The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-03-11

and next selected Yor hSs dinner . tender
child The monkey vas KILLED. hut the child
a novel case n.. jsst come up before one
az he calls himeelf, sues . somewhat we'll
known sporting character, = hacker OF pedes-
trisns and othtr athletes, for the amount of
$50 and . suit Of clothes, in confederation
1a Winning and wooing his girl for him.
The lady was coy, and the sport was un-
ioubtedly "snufi" or "gump," or "hslf-
baked" at any rate In anorous matters, SO
he engaged the plaintiff to tell him what to
say. and how to ssy II, and TO write his love
cepted bis suit, when she got "snifted'' and
they had lovers quarrel, to patch up the
affair and make all smooth again. The girl
ie rsther we'll OF and altogether desirable.
The story has made everybody laugh but the
poor fellow who b called on 10 pay, and per-
haps will loose his yicariously won beauty
after al. l'-
You may perhaps remember that two or
three years ago, an eccentric naturalixed and
very patriotic American by the name Of
Lewis, died over In New Jersey ard left sew.
eral million dollars to Uncle sam. Then his
slieged widow, whom nobody had ever heard
OF before, stepped in and claimed the whole
r.perty. or ~ any rate her dover rightin II
.lleged facts, and . certificate, apparently
regular, was produced. Itlooked as II Uncle
Sam was going to lose the little wiudfall
somehow or other 1t Was expected that all
was not right. and on one pretext OF anoth-
er, the granting Of letters Of administration
spirators, for 1t seems 1t was all Q conspira-
| cy, quarreled, ~ thieves will do, over the d.
vision Of the spoils, before they got them,
and on the rule or ruin principle, let the cat
states evidence. and her companions in the
fraud are getting dealt with by . Jersey jury,
which We consider here to be quite severe
sort Of . jury.
| thought himself married, but found that his
wife had discovered that her former husband
was not dead, though she thought he was,
concluded that the kindest and most unset
| 6sh thing he could do would be to depart
nom these much mixed shores for possibly
better land, wrote Q letter explaining his
views, % he took laudanum and comforta.
| bly, died. He was . German BY birth, har
ness manufacturer by trade, and somewhat
practical. He did not like to train in triple
harness.
Dark and drear was Friday morn, darkest
and most dreary about eight o'clock, when 9
large number Of our respected fellow citi-
xens insisted that there was an earthquake
and that they distinctly felt It. Others pooh
poohed It, and there 10 war In Gotham. ant
| the question Il exciting almost as much In
/ terest - the famous Fifteen Puzzle. Their
is some exaEKeration, tits believed. in soms
OF the statements- For instance, 1t has beer
said that the church steeples rocked, and
| Trinity's chimes pealed forth without . hu-
man 6ellringer, and that, as the TAN rowe
Of the Tribune trembled, far up aloft u,
curls Of the young editor wildly wssed
This last statement must be incorrect, TO
that industrious end exemplary young mai
consumes too much midnight gas to be abl
| to get up SO early. One explanations 10 tha
i the observers Of the phenomenon had beel
i taking too many astronomical observation
overnight through the bottom Of tumblers
and the oscillation of their nervss when tn
skies were darkest, led to scientific confu
sion of ideas. RApIx.