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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-20
PROF. r. L. CUMNOCK.
Press Notices.

The ninth entertainment in the Slayton
Lyceum Course took place last night at
Central Music Hail. 1t was a series of
readings by Prof r. L. Cumnock, and the
simple statement of the fact is enough to
satisfy the public to whom he is so we'll
known that the entertainment was we'll
worth attending. He has long been recog-
nized as one of the most judicious and in
telligent of public readers, and each hear
ing only adds to his repute in that regard.
The house was large and appreciative.-
Chicago Times.
1t has been long time since Wilkins
Hall has been filed at an entertainment
as on last evening to hear Prof. r. L. Cum
mock, the -elocutionist Almost every seat
was taken and the audience was one rep,
resenting our best citizens. The reading
was all that was promised, and better than
expected 1t was grand, instructive, pa
thetic, amusing. Everybody went away
pleased and a good sum was realized for
the benefit of the school.-Sycamore Ill)
Press.
Prof Cumnock was greeted with large
house last night, even larger than when he
read here two months ago, and his reading
was fully up to the high standard reached
on that occasion. The selections were as
follows: "1rial Scene" from Merchant OF
Venice; Encounter with an Interviewer
slack Johnstone the Tinkler;" THE Lost
Herr" "Boots at the Holly Tree Inn;'.
'Dot Schmall Vite Lamb ov Mary's;
"Cataline's Defiance:" Father Phil's Sub
scription List" Prof. Cumnock is gen,
tleman of culture, and is by all odds the
finest reader we have ever met. tits cred
table to Beloit to greet such a man with
so laage an audience. We trust he will
favor our city with another visit soon
Beloit (Wis) Daily Outlook.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-20
A Word I'm Season.

Our foreign subscribers will greatly OBJ
ige us by renewal and payment of arrear-
ages in subscription Sometimes we are
blamed for stopping the paper at expira-
ton of time, the subscriber intending to
remit at his convenience, but neglecting 1t.
If the publisher receives no notice of dis
continuance, and the paper is taken from
the Office, the one receiving it is under OBJ
legation by law as well as by courtesy for
the amount of subscription A local paper
in country town is not started on the same
principle as the city paper. We know a
large number of our subscribers Most of
them would be shocked if payment in
advance was demanded for their home
paper. However, that kind of promptness
is Just as convenient and necessary to the
publisher of the home paper as it is for
your city daily or your religious weekly.
A great many of our resident subscribers
and of those living in townships hereabout
have paid within the last fortnight Now
let us hear from those who are more dis
tant. Send Post Office Order or Draft, and
help us to wish you all Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year with the hearti-
ness that comes from the consciousness OF
receipted bills and q clearly balanced
Ledger.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-20
Scientific Miscellany.

Microscopic vision hasrseparated ruled
lines as fine as 49, 600 to the inch, but ac-
cording to Prof. Rogers, the evidence that
finer lines than that have been resolved
under the microscope is not conclusive.
Herr Gruber has been studying the
sense of hearing in insects, and finds that
cockroaches, beetles, and certain aquatic
insects are very sensitive TO sounds, while
grubs, ants and various water larvae ap-
pear to be unaffected by them
A new substance estimated to possess
from twenty to thirty times the sweetness
of cane sugar, has been described to a Ger
man society by DIR. Constantine Fahlberg.
as -sulphamin-benzoica acid"
The soy bean (Soja hispida) approaches
more nearly TO animal food in its prori-
mate composition than any other known
vegetable production, being singularly
rich in fat and in albuminoids. This bean
forms an important article of food in Japan
and China, where a dozen or more varie-
ties are known. OF late numerous at
tempts have been made to acclimatiZe il
in several European countries, some of the
experiments having been reported quite
successful.
The great red spot on the planet Jupiter
is reported by some observers to be grow
ing fainter, with the prospect of an early
disappearance Others can detect no
change This remarkable object, nearly
80. 900 miles in length and more than 5000
in breadth, which has for more than three
wears maintained its size and shape with
out material change while moving across
Jupiter's surface, is still source of much
perplexity to astronomers.
Philosophers have told us that all ener-
gy upon the earth must have been brought
into existence by solar influence. Prof.
Uilne has, however, called the attention
of the Seismological Society of japan to
the fact that one vast reservoir of energy,
quite independent of the sun, has been
overlooked-viz., the earth's internal heat.
1t is not impossible that the surface out
groupings of this inexhaustible supply of
FOREGROUND in volcanoes, hot springs and
the like-may in the near future be used
to generate electricity for transmission to
ieighboring cities, where it may be put to
practical service.
Recent evidence seems to indicate that
vegetable matter may, under certain con-
ditions, be converted into coal much more
rapidly than many geologists have believ-
ed to be possible. At least an approach to
such conversion has been discovered in
the mines of the Upper Hartz in Germany,
where some of the timbers originally used
as supports have been changed into sub
stance which appears to be a genuine lig-
mite, or brown coal. 1t is believed that the
process cannot have extended beyond four
centuries-a very brief period compared
with that usually assigned to coal forma-
tiOns.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-20
FOREIGN rNTELLIGENCx.

