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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-22

haNihS uObtoiS .
to deal with, it is not surprising that
occasionally she was drawn into litiga-
ton. In this instance at the last mo-
ment she discovered the duplicity of
her counsel, and at once went to the
courtroom. Her lawyer, seeing her
there, urged her to retire, but without
effect; and when the Judge, disturbed
by the interruption, called for an ex-
PLANTATION, she stepped forward, told
why she was there, held forth the evil
dence of her counsers treachery, and
asked permission to argue her own
case. The dignity of the woman, and
her clear, business-like address to the
court, moved the Judge, who allowed
her to lay her case before the jury.
This she did in a manner that left no
doubt as to the truth of her statement
and the Jury, after a short deliberation,
gave her a verdict.
The same energy carried Mrs. Grant
through the British line in 1777. when
intercourse with the enemy was rarely
granted. Her sentiments were well
known, but her leaning to the rebel
side did not stand in her way. One of
her sons-in-law had large sums of
money in the hands of George Hayley,
in London, at the breaking out of the
war, and this money was looked upon
as lost. But one day a letter arrived,
under cover to a loyalist, conveying the
pleasing intelligence that the money
was safe, and had been put out at inter-
est for the owners benefit. Means
were found to send this letter to her
son-in-law in Narragansett, but Mrs.
Grants anxiety to know if it had
reached its destination was so great as
to induce her to apply to General Pigot
for a pass to the mainland. This was
a favor that few would have dared to
ask, so rigid were the lines drawn. The
pass that General Pigot gave her, writ
ten with his own hand, has been pre-
served.
Ihave mentioned the name of George
Hsyley; his widow was another illus
tration of the successful manner in
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-22
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, 1880-12-05

THERE is prospect that little Delaware
may cease to be a Democratic poclzct~bor-
ough Mr.. Houston, tho Republican candi-
datef for Congress from that State at the last
election, has given notice of his intention to
contest the seat Of Martin, Democrat, who
received the Goverhor's. certificate. It is
said that the evidence is ample to justify the
unseatlng Of Martin and giving his seat to
Mr.. Houston. The Democratic majority in
Delaware has been growing small and beau-
tifully less in recent years, and but for the
absurd election laws Of the State it would
have disappeared altogether long ago.
, 1880-12-05

JUDGE HAYES will begin his Judicial life
Tomorrow in the Second Criminal Court a
courtroom has been provided him, and, fur
nislled with an Assistant States Attorne Y,
he will begin work on the criminal docket
tomorrow, There will thereafter be two
Courts engaged III hearing criminal cases,
and the result ought to be that all the prison
ers in Jail shall be tried, and acquitted or con-
victed, during each term Of the Court All
the business OIL the docket should be dis
posed of at the end Of each month, and,
while the prisoners and other accused should
have tair and patient trials, the in
dicted parties should have the justice
done them Of being discharged without delay
when the State is unable to establish their
guilt. With two Courts in continuous scs-
sion the crimina docket, despite tho new
business, should be pretty we'll cleared up ut
the close of each term. It the Legislature
can be induced to remedy the great abuses
practiced under the present law, whereby
changes Of venue for purposes of delay and
for the defeat OF justice are accomplished by
the most glaring and notorious perjury, tho
administration of criminal law will be
greatly improved in this county. The great
element OF justice certainly will he n.ensur-
ably secured by promptness i'll tue trial Of
indictments.
, 1880-12-05

WALL. STREET recklesness and impudencc
have never gone farther than in the demand
Ut the bulls that Secretary Sherman should
help them ont Of Jay GouIa's embrace. For
six months the Spectators of New York
have been using, to rush up prices, all their
own money, all the resources Of tile
hanks, all the margins they could get
out of the lambs. Every dollar of
gold that has come from London or Paris
through New York to Chicago. and has been
sent by Chicago to the farmers of the West
to pay for wheat and pork. has been specu-
lated on by Wall street. These operators
have absorbed the funds of the New York
banks till they are millions Of dollars below
the reserve required by law. After using
every other financial resource, to the point Of
collapse, these Wall street bulls have
the inetfahle .efrontery to demand that
the funds Of the Government shall
be used for their benefit Secretary Sher-
man has yielded so far as to raise the price
he is bidding for the Us of 1850, and an
nounced that he would buy $s,0oo,0o at the
higher figure This afforded no relief, and
the Secretary is roundly abused tor not giy-
ing notice that he will buy the Gs Of 1881 in
such amounts and at snch prices as to, pour
enough Government money into Wall street
to support the present imitation, and blow the
bubble larger. There should be but one an
swer. Spectators who presume to ask
Government help should be booted back
from Washington to Wall street, and every
time the boot fell it should lift them forward
seven leagues. The country wants norepeti-
, 1880-12-05

