The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-02-20
HoN. ZAcHAR1AH CHANDLER was

, HON. ZACHARIAH CHANDLER wa!
unanimously nominated for United State
: Senator by the Republican caucus at Lansing
Michigan, on the 18th.
i CHARLES r. McGILL was hanged al
], Clsreland, Ohio, on, the 18th, for the murde,
:, OF Mary Kelley, Dec q 1871
FIVE judges of election were con
victed and sentenced at Baltimore, on the
18th, for interfering with the United State.
supervisor at the recent Congressional
election.
THE steamer A. c. Donnelly burned
to the waters edge near Fl. Jefferson, KY
on the 14th. The pilot remained at his post
until the boat struck the shore, when the pilot
severely injured BY jumping from the boat to
the frozen ground.
JOHN EDWARDS was hanged at Smith
field, N. c., on the 14th, for the murder OF
Bader j. Bellard, a preacher, Oct. 9, 1878.
THE Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
Home at Xenis, Ohio, burned on the morning
Of the 10th. Loss $4,000.
NEAR Pine Bluff, Ark, on the night
Of the 18th, three masked men halted the Lit
tie Rock mail stage in the woods, and robbed
the mail and passengers.
The Democrats of the Michigan Leg
islature on the 18th nominated Hon. o. NJ.
Barnes, Of Lansing, for United States Sena-
| tor. The Nationals nominated Hon. Henry
Chamberlain, of Three Oaks.
| A SMALL steamer running between
Marietta and GAINESVILLE, o., on the Muskingum
River exploded her boilers, when near Bsver-
| ly, on the 18th, killing the fireman and Sc
| rfousy scalding the Captain and two of the
crew and three OF the passengers. The boat
| sunk few minutes after the explosion.
Foreign Intelligence.
ADvIcEs from Cape Town, South AZ
rica, on the 11th, substantially confirm the
details Of the fight on the Tugla River be-
tween the British and Zulas as teiegrapbei on
| the 10th.
The report of the death of the Ameer
of Afghanistan is untrue.
| MUKHTAR PAsHA has refused to ne
gotiate on the basis demanded by Greece, and
the Greek Commission has been recalled.
THE Austrian Government intends to
restrict the navigation Of the Danube as q
preventive against the spread Of the plague.
The mouth Of the Sulimo will be closed.
EMPEROR WILLIAM opened the Ger
man Reichstag in person on the 18th.
A LETTER from Tangier, Morocco,
says that complete anarchy reigns throughout
that Empire.
PETER MULLIGAN, messenger of the
United States Post-office Department in Wash
ington, arrested for bringing into Canada
money stolen In foreign country, was tried
at Montreal on the 18th, and sentenced to five
years In the penitentiary.
RAW cotton will probably be exempt
from duty under the new protection laws in
Germany, the Tariff Commission having re-
ported against tax upon that staple.
A ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
18th stated that the plague had entirely dis
appeared from Astrachan.
"A MILITARY Gordon has been ordered
along the entire course Of the Volga TO pre-
vent the spread OF the plague.
GENERAL PEEL, the famous English
turfman is dead.
GENERAL GRANT and party arrived
at Bombay on the 18th.
A REVOLUTION has broken out in
Hayti.
The Russians in Bulgaria have been
ordered to hold themselves in readiness to
leave at any time appointed by the Berlin
Congress.
The French medical authorities re-
commend q careful fumigation of all letters
and newspapers at the Russian frontier.
COUNT SrALBERG, IN the Prussian
Parliament, on the 14th, presented a declara-
tion that partial state of siege at Berlin was
necessary to repress secret Socialist propagan-
da and to prevent communication between
foreign and German Socialists.
LORD GEORGE L. HAMILTON, Vice.
President of the Privy Cot neil, stated in the
House of Commons on the 18th, that the
Council had ordered the slaughter of Ameri--
can cattle because some time ago the Council
was Informed Of the prevalence of disease
among cattle in the United States. Among
the sources of information was a message
from the President Of the United States. At
q meeting of the Liverpool Health Committee,
on the 18th, the town clerk stated that the
recent order Of the Privy Council would en-
tirely prevent shipments of live stock from
the United States to Liverpool because that
city is not registered under the act as a for
eign animals wharf.
The definitive treaty of peace ratified
by the Sultan reached St. Petersburg on the
18th. -l ~
cultural laborers left Plymouth, England, on
the 18th for New Zealand.
The Pope has proclaimed universal
jubilee indulgence on the anniversary of his
election.
IT was officially stated in st. Peters
burg on the 10Th that there had been no fresh
cases of plague or deaths therefrom for day
or two.
THE strikers in Liverpool have pro-
posed arbitration to the ship-owners, mean
time resuming work on the old terms. This
the owners rejected, but agreed to arbitra-
tion, provided the men resume at the pro-
posed reduction. Matter now awaits decision
Of the strikers. 1t is thought they must yield.
THE National Zeitung, of Berlin. and
other Liberal journals are shocked at the
manner in which the speech from the throne
at the opening of the Reichstag declines
Prince Bismarck's protectionist schemes.
the forerunner of the speedy dissolution of
the Reichstag.
THE Upper House of the Hungarian
Diet has adopted q bill authorizing gold
rente loan Of 1OO, 900 900 forms.
UNITED STATES MINISTER KAssoN,
writing from Vienna, says the Russian plague
excites great alarm in Germany, Austria and
Hungary, and that nearly all the patients
died, and that six army surgeons and nearly
all who came in contact with the dead had
died, although disinfectants were freely used. |
The mortality among the sick in some places
was equal to one hundred per cent
THE London Times says that it is
probable that brigade Of all the armies will
be dispatched from India to re-enforce Lord |
Chelmsford in South Africa. |
PLEURo-PNEUMoNIA is spreading |
among the cattle in North and East York |
shire, England.
NOTICE has been given in the Ger