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Nitro g syceszsse Explosion.

fRADFoED, Ps:, February 28.-While
unloading cans Of nitro-s1ycerine from q
wagon az u magazine =near. BoIIYer, N. E.,
tonight, an explosion occurred. kill:ag
John Grant and VIM Orcutf. The wagon
was TORN % 65ndiiag wooa the horses So
oaoly mang}ed that they were killed ID
e1d their misery, while The front of the
magazine containing 1000 pounds OF glyc.
crime was torn Off. 6Ht strangely THE com
pound aiti n96 ezplaaa Inis ID the same
place where BelrIdae was torn 10 pieces i
few weeks ago.
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tE'Iae CIaSasese Rt{2,

WASHINGTON, February 28.-At2:l5 the
Senate took up the Chinese immigration
bill, Miller, Of California, who reported
# FROM the Foreign Affairs committee
stated that the report was unanimous. aud
proceeded to address the Senate ii Its ad-
vocacy.
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l5He Possibility d ehlWotornt4fg Il per-
>ea N slet p, without waking i.tla, having
been disputed IN i recent murder trial,
Dr.} Qtt,nbF, ofJe9seg eitT, Was Tel
lo tesE the question e2petu5eatat5F. ate
results we're presented II d paper before
5l'e section. of itla11ieaisItils 5s5IHaee at4ae
meeting of t1e B 4}erieH1 d s. f..4=soeii.-
5.2't, ss.ss lssss s5-Es..sefe
#tfats seoetlfs @Ith seaE.enlan /. enter
~ foohi "hefe Sc was asleep and apply
tA'ofe5oEm 70 ilita This III dttg wit itEHenfire
success. transferring the na,son sgai.,
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esGss Efassa N t;iaE E5Gz

WASHINGTON, March 1,-Yes5 tntroaac-
cd biliin the Senate to deprive national
banks Of The power to issue circulation
after July !, 1882, He SAID he knew the
financial committee. was opposed to this
bill, and therefore he would beg tt,era.nof
90 o1fy Il, hut GiTethe Senate chance ID
vote On 1t.
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9 A1ean oorszSc Senator Elected III.
VagFa er,s E75aee.

New YORK, February 28.-A special
eiec6Ion to I'LL the vacancy caused by Wag-
heTs death occurred to-day, and unezpecf-
ediy resulted III the choice Of Baucus.
(Dem.1 who beat Stanford By a thousand
majority.
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SCI A T1E.

II WASHINGTON, February 28.--#ineoul
from the Committee on Foreign Relations
reported q resolution instrHcGng tile com
Hlittee on Foreign Relations ID make III
#Qufries concerning the loss Of certain Stat
Papers and regarding the alleged action 0
the Diplomatic representatives OF the Uni
ted States in France and Peru ill any con
tracts OF public or private nature Will
either Of the said Governments anC
whether amy officers Of the United State
have any personal interest in the matte
before mentioned, and report with recon-
mendation. Laid over bne day under
rule
The Committee on Foreign Relations
will recommend the confirmation and
nomination Of ex-senator Sargent.
Bills were introduced bF Vest for a pub
lie building at Hannibal, No.; by Ingalls,
authorizing the Presidenttoa appoint Alfred
Pleasanton Brevet-1Iajor-General,
The postoffce appropriation bill was. re-
eeived from the House and referred.
The Chinese bill came np as unfinished
business, but Miller temporarily yielded
the floor to Ferry TO allow the House post
route bill to be considered and the amend
snents of the Senate Committee read and
agreed to.
The House resolution rendering thanks
to Hon. Jas. q. Blaine for tie appropriate
address delivered by him III the Garfield
memorial exercises was, OH motion of Shel-
man. taken from the Presidents table and
toucurred III.
HOUSE.
Kelly, Chairman on the Committee. on
Ways aud Means, reported d bill repeating
discriminating duties on tea and coffee
products Of the possessions Of the Neither
II ds. Passed.
The senate bill appropriating one hum
ired thousand dollars for continuing tie /
Improvement on the Galveston hatbor
b sea.
BiII passed authorizing The Construct ~
4 a. ft.idEeteios- the Mississippi 81 a Ttfs-
:t.#5 itii45ai-.
tIls x4It introduced aAd referred b
e..aag II establish 4 marine hospifalsg
l4siaailif.
tts fstiilft:sa II fite Committee aa y
sIeetio y sttoai5fet TUE rs.ai.f of Tae Il
s.s5iaiFtee al1 the sol1tesfea election ease
gssilab4l III. Cannon, 5fee st7s1Y:s
asIf ltor ssol1Tx.sgtss entitled 70 u seaf.
lso submitted tie minority report deeI.f.-
u laaahelI eng;iisd to the seaf, WIl1ls
IoalEoA submitted ] f3ixtlsf resolution
sl4sd 81 Ati1erto5l, Davis, Of Illinois,
IlIElfl4il, a65a JaHes, III Lazisa, declaring
aluoa the duly elected delegate fo Con- II!
less. Report laid on fabIe lor further i
.tIon III
Ritcl3ie, from tlle Committee, report i
solution declaring that Bel sI1ail aot1e i
United Is Delegate from Alaska until 4
il Committee op Territories report there Il
], Referred. n
Easson made. 4 motion for the consider d
on Of the tariff commission b1ll, snbse--I y
lently Withdrew II aIld fhz l4p;lsa went
u committee on The niilitafE saaiIsnIF Y
bill. III
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1rrs. seovilse Denounoey conlzlzn=.

