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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
he Didn't ssBunko.n

81 The buHkor men who sat down in De-
treit six weeks ago to make their pile
have had hard time of it, and must be
about ready to leave. Fact Is, the game
is too old to work ON our citizens, and
strangers who reach here are generally
well posted on all sorts of games to de-
ceive. The other day there was a dread
fully innocent looking farmer doing q
little trading at q Woodward Avenue
harness store, when one of the bunko
steerers got after him for q sheephead.
Alter GLOWING the stranger long enough
to learn his name and place ofresidence,
he suddenly confronted him on the cor
ner with: s5-
"Hello, Mr.. Smith. Well, weni"
"You've got the start of me-" said
the old man, as he looked bunko over.
s.But know you. You liyeNjust out
side the corporation limits of Blankyille,
and have got one of the best farms in
the county" @
sYes, that's so, and who be you?''
"I'm brother of the Postmaster.
"I Is that so f''
"Yes, and I've seen you IN the Post
Office a hundred times. How are all the
follzsP''
'sAn well, believe" a .r
bunko was, but his own son was Post
master at Blankville. Nevertheless he
asked: t
ssSeen your brother lately?''
ssNot for three months, but I'm COM
ing up there next week"
"Sure you've seen my farm, are
youp" 5a
s,SureP Say, didn't, you, miss some
early pears one night last fallP'
"Yes.n
"Well, I-hal hal-I'ma great lover
OF early pears, and I was there about
that time" G
"Say, I'd like to speak to you," said
the farmer as he looked up and down
the street. 9 hza
aCertainly. Then wen have q glass
of beer together and III show you
around town."
The two walked up Congress Street
TO Bates, and halfway down Bates to
Larned, and then the farmer reached
for the collar of the bunke chap and
said: u
dstwhen found them pears gone
swore I'd lick the thief If / had to live 9
hundred years to do iti''
".But Ill"
ssStole my pears, did you-robbed
my pet trees, eh P'' growled the farmer
rs he slammed the young man around.
aNoi no never-r'
"Lying won't help you biti'' NUT
tered the old man, as he put on steam
and cracked the hoy,s heels together,
slammed him against brick wall and
dung ehin on q snow-heap with only
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
sids.shows in oueen Anne's Time.

| We may smile at the following list Of
wild beasts on show, but we must
feco1lect that it is not so very long since
We were without geological gardens, and
the only wild animals to be seen were
the lions, etc., in the Tower, the col
lection in Exeter Change, and the trav-
cling menageries, which, indeed, are
even now the only means by which the
larger proportion of people in this couri-
Try, can have practical illustration OF
natural history. First let us take Sc The
Eartary, and her young one; they are
headed like a horse, ey'd like an OK,
nos'd like deer, cloven-hpt like hare,
also neck'd like swan, tail'd like q
mule, and cloven-footed like cow
s The noble peccary which is very much
admir'd by the learned. The noble
Jack Call, the lions provider, which
hunts in the forest for the lions prey.
A small Egyptian panther spotted like q
leopard. A strange monstrous creature,
brought from the coast of Brazil, having
o head like a child, legs and arms very
wonderful, with a long tail like SER
pent, wherewith he feeds himself as an
elephant doth with his trunk" 1.-TWO
wood monsters from the East Indies,
male and female, being the admirablest
creatures that ever was seen in the king
dom. Also, little marmoset from the
East Indies, which, by a great deal of
pains, is now brought to that perfection
that no creature of his kind ever per-
formed the like; he exercises by the
word of command; he dances the
Cheshire Rounds; he also dances with
two naked swords, and performs several
other pretty fancies. Likewise a noble
civet cat from Guinny, which is admired
for its beauty and that Incompatible
scent which perfumes the whole place.
Also mutosh from Rushy, being very
wonderfully marked. Also q helliscope
from Argier, being the beautifnlest crea-
ture in all the world; specked like .
leopard.o A monkey is described as q
wild hairy man from Bengal; it danced
on a rope, drank q glass of ale, and
/" smoaks a pipe of tobacco as wen as
any Christian This noble creature
fings a strapader,'' etc. There was
also wonderful animal, the "man
teger, lately ought from the East
Indies, the like never seen before in
England, it being of seven several colorss
from the head downwards resembling q
man, its fore parts clean and his hinder
parts all hairy; having long head of
hair, and teeth two or three inches long;
takes glass of ale in his hand like
Christian, and drinks it." There was q
leopard, ga beast of excellent beauty,
presented to an English merchant In
Turkey, by the King of the Arabs, as 3
particular mark of favor for eminent
services performed, who for the main
| tenance of it in its voyage from Aleppo,
gave 100 of the best and fattest fowls. -
All the Year Roatnd.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04

