The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-01-11
81. Louis, on the 5th, and fixed the punishment

st. Louis, on the 5th, and fixed the punishment
at Eve years in the Penitentiary.
A VINCENT, Mimi, dispatch of the 6th says:
Secord, of the firm Of Secord Brothers, who
started with train of goods worth several
thousand dollars for Turtle Mountain, was
killed by Indians
Mitchell BRowN,of Sherman, Wis, while
endeavoring to save a team Of horses from q
burning barn on the 9Th, was himself burned
to death.
A SPRINeFIELD, III, dispatch on the 9Th
says: "The disastrous effect Of the drought
is shown by the report on the corn crop. fur
nished by the State Department Of Agricul-
ture. The total yield is ia, ,9s7 900 bushels for
the year 1881, or seventy per cent of the crop
of 1880, and only half of the crop Of 1879.
The greatest injury to the crop was in the
southern division Of the State.
ORDERS were received at New Orleans, or
the 7th, from San Francisco. to provide freight
room in March and April for the shipment Of
10000 bushels Of wheat to England. The
wheat viii be shipped from California to New
Orleans by the Southern Pacific Railroad.
SAMUEL 8. WARD. q prominent and wealthy
citizen OF Port Huron, Mich, committed sui
eide on the 7th by taking strychnine. He had
been acting strangely for several days, and
had been watched BY friends, but eluded them.
GENERAL +. A. JONES, of Macon City, Mo-,
was found dead ina sleeping car at Toledo,
o., on the night of the 7th. He, in company
with his wife, was on his way to Shingleton,
Pa, N pay visit to frends- He had been in
poor health for some years.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
THE Russian natives on the Kuldja frontier
have retaliated on the Chinese for their cru
elites They msssacred the inhabitants of
two Chinese settlements and defeated a de-
tachment of $50 Chinese troops on the 4th.
REGARDING the mandamus to be applied for
in the Court Of the Queens Bench to quash
the resolution comforting the freedom Of the
city of Dublin, Ireland, to Dillon and ParneIl,
the Dublin correspondent of the Tsnaes, on the
4th, says: II THE points shall be established
| by the Queens Bench that no one who is not
Burgess can under the existing clause of the
corporation act receive the freedom Of the
city 1t would vitiate all votes of such freedom
which have been passed, anybody should
| choose to press it. Thus the names of Glad
stone and General Grant would be erased from
the roll But 1t is questionable whether they
would regret being deprived of the distinction
which has already lost much of It's value by
the alloy of disaffection and disloyalty added
to it by the recent proceedings-"
Francis MICHEL PASCAL, the French sculp-
tor, died at Paris on the 5th.
The Parnellites have decided to call q gen.
eral meeting Of the Irish party in London the
week preceding the opening of Parliament
| February ~ They are considering the advi-
stability OF holding meeting of the Home
Rulers in Ireland.
THE Emperor of Russia has pardoned the
Polish Bishops exiled in 1854.
| A VIOLENT gale accompanied By rain, did
considerable damage throughout Scotland on
| the 9Th
the Austrian Government has decided to
dispatch re-inforcements of 1000 troops to
pacifJ the Inhabitants of Krivocil.
THE Marquis OF Lorne win sail from England
for Canada on the flth.
ROME dispatch of the 7th SAYS: aAn the
arrangements are complete for the departure
OF the Pope Tor Malta IN case he deems it i'm
possible to remain in Rome.''
THERE was an encounter between body OF
Austrian troops and fifty Herzegovinians at
Lutorina on the 5th, in which four of the lat
ter were killed. The Austrians suffered no
loss.
Ar the Cork, Ireland, Assizes on the 7th,
conviction was obtained against ten persons
Tor assaulting bailif.
RICHARD H. DANA, JR,, the noted writer
and poet, died at Rome, Italy, on the 7th, aged
( sixty years.