CHICAGO, February 28.-A representa-
i've Of The press at one O'clock tonight
called At the residence Of Mr.. Geo. SEQ
Vile and inquired as to the truth Of the
rnmor that Mrs. Scoville had written a
letter u reference to The nomination of
conkli1g for Supreme Judge. 4 gentle
.man friend and former law partner Of
Srogille stated that Mrs. saovile had writ
fen lengthy letter eondemain@ Mr.. Conk-
in%'s nomination and stating tha1 b. Was
more responsible fol the assassination Of
tFarH@li filaI l1ttr tEHzE haasaag
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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20
why We Laugh.

In letter under the above heading,
Capt. Au goes for Judge Geddes in last
weeks Mansfield Herald as to his love for
the soldier:
But why this pelaber in the
Democratic papers about Geddes being
the fast friend of the Soldiersf We Old
Soldiers understand it all and we have a
faint recollection of this same Geddes'
whereabouts when we were in the field,
when we most needed the encouragement
of our stay-athome friends Then we
heard of his clarion voice being raised to
its utmost to extoll the virtues of that arch
traitor Vallandigham, and he even got
down in the dirt to take ten cent collec-
ton to aid the vile exile. We Old Soldiers
love our friends, we even like our new
made friends, but we are suspicious OF
friends that are whipped into friendship
or that would purchase our dearest rights
with only professed friendship in these
days of political demagoguery.
We can't sell but propose to stand by
the man that stood by us with his means
when of all times we and our country
needed friendship. That is the kind oi
Old Soldiers we are, and we are not
ashamed to append our real name to our
communications. If you old soldier in the
Shield are in fact an Old Soldier, let us
know who you are. Don't be ashamed Of
your record as a soldier but for conscience
sake don't play Old Soldier. We had too
much of that in the service. C. Au,
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20
A DEMAeoGuE,s SPEECH.
Why Wasn't He There to Vote
Against IT.
Geddes I'm the Role of Pcter-Big and
Little you-shame Upon Geddes's
Braren sophistry.

To the Editors Of the Mansfield Herald.
In his Norwalk speech, in speaking
of the River and Harbor bill, Geddes
said, eff that veto of the President had
been sustained, they (the committee /
suppose he means) would have gone in
to the committee room and in an hour
they would have cut out the appropria-
lions for those little coon rivers aud
would have whitfield the appropriations
down to six or eight millions Of dollars,
one-third of the sum that was allowed,
and it would have passed by an almost
unanimous vote and justice would have
been done the people and this Ubiquitous
measure would have beeu defeated" I"
Does it lie in the mouth of this dema-
gogue to find fault with Republicans
because the Presidents veto was not
sustainedP Why did he not tell his
audience what he did, as the represen-
tatiye of the people, to sustain the Pres
ident's veto? And as he did not tell
them 1 will. He did nothing. he base
ly and cowardly deserted his post. He
was at home when the vote was taken
not sick, but looking after his renom-
ination.
Why was he not at his post of duty
as the guardian of the interests of the
people whom he proposes 70 love so
well? go further and make the charge
which the records prove true: That If
| H. no,oooraf;o aar,harS xyho mana n y,
sent had been at their post of duty and
voted to sustain the veto, it would have
been sustained and the ''iniquitous'
measures defeated. / have
read the Norwalk speech through care
fully, and had time, L would like to ex-
pose its many false sentiments and cum.
ningly devised sophistries. The whole
speech from beginning to end is self
laudation. 1t is big 1. 1 did this and
did that. made little speech on 8
certain bill and it was defeated by 8
two-thirds' or three-fourths' vote.
What great little "Jack Horner" he
must be. But have no fears but tha
the voters of the Fourteenth District
fully understand this kind of soft soap
| for the soldiers and such stuff, and wher
election day comes and their voice Il
heard through the ballot box, he (Ged
des) viii find the people are capable o
taking care of themselves. Troy.
land his Wellington speech was th'
Norwalk speech over again, except only
his agony on the subject of the purit.
of the ballot.-ED.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20
C. L. Tambling.

