The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-29

wears OI age. f.JSofDl Ncfc ICbufHCu ~ ullaOic
10 read and 8, 239, ,95S as unable to write. The
per cent. OF those unable 10 read is 1874 and OF
those unable to write IL.
The Comptroller of Currency, on the
23d, authorized the Sioux Falls National
Bank, OF the Territory of Dakota, and the First
National Bank of Lexington, Illinois, 10 begin
business with capital Of 5000 each.
THE Postmaster General has decided
that canned meats In soldered tin cans weigh
ing not over four pounds viii be admitted into
the mails as fourth class matter at postage
of sixteen cents per pound.
A MALIGNANT type of diphtheria has
made its appearance in Miller on, n. Y,
a small town near Poughkeepsie. The schools
were closed on the 2lst and families were
leaving the place.
r. r. SIsK, grain broker at Harris
burg, Pa, is said TO be embezzler to the
amount of $4,000.
CLARK & KEENE's woolen manu-
factory, at PhIladelphia, was burned on the
23d. Loss shout s1l0, 600. Priestly & Brother,
manufacturers OF dress goods, and Wedley &
fellow, cotton manufacturers, adjoining, were
also partially burne out The whole loss Is
estimated at S15O. 200.
b. II. PEAsLoE, a leading merchant
of Naperville, Illinois, was arrested and placed
under 81 900 bail on the 23d, accused of being
the party who entered the house of z. Vert,
near that place, a few days before, and shoot
ing an infant child and Kate Geumbine, who
were in bed together. Both will recover, but
Mrs. Vert, the mother Of the child, is In a
critical condition from the shock. 1t Is claimed
that the accused entered the house and COM
mitted the crime while under the influence OF
liquor.
Mrs. WEIGH, an aged woman, was
arrested at Chicago on the 23d r the larceny
of trivial article from one Of the stores OF
that city. She is the widow OF Charles Wclch,
once q millionaire distiller, who lost his
fortune by the great fire. She has eked out
an existence since and supported her child,
but both were literally starving and she stole
piece of towelinR which she hoped to pawn
for bread.
JULIAN SPENCER, a collector for Cos
sage & Co., Chicago, absconded on the 23d
with s., 900 belonging to the firm He was
the sole dependence of his widowed mother.
The Labor Congress which held its
second annual session at Cleveland, Ohio, aG-
journei OF the oath, to meet in New York
City on the third Tuesday of August next.
MARY LONG, widow aged eighty-one
years, who lived alone on the Brookville pike,
near Indianapolis, was fund dead in her
house on the 23d- She had committed suicide.
JOHNSON SrANEIELD, laborer, was
torn to pieces at Springfield, Tenn, on the
23d, by a circular saw.
A BAND of mounted desperadoes rode
up to group of railroad hands who had con-
gregated around the depot at Pueblo, Colo
RADIO, on the ed, and without any provocation
began firing int them, killing one and wound
ing two Others. Several OF the murderers
we're subsequently captured.
b. II. CRAPsTEI, for the past twelve
years postmaster at Shelbyvin KY, was found
living dead in tn barn on his premises on tn
morning of the 23d, with BUILT hole through
his h ad and a pistol by his side, indiratii 9
that he had shot himself with suicidal intent.
He was a man of high standin :, and no reason
for the act is known to exist. He leaves q
family.
A SPECIAL from Morris, Stevens
County, Mimi, on the ed says that J. D.
Goods aud Mack & Buckle STEMS stores and
several other buildings We're destroyed by fire.
The loss will b. in the nei.hborhood Of $50,
| 900.
GENERAL WILLIAM FREDERICK Nc
Carly, who recently died IN India, willed his es
tate OF ,000, 900 rupees to his nephew, William
McCarty, who sailed from Livcrp oil for New
York forty years ago. Numbers OF newspaper
advertisements In England and this country
| failed to produce the heirs, but John and
| Pa rick McCarty, laborers, of Brocton, Mass,
Carly, and sailed from Liverpool about that
time, afterwards residing in New York, have
taken steps to procure the estate.
THE special census bulletin issued on
the 2Sd contains table Of statistics compiled
from the census returns of 1850, and relating
| to all the manufacturing industries (except
/ gas) in each I the States and Terri ories
/ This table shows that there were in the United
States 253, Observation-Disclosures, employing 2, ,025t
/ 279 males above sixteen years OF age; So, ,15s
/ females above the age of fifteen, and Is, 19c
children and youths; g, 100, 1886 CAPT
tai was invested, and the value o
the materials used amounted to 1884,
| 34O,029; the value of the manufactured
products amounted to $500, ,667, 106, and the
total amount paid In wages during the yea
was S947, ,9l9, ,6I4. New York State lakes the
lead in the number of establishments, capital
invested, etc, with 42,739 establishments
Pennsylvania is second with 81 ,225, and Ohio
Is third with 20,669 establishments. Illinois
has Il, $40, Massachusetts has IA, 1852, Indians
l1,1S9, Michigan s,SI3 Missouri S,592, New
Jersey z, I2S and Iowa 6,92i establishments.
The funeral of Thurlow Weed tool
place on the oath at his late residence in New
York, Rev. Drs. Hall, Paxton and Keinshe
officiating. At the conclusion Of the service
a. the house the funeral cortege was formeS
and proceeded TO the church. As the remains
were taken into the church the choir SAM
"Sleep Thy Last Sleep" Rev. DIR. Paxton
opened the services by reading passsg'
from the Scriptures, after which quar-
trtte from the choir of the church san.
.'Abide With Me-" DIR. John Hall then SPOKE
briefly of Mr.. Weeds long life OF inhuenc
aud the peaceful eyeuingo' rest and quietnes
which had been granted him. The choir theI
sang "NeIrer My God to Thee" and Rev. DR.
Spencer, OF Rochester, then pronounced the
benediction. The remains were taken TO Al
bany for interment. The following gentle
| men acted as pail bearers: General jane
| Watson Webb, e1-Governors Fish and Nor
gan, +. w. Seward, Charles O'Conor, job
d. Van Antwerp, Alfred Vansanford, Johl
McKeon, Isaac Bell and General James Bow
ers-
The business failures throughout tn
country for the week ending the oath nun
bered 157, OF which 143 occurred in the variou
States and fourteen in New York City. Thoug
more numerous than usual, not so many heav
failures were reported as in some previou
weeks, the trouble being largely confined t
the smaller class of traders throughout th
country.
The house of James Ruddy. at Prov
dence, Pa, was burned on the oath. Mr.
Ruddy, in trying to save some money that wa
in The burning building, perished in the flames
CHARLES SUTcLIFF, while cunning
, broke through the ice In Poultney River, {
Troy, N Y, on the 24th, and was drowned
Walter Bertram Shink, going to the assistanC
OF Sutcliff, was also drowned
POSTMASTER GENERAL HOWE signe
acontract with George Ehrlich, of st. Louis
on the oath, for supplying combination lett,
aud envelope which is expected to be put upo
the market in January next. All the pos
offices will be supple with the combinatio
and the sheet, envelope and stamp will be sol
for three cents.
The Interior Department has been il
formed that the Navajo Indians with the
, herds and other property have all returned I
their reservation and that there Is no furtht