The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-17

traord.nary hoof-like callousness on the
thumbs of the men who .kneaded. sAs
dough, by hard manual labor, FOR the
officers tables, and said something to
the effect that it was lucky people gener-
ally didn't know too much about baking,
when the sergeant in charge observed,
"Oh !that's nothing, sir; they knead
the bread for the men with their feet,
and begorra, they don't wash ZEN, ,ayther
the dhirty bastes."
The exodus OF Brooklyn clergyman
continues. Bishop Paddock starts imme.
diately for his distant diocese Of WASH
ington territory, and the rector of a
closely contiguous parish who shrewdly
suspected to have been party to some put
up job to procure the exile of this extra
ordinary and irreproachable ecelesiastic,
a very active and prominent person, has
very suddenly and unaccountably ac-
cepted call to Washington. People say
that he has been scared off by the elo-
quence and power of Bishop Paddock 's
successor, the Rev. DIR. Brown from
Cleveland, a most noble looking man
with an eloquence that has startled
people. Your RApIx is very much mis-
taken if Beecher hasn't at last found
some one to match him with the gift OF
tongue. DIR. Brown was an army chap
lain. People are raving about him
already. Meantime, the kev. C.. Hall. a
great gun among the Masons, has been
appointed chaplain of the 23i, in success
sion to the surpliced hero who goes to
Washington. A clergyman with sword
is a funny sight. -... .......
A sad, though unhappily not by any
means an unsual death, has given me
the text for a brief but pointed lecture
on one great vice Of the good American
workingmen-I mean seDseless bra.
vado. A gang of workmen were pro.
ceeding early In the NOR orning to fact.
ory on the Long Island Railroad, ant
took the track because that was the bes
part of the road. A train came along
with its bell changing and whistle inces
sanity shrieking. As ir neared eacf
group the men stepped off leisnrely
each trying to looked more unconcernet
than his neighbor. One poor fellow wa'
| just little too lale, turned carlessly
with joke, intending to step off, saw
the locomotive close on him and wa;
paralyzed with horror. he had time
not much, but time-to get off, but
couldn't stir. The fragments were taker
L ho MI ~ ~bar ha fr,1 &c. T.
ed. His poor wife followed gsily few
| minutes afterward with his breakfast
As she heard The awful news and realiz
ed the desolation which enveloped her
self and four orphans, she went ma,
and tried TO commit suicide. Sucl
| fooli-hness! 1t is seen every day. NfeI
jump on and of cars where a mis-steI
means mangling, almost worse. 1
street is being paved, the laborers viii
not bulge till horse car is nearly OIL
them, and then grudgingly give just al
little room as possible. Your RADIl
served in the war. and isn't particularly
afraid of being called a coward, and
| beg leave to rememl er that RApIx i
particularly careful of his precious per
son in such contingencies and never rum
| any needless risks-not il he knows it
Few old soldiers do. And il the exam
pie of veterans were followed in thi.
respect there would be great deal less
misery in the world. The thing makes
me sad, and 1 have filled my weekly
quota OF paper, SO will subside. RADIx