The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-09-08
General News Summary.
Interesting Home and Foreign New.
Domestic.

Domestic.
THE New York Republican State
Convention will be held in New York City
October 5.
The United States Commissioners to
examine into cattle diseases, particularly
pleuro-pneumonia, held q session ut Chicago
on the 3lst ult and read many reports from
various sections Of the country and compared
notes of their observations The opinion was
Informally expressed that there Was not, and /
never had been, any pleuro-pneumonia west /
OF Elmyra, N. Y, and that the Western farm |
ers should be warned against purchasing /
blooded stock In the Eastern States, unless |
they were sure that Is was not injected, as |
the disease was undoubtedly contagious.
Two THOUSAND one hundred and |
nineteen emigrants arrived at New York on |
the 91st ult.
Ex=SEcRErARY STUART. of the Brook
lyn On. " Board of Education, is charged
with embezzling s1o7, 500.
SECRETARY WNDoM issued the fol-
lowing circular on the S1st ult- in answer to
many inquiries relative to the course OF the De
partment in receiving mutilated silver coin:
the REDEMPTION or exchange by the Treasury
Department Of any coins OF the United states
on account Of their being mutilated, but mu-
tilated silver coins may be purchased as bull.
is presumed that holders Of such coins can
also dispose of them to brokers and dealers In
bullion in like manner, in which cases, OF
smonnt of metal in the pieces and the cur
rent price of silver bullion. The Department
can suggest no other relief TO holders OF
such mutilated coin- Public officers are not
expected or required to receive any coins so
mutilated as to be unfit for circulation, ex-
cept by purchase at the mint, as before
stated"
A WASHINGTON dispatch says Guiteau
continues as devIlish as ever. He has written
letter to the District Attorney, in which he
expresses his increased regret that he was
not able to kill the President while In church
and thus secure his death on the Instant de
saws he is sorry that he suffers so much. and
good deal more sorry that he rs not dead
WHILE q party of farmers from about
Lockport, Ind, were seining in the Wabash
river on the night OF the 3oth ult., four OF
them-Henry Berkaw, Marshal Ferrel, EN-
ery Lospie and James Rudisel-were drowned.
REPORTS from various parts of New
York and neighboring States represent the
drouth as being the most severe experienced
in many years. Rivers are lower than ever;
springs and wells are almost dried up and
the corn crop is injured beyond recovery.
SAMUEL NJ. LAKE, Chief of the Divi-
sion of Inspection. office Second Assistant
Postmaster General, was removed on the 3lst
ult and John W. Green, late of the Treasury
Department, appointed to succeed him.
COLONEL j. E. PEYToN, of the York
town Centennial Association, has received q
letter from Marquis de Rochambeau, stating
| that he and Madame RochAmbeau expect to
| embark at Havre for America the oath inst
| They will probably be accompanied by the
| staff officer of the President OF the French
/ Republic, delegation OF persons represent
| ing the Minister Of Foreign Affairs, military
| and two or three aides-de-camp OF different
| grades naval delegation, composed OF one
Vice Admiral and two or three stan officers;
a delegation from the Minister OF Fine Arts;
/ composed OF several Of the best artists and
| designers in France, and number OF the
| family of Lafayette, who viii be invited TO
| Join the delegations. The French West India
/ souadron will escort the delegations, which
| win be under the general charge of NJ. Out
rey, French Minister at Washington.
SENATOR BEN HILL has gone to
Philadelphia to consult a surgeon again about
his tongue. The cancerous sore was thought
to have been entirely removed By the opera
ton performed some weeks ago, but there
are unfavorable signs, which may render
another operation necessary.
A TRENTON, N. j., dispatch on the
Ist stated that the crops and cattle were suf-
fering from the drouth, which extended the
whole length and breadth Of the State. The
Blue Mountains were blazing for miles, ano
dense smoke obscured the sun. The heat wa
intense.
BENJAMIN ISRAEL, youngest son oi
General B. F, Butler, died st the General
summer residence In Gloucester, Mass, OF
the LIST, aged twenty-seven. He was Q grad
uate of West Point class OF '16, served II
| r.. a. Ho val nd LATE W q ad
initted to the bar in New York and Massa
chusetts-
AN explosion occurred in fertilizins
manufactory at New York City on the LIST
seriously injuring 3 number Of workmen.
TIE public debt statement for Au
gust shows q reduction for the month o
sl4, ,IsI, ,22l.2 cash In the Treasury, $40,
4oS, 7SS %; currency certificates, secs. 900
$57, ,57S, $40; refunding certificates, S643,sOC
A WASHINGTON dispatch says th'
past month was the hottest August sine
, 1872. The rainfall was less than in any Angus
of the decade.
, MILLER BROTHERS powder mill q
i, Sumneytown, Pa, was wrecked by an e1
plosion on the 1st, and Henry Swarthy, tn
foreman fatally injured.
. AN attempt was made near Colfax
Cal, on the 31st ult, to throw the east boun
train on the Union Pacific road from tn
= track, for the purpose of robbery. The rail
, were removed. A portion OF the train wa
ditched. No one was hurt and the attempte
> robbery unsuccessful.
t THE works of the Farmers Frien
Manufacturing Company at Dayton, ohiC
were destroyed by FIRE on the night Of the Isl
Loss estimated at from 81, COO to $l00, ,0oo
: insured for $4,000. Several nremen wer
, very badly injured.
e AN explosion in the gas-house of tn
Cutler House, Grand Haven, Mich, on th
, 1st, tore the building to atoms and probabl
fatally injured Charles Cutler. q brother OF
Cutler, owner OF the hotel. j. d. spires wa
Y badly hurt, and will probably lose an arm
not bis life Howard Rosebus and the Ell
gineer were badly injured.
OK account of the prolonged drout
in Virginia, the tobacco crop and fall crops
r general will be a complete failure. Jamt
l. River Is lower than It has been for MI
years.
THE mercantile failures for the fin
eight months of the present year as reporte
. by Bradstreet number 4,007, against 2s
o for the corresponding period In 1850 an
4653 in 1879. The liabilities were S44, 500, %
sSS $50, 900 and s7o, 900 In those PeriS, Per no
e respectively. The assets were SIS, 5000
O SIS 500 coo and S34, 900, ,0c0 respectivelyin Il
eight months of the three years named.
!, THE National Freethinkers' Convel
ton assembled at Hornellsville, n. T., on Il
ID. Some Eve hundred delegates were pre-
l. ent from most of the Northern and Westei
N States and Canada
If A SPECIAL dispatch from Washingto
saws the Cabinet has had no formal consult
- tions as to the policy to be pursued In the ms
= ter of the Presidents inability, but the subje
III has been freely and frequently talked owe
le Secretary Window says his department e.
get along for the present without Execute
D. Interference but some other departments a
+ embarrassed In many things. He woul
hfrnaalf have nreferred To confer with n