The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-07-07
Late News Items.

More than A ,496 post-offices in the United
States
The public debt statement shows a reduc-
tion of $11, 100000.
James G. Blaine, Secretary of State, is Sc
lected as orator for next year by the Dicken-
son College societies.
Prof. wilker, of the German Wallace Col
lege, Berea, was married the 9TH of June to
Miss Carrie Shields of Lansing, Mich.
The receipts Of internal revenue for the
year ending July so, 'Sl prove to be within
Sl0O, 900 Of the estimate made by Gen. Raum
at the opening of the gear. His figures were
sl35 100000.
Akron is SO well pleased with the electric
light that the council has ordered the com
mittee to negotiate with the Brush Light Co.
for the erection of two or three more masts
in different parts of the city.
The coinage at the mint in Philadelphia
for the year ending with this month was
81, ,TS6,41l pieces, value $59yS40, ,35Oi total
gold 1915 926 pieces, value S49, ,SO9, ga total
silver, 9, ia, $40 pieces, value Ss,l25,soo.
Wv. Rood has been reelected principal,
of the Akron High Scho ol, central building
for. the coming school year at salary OF
in Wellington with his father-in-law, Mr.. w.
w. Wells. -ra
President Bartlett OF Dartmouth College,
In an address TO the alumni, stated that
during his administration of four years
$4,000 in clear cash had been paid into the
treasury, and for the first time in twenty
three years the college was self-supporting.
Granville College has raised $96. 900 upon
the 100000 to be added to tine endowment
fund. When $1,000 additional shall have
been obtained the college can claim the
$500, 900 offered by Mr.. Rockefeller OF Cleve-
land, which will raise the present endowment
to $5O00O0.
John G. SAKE the humorous poet, who was
once in the Wellington lecture course has
become such e confirmed hypochondrial that
not a hopeless invalid. The death OF his
wife and more recently of his daughter also
has unsettled his nervous system and to some
extent his reason.
We are in receipt of the Commencement
Annual OF Oberlin College, a sixteen-page
paper containing an account of the entire
proceedings OF commencement week, with an
abstract OF the essays and addresses of the
different exhibitions and graduating exer-
cises of the members of the different classes,
except the classical. 1t is a valuable paper
and one that will be highly priced by the
students and their friends.
The Republican says of the new Court
house "that the sum already authorized by
law to be expended IN its construction, to
wilt sos 600, win be sufficient TO complete
the entire structure, and that no further
funds will be asked for. 1t will be COM
pleted by the first Of September, and every
man in the county will be proud of it,
Work has been commenced on the building
for the boiler to provide the steam for heat
ing the court house.
John r. Buchtel, the founder of the college
by his name in Akron, at the last meeting OF
the board of trustees gave the college prop
erty and stocks in manufacturing establish
ments amounting in value to $75, 900. The
gift was without conditions and was to pro
vide in part permanent fund which should
yield an annual income Of $1,000, the
amount of the annual deficiency. This makes
total of about $3.50 he has given to that
institution. Would that more OF our colleges
had such practical friends.
And now Toledo is after the W. s. L. E. R
r. telegram to the Cincinnati Gazette
June so, says, "a large meeting of leading
citizens was held for the purpose of raisinl
| local subscription for the w. 81 L. E. r. r
which Is to be brought into the city from
Norwalk. A subscription of 100000 is to b.
made and the right-of-way obtained alon!
the abandoned canal bed to the heart of tn
city" So the road, which was to have termi
mated at Milan, afterward at Sandusky, thel
at Fremont, Is now going to Toledo, an,
how much farther it may go no one can tell
1t may finally get to be qnite an important
| road.