The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-02-27
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the bill providing for an increase in the pa
of the letter-carriers.
A MEETING of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES II
the next Congress, and other gentlemen con
nected with the party, was held at Washing
ton City ON the 22d. De La Matyr, of Indi
ana, Murch and Todd of Maine, Ford of Mis-
souri,, Russell, Of North Carolina, Weaver ant
Gillette, Of Iowa, Forsythe, OF Illinois, ant
Barlow Of Vermont, were the members pres
| ent. They claim that there will be TWEEN
ty-one Greenbackers in the next House.
prominent member present stated that hi
party would hold together and act in thu
! next House Just the same as any othel
party does, hold caucuses and vote to
gether. They intend to nominate candi
dates for the different offices in the re
organization Of the House and stand by them
The report of the minority of the
House Committee on Naval Affairs in rela
ton to the management Of the Navy Depart
mept under Secretary Robson states that the
present Congress not content with q subetan
tial vindication of Secretary Robeson in the
Forty Fourth Congress, the Committee on Ma
val Affairs have gone over the same ground
terly fails to establish q single allegation OF
fraud, corruption, or wilful violation OF law,
The report is signed by all the Republican
members Of the Committee on Naval Affairs.
The House Committee on Elections
has agreed to report Q bill limiting the al
lowance for expenses incurred In contesting
seats In the House to 81, ,00O in each case after
the present Congress.
The Judge-Advocate General of the
army has acted on the proceedings and find
ing Of the Reno Court Of Inquiry, recently
assembled at Chicago. The Court, in its re-
port, reaches the general conclusion that the
inquiry has not deduced evidence against
Major Reno which would warrant trial BY
court martial. This has been approved.
The challenge of Thomas M. Nichols,
Secretary Of the Hard Money League, for a
public discussion on the Greenback question,
published a few days ago, has been accepted
by F. r Devices, Chairman Of the National
Greenback Committee.
The East.
DIR. THOMAS L. LAMBERT, ex-Presi-
dent of the defunct Popular Life Insurance
Company, and President Chase, of the de-
funct Security Life Insurance Company, and
both convicted Of perjury, were granted new
trials by the New York Court Of Appeals on
the 18th.
The Connecticut Legislature, on the
18th, adopted q resolution declaring the pro-
posed law restricting Chinese emigration is
in fragrant violation of the sacred and honor
able treaty, and wholly inconsistent with the
principles and traditions Of our Republic, and
with the broad principle Of human freedom.
The House of Representatives Of Con-
necticut has passed q bill taxing the property
of educational, religious and benevolent Or
ganizations not used for the purposes Of such
Organizations.
THE Bank of Oswego, N. Y, refused
to pay checks on the 18th. Amount on de-
posit 100000.
GRIFFIN, High Treasurer of the In
dependent Order Of Forresters, settled, at
Rochester, N. Y, on the 10Th, returning $13,
900, leaving deficiency Of about 5000.
THE State Senate of Connecticut
unanimously passed joint resolution on the
18th condemning the action of Congress on
the Chinese question.
The State Senate of Rhode Island
protests unanimously against the law restrict
ing Chinese immigration.
CONSIDERABLE excitement and un-
easiness exists at Brownsville, Pa, and other
towns along the Upper Monongahela, owing
to recent outbreaks and threatened violence
by striking coal-miners In that vicinity.
THE International Base Ball Associa-
tion closed its session at Utica, N. Y, on the
Goth. The name was changed to the National
Association. The action of the association
giving the Uticas the championship was re-
considered, and the report of the Judiciary
Committee adopted. giving the pennant to
the Buffalos, Stars second, Uticas third. L.
j. Powers, of Springfield, was elected Presi-
dent; c. j. Everett, of Utica, Vice-President;
]. A. Williams. Of Columbus, Secretary and
Treasurer.
The Atlantic knitting mills at Co
hoes, N. Y, were burned on the 2lst. North's
Block was also consumed. Loss, 1000;
partially insured.
The fire insurance companies of New
York City have estsblisheda tariff association.
AN explosion at the Kathadin iron
works at Bangor, Me-, on the 21st, killed John
Walker and Matthew Ryan.
Ex-MAYoR WEsTERvELr, of New
York City, died on the 2lst, aged seventy
nine. He was the builder of ia sea-going
vessels.
The British steamer Zanzibar, which
sailed from New York Jan. IL for Glasgow, had
not, up to the 21st, been heard from, and is re-
garded as lost with all on board.
The New York City banks, on the
2lst, held, in excess Of legal requirements.
IS, ,2l2.65O.
The bark Shooting Star from Lisbon,
Portugal, with Charles w. Angel, the de-
faulting secretary of the Pullman Palace Car
Company, on board, arrived at Philadelphis
on the 21st-
The Morris oil-cloth works and six
dwellings at Salem, N. j., were buried on the
Of the 21st. Loss 80, 100; insured
for $4,000
THE Oswego. N. r., City Bank has
gone into the hands of a receiver. The de-
positors are promised payment in full.
The officers of steamship lines and
shippers of beef of New York City are for
warding large quantities of dead beef in
refrigerators, and will continue to do so while
force.
HENRY BIGELow WILLIAMS, real es-
tate agent at Boston has failed. Liabilities
81 ,o66, ,9S1. No unencumbered assets.
JOSEPH II. RoUsH and w. T. Scott,
two members Of the Seventh Ward Election
Board at Pittsburg who were lately convicted
of fraud and conspiracy, altering ballots and
changing the result Of the election for alder
men, were sentenced on the 22d, to imprison-
ment in the County Jail for one year and TO
pay fine Of one hundred dollars each.
Ex-CONGREssMAN HAsBROUCK died
at Roundout, N. Y, on the 23d.
A CAR containing about twenty-five
passengers fell over an embankment at Cham
bersburg, Pa, on the oath, while being shifted
to side-track, and a number of persons were
injured, several seriously.
CAPT. PAUL BoYToN started from
Pittsburg at O'Clock on the morning of the
oath on a trip down the Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers, intending to float to New Orleans. He
expects to reach there in about twenty-eight
days. The water was at freezing point and
the river running full of ice.
A RUN was made on the Oswego IN.