The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-07-19

The shed connected with Comstock's
mill, andfor some time considered unsafe,
but q great convenience on q showery day,
was taken down last week. 1t shut of
the view of the railroad track TO such an
extent as to make that one perilous
crossing.
The Ohio Wesleyan University, at Della
ware, under the able management of Presi.
dent G. III. Payne, has taken a front rank
among our Western Colleges. The system
of co-education has proved n pronounced
success, giving the young ladies at their
lovely home at Monnette Halt the advant-
age of mixed classes with the privacy of
the family circle. The University in all
its departments has never been as ably con-
Quoted, The graduating class Of S2 num-
bered fiftyfour.
The Young Ladies' Mission Circle of
the Congregational Church will hereafter
be known as The Young Peoples Society.
They intend to give monthly concerts,
taking upeXe different mission fields of
the American Board The exercises will
consist of music, historical sketches reci-
tations, written papers, lives of mission
aries and their work, both home and
foreign. Also q paper, to be edited by
Miss Minnie Clegon and Miss Clara Stuch-
field. These concerts will be made inter-
given in the lecture room of the Congre-
gationalz Church, on Wednesday evening,
July 26th, at half-past seven. Ice cream
and cake will be served Immediately after
the exercises. [ -
Rev. DR.. E. Wentworth, an old educa-
tor has been attending some modern CON-
mencements and says: at has become an
expensive business to provide graduating
silks for girls and claw-hammer swallow
tails for boys. The photograph album
nuisance has to be gone through with at
fearful expense follow purses, and the bou-
quet folly is brought to the verge of the
ridiculous by handing up stupendous
nosegays to each reader or speaker in
turn, with such machine regularity as to
suggest the possibility of making a single
bouquet or two do service for the whole
crowd, by bearing It off at one end OF the
stage and on at the other, and so save an
enormous expense for cut flowers" At
Union College, Schenectady, the bouquet
custom has passed away. Another jar on
the anniversary exercises this year was
the drowning, while bathing, of one of the
graduating class.
1t has been the custom of the Supt. of
the Fremont schools to have the most wise
pithy and beautiful gems from Shakes
peare, Burns, Scott, Lon gfellow or Whittier
learned and National Songs, that have
become classic, sung in concert by the
schools. And almost any boy or girl
among them can respond correctly to a
call, prompted by leading word or two,
and hereafter will always have these choice
ideas at their command. 1.-THE Campbells
are Coming, "Bonny Doom "Highland
Spangled Banner" and many others, they
know the words and music by heart, and
sing them beautifully, having had sing
ing master in the schools about six years.
The crowning of a May Queen was a
charming exercise shared by the little
girls of two Primary schools one evening
at their closing rhetorical.
Rev. Levi Scott d. D., Senior Bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at
Odessa, Del, July 18th, upon the farm
where he was born.' He was present at
every General Conference either as a dele
gate or Bishop since 1886. His life of 81
years had been an eminently useful one.
He presided at the Conference held in
Wellington in 1862 and was then q veteran
with whitened locks, and his gentleness,
dignity and wisdom as presiding officer
were apparent at time when GOODNESS
and moderation We're needed to counteract
the excess of heat and partisan feeling
among all classes. Every train that thun-
dered by was freighted eitherwith soldiers
or some supplies of war, and every man
who could endure q march or bear a mus
ket was ordered to the protection of the
borders of our own State. 1t was impos-
sible to suppress excitement and well nigh
impossible TO feel calmly Christian toward
those whose sympathies were opposed 10
ours The Bishops closing words, and
his wise counsel fitting everyone, no one
who heard will ever forget.