measured step, and Burnside hat
with a cord and acorn give you war
record. There have been young men,
aye, and old men, too, before your time,
who )wed their tailor 70 their chest and
shoulders, and owed for them precious
long time, too There have been young
men who could waltz for an hour and
sixty-cight minutes without once sitting
down to rest, who couldn't saw enough
wood to warm. q fiannel-oake, not II starv-
alton stared them in the face, and tried to
drive them to it. Don't worry about your
shape, son. Men will admire your, crook
ed legs il your trousers are paid for, and
IF your back is so lopsided that you have
to keep your helm hard a-pOrt all the
time to keep from walking around the
block to starboard when you want to go
straight ahead, you'll never think OF it il
you don't owe for the coat that lies in
such ungainly. honest wrinkles across it.
The man who doesn't owe "a dollar is a
rich man, even if he hasn't a crust to eat
| in the house. And don't borrow. If you
can't get along without having more than
you've got, don't borrow; steal. You'll
feel better about it, and, as a general
| thing, you will be more respected and less
ltormented
Don't judge man by his clothes. Can
you tell what the circtlssis gOingto be- like
by looking at the Italian sunset pictures
on the fence? Do you value a turkey for
\ its plumage? And isn't the skin of a
mink the most, and, indeed, the only
valuable part of him? There be men fair
to look upon, who wander up and down
this country. and sit in the coolest places
on the. hotel piaZzas, who are arrayed in
fine linens and cardinal socks, and who
have 10 hold their hand over their scarf
pin when they want to see the moonlight,
who, unassisted and unprompted, do
not possess the discretion to come in when
it rains, and don't know enough to punch
a hole in the snow with an umbrella, new,
soft snow at that, without any crust on it.
Now and then, son, before you are as old
as Methusleh, you will meet a man who
| wears a hat that is worth twice as much
| as the head it covers. On the other hand
dent fall into the error of believing that
all the goodness and honesty and intelli
gence in the world goes about in shreds
and patches. We have seen q tramp
dressed in more rags than you could rake
out Of the family rag-bag, and with more
dirt and hair on him than would suffice to
protect a horse, who would step up tC
the front door and demand three kinds OF
cake, half a pie, some black coffee and
vanilla ice-cream, and then steal every
movable thing in the yard, kill the dog
choke up the pump with sand, tramp or
the pansy bed and girdle the cherry tree.
because he couldn't carry them away
Good clothes OF bad, son, they are never
an infallible index to the man that is il
them.-[ Burlington Hawkeye.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26
Not More Than One Christian Name

Not more Tn3n Onc CmE1StAan Name !:
In looking through SO many volumes of
records have, of course, seen many thou
sands and tens of thousands of proper
names, belonging to men of all ranks and
degrees-to noblemen, Justices, clergy
men, witnesses, ,sureties, inn-keepers, hawk
ers, paupers, vagrants, criminals and
others-and ia no single instance, down to
the reign of Anne have / noticed any
person bearing more than one Christian
name. The first instance occurs in 1771, !,
when Sir Coplestone Warwick Bamfield
appears among the Justices who attended
the Midsummer Session AT Exeter. The
first instances which have met with In
any other. place are those of Henry Fred
eriek, Earl of Arundel, born in 1908, and
Sir Henry Frederick Thyme, who was
created q Baronet in 1641. Both these
must have been named after the eldest son
of James l., who was, of course, born in
Scotland. No ether child of James bore
two Christian names, nor did any child Ct
Charles l., except Henrietta Maria, named
after her mother, who was a French wo-
man. No King Of England bore two
Christian names before William I'LL, who
was Dutchman. 1t seems probable that
the practice of giving children two Chris
tfan names was utterly unknown in Eng
land before the accession of the Stuarts
that it was very rarely adopted down te
the time of the Revolution, and that il
never became common until after the
Hanoverian family were seated on the
throne.lTQuarterly Session from Queer
Elizabeth, h. A. Hamilton. s9sasie 7e..is
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26
Two Valuable Lessons Taught at
West Point.

Two valuable lessons, not from text
books, are taught at West Point-strict
honesty and truthfulness. A cadet guilty
Oflying is expelled. There is no hope TO,
him, and there ought to be none. OF all
mean and detestible vices falsehOod Is
the meanest and most detestible. A cadet
guilty of dishonesty is expelled. Dis
honesty and falsehood go. hand in hand
They are twin vices. No young man who
should show the taint of these vices
goes through West Poiut If the authorities
can help it. By extreme circumspectior
youth whose imagination is too lively
for his judgment may occasionally geI
through, and even rise to comparatively
high command in the army afterward
but he certainly must walk with grea
care while passing through West Point
and, as to the honesty of its graduates, a.
class, that, fortunately, is beyond
doubt. r.fsa -tl,Gsrt1 hrr-
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26
/ Frontier Character who Runs .
POpul0us Private Graveyard.