GEN. HENDERSON, the Representative Of
the Sixth District, says that it is the inten-
1ion of the Illinois Congressman to make a
strong effort to obtain an appropriation f6r
the widening and deepening of the Illinois s.
Michigan Icanal during the coming session of
Congress. One OF the obstacles in tho way
of the appropriation seems to be the fact that
the Canal is owned by the State, and some
Congressman think that 1t would be i'm
proper for Congress to appropriate money
for the improvement Of State property.
There are those who think that this difficulty
will be gotten over by the transfer of the
canal to the National Government on con-
ditlon that the appropriation be made.
, 1880-12-05

the lakqto the Mississippi River. The canal
| enlargement is essential to make all the past
| expenditure available. Ali that has been eS-
| pcndetllyill be comparatively wasted unless
| the Illi(ois River be sufficiently connected
! with tie lake by this canal. When itshall be
complied there will flow through it and into
the Illinois River stream OF pure water
from Lake Michigan which, being contlnu-
OTIS md in large volume, shall keep the CHI
cagn River as harmless to eye and smell Us
is the lake itself.
Nov this scheme is to borrow $4,000
600 and expend it in building an independ~
cnt canal or sewer, when by the expend-
iture If that sum the present canal, with
dimensions equal to those OF the Chicago
River and adapted to steamboat navtsa-
tion extending from the lakes to the Mis-
sissippi,, tan be completed and made one otthe
finest ;Woks of inland navigation the world
has e1Sf: .een. Why expend s12,000,oo0 to
build new, small, and underground canal
when the Steamboat canal, on Which ST.
100000 has already been expended, may be
completed for As much more money? IT
Chicago is to tax herself to build canal,
why not .expend the money on the canal al
ready n1lI completed:
The Committee make the objection that the
current in the enlarged canal when conf
pleted. will be too great for navigation! The
times have moved away from that theory.
The navigation OF the Illinois Il Michigan
Canal even now is mainly carried on by
steam, dispensing with the mules. When
the CANA shalt be enlarged steam will be tho
exclusive power, and it will meet no
greater resistance from the current than is
found III the Mississippi and the Ohio Rivers.
To build q small canal alongside the large
one would he to initiate the philosophical
man who cut a small hole alongside large
one in his door, SO as to let the kitten get i'll
and ont as we'll as the cat.
Tho scheme is utterly out of all reasonable
consideration. The duty of the city is to
have tho pumps ordered last spring put at
work pumping the water from the river into
the canal or into the Desplaines River; tilis
will answer every purpose for five years or
ten years to come, and, in the meantime, it is
to be hoped the Congressional delegation
from Chicago may be able to enlist the aid OF
Congress IN the completion of the river and
canal improvement. In the discussion Of
the subject last spring it was demonstrated
that the proposed pumps would give neces-
sary relief for number Of years, and in tho
meantime the permanent NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
can be pressed forward.
, 1880-12-05

THE Patent Office has surplus revenue
OF 100000 Annually. TO this extent there is
q tax OF, inventions. As the number Of
patents taken out last year was 10000, the
average tax was $4,000. The cost Of getting
valuable inventions examined is often very
onerous. Has 1t not occurred to the Com
missioner of Patents that it might be well
to reduce these expenses, so that the fees
shall rot exceed them very materially? The
Patent Office was never intended to be 4
source Of revenue to the Government. So
long Us 1t is self-sustai.ing the country will
I'm
, 1880-12-05

