The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-08
DOMESTIC

DOMESTIC
The Selectmen of Natick, Mass, in
Issuing their warrant for the election this year
unthinkinsly copied last years. warrant, and
there was no clause calling for the election of
a County Treasurer, County Commissioner
for three years, nor Congressman, and the
town must therefore lose the votes for these
officers. The matter will be taken to the next
Legislature.
CHIEF NIMMo, of the Bureau of Sta
tistics, issued a statement on the LIST which
show that of the immigration to this country
for the previous three m 'nths Germany has
furnished more than double the number COM
from Ger Germany any were we're 50 'sli; from England and
Wales, 2, 239; from Ireland, 1927; from
Sweden, II, ,592.
The United States mints executed the
following amounts of coinage during the
month of October: Gold, %, 474, 900; silver,
s2,37l 200; minor coin, $79, 100; total, S. 924,
100; $265,9l7 in silver five cent pieces had
been transferred from the Treasury to the
Philadelphia mint to be coined to Q like
amount In dimes. ..-.
JOHN GROSS, a colored boot-black of
Brooklyn, N. Y, was put in possession of
$4,000 worth of real estate in that city by the
Sheriff on the 1st, under a decision of the
Court OF Appeals. The property belonged to
his father thirty years ago.
The following statement of the public
debt was issued from the Treasury Department
on the LIST: Decrease of the public debt during
the month of October, SIS, ,629, IS0.55; cash In
Treasury, $275, $50, 1896; available cash in
Treasury, Sl5i 145, ,2S7. .13; gold certificates out
COZ, 40; currency certificates, sq, 945,0O0; re-
funding certificates, 1923, $50; frac ional cur
rency outstanding, s., ,026, 1871; legal tenders
outstanding, s346, ,ol6.
The New York Central Railway
freight house at Rochester, n. Y, and ten
freight cars, some of them loaded, were burned
on the lst. The goods in the receiving ware
house were nearly all saved Loss 100000.
THE Ontario House, Baer's store, J.
w. Ross grocery, Fuller's clothing store and
several other buildings, were burned at Fort
Grstiot, Mich, on the 1st-
MAJOR PHILIP SPEED, prominent
merchant of Louisville, KY, died on the LIST,
in the sixty third year of his age. He served
during the late war as Paymaster in the United
States Army and was an intimate friend of
President Lincoln. After that he was Collec-
tor OF Internal Revenue for the gainesville
district He was brother Of James Speed,
Attorney General In Mr.. Lincoln's Cabinet.
Ex-GovERNoR JAMES +. ROBINSON, of
Kentucky, died at his home in Scott County,
that Stale, on the 3lst ult.
In the case of Koeler & Lang VS.. John
Hill, in the District Court at Davenport, Iowa
on the 27th ult-, Judge Walter l. Hays pre-
siding, who held his decision until the 1st gave
It as his opinion that the amendment had not
been legally made part of the Constitution of
the State. The case was really brought as a test
OF the Constitutional prohibitory amendment,
passed by q popular vote last June. The
plaintiffs are brewers, and sold beer amount
ing to S113 to a saloon-keeper, who refused
payment on the ground that the bill
could not be collecfed by law. Judge
Hays decision IS chiefly on the ground
that the journals of the Legislature do
not contain the act In full on their pages, aud
do not contain the ayes and nays taken upon
the same, and that according to the journals
Assembly, WAS in its terms prohibitory of the
sale or manufacturing of liquor, not only
as a beverage but also "to be used, and hence
prohibited 1t and Its use for any and all pur-
poses, even sacramental, medical, etc, but as II
passed the House OF the Eighteenth General
Assembly, It was in terms merely prohibitory
of liquor as q beverage. In these respects,
therefore, the requirements Of the Constitu-
ton providing for the manner Of amendment
have been disregarded- The journals do not
contain proper entries, and the same acts have
not passed both Houses OF the two Legisla-
lures
THE house of Curtis Lapman, a farmer
living one mile west OF Troupsburg, N. Y,
his little children, who were left alone in the
house, were burned to death.
The Navy Department was informed
on the 2d by Rear Admiral Crosby, who is
commanding the South American station, that
the United States transit Of Venus party, en-
route to Santa Cruz Uid Liverpool and Monte
vedio, had not yet reached the latter place. Ad-
miral Crosby awaits their arrival at Monteve-
dio with the flagship Brooklyn to convey them
tn Santa CrnZ If IL ihnnOht 10 RI vrflI
arrive in time to make the point Of observa-
ton before the transit occurs in December.
As Fred Welsh, an old man living east
of Millersburgh, Ohio, was driving along the
road near that place on the 1st, his horse was
attacked by boar and SO injured that It died.
The buggy was upset and Mr.. Welsh severely
injured. He would have been killed had not
the hog been driven away.
GOVERNOR STEPHENS, of Georgia, en-
phatically asserts that he is not q candidate for
United States Senator.
APARTY of negroes engaged in des-
crate encounter near Charlotte, N. c., on the
1st- All were armed with razors and nearly
every one concerned in the affray was more or
less injured. Nose McMullen's head was
nearly severed from his BODY, George Miller
and Zeke Taylor was frightfully cut on all
parts of the body.
HAIR & ADIvINE, for the past fifteen
years the heaviest lumber shippers of Chicago,
made an assignment on the 1st. Liabilities,
Il is said, will reach S, 600 900; assets about
500, 200. Jesse Spaulding, from whom the
firm purchased its lumber, and the Bank Of
Illinois, are the chief creditors.
LOUIS HIRsCHBERGER, whose father
is the senior member of large commission
firm Of Chicago, was arrested and held in
s., 900 bonds for forgery on the ID. He says
he was urged to the crime by the use Of
opium.
THE estimates for the appropriations
for the municipal expenses Of New York City
for 1888 foot up SIS, ,S27, ,s64 The heaviest item
Is 8, ,092, ,S57, interest on the city debt. The
common council cost s6s, $50, and the mayor
ality $4,000 Coroner's and sheriff's fees are
$50, 900 each, and election expenses sl62, $50.
The estimates for the present year aggregated
So, as, ,S3f.
JOSEPH BUTLER was arrested at North
Adams, Mass, on the ID, for committing an
outrage upon three OF his little neices. aged
seven, eight and nine years; Two Of the little
girls were on visit from Wflliamstown, that
State, and the other lived In North Adams.
MARY A. D. LoBDELL was awarded
$6,975 damages against the Union Street Rail-
way Company, Providence, r. l., on the I'd,
for injuries received in collision. The acci-
dent occurred on Sunday and the defense
pleaded that contrae s TO carry passengers on
Sunday were void.
The firm of Richardson, Boynton &
Co., stove dealers Of New York, made an as
signment on the I'd. The preferences are all
in promissory notes amounting to $6O0 600.
The business will be carried on by stock
company.
WILLIAM P. RUSSELL, paying teller of
the Pennsylvania Company, for insurance of
lives and granting innuitles in Philadelphia,
has absconded with discrepancies in his ac-
counts amounting to over $4,000. He had
been connected with the institution for the