breath enough left In his body to agttate
d feather, while his store clothes were .
sad sight to see.
"He stole my airly pears last fall" }"
explained the old man as several per-
sons came running up, /" and if !
haven't got the worth of 'em back III
have to wait till some other time. He'll
dome to directly, and if he feels like
talkin' he'll give you all the little par
ticHlars." o.f e.te #s-.t g.. -.r,--u
But when bunko was helped to his
feet he wouldn't say word, and was In
ouch q hurry to get somewhere that he
wouldn't stop to dig the snow out of his
back hair.-Detroit Free Press.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
The Fashionable Buggy.

The vehicle in vogue at Long Branch
this year Is a sort of hardwood cart,
made of cedar apparently, though pos
sibly of ash, running low TO the ground,
and having the shafts bowled upward
to reach the middle OF the horse, while
the wheel Is covered with a bent staye
of the same wood. These carts hold
two persons, and another person can
sit in the rear, with his legs hanging
down. They are useful to go marketing
with, but to my mind are hideously
ugly. They look like butchers cart
or an old cottage bedstead on wheels.
Yet 1t is said they cost s100.-Gath.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04

The new talking machine in London
utters distinct sounds. 1t is worked by
Keys like musical instrument. A bel
lows made of wood and india rubber
serves for lungs; small wind d-mill is
placed in front of the bellows 20 give
.trilling sounds the larynx is made of a
single membrane of hippopotamus hide
and india rubber, and with two lips
and a tongue ann an India rubber nose
complete the organs of the apparatus.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04

Singularly enough, the Ohio Wesley
an University furnished all three of the
competitors for the Attorney-General-
ship nomination at the recent Demo-
cratic State Convention. f. c. Dough-
the class of 10; L. N. Abernethy was of
the class of '66, and A. B. Barrick of
class of '65.-Akron Beacon.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
Training Circus Elephants.

SHOW do you train elephants to do
their funny business, standing on their
heads and all that sort of thing ?p a New
Haven reporter queried.
ssUse the mechanic,' explained Mr..
Hutchinson. '.'We put a band about
the hind legs of an elephant when we
want to teach him to stand on his head.
Then. we put pillow under his head.
At The other end of the tackle is another
elephant, and when the word of COM
mand is given off goes the elephant on
the outside of the ring, and the fellow
on the inside is obliged to stand on his
head, whether he will or no. .ts1T This b
repeated until finally the beast knows
what's wanted, and then at the word Of
command up he goes on his head. And
it's so with all other tricks. It's per.
sistency that does it,
He explained further that when once
they had received Instructions and were
chained back to their places they would
work at their tricks apparently trying
to perfect themselves in them. It is, Mr..
Hutchinson says, much more amusing to
see them then than at any other time.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04

The .'expiatory" church. to be
built on the spot where the late En-
peror was slain. is to be raised by sub
scriptions from the whole empire. st.
Petersburg alone has paid near .S5o,-
600. ..#.s.4 -
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04

Concerning "applied science" I"
Prof. Huxley recently remarked: "I
often wish that this phrase had never
been invented, for it suggests that there
is sort of scientific knowledge of direct
practical use which can be studied apart
from another sort of scientific knowl-
edge which is of no practical utility, and
which Is termed "pure science" But
there Is no more complete falacy than
this. What people call applied science
is nothing but the application of pure
science 10 particular classes Of
problems"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04

"A Partisan paper asserts that Amer
lean ladies are queens of the skating
club; that no French woman can equal
them in grace and agility.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
What the Insurance Agents Of Weiling-
ton return for Taxation.

