The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-18
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign New.
Domestic.

Domestic.
TIE English pedestrian Rowen ar
rived at New York from Liverpool on the
10th.
The members of the Treasury Cattle
Commission met at Washington on the 10th.
They spent the day In an informal discussion
with Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury
French, in relation to the scope Of their duties
the shipment of cattle to England free from
pleuro-pneumouia, and with such assurance
OF their freedom as will cause England to do
away with her regulations compelling the
butchering of cattle within q short time after
being landed. The Commissioners will make
such formal organization as may be deemed
necessary TO render their labors most efficient
= GROVE, the manufacturer of the in
fernal machines about which so much has
been said, makes the statement that the en-
tire lot cost Just SO, and that the scheme Of
sending them to England was q put up job,
by which member OF the United lrishmen's
Society secured a reward of 0,O0o, he having
notified the British Consul in New York of
their shipment. The $1,000 obtained from
the British Government has gone into the
! Irish fund to be used against Great Britain.
The Raleigh IN. CO. Observer, on the
10th, reported official returns from seventy
three counties in the State, giving 9s, ,965 ma
jority against Prohibition. Twenty-three
A FIRE at Trafalgar, Ind, on the
10th, burned out fourteen business houses,
leaving only three in the town untouched.
APPEALs are being made from settlers
along the Missouri to send more troops TO
Forts Yates and Lincoln, as It is admitted By
officers in command at Yates that the force
is wholly inadequate to squelch an outbreak
should one occur.
GEORGE II. LONG and Charles p.
Howard, President and Secretary Of the ALI
anee Insurance Company Of Boston, were ar
rested on the 10th and admitted to 5000 bail
each, on charge of eufSeZzlement ..
SENIOR MAKING JEREG, Envoy Extra
ordinary and Mioister Plenipotentiary from
Niearagua to the United States, died at
Washington on the 11th, aged sixty-four.
Hon. o. II. BROWNING, of Quincy,
III, died on the 11th. He was appointed
Secretary of the Interior by President John
son, and also acted as Attorney general.
The New Hampshire House of Repre-
sentatives, on the IIth, by vote OF one hun
dred and sixty-nine TO eight, indefinitely post
poned the bill to establish'a general railroad
law. A strong lobby from all railroad centers
was present and worked against the bill.
A REUNION of the ex-Confederates
living in louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi
and Texas was held ut Dallas, Texas, on the
11th and 18th. ~
TIE Coalitionist wing of the Virginia
Republicans in convention at Richmond on
the 11th indorsed the regular Readjuster
platform. The Straightout wing decided not
70 make any nominations, as they deemed 1t
unanimity to hold fast to the principles of
the Republican party, ignoring any and all
propositions for the rcadjustment of debt,
either National or State. The State Central
Committee was instructed to issue an address
setting forth the actions and principles OF the
Convention A
ALL advices in regard to the Presi-
dents condition on the 11th continued reas-
suring.
OF Pennsylvania, was reported seriously Ill on
the 11th.
GENERAL GRANT has bought large
and very handsome house in New York City.
The price paid was $95,00O. 1t is understood
the General proposes to make that city his
future home.
The Perry House, Beach Haven, N.
J., was destroyed by fire on the 1lth. The
guests lost all their property.
THE Civil Service Reform Association
of the United States met in Newport, r. l.,
on the 11th, George William Curtis, OF New
York, Chairman. Upon taking the Chair Mr.
Curtis said this was the first National confer
ence ever called on the subject OF civil service
reform.
Mrs. FILLMORE, relict of President
Fillmore, died at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 11th,
aged seyenty-one. A.'i asa-
AT Rochester, N. Y, on the 11th,
Maud 8. lowered her record to 2:1OIl.
Two gendarmes from Italy, who ar
rived at New York City on the 18th for the
purpose of identifying the italian bandit Es-
posito, went TO Ludlow street Jail and with
out hesitation picked out the prisoner from q
line oftwenty-four others in which he was
placed. -
TIE excitement of the carbonate dis
coveries nine miles from Deedwood -contin-
ues. A new town has sprung up called West
Virginia.
The Nebraska Supreme Court rem
dered q decision on the 18th that the high
license liquor law is constitutional In every
particular. 1t compels saloon keepers to pay
81, 900 license, to give bonds in the sum of
5000, etc, in cities of over 10000 people,
SEQ. $50 IN eiu'' Oh 0noef iOOOV 'n' incense Is
SPOTTED TAIL was fifty-three years
old when assassinated by Crow Dog.
STEUBEN BUTLER, aged ninety-two
years, died at wflksbarre, Pa, on the 18th
He was the son OF Colonel Zebulon Butler,
who commanded the settlers at the massacre
the Wyoming Herald, the first paper estab-
hshed in Luzerne County, In 1918.
A THREsHING-MACHINE engine ex-
ploded five miles east Of Elmore, Ohio, on
the 18th, killing two men and boy.
The Atlantic FIGURING Mill at st.
Louis was struck by lightning on the night of
the 12th and burned to the ground. About
seventy men were employed in the mill, all
OF whom escaped, but several were very bad
ly burned. Loss, $l4o, 900.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says the
rumors Of prospective outbreak among the
Navajo Indians in New Mexico are treated by
the chief officials OF the Indian Bureau as
sheer nonsense and sensational in the highest
degree. They are attributed to dishonest
traders, who are anxious 70 nave the agent
their fraudulent designs upon the poor In
dians.
ACCORDING to reports furnished to
the Agricultural Department the wheat crop
promises to be much less this year than last.
Corn may come out all right. The cotton
worm has not yet done much injury, and
favorable showing is expected in that crop.
The shortage in wheat is estimated at about
125, 900 900 bushels.
The War Department received tel
egram from the commandant at Fort Omaha,
Neb.. on the 18th, saying that Crow Dog,
murderer OF Spotted Tail, and Black Crow,
supposed accessory, were both under guard.
No trouble is apprehended.
TIE Treasury Department- on the
18th, ordered the transfer Of s4,5l6, SOC in gold
bullion from the New York Assay Office to
the Philadelphia Mint, for collage into eagles
and half eagles.
PROFESSOR STONE, of the Cincinnati
Observatory, says the comet now visible in the
northwestern heavens will be at its brightest