The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-03
THE EAST.


RALPH WALDO EMRRsoN died at his home
At Concord, Mass, on the evening of the
9th. A if $50
PkRTIKs from Ohio are leasing large tracts
OF land between Erie and Edinboro, Pa, and
Intend to work rich veins of anthracite
coal, which they claim to have discovered
there, the presence of which had never been
suspected. fri7g
RoBEEr MORRIS accidently shot his brother,
Andrew Morris, while hunting In the Salem
woods, near Carbondale, Pa, on the e6th.
The water-power Of Niagara is to be utilized
TO generate electricity to be conveyed in cables
70 stIty-hve cities and towns between Boston
and Chicago. GGfHcsss'di .alA
TIE weekly record of failures for the week
ending 2sth ult., shows ITO throughout the
whole country, a decrease OF IA compared with
last week. The Eastern States had 10; West
ern, 81; Southern, 30; Middle, %; Pacific coast
and Territories, 9, and New York City, s.
True bills for conspiracy to defraud were
returned BY the Grand Jury of Dauphin Coun-
ty, Pa, ON the 2sth ult., against Henry L.
Acker, President of the State Capital Mutual
Assessment Insurance Company, and George
II. oyerter, E &. Meals, H. L. Bowers, Corne-
hus Smith and Henry II. Overter, Directors Of
the Company. The Company with which these
men were connected WIS the third largest
graveyard Insurance. association In the State.
3 COLONEL GEORGE w. PArTEN, veteran OF
the Mexican war, died at Houlton, Me-, on the
EXCEPTIONS were fled in the Dauphin Coun-
ty Court at Harrisburg, Pa, on the 28th ult,
to the hedecision of Judge Simenton in the suit
against the Standard on Company for the re-
coyery Of taxes aggregsting nearly $500 900,
on which ciain, the court awarded the State
only about $4,000 The exceptions filed will
affect all the principal rulings of the court.
The case win be heard BY the Supreme Court
In June. .7.r ~, - t-a..rE {--
TIE following Is the statement Of the asso-
ciated banks Of New York City for the week
ending 29th ult.; Loans increase, 81 800, 700;
specie increase, sl,s54, 900; legal tenders in
crease, t966, 900; deposits increase, $3.50, 40O
circulation decrease, s494, 800; reserve increase
8, ,s4805o. The banks now hold $40. s95, 600 IN
excess Of the legal requirements.
Two internal machines were found In the
United States mail bag at New York on the
evening Of the 29th ult. addressed to Gyms
w. Field and W. II. Vanderbilt. One exploded
in the bag on the Elevated Railroad with
loud report, .discoloring the mail matter and
scorching the leather pouch They were paste
board boxes, and cantai9ed canister of
powder With an electric attachment. No clue
to the perpetrators. ,f ja, IA. af,l,
The remains Of Ralph Waldo Emerson were
inferred at Concord, Mass, on the SOth ult
Rev. DR., ,Haskins read the Episcopal burial
service. Addresses were made by Judge
Rockwell Hoar, James Freeman Clarke, A.
Bronson Alcott and others The pail bearers
were DIR. Edward Emerson, Colonel W. II.
Forbes, DR.. Hover Emerson, of New York,
DR.. Charles Emerson, Of Concord, Professor
Edward Thayer, Of the Cambridge Law School,
Ralph Forbes, L. William Thayer, ]. Elliott
Cabal, the literary executor of the dead
philosopher, Charles W. Slack and Henry
James.