From the books of the county auditor,
we take the following statement Of re-
turns for the year closing May /, 1881
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04

" Hotel proprietors generally are
warning against the reception of pat,
rons' pet dogs. Two houses at Cape
May and one at Long Branch prohibit
the admission OF dogs under any cir
cumstances whatever.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04

The Marquis of Lorne, if rumor Is,
10 be believed, is not likely to hold his
position longer than his term of Office,
which expires in December of next year.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04

Next to n clear conscience for solid
comfort, give us an easy boot. VI
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04

"A lady in Taunton, Mass, has re-
ceived from Europe bouquet contain
ing, it is claimed. clover from George
Elliot's grave, q violet from Melrose
Abbey. q buttercup from De Quincey's
grave, u sprig of ivy from Walter SCOTS s
old home at Abbotsford, and blueben
from the grave of Helen Macgregor,
near Loeb Lomond.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-08-04
Nehikee, N0Takee

If you want your Shirts, Collars, and
Cuffs Laundried in fine style, call on F.
G. Leach, agent for the Knisley Shirt
co. 50
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Prospect of IA COnvocatiom of Deputie
Lower Duty on American Machinery i'm
France.
Mr.. Gladstone Moves to Provide Mon.
ument to BeacOnsfieId.

LONDON, May o. At the Conservative
peers meeting, to-day the Duke of Richmond
proposed motion that the Marquis of Sails
bury shall lead the party in the House of
Lords, and it was carried unanimously.
In the Commons. Sir Henry Tyler gave
notice of an amendment to the Parliamentary
oath bill. He characteriZes Bradlaugh as a
notorious republican, publisher of profane
literature and an atheist
Mr.. Gladstone moved an address praving
the Crown to provide a monument in West
minister Abbey to Beaconsfield. He appealed
to the House not to make it the subject of
partisan discussion.
Mr.. Labouchre opposed the motion which
was adopted, yeas $50. nays 81.
In the House of Lords Earl Granville made
similar motion which was seconded by Mr.
Salisbury and was adopted without division
ST. PETERSBURG. May .. Neither General
Melikoff nor General Milertine will succeed
the Grand Duke Michael. A council will be
held Tuesday to give final shape to the re-
solutions establishing unity of the admins
tration. There is good ground to believe
convention of the deputies in some form will
shortly be decided on.
LONDON, May .. The Manchester Guard
ian's Paris special says the American
machinery which under the old tariff paid
from Is to So francs duty, now paws 6 francs.
the same as English machinery Large
quantities are waiting at Havre to be entered
under the new tariff.
CoNsTASTINoPLE, May .. The French
Ambassador here has handed the Turkish
officials note saying the dispatch of any
armed force to Tuns by Turkey will be re-
garded as casus belli.
PARIS, Nav o. duel impends between
NJ. Lepere, formerly minister of the interior
and NJ. Mascot, vice president of the council
general of the department of Bayonne.
kIErr, May .. The Jews in Podolia have
been maltreated. and troops have been sent
for their protection.
DURAN. May 9. Sir Hercules Robinson.
Governor of Cape Colony and member of the
Royal Commission, arrived at New Castle
last evening.
BoNA, May Q. Part of the French troops
at Bizerta will probably go to Djedeida. SIX
leagues from Tunis.
RoUMEL Souk. Nav O. Kroumiers finding
themselves nearly surrounded, evacuated
without fighting the important position of
Side Abdallah, which the French have occu-
pied. Its possession virtually decides the
campaign.
BuENos ArREs, May .. Congress opened
to-day. Gen. Raca, president of the confed-
Grafton, in his speech, strongly emphasized
the determination of the government TO
maintain peace at all costs. and to develope
the resources of the republic.
DURAN, May 3. The British residents in
Transvaal are leaving no stone unturned TO
upset settlement. There are exaggerated ac-
counts of both the Beers and natives, but
there is sufficient truth in them to give cause
for anxiety.
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wArERvLLE.