TIE Pail Mall Gazette Of the 18th says that It
was authorized to state that Gladstone had
resigned the ChancelIorship of the Exchequer,
and that Right Honorable Hugh O, Childers.
Secretary OF War, had been appointed to sue
ceed him.
The paupers In the Vienna, Austria, work
house, revolted on the 18th. They attacked
the Warden and fired the buildings. The
military was called out and suppressed the
revolt.
AN explosion of q powder magazine at
Guaysquil, Ecuador, recently, killed sixty per-
sons.
TIE mental arrangement Of the Sultan Of
Turkey is becoming more apparent every day.
PATRICK JOYCE, Myles Joyce and Patrick
Casey, convicted of the murder Of the Joyce
family, were hanged In the jail yard at Dublin
on the 18th The prison inside and outside
was heavily guarded. Myles Joyce protested
his innocence to the last.
THE British bark Lsngrig Hall was wrecked
of the coast of Wexford, England, on the
18th, and twenty-four OF the crew lost Only
two were saved.
IT was reported at Paris on the 10th that
Prince Krapotkine, the well-knovn Nihilist,
had been arrested at Thonon, France, and was
subsequently released on parole.
The changes in the British Cabinet were
completed on the 10th and the following Min
isters took the oath of Office before the Queen
in council: Lord Derby, Secretary Of State for
the Colonies; Lord Kimberly, Secretary OF
State for India; Lord Harrington, Secretary
OF State for War; Right Hon. Hugh c. Child
ers, Chancellor Of the Exchequer.
The United States diplomatic agent pre-.
sented his credentials to the Khedive on the
18th. Friendly assurances were exchanged.
TIE Hematite Iron Company, OF Maryport,
England, has failed. Liabilities e2o0, 900.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-20
Lameness in Horses.

The subject of lameness in horses is
one of much Importance, affecting the
safety, comfort and interests of a large
portion of the public. 1t is of so COM
mon occurrence, varying in cause, local
lty, and character, the cases in which
fore feet and legs are involved, compris-
ing by far the greater number of all
cases of lameness in the horse, and are
those, moreover, most easily prevented
and cured, being produced by causes
possible of avoidance. The word lame.
ness, as applied to the horse, seems to
have lost some of its force of meaning,
since the very commonness of the af.
fection reconoiles people to it. When the
word is applied to a man or a dog, il
conveys the impression that the iudivid.
,ual or animal is suffering pain; when
Iapplied to a horse usually it seems to
lconvey no such impression. The horse
lean not give utterances, neither does he
wince; but his witheced countenance
Indicates as much agony as the language
tof man can express. Lameness exists
i'm the horse in indefinite variety as 10
degree-from that of an intensely acute
suffering, to one in which the altered
action of the animal is not at :ce and
by all seen. Hence different terms are
iuseO 10 express mOQtncatlOnS IN the IN.
tensity of affliction.
We sometimes hear that horse goe.
a little short and stiff, or thai he trips
or stumb,es. Among racing mln we
are informed that hor g has lnst his
form of going-that his speed has left
him, etc. All these vague terms, anu
motions prevailing respecting them, tend
90 perpetuate the mysterious ignorance
in which the whole subject has hitherto
been enyeloped. As a general rule, the
fore legs of horses do not give way until
after the feet have suffered from the eff
fects of shoeing. So soon as the due
proportion of the different parts of the
horses foot one to another, and the re-
lative connection with the limb, are de.
stroyed by shoeing, uneasiness is pro-
duced, which in degree depends on the
kind and amount of exertion the animal
is made to undergo, and consequent in
Jury. As consequence, not only the
parts within the hoof, but ligaments,
tendons, and bones suffer-the whole
limb, in a word, becomes disturbed
Prairie Farmer.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-20
LATER NEWS.

