The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-04

AS, 555. The value of exports for the twelve
months ended August 81, 1882, were $751;
oSS, ,T72; preceding twelve months, 1894, ,7l7,-
The gross receipts of the Postoffice
Department for the fiscal year ended June 30,
1882 have been s41, ,265, ,617.1 10 against s36 2l7-
51L55the previous year. Receipts from the
sale Of postage amps, postal cards and en-
velopes were $39, 533 3l7 against s3 67S, ,Sl2 for
the previous year.
The California State Prohibition Con-
vention was held at San Francisco on the 29th
ult. and DIR. r. IL Mcdonald was nominated
for Governor and William Syms for Lieuten-
ant Governor.
THERE were fifty-two new cases and
eleven deaths from fever at Pensacola on the
29th ult.
The soldiers of Southern Iowa and
northern Missouri held reunion at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, on the 29th ult. Over 5000
veterans were present. A grand procession
and sham battle took place which was wit
messed by 81, 600 strangers from the surround
ing country.
THE Tri-State Medical Society closed
its three days session at Terre Haute, Indiana,
on the 29th ult. DIR. Mckenzie, of London,
was present at the meetings and addressed the
society. Dr. j. L. Links paper on alcohol as
a. successful an9sthetic was an interesting
feature. He reported that whisky administered
in one and half and two ounce doses every
ten or fifteen minutes will produce anRsthesia
DIR. Hughes, In paper on the mental status
OF Guiteau, maintained that the assassin was
insane. Officers were elected for the ensuing
year as follows: President, DR.. William Por-
ter, st. Louis, Mo-; Vice Presidents, Joseph
Eastman, Indianapolis, Ind. James II. Fletch-
er, Henderson, Ky., and DR.. Chambers, of
Illinois; Secretary, G. W. Burton, Mitchell;
Treasurer, +. W. Beard, Vincennes, Ind. |;
Chairman of the committee of arrangements,
B. Harvey, indianapolis.
CHARLES HEAToN, of La Crosse, Wis
consin, formerly Superintendent of the Amer
ican Express Company for the Minnesota Di-
vision, committed suicide by hanging on the
s9th, while temporarily insane. He had been
in i'll health for the past six years, being
obliged to resign his position on that account.
THOMAS CLARK, well-known resi-
dent and wealthy distiller of Buffalo, N Y,
died on the 29th ult., aged sixty-one.
THE resignation of w. H. Wickersham,
United States Minister at Copenhag gen, Dem
mark, was received at the State Department on
the 29th ult.
Mrs. DE LONG, widow of Lieutenant
De Long, was at the Navy Depar ment at
Washington on the Goth ult., and had an inter-
view with Secretary Chandler and Engineer
Melville. She requested permission to have
her husbands personal and private effects
transferred to her. This request will prob
ably be complied with as soon as the papers
and other effects brought by Melville can be
examined
The jury in the Star route prosecu-
tions in the United States Court at Phila-
delphia, reported on the morning of the 29th
ult. that they were unable to agree upon ver-
dict.
JOHN II. PARKE, the Philadelphia
almshouse contractor, was arrested on the
10Th ult. and sent to jail in default of S., 900
bail.
THE business failures throughout the
country for the week ending the 29th ult num-
bered 40, of which 100 were in the different
States and eleven in New York CITY. The
stoppage of SAlonzo Follet, note broker of
New York, was the event of the week and
brought numerous disasters in its train.
THE Massachusetts State Executive
Council have decided upon November 80 as
Thanksgiving day.
w. G.. WHITAKER, a resident OF
Paschallville, suburb of Philadelphia, was ar.
rested on the Goth ult., charged with poisoning
his wife and six children-Wayon, aged
twenty-four; Mary, nineteen; Sarah, twelve
Bertha, eight, and Willie, two years. A
boarder named Wayson Cooper was also
poisoned They were in critical condition.
1t is alleged that be placed arsenic in a bucket
of water with which tea was made.
A DUMMY passenger car fell through
an open draw in the bridge near Buffalo, N.
Y, on the 29th ult. and landed in the Niagara
River. Two men were killed and several
Others seriously wounded.
THE members of the Williamsport,
Pa, City Councils were arrested on the 30th
ult., charged with neglecting to keep Third
and Fourth streets, two of the leading thor,
oughfares of that city, in proper condition
for travel. They were released on bail.
A BoARDNG-uoUsE occupied by quar-
rymen, at Lemont, Illinois, was burned on the
morning of the Both ult. Two men, named
Coova and Green, who were asleep, failed to
escape and we're burned to death.
The taxable value of the 1859 miles
of railroad in the Safe OF Illinois has been
estimated at $50, III, $50 by the State Board OF
Equalization.
SECRETARY LINCOLN shipped from
Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, on the
30th ult. sixty-two trunks, aggregating 1900
pounds of baggage. Their contents comprise
dress goods, camefs hair shawls, crepes and
trinkets purchased in Europe at q cost of $50,
coo by the late Mrs. Lincoln.
The commission in the case of Rev.
H o. Hoffman, on trial at Lincoln, Illinois,
found him guilty on the 3)th ult., of bastardy,
fornication, forgery and falsehood, and recon-
mended his expulsion from the ministry. An
appeal to the Judiciary Committee for new
trial was granted
DURING the month of September there
were III wells completed and working In the
Pennsylvania oil district, with daily produc.
tion of 4,55S barrels, against $50 wells, with a
production of g, ,044 barrels daily the proceed
ing month. There were on the 30th ult. 293
August. This is awonderful falling off in the
operations, greater than was ever before known
in SO short space OF time.
THE National Liberal League at theil
session at st. Louis on the LIST elected the
following officers for the ensuing year: Pres
ideut, 1. A. Wakeman, of New York; Secre
tary, t. c. Leland, of New York; Treasurer,
Courtland Palmer, of New York; chairman OF
the executive committee, Z. A. Stevens, oi
Chicago; chairman of the financial commit
tee, Mrs. II. G.. Lake, of California
Secretary Leland read his annual re-
port, detailed the progress of the
League, touched upon the, difficulties in
breaking away the human mind from super
stition, described the Christian church as &
retreating host, and stated that the League
had doubled its membership. The only otheI
business done was changing the Christian cal
endGr or era to Liberal era by adopting the
year 1000 as the standing point, and by sub
stituting for a. D., representing ammo domini
the letters E NJ, meaning era of man. The
night session was devoted to speeches, aftel
which the League adjourned to meet at Nil
waukee, September Is, 1888.
THE anti-Jewish riots at Pressburg,
Russia, broke out anew on the Goth ult. A
royal commission was sent to suppress the
rioters.
The steamboat Robert E. Lee, one oi
the finest steamers on the Mississippi River
plying between Vicksburg and New Orleans,
was burned at Point Pleasant, Miss, on the
morning of the S0th ult., and over thirty lives