The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-15
DOMESTIC

day OF Thanksgiving.
GENERAL SHERMAN in his report says
that the army has 2, l62 officers and 23,o24
men. He wants the force increased from
25,00O to 80, 900, and the pay Increased for en-
listed men from thirteen to sixteen dollars per
month.
THE Moss National Bank, of San
dusky, Ohio, with capital of sI5o,ooo, and
the First National Bank, of Red Cloud, Ne
braska, have been authorized to begin bus
iness.
THE paint house owned by Iseley g.
Doubleday, at New York, was burned on the
morning of the sth. The fire was caused by
spontaneous combustion OF oil. Fred Double
day, son OF one of the proprietors, is sup
posed TO have suffocated and perished in the
flames, and John Brown, an employe, was
severely burned. Loss, S45,0 900; fully In
sured.
FRANCIS GEORGE SHAW, who died at
West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York,
on the Sth, was one of the earliest and most
prominent contributors to and ardent workers
in underground railroads" !" by which slaves
were forwarded from the South into Canada.
Mr.. shaw was father-in-law of George Will
Francis Barlow. His son was the first Colonel
of a colored regiment, and died at the head Of
his command at Hilton Head.
The Western Wholesale Drug Asso-
citation held its eighth annual session at Cleve-
land, Ohio, on the sth. The name OF the or
ganization was changed to the National
Wholesale Drug Association, aud the following
officers elected to serve during the coming
year: President, Horace Benton, OF Cleve-
land, Ohio; Vice Presidents, William A.
Gallathy, OF New York; George Kelley,
Samuel J. Hale, Cincinnati, and A ]. Wilkin-
son, Keokuk Iowa; Treasurer, 8. NJ. Strong,
Cleveland, Ohio; Secretary, A. 3. Merriman,
~. n .-NT - A D.kf
son, Louisville; James E. Davis, Detroit;
John MeKesson, New York; James Richard
son, St. Louis, and ]. L. Lyons, New Orleans.
PAYNE, charged with bribery by Juror
Brown, was held in the sum OF $4,000 for his
appearance before the Grand Jury at Washing
ton.
WILLIAM MCLENDoN, Sam Stafford
and William Starr, negroes, were killed by the
caving in of q sand bank on the line OF the
Macon & Brunswick Railroad, near Macon,
Georgia, on the sth.
THERE were seven new cases of fever
and one death at Pensacola on the 7th.
BREvEr MAJoR-GENERAL RICHARD
ARNOLD, for a long time on the staff of Gen.
eral Hancock, died at Governors Island, New
York, on the sth.
A FEMALE inmate of the Erie County,
| Pa, almshouse was burned to death on the
sth, her clothes catching fire from pipe she
was smoking. She was in a room by herself
and, being blind, could not find assistance
promptly.
The body of r T. Simpson, citizen
Of Pittsburgh, was found in a poal of blood
on Liberty Street, that city, on the morning
/ of the Sth. His face and head were cut and
blood had been issuing from his ears and nos.
/ trils- 1t was supposed that he had been muir
| dered in a house near by and the body carried
| into the street and placed where found. Three
women, named Mrs. Wright, Clara Warren
and Mrs: Davidson, inmates OF a suspected
house, were arrested ON suspicion of having
committed the crime
A DISPATCH from Albany, N. Y, on
the 9th states that the New York and Erie
Canal would be closed on December7.
THE Treasury Department on the 9th
delivery at the United States mints for COIN
age
| F. N. BAssETT, of Connecticut, has
been designated as Acting Chief Clerk of the
Post-offiee Department
PROFESSOR BAIRD, of Washington, is
making arrangements to send to the London
Exposition, t be held IN May next, an elsbo-
raie exhibit of American life-saving apparatus.
FRANK II. SMALL, charged with con-
spiracy to corrupt the jurymen in the Star
route trial, at Washington, was placed under
$1,000 bonds on the 9th to await the action Of
the Grand Jury.
JOHN w. BURNS, proprietor of the
Shelbyville, Ind, VolU'ltesr, was shot on the
night of the Sth while on his way homo from
his office by some unknown person. His
wound was not serious.
WILLIE EARL, aged twelve years, pur-
chased q revolver, and In company with two
other boys of about his own age, attended a
variety show at Detroit on the night of the
Sth. In the morning he was found dead IN q
shed with bullet hole in his forehead. His
companions could not be found.
A DISPATCH from New Orleans on the
9th states that Ex-Msyor Nevin, OF Adrian,
| Mich, who absconded some time since with
which he had unlawfully sold in New York had
| been captured at FL Paso, Texas, and would
be taken back to Michigan for trial. The S., 200
reward offered for his capture expired by lin
itation on the 5th.
THERE were nine new cases of fever
and two deaths at Pensacola on the 9th. The
total number of cases to date were 2,3l9 and
100 deaths.
TEN of the principal business houses
in Nicola, Iowa, were destroyed by fire on the
night of the sth. Loss $4,000 partly In
sured.
The General Assembly of Georgia,
on the 9th, elected Samuel Hall Judge of the
Supreme Court OF that State, vice A NJ. Spen-
Ger, whose term had expired.
LEE, BLOOM & Co., wholesale liquor
dealers OF Louisville, KY, made an assignment
on the 9th. Liabilities SIC, 900; assets $4,000.
A DELEGATION of members of the
Pennsylvania Historical Society went from
Philadelphia to Chester, Pa, on the 9th, and
erected with appropriate ceremonies monu-
mental stone on the spot where William Penn
landed when he first came TO this country.
A FIGHT occurred between the colored
and Irish portion of the population OF Setau-
ket, Long Island, on the night of the 9th, dur
ing which two men and q woman were badly
cut with a razor in the hands OF Stephen John
son. A white man named Muller had his jaw
broken and Samuel Smith, colored, was ter
ribly dubbed. The combatants were rival
operators in q rubber factory at that place
and a fancied injury was the cause OF the
trouble.
The Catholic clergy of the Archdio-
cese of New York met in st. Patrick's Cathe-
dral, that city, on the 9th, for the purpose ol
holding a diocesan synod. The session wal
formally opened with mass, the celebrant being
Archbishop Coningan, assisted by Fatheri
Layelle and Kelley. Cardinal McCloskey pre-
sided over the meeting, which was held will
closed doors.
J CHARLES II. CARRIER, q member OF the
family poisoned at Norristown, Pa, receatlyi
, by eating pie containing arsenic, died on the
, 9th. Some OF the flour from which the pie wa
made has been found to contain arsenic IN
crys' ais of purer quality than usually sold b.
druggists Foul play is suspected.
F The public schools of Birdsboro, Pa.
closed on the 9th, owing to the prevalence o
scarlet fever and diphtheria- In one famil,