GEORGE JONES, aged but sixteen
years, was found guilty OF murder In the first
degree at Pittsburgh, on the 18th, for taking
the life of John Foster.
THE press house of Latin & Rand's
powder works at Mountain View, eight miles
from Paterson, N. j., exploded on the 18th,
killing BRYAN Tansey, Henry Kuhl and John
White. The buildings for miles around were
shaken and not one pane OF glass In the
neighborhood was left whole.
The new National Petroleum Ex-
shange at New York was opened on the 18th.
HERR JOHN MOST. the German agi-
tator, who was lately imprisoned in England,
arrived at New York on the 18th. He was met
on his landing by the local Revolutionary
Clubs, Socialists and members of the Iuierna-
tional Workingmep's Association. A mass
meeting was held In Cooper's Institute In the
evening.
The United States Supreme Court
rendered decision at Washington on the 18th
in the political assessment case OF Curtis. The
constitutionality OF the law under which Cur
tbs was convicted was affirmed and the petition
for writ of hGbeds corpus denied.
A CIRCULAR was issued from the
Treasury Department on the 18th suspendng
the exchange OF three-and-a-half per cent.
until February l, 1888 Interest on the bonds
exchanged after February will be adjusted
to and from that date.
In the Senate on the 18th Mr.. Sher-
man reported from the Committee on Finance
an amendment to the whisky bill extending
the bonding period two years, and gave notice
that he would call up the matter at an early
day. Mr.. Logan presented a number of peti-
tions from citizens of Chicago prayinR for
prompt action on the tobacco bill Mr. Lap
ham introduced a bill to increase the pay of
Chaplains In the army. Tho bill relieving
of Good Hope was taken up and passed.
MIR. Pugh gave notice OF an amend
effect that all persons in the civil seryic. shall
be subjected to the operations Of the bill: that
officers shall be distributed geographically;
that persons appointed shall be bHLi hde citi-
zens of the States or Territories from which
they are selected, without reference to their
political opinions or party Affiliations, etc. The
Representative Orth were laid before the Sem
ate, and a committee was appointed to attend
the funeral. The Senate then adjourned
nn-iaS saS me sh me p 0ommittee re,
IL was made the special order for January 3
next. Mr.. Butterworth offered a resolution
ton of reducing abolishing the Internal
revenue tax on tobacco has greatly injured
and continues to inJure the trade of that arti-
Gle, and that an allowance or rebate on the
stock on hand will prevent any damage to the
trade mentioned, and declaring that ii
be the sense OF the House that in case the
to reduce or abolish the internal revenue tax
on tobacco, that provisit n shall be made for
allowing rebate of the tax paid on the stock
on hand ut the time such laws 20 into effect,
provided that such stock Is stamped and in
unbroken packages; referred. The resolution
for a recess from the 22d to January 3, was
adjourned out of respect to the memory of its
late member, Godlove 3. Orth.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-20
HOME AND FARM.