patton. The higher grade alternates between
big dinners and stiff, awkward, and uncom-
Portable receptions of formal nature. Thera
is little Of home-life anywhere, as it is undnn.
stood elsewhere among the American peon,a
Perhaps the circumstances of Washinpto,
life that have been barely limited at here sng.
gested in part the movement that was started
some years ago to remove the National en-
ital to some other city. There are other rn9-
sons why the National Capitol should remain
where it Is. The'further removed the Amer.
ican people as q whole can be from the sanso
Of being governed, and the less familiar thew
are with the combined slothfulness AMI
variety of the business Of Government tha
more contented they will be with the Amer,
lean system, which contemplates freedom
from official constraint Perhaps it is also AZ
we'll for those who are engaged in tha
business of Government and its necessarv
apperdages that they should be separated
from the bustling. pushing, crowding infln-
ences Of commerce, manufacture, and trade.
The official classes may be thus less temntp5
to unwarranted trespass upon the domain of
the people. Washington is certainly exteri-
orily attractive. The streets are clean and
comparatively noiscless. Its public buihl-
ings are looming up Into magnificent mn
portions that shall before many years become
the admiration Of the world, and are already
a matter OF National pride. The distinctiya
characteristics Of the Capital serve to impress
the National idea upon the country. It il
the State of Government not for State Int
for Nation. -,
The people Of the District look forward
with cheerful hopefulness to an era Of good
feeling, prosperity, and progress under Gen,
Gartield's Administration. There is q COM
parative sense Of security among the mass OF
Government employees, where there would
have been perfect pandemonium Of doubt
and apprehension in the face Of Hancock,s
election. The old clerks and residents
VINO have little homes partly paid for
now believe they will be able. to re-
tain them. The President-elect has lived
in Washington almost continually
continuously as anybody except an anti
quatcd negro messenger In one OF the De-
partments, or an incorrigible newspaper cor
respondent during the past eighteen years.
lie is Il .property-owner to the extent Of
modest little home which isn't quite paid fol,
and it is generally believed that his Influence
will be favorable to the improvement Of the.
city, the prosperity of the regular residents,
the value of real estate, and such progress
in social and material affairs as can be rea-
sonably expected from the Capital Of Re-
public.
, 1880-12-05

ton Of Secretary Boutwell's blunders on
Black Friday, or Of. Secretary Rich
arlson's reissue Of retired legal-tende1s.
Secretary Sherman cah do the lcgit-
innate business interests Of the country no
better service than by withholding any pos
sible relief to Wall street strlngency. There
is one interference the Treasury Department
ought to take the responsibility Of imme-
diately. Controller Knox should at once
notify the New York banks which have
allowed Wall street loans to deplete their re-
serve that they must without delay call in
their loans and restore their reserve to the
figure required by the law
, 1880-12-05

why cannot the Catholic clergy, who have
infipitly more power over their flocks, exer-
else the same strong and benefcent lntlu-
ence upon them? II they, headed by their
new Bishop, would open q crusade against
whisky-selling and whisky-drinkinE, and
follow it up with the energy and determine
ton of Protestants, before the New-Ye ear ex-
pires one thousand Catholic whisky saloons
would be voluntarily closed in this city by
their proprietors, tens OF thousands OF
Catholics would place their names upon the
temperance rolls, and millions of dollars OF
earnings would be saved by the hard-work-
ing Irish with which to get homes, educate
their children and place them in positions Of
usefulness and respectabiiity, where they
would acquire wealth and win the respect OF
the whole community. The whole whisky
selling business would become so contemptl-
BILE and disreputable that only the lawicss
classes and those outside of tho pale Of the
Church would be found peddling liquor to
the laboring classes. It is very simple
remedy, and one clearly within the power OF
the Catholic clergy, to apply in the most et-
fective manner.
II the members Of Protestant churches are
found engaged In the business Of running
whisky-shops they are "bounced" out OF the
Church witlloutceremony and are not allowed
to defle the membership with their presence.
Why do the Catholics not act in the same
effective way? It is not many Years ago that
one of their number, Father Mathew, sim
cere, honest, courageous Catholic priest,
grappled with this giant vice of intoxication
aud accomplished great and glorious work,
saving multitudes from this debasing evil
and bringing happiness into thousands of
homes. Why are there not men Of the Cath
olic priesthood ready to engage in the same
useful work and to bring their tremendous
influence to bear upon the suppression Of 4
curse which is widespread among their laity,
and more injurious to Irish morals, stand
ing, and pockets than MI other evils put
together?
, 1880-12-05