1t was our fortune to fall in with a
peculiar character the other day. That is
a character peculia' TO the frontier. He is
known all over the West as Texas Frank,
burwhy the Lone Star State should thus
be honored we do not know. He was
moulded by nature in symmetrical pro-
porti- ms, and although he has life of
and his actions easy and rapid. His prop
er name is Frank WhItefield, and he carne
10 the frontier from Pennsylvania in 1865,
since which time he has been one of the
chiefest of arabs. He dresses in long hair
navy revolvers and full grown spurs. He
writes good hand spells correctly, but
his capitalizing and punctuating clearly
show that he never learned the art pre-
servative. He uses good language, sligat
ly tinctured with frontier provincialisms
and profanity. Where the widest, most
turbulent and ungovernable crowds gather
Texas Frank Is in their midst to make a
stake. BY nature too lazy to work, and
by education too proud to beg, he swings
from point to- point holding down" a
saloon here, "bracing up" q game there,
and scouting fer the "reds" when an op-
pOrtunity is presented. Famous things
are reported of him by admiring followers.
If he has killed half the number OF men
credited to him his victims would make a
populous graveyard. We undertook to
draw him o s on his killing scrapes, when
he lost his cheerfulness and refused talk
A revolver was circls before our protrud-
ing eyes by q drunken man, sresident of
Larned, who swore he would finish our
useful existance then and there for insult
ing Texas Frank. At the word of COM
mand from Frank the six-shooter disap-
peared and quiet rsigned on the placid
Pawnee. Notorious people are peculiar
people. Now we never minded telling
an one ! about the men we have killed,
when, where, what for, and all about it
why he should he so grum about affairs so
with him we ca not comprehend.
Frank Aays that dino novel published
about him is absurdly ridiculous and not
a word of truth in it. People in Rice
county have been talking about MIN be-
ing ring leader of band Of horse thieves,
and it reached him out West that fifty dol |
lars reward was offered for his arrest, so
he was going down to claim the reward |
and clear the matter up Couldn't afferd |
10 have such reports in circulation. Then
he is going to- Oklahoma because there's |
going to be mighty interesting times and
a lay out might come to sight" -
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26

We don't believe these spots on the sun
have any influence on the weather at all,
we don't care what the astronomers say
We believe they are pasted on the sun
just like the liver-colored spots on q
cloud blue meat hound, for ornament and
variety.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26

"Well. how do the fish get along this
weather." Governor Gear asked one ofthe
Iowa fish commissioners. "Oh, swimming
ly." was the cold-blooded reply. And now
an intelligent people rise up and demand
the instant decapitation of that official.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26

For want of tenants, Sir: John Rsmsden,
who owns Huddersfeld, and has an. in
come of $500, 900, has been compelled to
take six of his huge Scotch sheep farms
into his own hands. 4, ss....., -
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26
LIVERY STABLE.
COAL YARD.


nEALER IN BLOssBURG COAL. tn.
IL finest article known for Blacksn,ith
q done, ana iatisssctioa guarcnteed. soutI
Gds Mechanic street. ll-l6-li
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26

10 The truth Is that these too frequent 'un-
happy marriages. are the offspring of ig-
norance quite as much as of actual sin or
wrong. Fools and especially vicious
fools, have, no right to get possession of an
honest woman's life and soul which they
fuence of which they throw away even
more by stupidity than by willfulness-
(, A woman, by her sex and character, has
q claim to many things besides shelter,
food and clothing. She is not ,lessa w0-
man for being welded; and the man who
is fit 10 be trusted with good wife reco1-
lects all which this implies, and shows
himself perpetually chivalrous, sweet spo-
KEN considerate and .deferential.g The
fools and brutes who abound among us
may think such demands hard but they
are not nearly as bad as to live the cat and
dog life, missing the dearest possibilities
What right has man to expect happi-
ness in a household who brings no sum
shine INTO it? What right has he to look
for the graces and, refnements of early
love when he violates them by rough
speech, illmanners and the disregard Of
those little things upon which the selfre-
spect Of wife Is built and maintained?
The cynic who rails at marriage is gener-
ally one and the same with the thought
less egotist who files into the presence of
his wife, careless, stubborn and sOur-tem-
pered, though he never went TO his mis-
tress except on his best behavior. .,t,-. T.
The fate is horrible which q pure and
faithful girl may endure by encountering
in him whom she weds not mere actual
cruelty or injury, but stupid incompe-
tence to understand q woman's needs, dull
forgetfulness of the daily graces of life and
oblivion of the fact that while men have
the world women have only. their home.
Grossnesses of masculine ingratitude do
not, indeed, often lead to visible catas-
trophe nor grow into absolute tyranny,
but they equally tend that way. They
drag down wife's soul to the point where
she must despair; they change the sublime
meaning OF marriage to vulgarity and
WEAKNESS; they spoil the chance of that
best and fiuest of all education which each
man obtains who wins reasonably good
woman for his companion, and they cost
more to q million households than money
or repentance can ever pay back.--[ Yon
kera Sfatesman !. ~. - .--..s+
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:, NEAT MARKET.
=. e.. FULLER,