Prof. Shelton, of the Colorado Ag-
ricultural College, sends East stalk Of
corn fully sixteen feet high, with the ear
| located ten feet from the root
Cows in milk require but little ex-
ercise to maintain good health. The
| quieter they remain the richer their milk
will be in butter. Chicago Journal.
Kitchen tables may be made as
| white as snow il washed with hard soap
and wood ashes. Floors look best scrub
bed with cold water, soap and wood
ashes.
1t is cheaper, as well as more hu-
name, says the Farm Journal, to pro-
long with good care the lives and SER
vices of the horses we have, than to
wear them out and buy others.
AN English lady, in putting Goals
On the fire in a sick room where the pa
tient is asleep, has paper bags full of
the Goals, which are readily and noise:
lessly handled.
Reports come from many places of
| the death of farm animals caused by
eating flax straw. The lint forms a
| compact mass in the stomach. Cattle
| often eat large quantities of the straw
in order to get the seed that remains in
it, and find it difficult to digest it.-C1i-
cGgo Times.
The honey market is assuming
greater Importance every year. Now
that the foreign trade is clearly estab-
lished the demand is almost unlimited,
and no fears are entertained of Cutting
the markets. At present the home mar
kets are fully supplied, but the foreign
demand will soon reduce them and in
crease prices Chicago Tribune.
The feet and. legs of horses require
more care than the rest of the BODY.
They must not be allowed to stand in
filth and moisture, and in grooming a
horse the feet and legs must be as thor
oughly brushed and cleaned as the coat.
A little oil cake mixed with the food
will give a glossiness to the skin and
have good effect on the healthy. Y.
| Herald.
Sets as well as large onions, according
to the american Garden, should be kept
as dry and cool as possible, without
being actually frozen, although they are
not injured materially by frost, provi-
ded they are not handled while frozen.
If spread on a tight barn floor and COW
cred thickly with chaff or cut straw,
they will keep till spring.
Sweet Potatoe Pie: Boil the pota-
|
colander. Add milk till it is thin enough,
and for every quart of the mixture add
three well beaten eggs, with sugar and
seasoning to taste. Line the bottom o.
pie plates with paste, fill with the mix
ture and bake. These are a very good
substitute for squash and pumpkin pies.
NJ y. Tribune.
Few farmers stop to consider, writes
the editor of the CalticdLor, how much
of fertilizing matter is annually wasted
about the farm, nor the expense incur.
red in purchasing the same materials in
other forms. Thus in the apparently
Insignificant matter of corn cobs is ar
item worth saving. If the accumulation
OF corn cobs were gathered up and
thrown into the hog pen, they would
by the next spring, be reduced to ma
nure. 1t has been estimated in the corr
cobs grown in this country last yeal
were upwards of two hundred thousand
pounds of potash.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-20
Some but not Forgotten.

Colonel" )" the handsome, black New
foundland, who had an honored place in
this-office, was the private property of the
foreman, and the pet of everyone around
him, We are sorry to say has prematurely
paid the debt of nature, and on account of
an inordinate appetite for mutton. He
made himself feast of this kind in MIR.
Phelps flock, and his owner decided not
to trust in a possible reformation, and he
was handed over to the swift and certain
curative of capital punishment.
LED like a victim to his death he went" !"
but though "unknelled, uncofined," and
pretty much unknown" he was not un-
wept, for he had in his short day made
gentle friends who sincerely mourned the
lapse of morals that made necessary his
untimely taking off Medium-sized and
small dogs, mot to mention those of his own
stature, patrol his beat with resigned, even
cheerful confidence since they miss him
there. Small boys who haunt the press
room in search of stray bits of card board,
do not hustle so breathlessly down the
stairs, since his formidable shape startles
not their vision from his shadowy berth on
the lower deck of a frame"
| All hands about the Office miss the gruff
bark, the cold nose, the warm lick, the
muddy paw, and the friendly wag that
gave notice that Colonel was around.
Even in his infirmities he was human.
Men yield to baser appetites than this
playful lamb-like love for which he perish
ed, and for it are not so ignominiously
slain. A dog who had smelled ink, and
shifted at paste, and dI Ieamed under type
metal, and listened to the Devils rhapso-
dies over copy every day since he could
remember, is entitled to more than para
graph in common prose when making
up his CASE" and Macbeth has been put
to baser uses than this when ofour depart
ed "ColoneP' we say:
'sAfter life's htful fever, he sleeps well;
Justice has done its worst; nor steel, nor poison
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,
Can touch him further.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-20
PhariseeisIn.

The political reformer cannot escape the
sneer of Phariseeism. But it will not
cling to him if it is not deserved. The rob-
Der in the dock, conscious that whatever
the verdict may be, public opinion, famil-
lar with the facts and evidence, will brand
him as guilty, may rail at the reformer
who calls theft, theft, and swindling, swind-
ling, and revile him at his will. But to-
morrow the world will have forgotten that
the reformer was called a Pharisee, while
it will never forget that his traducer was
a thief. Stealing is still theft, and swind-
ling is cheating, and lying is deceit; and
if man is frightened from saying so be-
cause swindler or liar calls him a
Pharisee, he is only a coward in good
cause. The very frequency and bitterness
of the sneer, however, show that it is effec-
tive. There is no more familiar appeal in
a political speech than that which is di-
rected against the Pharisee. Denunciation
of Phariseeism is often the mere angry
scream of conscious guilt. Its sarcasm
and yituperation, its acrid ill-temper and
stormy rhetoric are but the writings of
David under the stern finger and convict
ing tongue OF Nathan.-EditorsE Easy Chair
Harper's Magazine.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-20
THE EAST.

