The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-02-17
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Mrs. Ellyson, Of Atwater, died last week
aged 10 years. -.-
The measles are very prevalent In town
along the lake shore.
J. r. Mailer. aged 65, one Of wooster's ole
citizens died of paralysis Monday.
C. n. Wood, of Medina, is said to be Civ
ing away cigars-something sbout 'som'
boy or other"
Tue Baroness Burdett-Coutts has finally
led her young man, Ashmead Bartlett, TO the
altar.
The Michigan avenue Baptist church
Chicago, costing s12l 900 was gutted by hrs
Saturday night.
The new parsonage Of the Methodist
church In Medina is now occupied by the
pastor and family.
One man alone in Ireland owps 10000
acres Of land and. there are three who own
100, 900 acres apiece.
The University Of Michigsn has at present
In actual attendance 1 SIT students, the most
It eyer had at one time.
Rublin's mill safe In Elyria, was blown
open soon after midnight Friday morning,
and 60 cents secured.
Washington suffered from the food.
Youpgstowns and Massllon were deluged by
a rise in the Mahoning last week.
Elizabeth Miller. of smithville, dropped
dead while In the act of getting into buggy
to come to Wooster Monday morning.
]. C Bush, Of NorwaIk, had . desperate
encounter with q burglar in his house the
other night but held him until assistance
came.
Aworkmsu lighted match to ind leak
in the gas works ut Bucyrus Saturday. The
cost to the company was from 5000 to
5000.
Akron Congregational Church sustained q
5000 damage by fre, starting from some
defect about the furnace hues, Saturday
night.
$4,000 in silver bricks were lately sent
from Boston to the New Orleans Mint, each
brick. weighing between l.7oo and 1Isoo
ounces.
Judge Humphreyville, of Medina, died
without any symptoms of illness while on q
business errand in the Gazette ofiice Feb.
4th. He was TS years Of age.
Some miners carried . naked lamp into .
coal bank near New Lisbon Feb. 10th. An
explosion of fre-damp followed, and several
dead men have been taken out.
Geo. Freeman, OF Painesville, who plead
guilty of Indictment for assault and battery
in July last, was Feb. 1lth sentenced to pay
q fine OF $50. and the costs OF prosecu.
ton, $175.
The New Orleans Picayune says that the
average price OF sugar in the last four years
has been $7.73 per hundred. In 1880 1t
aver aged 71fc. per pound and promises to be
no less this year.
The wife of Judge Kellogg, Of Kansas, q
lady of thirty years, has lately been admitted
to practice In the Supreme court Of that
State. She was an Ohio girl and graduated
at the Beaver Female College, Pa
CT. Mattesou, Of Litchneld, who has lived
in Norwslk the last two years, being connect
ed with the water cure there, died Feb 4tb,
leaving q wife and four children. HIS health
had been declining several years.
Peter Cooper was 90 years old Saturday.
He gave his check for $4,000 to the Trustees
of Cooper Union, also presented $4,000 to-
gether with his receipt in full for $4,000 ex-
pended the last year on building.
The Railroad bridge near Bakers quarry,
Berea, was carried away by the ice in the
late Hood, and the one near Noke's coal yard
was also swept from its position, though ef-
forts were make to avert such Q disaster.
The intense and long continued cold has
been very severe on stock, which In the West
and South was in many places unsheltered
and SO many cattle have perished that scar
city Of dairy products is anticipated the com.
ing season.
Jan. cath there was fall Of six inches of
snow in New Orleans. The like occurred
before in 1867 and In ls52, ana very slight
snows had fallen there in Other years, but
not enough to repsint the whole city In
heecy white.
Last Saturday the dwelling and household
effects of Mr.. Kline, near Kent, burned, aud
the owner, seventy years Of age perished In
the flames. Mrs. Kline escaped SO badly
burned that she died six hours after. The
smoke-house took fire and the house from
that.
Hon. Fernando Wood died at Hot Springs
Arkansas, at nine o'clock Sunday evening
Feb. 18th; his disease being combination
of gout and rheumatism. He had for some
time been in Q helpless condition. His son,
brother and sister accompanied the remains
to the east. His age was sixty nine ycars.
Toledo has experienced the most disas'
trous flood known in her history. The water
was IL feet higher than was common, and
the excess was unmanageable and destruct'
I've in the extreme. The Union Depot had
10 feet of water In Saturday and Sunday, and
passengers were taken out from the trains In
boats. At least 100000 damage es-
timated.
Miss Alcott, the author Of "Little Women"
published her frat volume twenty-six years
ago, though her "Hospital Sketches" pub.
lished seventeen years ago was her intro.
duction to the general public, and only in
the last twelve years can her literary career
be said to have been one of marked success
in which period 1t is declared that her books
have been more widely read than all the
famous Concord authors together.