The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-13
DOMESTIC.

The observations of the transit of
Venus on the 9th throughout the United
States were not wholly satisfactory. At San
Francisco the day was beautiful and clear and
the results of the astronomers were highly
satisfactory. AT Chicago and st. Louis the
weather was unfavorable and the experiments
comparative failures At New York, Hartford
and Boston the day was generally favor
able and many valuable observations were
taken. At Greenwich Observatory, London
the weather was unusually bad, and in conse-
quence the trans was totally Invisible. The
ultimate object OF these observations was to
ascertain the exact parallax of the sun, and
from this knowledge Che scale Of the solar
system can easily be ascertained and the
distance from the earth n the sun be
established. The United States Govern
ment had es ablished observatory stations at
San Antonio. Texas; Fort Seldom, New
Mexico; Cedar Keys, Florida; Santa Cruz,
Patagonia; Cordova, Chilli; Cape Good Hope
Auckland, New Zealand. The observations at
San Antonio were not wholly successful, the
first two contacts having been lost on account
of Clouds
An Indian Territory special of the 9Th
says: " Indian authorities and Indian Agent
Taft are trying to remove two thousand In
truders from the Creek and Seminole coun-
tries, who have moved in, settled and lived
there long time and occasionally intermar-
ried. Secretary Teller has the matter under
adyisement- II removed it is thought there
win be trouble"
The Shawnee College, near Bedford,
Indiana, was burned on the 5th. A museum
of Indian curiosities attached was also de-
stroyed. Loss $4,000.
In the Court of Criminal Correction
at st. Louis, on the 9th, the case of the State
of Missouri against John A. Cockerell for
murder in the second degree, was stricken
from the docket This was done on account
Of the acton OF the Grand Jury in ignoring
the bill
THE President approved the report of
the Government Commissioner, accepting the
newly completed section of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, comprising l0i miles in Montana,
and including the bridge across the Missouri
River.
REAR ADMIRAL NICHOLSON will be re-
lieved of the command OF the European station
in March next by Commodore Baldwin. 1t is
probable he will be placed on the retired list
A GANG of men commenced the work
on the 9th of examining the lots in the Leb-
anon Cemetery, at Philadelphia, from where
the bodies who were captured the night previ-
Gus were taken, for the purpose Of comparing
the contents with the official interment re-
cords. Grave ID, No. 134, which should have
contained sixty bodies, was found empty.
The authorities OF all the other colored cefne-
teries in that city have determined on a simi-
lar examination. There was grear excitement
among the eolored people and trouble was
feared.
The double-turreted iron monitor,
Puritan, was successfully launched at Chester,
Pa, on the 9th.
DR.. FRANK HAMILTON, one of the
physicians who attended President Garfield,
was living seriously Ill at New York City, on
the 9th, from hemorrhages, and his recovery
was thought doubtful.
THE State Canvassing Board in session
at Columbus, Ohio, on the 9th. declared that
William Mckinley, Jr., was elected to Congress
from the Eighteenth district, over j. H. Wal
lace, by majority of eight votes. They also
declared that Morey was elected from the
Seventh district and Hart from the Twelfth.
MAGGIE WILLIAMS, colored girl nine
years OF age, was suffocated by smoke and
burned to death in q small building in Cincin-
natl on the 9th.
The Governor of Louisiana, after ex-
amining the law and facts in the case, has
given w. P. Kellogg a certificate of his cleo
tion to Congress from the Third District in
that State.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH COOPER, the owner
sippi River, d.ed at New Orleans on the 9th.
The steamboat Morning Star, plying
between New Orleans and Magnolia Plan
tation, exploded her boiler on the morning of
the 9th. or the twenty one persons on board,
three were killed, eight drowned and six badly
II not fatally scalded.
THE National Bank of the State of
New York has dissolved and the Bank of New