PRINCE AREzAeAwA, uncle to the Emperor
of Japan, and General in the Japanese army,
arrived At New York on the 18th. He comes
to inspect American institutions and see The
American Congress in session.
The business failures throughout the coun-
try for the week ending the 18th, numbered
2OS, compared with 100 the previous week. OF
these "a were in the Eastern Sta'e, 60 In the
Western, Al in the South-rn, 80 in the Middle,
Il in the Pacific States aud Territories, IS in
Canada and IL in New York City. The fall
ures of the week generally were not so large
in the amount OF liabilities or so important Is
in the previous week.
THE District Court of Philadelphia on the
14,h required Keeley to disclose the secret OF
his motor-power to one of the company, which
he did to William Boclxel. Mr.. Bockel, in
making his report to the stockholders, stated
that Keeley's experiments have carried him
far beyond the laboratory experiments OF such
men as Tyndall and other scientists, and
had succeeded in utilizing power which was
to them only q subject OF scientific won
der. He has discovered that wa er IN its
natural state is capable of being by VI
b atory action, disiniegrated so that its MOLE
cular structure Is broken up, and q gas or
ether evolved which Is capable of an expansive
energy of more than $4,000 pounds to the
square inch. Mr.. Kelley has constructed
three engines, but none we're satisfactory, and
was engaged on a four h, a vibratory engine
of 500 horse power. Mr.. Bockel did not de-
scribe the mechanism, bat said emph1tically
that the inventor had discovered all he claimed.
JoHN G. WHITTIER celebrated his seventy
fifty birthday at Boston Oh the 17th- He re-
ceived many tokens from different parts of the
country aid England.
GEORGE J. RICE, President of the Utica,
Ithica & Elmira Railroad, was arrested at New
York City on the 10Th on the charges OF
forgery, overissue of stock and embezzlement.
twas charged that there was a discrepancy
in his accounts of from 100000 to 5000
The prisoner resided at Elmira, New York.
CHARLES DERBY, a noted botanist Of Salem,
Mass, formerly q resident of the Sandwich
Islands, was taken to the almshouse at Boston,
on the 10th, suffering from leprosy. he had
lost his eyesight and could not, 1t was thought,
live many days.
HAYS planning mill on the South Side, at
ittsburgh, was burned on the 18th. Nearly
200 feet OF seasoned lumber was also de-
stroyed. Loss $50, 900; insured for $4,000.
AN engine on the Cumberland 81 Pennsy!
vania Railroad blew out the crown sheet q,
Cumberland, Nd, on the 10th, terribly sc Id
Ing the engineer, George Reilley, Frank Car
afne and Henry Miller, the two former died,
and Reilley was not expected to liYe.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-20
WARRINGTON.

SECRETARY CHANDLER received the follow
ing telegram on the 14th from Lieutenant
Haber, who has been in search of Lieutenant
Chipp and party of the Jeanette crew. The
dispatch was dated at Bulun, September 10:
The Jeanette men, in charge Of Ensign
Hunt, are proceeding to Jakutska. Schultze
and remain to complete the search of the
coast by sleds. Ne trace OF Chipp's party has
yet been discovered, ] VIII reach Irkutsk the
middle of December"
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th states
that private information had been received
that notwithstanding the apparent improve
ment OF Ex-senator Hendricks health, his
recovery was almost hopeless. Senator Voor-
hees stated that Mr.. Hendricks himself had
told him that he had but little hope OF ever
recovering. The disease had been arrested
where it first showed itself, but It was liable
TO break out again at any time. The diff
Guilty is senile gangrene, and physicians say
that there is no record of any case Of recov-
cry.
18th the nomination of Colonel Robert Murray
to be Colonel and Assistant Surgeon General
of the United States army.
TIE Secretary Of the Treasury decided on
the 10th that Chinaman residing at Pit g.
ourgh coulo not oring in'o tnls country, unuer
the Chinese restriction act, q wife that he in
tended to marry in China, though, 10 he was
already married aud his wife was-in China, she
could come.
GENERAL SHERMAN, it is stated, will give
up the active command of the army next fall,
after making up his annual report and closing
up his affairs.
ABOUT $40 Southern matrimonial and vital
associations have been placed on the black list
of the Post-office Department and pos masters
instructed to return to the senders all money
orders addressed to these associations.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR accepted on the 10th
200 miles in Arizona and fifty miles in Indian
Territory of the new railroad of the Atlantic
& Pacific.