The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-29
Late News Notes.

Ashland College has 125 students.
Berea has a Musical Union of fifty
members.
The present is declared to be the
mildest winter for over a quarter of q
century.
A florist of Meadville, Pa, died last
Sunday from effects of poison from
handling artificial flowers.
Miss Lille Darsr was made engross-
ing clerk of the Ohio Senate, by a
unanimous vote.
Mrs. Tennyson composed the music
for the song which her husband has
written for the March number Of the
st. Nicholas.
The Cincinnati Commercial says:
eff there is any person in this country
who Is not one Of the Springer Heirs
he will please hold up his hand.
Fifty thousand copies of "Self Help"
by Samuel Smiles. have been sold in
Italy, and the king has sent a valuable
decoration to the author as testimo-
NAL Of his appreciation of this book.
The public expense Of lighting New
York City with gas in 1879, was $4s2,-
912.65. There are s61 miles of gss
mains In the city, and it costs $50, 1000
less now to light the city than it did in
1864.
Mrs. Lorne was accompanied to
Liverpool by her three brothers, the
Prince of Wales, tho Duke of Edin-
burgh and the Dake of Conneaught,
and is well on her way home to Cam
ada.
The Cleveland Board of Trade will
strenously oppose the bridging of the
Detroit River, believing it will greatly
damage navigation and all the marine
interests connected with the chain of
lakes.
The grain and horse barns Of j. T.
Honghton, Elyria, burned Sunday
\ evening. Eighteen horses were res
cued; everything else consumed ;
cause of fire unknown; no insurance ;
loss 81, 200.
Pixies Opera House, Cincinnati, has
been leased for the use of the Methodist
General Conference to be held in that
city In May. Delegates will be present
from all parts of this coun try and from
Europe, Asia and Africa.
Capt. A. E. Lee, of Delaware, Ohio,
who has q consulship in Germany,
lately delivered an address in German
before Literary Society, upon "The
Literature of Germany" which was
highly complimented by the press Of
that country.
The Joint Commission from the
Methodist Conferences of the State,
which met in Columbus Tuesday to de-
termine Conference boundaries, were
unable to agree upon any plan and
referred 1t back to the several Confer
ences for such action as they may deem
expedient.
The Cleveland Leader says that w.
A. Ingham, while in Rome recently
found in the excavations of the Palace
| of the Caesars, marble walls of the
Pedagogium school room marked all
over with the stylus, the pen of that
day, evidently done by the school boy
of that ancient period.
| The Hudson Enterprise notices the
death of Or. A. E. Berbower, Mrs. II.
B. Fester and Mrs. VIM. Pettingill.
Rev. Geo. Darling and wife, who form.
erly lived there, have recently celebra.
ted their silver wedding, on which occa-
sion the husband took from his wife's
hand the wedding ring, replacing II
with a new one and loaf of the origi-
nal wedding cake was cut and a portion
of 1t served, the remainder being saved
for the wedding of the oldest daughter,
The ''boom' has reached real estate
The clerks in the Registers and Audi.
tors offices say that there are more
deeds coming in for record for the last
four weeks than in any three or four
months. The real estate agents report
but little exchanging of property be.
ing made, while the number Of outside
lots and acre property suitable fol
allotments that are sold for cash /:
steadily increasing. -lCleveland Her
aid.
The whole number of cheese made
by Messrs. Straight 81 Son at theiI
thirteen cheese factories foots up 80
1873, the total weight of which wal
1,752, ,63S pounds. The total weight O.
creamery butter manufactured wal
600 pounds. For the first tim'
since they have been in business they
are without a single cheese on thei
shelves during the winter.-Hudsor
Enterprise.