nRALER IN Fresh and Salt Meats, Bo.
IL lena md Pork Sausage. Highes
narlkes psiss In cssh paid for Bsevss, sheep
uep, Hidss. &c. Narkst south side Lab
erty stssst. one door vest o. OttGbecker!
Hamee Shop. .--a =. .u-s-i!
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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26

George Baine, welldigger, was over. :
come by foul air, and died before assis-
tance could be rendered. - tssssa. = izsn
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PLANNING MILL.

w ELLINGTON PLANNING MILL
w Manufactures aud dealer in Sash,
Doegs, BlisdsI Brackets, Battings, Lumber,
0k1n&lss, Lash, Cheese and Butter Boxes.
BcroH Ssuin&. Mstching and Planning dons
10 oder. d. L. Wsdsworth. Prop. Once.
near r.ilroad depot. - '.'s
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BOOTS AND SHOES.
". h. ASHFORD.

W. H. ASHFORD, sa.
HEANUFACTURER and Dealer in Boots
M and Shoes and al kinds Of 6rst olass
ensfom work. All work and materials frlly
v.rYnutsd. Shop, south ride Liberty Street,
- door east Of Ottsrbacker's Harness Shop,
Wellington. Ohio. 1-e-1y
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26

IF YOU WANT q 6rsf-class Shave. Hair
i Cut, or Shampoo. call at Robinson's U.
K.Shasing Saloon, Liberty Stret A full
assortment Of Hair Oils, Pomades aud Hair
Restoratives. We also kerp the best brand
Of Razors. and warrant them. Raxors honed
or ground.to order. E. T. ROBINSON.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26

R. n. GOODWIN,

r. n. GOODWIN,
DHE INSURANCE. AGENT, win b
1oanl at HIS ollcs in Husted Dros.'
keot ed Shoe Store, Whars be viii Be
.lase1 % - his old sasto1srs needing
s.vthinR = M Nna. Standard OempAniss
SreoecSsd and Rates reasossbls. Lossss
rsnplay adjssted and paid ct his assrey
--Esa, NEAT MARKEr.
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LUMBER YARD.

H. wADswORrH SON,
nealers in Lumbsr, Lath. Shingles, Doors.
IL Sash, Blhds. Nouldings, and Dreased
Lumber Of all sorts. Yard near Hamlin's
Fssd Store. Wellington. Ohio
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-26

CADBEER AND HARNREss M&KRR.
= rka bs.t vesknen employed. ad e1ly
- bsst stock used All work done unds2
nv imuediifs supervision. North sids Me-
shanie sesest.,zlg - a. ll-ls-ly
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1879-07-12

Kellogg's Landing, La, July ., 10
E,.litor Of the Herald:

Kellogg's Landing. La, July 3, '79
Editor OF the Herald:
send you by to-.lay's mail a
genuine cotton worm. Please
state the fact that you have seen
the cotton caterpillar, AMI that
they are certainty for this season.
This is one Of the first crop, that
webs up aud produces the miller
Il is earlier than l have ever befor
noticed them. and should the sec.
ond crop appear at any time this
month the result would be very
disastrous. The prospect is cer-
tainly alarming to those who arc
largely interested III the growing
crop.
Very respectfully, Adams Kellogg.
Accompanying tho above, we re-
ceived a small paper box contain
ing several cotton leaves aud sew
cral veritablo cotton worms. Mr..
Kellogg is a successful planter Of
Louisiana, aud resides near the
Mississippi river. Thisis extrem-
ely early for tho the appearance Of
the pests, and il tho weather Is ia
yorable when the next crop Of
them appears, II is hard TO estimate
the damage that will be sustained
by the cotton crop. Herald
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1879-07-12