The inspired (f) seer Of the Prohibition
party met with deci ded reverse, the
other night, at the railway depot in Orr
vile. He encountered q company of
Methodist ministers returning from the
Conference at Millersburg, and was call
ed on for an explanation of his SANDER
GUS attack upon the memory Of Garfield.
It appears that Tambling is in the
habit of relating wonderful vision
which he saw, shortly after the nomina-
ton of Garfield, in which 1t was revealed
to him that Garfield had sold himself to
the devil, q. c. the whisky riDg,) and
would get killed for it. Tho fact that
Garfield was afterward assassinated,
seems to have entirely turned the brain
of this apostle. BE accepts the fact as
divine vindication of his prophetic
Office asd Herewith decorates himself as
the great head and front Of the Prohibi-
tion party. All this might go unnoticed
If the man could keep it to himself, but
his vanity is so great he cannot help dis
playing it. He cannot conceal his salts
faction over the occurrence of this terri
BILE event, and even goes so far as to say
it served him right and he is glad of it.
On the evening in question he was
asked point blank if he had uttered such
sentiments. he saw that he had gotten
into an unhealthy atmosphere for such
ideas, and accordingly denied it all, but
the next moment proceeded to give him
self away worse than ever by attempting
to tell what he had said. 81 said" began
the prophet, "that the hand of God, as
seen in the assassination of Garfield"
but that was all the company could stand,
he was assailed from every quarter with
q simultaneous outburst. Every one saw
that he would say not only all that was
charged but a great deal more, and they
were in no temper to hear such language.
'sWell, you admit that God permits"
ave admit nothing of the kind, and you
had better revise your Theology before
you begin again on Methodist preachers.
If you wish to get the responsibility for
that event back of Guiteau, you will have
to lay it on someone else than the
Almighty"
"Well, you admit that we hold Gar
field" 1--WE hold him in place that
does not admit of his being slandered
very much by such man as you are"
After each of these and other rebuffs,
this ponderous prophet perambulated
scross the platform to collect himself and
then returned to try some other ''you sd
mit,n or ''you agree" but he found no
common ground on which to stand and
finally cried out, "Well, II had an hour
and half could make this matter clear,
but there is no time now to attempt il. y
''The train is late" shouted citizen of
the town, "two hours yet, If you have
anything to say" but the seer couldn't
see anything that promised much for him,
and SO retired from the controversy amid
the shouts and jeers of large crowd
which had by this time assembled.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20

FROM the Cleveland Leader we learn
that it has been discovered that the
Democracy have arranged scheme
after the style OF the MoreY letter which
is to distribute among the voters of this
District on the eve of election, too late
TO be answered, lying circular, charg-
ing among other things that r. A. Horr
has cheated sister out of several thou
sand dollars and that certain hotel bills
of Mr.. Horr's remain unpaid. These
are only samples of many more manu-
factured out of whole cloth, all misera-
BILE dirty lies, which we could not be-
Iieve any party would be guilty of cir
culating, were il not for the fact that
the Democrats of this District resorted
to the same slanderous, low-lived meth
ods when Mr.. Horr was candidate for
the Senate, three years ago, and again
that the managers of the Presidential
campaign sent out the infamous Morey
letter with the same purpose, so that
we are ready to believe them capable of
using any means, however dishonora-
Bile, if it only promises them a tempor-
ary advantage. We give them fair
warning that such foul practices viii
do their inventors more damage than
the innocent victim for whom they are
planned.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20

In one of his speeches yallandigham
said: "Then sir; am not a Southern man
either, although in this unholy and uncon-
stitutional crusade against the South, in
the midst of the invasion, arson, insurrec-
ton and murder to which she has been
subject and with which she is still threat
ened-with the torch of the incendiary
and the dagger of the assassin suspended
over her-my most cordial sympathies are
wholly with her" Judge Geddes voted
for him, and said he was a more suitable
man for Governor of Ohio than Brough, as
consistent Democrat as ever lived but a
Union man and in favor of putting. down
the rebellion
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20