THE application OF Parnell and the other
members Of Parliament Indicted with hin,
for postponement Of their trials was refused
yesterday by the Judges of the Irish Court
Of Queens Bench. CIicf-Justice May, who
delivered the opinion III the case, made one
Of the most extraordinary stump speeches
which ever emanated from Il Judge. lie pTc-
judged the whole case OF the defendants by
saying that it was at their instigation and ow-
ing to their speeches that ireland was in such
state OF anarchy us it is; that Parnell, Dill
lon, and the other members had themselves
to blame if they were in an awkward position
i'll regard to parliamentary duties; and much
more to the same effect. The decision is not
at all surprising wien the composition Of the
Queens Bench is considered.
The Chlef-Jnstice is Il Mr.. May, who held
the Office Of Solicitor General under tho late
Tory Government Ills chief claims to his
present position were that lie wasan Orange
man, and rather ready spouter at Tory
gatherings. At one Of these gatherings he
made speech which so abounded in curious
rhetoric that it was hawked around the
Streets of Dublin, and sold by the newsboys
rs literary curiosity. Under the significant
title Of the ''Flowcrs of May.''
The Associate Justices are FITZGERALD,
Barry, and O'Brien. Judge Fitzgerald was
{: member Of the ''Pope's Brass Band,'' the
most dctested political faction that ever
ireland produced. Their loud professions
Of devotion to "our Holy Father, the Pope"
commended them to the late Cardinal Cullen,
who took them under his protection, aud
mathematical all who opposed them !;
who in fact carried his advocacy
Ut them to such an extent that an Irish
Catholic writer, A. NJ. Sullivan, says that a
schlsln in the Catholic Church was threat
ened in Ireland. Fitzgerald was elected
member for the County Of Clare at the cost
OF some tenant-farmers' lives, OIL account of
his supposed devotion to the "Holy Father"
lie was the associate Of the now infamous
heogh during the Fenian trials.
Justice Barry was Cawtholic Whig law
yer, who owes his Judgeship to the efforts
OF his creditors, the wine-merchants of Dub
lin, as well as to the exertlons of the
, 1880-12-05

TIE term Of Sheriff Hoffman, expired yes
terday. Ills service has been cminentlv cred
table to himself and to tue party which put
him into office. There used to he Il superstition
III this county that nobody but Tim Bradley
could manage tlB Sheriif's office. This gavc
way III time to : similar lelusion that Nr.
Charles Kern WAS the only person endowed
with the necessary qualities Of good Sheriff.
Under this mistaken impression many Re-
publican lawyers, constituting with the
Democrats perhaps majority OF the nenl-
bets Of the Bar, voted for the reelection Of
Sheriff Kern; nrd, when Mr.. 1it1flnann was
chosen in his place, these gentlemen in
dulged i'll the lnosC dismal forebodlngs.
Yet there is not one Of them now who will
not confess that Sheriff Hofflnann has been
prompt, efficient and honest, and his sub
ordlnates rs satisfactory as those Of any Of
his predecessors. In the opinion of most
men who have been In a position to judge,
Mr.. uotf.nann has been the best Sheriff Cook
County ever had lie has certainly been one
Of the most economical The expenses of the
Office during his term and those Of Slierlifs
Asnew and Kern compare as follows:
AEncw..-...-. .......-...... .9C5
NeTN-..-. .........-.- l3o.l l--
HOFFMAN,. liz, ,6E
Uoffmann's saving over Kern, S%%4, 430; over
Asnew, $52,61t. The new Sheriff, Gen.
Mann, elected BY the same party, and rep
resentative Of the same ideas rs those which
put Mr.. l1otflnann into Office, will, it is con-
1idently believed. continue and extend his
policy, and retire at the end of two years
with reputation equally as good.
, 1880-12-05

THE monthly report OF the Secretary of
the Treasury states that at the close Of No
sember there were outstanding silver Ger
ddcates to the sum OF Ss5.oT,ooSo; on the 1st
Of November there were silver dollars num-
berlng 25,s43, e9l in circulation; the whole
silver coinage up to Nov. was ST., ST. 75o.
Allowing s., 600 for the coinage in No
Semoer. this would show that over SGo, &C.,
wv OF silver has passed out Of the hands Of
Qe Treasury into the hands OF the peopie.
, 1880-12-05

LAST spring, before the Erie Canal opened,
the rate for wheat from Buffalo to New
York was II cents, and for corn 111x cents.
From March . to Nov. oo-the period of
canal navisation-railroad frelghts were
nine cents on wheat and eight and I: half on
corn Nov. - they advanced to lok on
wheat and 10 On corn. Further argument
ought not to be needed to demonstrate tho
utility Of the Erie Canal
, 1880-12-05

