The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-11
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
NKw YORK, July, 1881.

NEw YORK, July, 1881.
To the Editor OF the ESTxRPKIsE-
Following up the example of Guiteau
I hear of an attempt made to shoot
Gov. Cornell by a crazy blacksmith. He
appeared at the capitol at Albany with
an old shotgun in his hand and was
about to enter the building when he was
stopped by the superintendent, to whom
he said he was the Adjutant-General of
the State and was commissioned by the
highest power on earth to shoot the
Governor. A struggle ensued for the
possession of the gun, which would not
have been of much use to the would-be
assassin, for it was found to be unload
ed and generally out Of order. And
this is not all, for this morning news
comes of an attempt on the lite of Gov.
Pillsbury, of Minnesota, by wealthy
contractor made insane from Guiteau's
act. When is this. sort of business to
cease?
The railroads are still cutting rates
and now adopt the rebate system, under
which you buy ticket giving the reg
ular full fare, and at the point of desti-
nation the company repay the difference
between the full and reduced rate of
fare. This is done to prevent people
from buying ticket to Chicago, for in
stance, when they are only going TO
Buffalo, to which latter place the reg,
ular fare Is more than the reduced rate
to the former place. A gentleman
bought one of these reduced rate tickets
the other day, before the rebate system
was adopted, for Cincinnati, and was
going only to Rochester, N. Y. He sent
his baggage to the depot and had 1t
checked, as he supposed, for Rochester,
and on arriving there he found that it
had gone on to Cincinnati. The cheap
ticket in this case was not so cheap after
all, as he had to pay the expressage on
the baggage for its return.
At q well-known depot for books and
papers, noticed, the other morning,
stupendous Iile of Scribner's mid
summer number. In the evening the
pile had disappeared. The next day 1t
was the same, and the next. And no
wonder. The magazine has surpassed
itself. Nothing more beautiful was ever
printed. The reading mltter, Jas usual.
under the fastidious eye of DIR. Holland,
is brilliant, crisp, refined, while the
illustrations are simply exquisite. The
topics treated are all interesting, and
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certainly put forth their best efforts. 1t
is a liberal education to read Scribner's.
No home should be without the fresh
numbers and no library is complete
without the bound volumes.
The Society for the Prevention of cru
city to children have an important pro-
secltion on hand, and one that deserves
more than ordinary notice. A brutal
waiter at Delmonico's, named Eissner,
has an eleven year old son, whom the
father thinks be can bring up better
with the use of club than by any other
and more human methods. The boys
screams the other day when his father
was fiogging him attracted the attention
of the neighbors, one or two of whom
rushed to the rescue of the boy and
begged the father to stop his brutal
work, but it was no use, and being
women they were powerless to compel
him. Finally the police were called in,
the boy released from the ropes by
which he had been tied. so that the
punishment might be more severe, and
the brutal father borne off to police
court, where, in default of bail, he was
locked up. He VIII be indicted by the
Grand Jury and tried, when 1 trust
the full measure of the penalty win be
dealt out to him.
It is rumored that Vanderbilt, the
railroad king whose magnificent new
palace on Fifth avenue is nearly COM
pleted, intends to purchase the lot on
the other side of the avenue just oppo-
site, and on which stands the Roman
Catholic Orphan Asylum, for the purpose
of making it an extensive garden for his
own private use. The price said to have
been offered for the property is half a
million dollars pretty large amount
to pay for flower garden, but as his in
come for ouly four weeks will pay for it,
it doesn't seem so very extravagant after
all. RADx.