PERHAPs Judge Geddes will inform us
whether he considers it a right honorable
thing to 60 before strange audience and
take great credit to himself as an honest
man and judge for ordering the soldiers
vote to be counted, claiming to have de
cided the constitutionality OF the soldiers
voting law, when the truth is that by the
text of his own decision he recognized the
fact that the Supreme Court two months
previously had assumed its constitution.
atty; when, moreover that question did
not and could not properly come before
the court in which he presided, and when
common honesty required him TO decide
according 10 the law regardless of his
political preferences. But we suppose the
Judge thought himself entitled to great
credit that when he was mean enough to
oppose the Government and vote for Val
landigham he was not also dishonest
enough to render decision contrary TO
law. This is the first instance we have
known of man asking the support Of the
people because he did not act dishonesty
when he had an opportunity. WIN our
Democratic friends read this paragraph
over twicei
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20


JUDGE GEDDEs was present at tenn
perance meeting held by the N. o. Con-
ference at its recent session IN Mlliers-
burg, and after listening to several
speakers who took very decided ground
on this question, he was invited by the
chairman TO give his views on this sub
iect. He took the stand and made a
reasonably lengthy speech without
making the slightest reference to tenn
perance, then remarked that he had
consumed so much time that he could
not discuss the question before the meet
ing, made his best bow and retired
This for church member who on re-
ligious grounds If no other, ought to
have decided convictions, was thougot to
be notquite the manly thing. But we feel
like excusing the Judge for he could
not compromise his christian character
by opposing temperance legislation, and
if he should speak in favor of it, then
the seventy-three saloonists of his ma.
tive town with all the hummer element,
would knife him on election day. The
Judge has our sympathies. He is in g
very embarrassing position.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20

1T is not solely that Judge Geddes eulo-
gized Vallandigham as a loyal patriot and
voted for him and denounced Lincoln as a
usurper and tyrant and the soldiers a
"a. Lincoln's dogs" and conducted him.
relf during the years 1868 and 1864 as a
blatent, foul-mouthed copperhead, that we
object to him, but because, having
done all these things, true to his Demo
cratic instincts, he now comes before
an audience composed largely of
Republicans and attempts to palm
himself off as having been Union
Democrat throughout the war, loyal to the
government and full of love and affection
for the soldier. We object on account of
his dishonesty, or to borrow the pet word
of the Constitution, his Hypocrisy" all
with purpose TO catch Republican voters.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20


WHEN Judge Geddes spoke in Roches-
ter he was asked, as he was here, whether
he voted for Vallandigham, and as here
he evaded the question by. reading the re
cord given him by Republican papers al
the beginning of the war. After the meet
ing was over man approached him pri
vately and asked for direct answer as to
how he voted in that campaign The Judge
looked at his questioner u moment, and
then turned and walked of, without max
ing any reply. OF course the judge was
not Vallandighammer but he thought il
incumbent on him to show proper de
gree Of resentment against having his pri
vate conduct inquired into too minutely
He's jewell of political consistency, he
-
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20

IT is true that Judge Geddes was elected
judge on the Union ticket in 1860 and
was regarded by Republicans as a good
Union man, but he conveniently forgot to
tell US that he afterward Joined the Cop.
perheads, supported and voted for Vallan-
digham, and that when, in 1866, he was
again candidate for judge on the Demo
cratic ticket he was defeated, although the
district was largely Democratic, and the
strongest argument against him at that
time was that he was Vallandigham
Democrat The Judge has very treach-
erous memory for an honest man
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20

JUDGE GEDDEs is wasting his time.
Senator r. A. Horr is the Republican
nominee. He Is an honest, outspoken
and direct man. He has spent his
life in Lorain County, and his past is
open to all men. That his record is
clean is attested by the fact that Repub-
lican conventions up in that section do
not nominate men whom they are COM
PEELED to defend. He was always 10y
al man. If he goes to Congress he will
be true-hearted friend of the people
and a consistent Republican. He will
represent the principles of the Four
teenth District as no Vallandigham
Copperhead could ever represent them.
The Republicans of the Fourteenth Dis
trict should look ahead beyond October,
and understand that they have a duty
for performance higher than the satis-
faction of any personal ends or the graf
ification Of any local enmities. They
should remember that the political
status of the next Congress may depend
on their votes, while the result in the
State may be decided by their activity.
Can any true Republican for a moment
hesitate ?-Cleyeland Herald.