IT is notable that the amount OF SILK ex-
ported from France to this country has fallen
of about one-third recently. This IS prooa-
bly, owing to the fact that the siik-niann-
facturers of New Jersey and other places are
able to supply most Of tile silk used III the
United States. The discovery that silk
worms can live on other leaves than those OF
the 1nulberry-tree will probably lead to the
growth Of the silk manufacture in this conn-
try until there shall be no occasion for i'm
pnrf{ru any
, 1880-12-05

Mrs. CHH1sTIASCY's friends are not salts.
fed with her vindication from the charges
brought against her by her husband. They
are determined, if possible, to have the par
ties who conspired to ruin her character as
modest and yirtuous woman discovered
and punished. Most persons will hope that
they may succeed. The history Of the case
is BY no means creditabIe to the ex-senator
and his immediate personal friends.
, 1880-12-05

Cawtholic Wings among the priesthood. s'As
sober us Judge" would bo sarcasm when
applied to him. Justice Barry was the law
adviser Of the Grown during the Fenian
trials, and lost his seat in Parliament on ac-
count Of the bitterness with which he con-
ductel the prosecutions.
Justice O'Irien is Protestant, and the
only fair-lnin0ed man and the only lawyer
on the Queens Bench. He Is very old now,
and Ills resignation is anxlously expected by
several placc-lunting barristers In Dublin.
The decision on the application for post
ponemcnt is bad enough and absurd enough.
but the decision on tho application of the i'll
dicted for an attachment against the Tory
organ, the Euc7ling Mail, for publishing
articles prejudacial to them is just as absurd.
The attachment is denied, yet the pEoprietors
and editors OF the Muil are told that they
must not write articles of the same character
as those complained Of between now aud the
time when the trials commence. Now, the
trials were pending when the articles COM
planned Of we1e written; II they were fair
comments, why should they be- thus con-
demned; and It they we're not fair comments,
why should ths publishers be not punished?
But anything may be expected from Judges
who owe their elevation to the peculiar cir
cumstanccs attending tie appointment Of
Judges III lrelsnd. It would Seem as if 1t
were foolish fDr the prosecuted to spend
any more money in their defense. Judge
May has conGb.nned them already III his
judicial stumpspc If the Crown lawyers
call pack The jury US etfectually as the Bench
has been packed tile indicted will undopbt-
edly be convicted.
, 1880-12-05
TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES.

1rr CHICAGO 4R7HC>E has established branch
Offices for the receipt Of subscriptions and aaserso
rnentz us follows:
NEW YOKK-Ioou = Tribune Building. T. T. NC
FADDKS, Manager
GLASGOW, scouand-Al1an's American News
Agency, 81 Henneld-st
LONDON, EnR.-Amercan Exchange, ~ ouAo'.
HENRY +. G1I1Ic. Agent
nA5HlSEIUS. u. C-lT9 street
, 1880-12-05

leaving not over sl5, ,ooo, 900 of silver now in
the Treasury waiting distribution The old
and oft-rcpeated story that no ono would
take silver is now exploded; sixty out OF
seyenty-hye millions are already in cl1cu4a-
, 1880-12-05

THR French Government has decided to
sell the crown jewels and to devote the pro-
ceeds to the improvement Of the National
Museum. The Ministers say that the jewels
have no historic value, at which statement
the Bonapartists and Orleanists must stand
aghast! The Republicans are determined to
remove Us far as possible all the insignia and
trapplngs of the Empire and the Kingdom.
, 1880-12-05

JUDGE GRESHAM, Of indianapolis, has
written to Gen. Chapman, State Senator
and one Of his warm supporters, that he will
not be candidate for Senator McDonald's
seat Judge Gresham was one of the most
formidable competitors Of Gen. Harrison for
the place, and his withdrawal strengthens
the lat1ers position.
, 1880-12-05

VESSELS arriving at European ports from
This country, md at our ports from Europe.
report having encountered very stormy
weather. Many Of them have been DELAYED
over week. and have suffered the loss Of a
portion Of their machinery. The vessels Ell
gagged in the transatlantic cattle trade have
lost much Of their cargces- 1t would seem
that shipping cattle to Europe at this season
of the year would hardly pay
, 1880-12-05

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Clan Matter.
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