We understand that Mr.. o. ID. Seavey has
given ND the Elmwood, and it is at present
being run by Mr. Clark, who has been con-
nected with the house for SOME time.
The Unitarians were unable to have SER
vice on Sunday evening, on account OF the
illness of their pastor.
A team belonging to Mr.. A. 0. Smith, ran
away Sunday, in Fairfield. The carriage
was completely demolished. Messrs Jones
and HAYES. the occupants, were considerably
injured. Mr.. Jones having his left arm dislo
Gated.
Mr.. Robinson, recently employed in Clark
{ Harlow's drug store. left town Saturday,
rather unceremoniously. 1t seems that ne
did not care 10 be oyerhauled by the officers
of the law. He had been selling the ardent
pretty freely, hence his fear and trembling.
Sheriff Matthews seized small quantity
from this gentleman. Friday evening.
Lieut. Boutelle Moves of U. S. 5. Mime
sofa, with his family, is at home on visit to
his father.
Among the signs of increasing prosperity
in our town. is a stage line, which has been
established between here and Fairfield. by
II. L 1
makes several trips each day, with charge
of 81 cents for the round trip. This line
will be a great convenience to our people, es'
pecially those who are purchasing lumber IN
Fairfield.
Mr.. Joseph Lashus was hauled up before
Judge Smart, Monday, and fined 500 and
costs for selling rum. Not producing the
| funds to pay the fine he WAS committed to
the lookup.
| Hon. Joshua Nye was in town Monday.
| Col. Harrington of Fryeburg, State In
spector of Rife Practice, will visit the militia
| company here next Monday, and give the
men some instruction in rife practice.
| The sale of ti,kets for the Guv'nor, opened
at Percival's at O'Clock Monday, and are
selling well.
| The Saturday night train from Portland.
which was so convenient last season. rnn
on Saturday last for the first time.
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BELGRADE.

The pleasant weather of the past week has
been improved by the farmers of this vicin-
ity in doing their sowing, and in the absence
of any heavy rains this spring, the ground is
in a very favorable condition for farming
operations. The grass fields are looking remark
ably well, and as there has been no winter or
spring killing of the roots, the prospect OF
an excellent hay crop is very promising.
Many of the farmers in this town have con-
tracted with the corn canning factory, which
is in process of erection at West Waterville,
for the planting of sweet corn the present
season. As the establishment is to be a per-
manent thing, we have no doubt but that it
will be of great value to the farmers of this
town.
There has not been such scarcity OF
either working or beef oxen hereabouts, for
many years. and prices are from ID to 20 per
cent higher than they were last year at this
time, and many of those wishing to purchase
working oxen have travelled over quite a
portion of this and Franklin county, before
buying, and the report that the same state OF
things exist wherever they have been.
A certain person from your city, who has
been in the habit of Transporting liquor from
this place to Augusta, had his plans some
what interfered with. at this place, short
time since. 1t had been his practice to reach
here at about the time of the arrival of the
evening freight from Portland, take his
liquor and go to your city with it in the eve
ming. At the time mentioned he came and
found that what he was after had arrived He
went into the depot and paid the freight, and
was proceeding to load it on his team, when
Deputy Sheriff Tibbetts made his appear
ance, and quietly told him that he need not
move it any further, and took possession of
the same. Upon examination; the officer
found the package to contain two 20 gallon
kegs of liquor. and since said time, your
Augusta liquor transporter has not been seen
hereabouts.
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The Tribune puts the truth in a nut
shell in the following: Nothing is
gained by efforts TO obscure the issue be-
tween the President and Mr.. Conkling.
Nobody is deceived by silly articles about
Presidential usurpation.' The President
has shown no disposition to overstep the
limits of his rightful powers and intrude
upon those of the Senate. He is firmly
and amiably-too amiably some of his
friends think-insisting on his right to do
what the Constitution says he shall do
make nominations to fill the Federal of
fees. No one. we venture TO say, is more
DESTROYS that the Senate shonld act in
dependently and vote its own opinion o;
his nominees. There are no signs OF
Presidential dictation at the Capitol, but a
bombardmeut of Senatorial dictstion has
been directed against the White House for
more than six weeks. interrupted only by
the dispatch OF an occasional flag of truce
from the aggressors, with proposition
that NE President should surrender ON
terms dictated by Mr.. Conkling,''
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New York Stock Market.
New York Produce Market.