The Democratic Conservative
party Of Kinds met in convention
at Raymond, aud madc the follow.
ing nominations
For Sherifi'--Farrar Morrison.
Chanccry Clerk-W. 7. Ratlif.
Circuit Clerk-Sam Livingston.
Scnator-Jamcs y. Stewart.
Assessor-B. Willss Henry.
Trcasurcr-Dan Howell
Representatives. DIR. Logan W.
White, DR.. Carmichael, John Sim
mons, r. A. Melville.
Captain W. A. Montgomery has
announced himself as an idepend'
cut Grcenback candidate for the
State Senate, in opposition to Mr.
Stewart. Both arc very popular
men, and the contest will be ami
mated. Montgomery favors Gen
cral Walthall for the uuitcd States
Scnatc-Stcwart Is for Barksdalc
The vicksburg Commercial, how
ever, reports Stewart also as "a
voring the election Of Walthall
II will be sccn that tho pcoplc oI
Kinds have mixed good deal d
physie III hcirlcgislativc ticket.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1879-07-12


GOLD AND IT'S ALLoYs.-- AS
pure gold is so very soft--too soft,
indeed, for any practical purpose,
It is alloyed with copper or silver
The first alloy producing a reddish
color, and the second n pale yellow
gold. Our gold coin. like that Of
France, Belgium and Holland, con-
tains onc-tcntll Of both copper and
silver, mostly copper. For jcwelry
the alloy differs with H. quantity
and is estimatedby what nrc called
carats. A carat is tho 24th part OF
any given quantity. Thus when
gold is called "a carats, It means
that It is all gold 20 carats means
that Of every "a parts 20 arc gold ;
IS carats Il the most common alloy
used by jewelers., and keeps as well
as pure gold IL carats is only hall
gold, and is a low alloy, which is
apt to tarnish moro easily aud lose
its lustre, requiring more frequent
cleaning.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1879-07-12

In the course Of the day, saws
Temple, in his Travels in Perm y
! had an opportunity Of shooting
a condor. It was so satiated with
its repast on the carcass Of dead
horse as to suffer me to approach
within pistorshot before it extend
cd its wing to tnkc fight, which to
me was the signal to fire, and hav-
ing loaded with an ample charge
Of pellets, my aim proved cflectual
and fatal. What a formidable
monster did l behold In the ravine
beneath me. screaming and flap
ping in the last convulsive strug-
giles Of life! 1t may DO difficult to
believe that tho most gigantic ami
NAL that inhsbits the earth or the
occan shonld be cqualed by a ten
ant Of the air, and those persons
who have never seen a larger bird
than our mountain eagle, will pro-
badly read with astonishmcnt of a
species Of that same bird in the
southern hemisphere, being SO
large and strong as to seize an OK
with its talons, and TO lit it into
the. air, whence Il lets fall to the
ground in order to kill and prey
upon the carcass. But this aston
ishment must IN great measure
subsidc when the dimensions OF tho
bird arc taken into consideration,
and whicl, incredible as they may
appear, now insert verbatim
from a note taken downby my own
hand. "When tho wings were
spread they measured sixteen pa.
ccs (forty fcet) IN extent, from
point to point; the feathers arc
eight PAGES (twcnty feet) iu length
aud the quill part two palms (eight
inches) in circumference. II is
said TO have power Sufficient TO
carry of a live rhinoccros.'
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1879-07-12
4 Family Of Lightning Caleulators

\
There recently died in England,
ngcd u, a man Of prodigious aiith'
meiical powers, whose mental Iac.
ul,ics afforded matter for profound
research to psychologists. Ills
name was George Bidder, aud va.
rious arc the anecdotes of his Won
derful powers Of calculation and
Of memory. A person could read
to bidder two series OF u figures
each, and without seeing or wri-
ting down n single figure he would
multiply one By Tie other without
error. Once, before parliamcn-
tary committee. IN opposing coon.
sci said: "lou may as well pro.
Tess to tell us how many gallons o'
water flow through Westminster
bridge every bour.' IL can tell
you that, too" was The reply, and
he gave the number instantaneous
~. The whole family possessed
the same or similar powers. Tht
eldest son could also multiply Il
figures by Is figures without seeing
them by Il process of his own
Even the grand.daughters had ex'
traordinary powers Of calculation
Barnum's lightning calculator
IIutchins, bore no comparison tc
Bidder. His greatest feat Of cal
culating was multiplying five flg'
ures BY five figures in one line
using a slate or blackboard, and
Of course, seeing the figures.