NEW 1ORk, May y.
FLouR-receipts i6,3sl exports ll.9ss; sales
1860 bbls; No. 2, at 90 20; supertne
Western and state at 90 % common
mon to good extra Ohio G196 IS; Winter wheat
at TO is; 6yv0 bbls Minnesota extra at
55as 90; common to choice extra st Louis at
4 at 10; chore to double extra at l0aS 90:
others unc anged including 300 tbls city
mills Xtra at 75a5 so; 400 bbls No a: } 10
a3 Is, 700 bbis superfine at O0a4 30; 600 bbls
low extra IS al 65; Southern flour dull and heavy
X, -four weak NJ ) 25ao co.
CoRN-MEAL-steady and quiet.
HtAT-receps 2U5. 500 bush exports 22S, 234 sales
1,254 ou0 bush Including 900 bush the spot
No spring at 1915; No : Chicago a, Is %;
dn req sa az ~ . No TO- do as 90 No
steamer do at n no red at 30s3l; mixed winter
at % ~; ungraded white at 2Oal 70; No do al
steamer do at 249l III No red for May, I9S, Ooo
bush at 23iai 24s for June 900 bush at l u
~ for Ju,y ls4'ooo bush at Is. q iga fer Aug
bush at s4Sl 2I5; for June 10000 bush at lga
9l9s.
kYE-tirm; sales 5000 Penn. 1ial1o
BAILEY-duli and lower. Barley Malt dull and
heay, sales $500 bush; No Canada bright at / o.
CoKN-recelpls losS56; exports l22,99s; sales
ungraaed at 56d6s; No at 6Oa6oi; steamer
6l5a6l4: No at 6l4o6ks; No white 65l; Id
a65 white uthern at Gil; No MAY 56i a57a
for June at 81, p55; for July at 55ie56i.
OArs-openedIo lower aud dull receipts 1880; sales
566.O0U bush; No 3 at 45ia46; do white ut 50a50;
No at Il! a42i; do white at 5.a52; No l at AZ do
do white al 80; mixed western at i6a47l: white do
at AZ a55; white state at 45a47 including 900 bush
No for May a. 49, q 6i; 10000 bush for June at
40! aIds; 10000 bush for July i6t ai6t
suGAR-stronger sales 1000 hhds French Island y
refined moderate crushed VI a J; powdered -; yel
low 1ia7s, standard %; loaf q; eranulated a
Cuba w. others unchanged
MoLAssEs-firner 50 t,s quoted at 84a aa5.
PET.oLEUM-steady; united e0 refined. :.
TALLow- firm; sales "a, 200 lbs. ut Clay To-
PoKk-sales 400 old mess on the spot at l6 oo9
l6 20; May and June, at Il 90aH 90 old at Il sU9
Il; July at II e5al7 80; Aug at Il ?09ls 10.
BEEF-firm; Beef hams Terce
firm. Cut meats steady; Middes dull and lower.
LARD about 10 lower, closing weak
sales 1000; prime steam on the spot al
IL 25a IL IS; 10000 for May IL 81 a., 12 800 lbs
for June lV 9 l2l 700 lbs for July at 10 500 IL
BUTrKR-hrm; state l2524.
Enthusiastically freight heavy and lower; wheat
steam II; new state 3a5.
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Condensed TELEGRAMS.

G. L. Simmons, carriage manufacturer at
Cincinnati, O.. has failed Liabilities S43 900.
John Marsh, a veteran of the war of 1872,
died in New York, Saturday, aged Sc.
At Chicago, ILL.,. the mercury Sunday
afternoon, rose to 50 degrees. One case of
sunstroke is reported.
Jennie Jewell of Oakdale, Mass, eighteen
years of age. drank bed bug poison for water,
on Saturday evening, from the effects of
which she died.
Lord Courteney has been arrested at
Salt Lake, and will be taken to England via
New York, on a charge of forgery.
Mr.. T. b. Fowler, President of the Com
mercial Fire Insurance Co. of New York,
died suddenly in the office of that company,
Monday, aged e..
The importations of specie at the port of
New York, for the week ending May 6, were
SSlS, 900.
Frederick Stark, Chas. Stark. and David
Rooch were drowned Sunday, near Staten
Island n. Y, by the upsetting of fishing
boat.
Francis Watson of Boston. was found
nearly suffocated by gas, in his room at the
Dyke House, in the Bowerv, last Sunday
night. His recovery is doubtful.
Mrs. Louisa Harvey,who was shot by VIM.
Mcintosh, her brother, on the 18th ult., for
refusing to give him money for liquors, died
in the hospital at New York, Monday. Nc
Intosh is held for trial.
A thunder storm prevailed in Chicago, Mon
day afternoon, and the temperature fell to SO
degrees in hours.
Bark kesinet of Liverpool, from Bahia
for Halifax, with sugar, is now % days out,
and is supposed to be Jost with all on board.
The kesinet was of 5S2 tons register, and
built in 1877.
The thermometer, Monday afternoon, in
New York, indicated 81 degrees, and il
proved to be the warmest day of the season.