The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-04-19
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authority on fruit, says the damage to fruit
throughout Central Illinois is much greater
than is generally supposed.
THE Council Bluffs NonpGria publishes re-
ports of the wheat crop from western Iowa,
which show that little winter wheat has been
sown but the prospect is very iattering. No
locality reports less wheat sown than last year
and In some cases the acreage Is thirty-three
and one-third per cent. greater.
The annual Ohio crop report for 1882 Is now
in press and viii be issued soon. In addition
TO tables giving carefully condensed estimates
by counties of wheat, rye and barley, old
wheat and corn on hand, the condition Of
farm stock and prices Of wages, 1t viii con-
tain careful and comprehensive review of
the wheat situation inIthe great wheat export
ing States by Secretary W. /. Chamberlain and
Of the exports and probable export demand.
It shows that we had 13s, ,0Oo, 600 bushels less
wheat to export from the crop Of 1881 than
from that Of 1880; our real surplus is already
more than exhausted; that what we export
from now till August must be the squeezing
Of the sponge; that the fact that the ocean
steamers are paying a premium on wheat to
use as ballast shows that the expert stock is
exhausted; that the present probabilities for
the winter wheat States are better than year
ago, but not SO good as two years ago, and
that prices are likely to remain firm, even
after harvest. The Secretary does not regard
the effects of the heavy freeze as alarming,
though it may diminish the general average
some three or four per cent
Mrs. BoYNToN, mother of DR.. Boynton,
and sister of 'tGrandma" Garfield, died at
Hiram, Ohio, on the 14th.
TIE high water did great damage at Fargo,
Dakota, on the 18th and 14th- The loss, it is
estimated, will not fall below 500, 900. The
Union and Grandine elevators, full of grain,
were in great danger of falling, being under
mined bv the water. ens. 1t aI
A JUDGMENT for $4,000 was rendered by
the United States Court against the city Of
Watertown, Ill, few days ago, for the inter
est on its railroad debt. The Mayor and four
teen Aldermen met on the 10th, levied tax
for next years expenses, and then resigned to
prevent service. s-..,. .--
FORTY masked men took two negroes, Henry
| Ivy and Sam Acoff, from the guard at Browns
Station on the 18th and hung them They
were concerned in the brutal murder of an old
| man named Wissenger, and Ivy made volun-
tary written confession Of his guilt.
AT Sedalia, Mo-, q number of persons who
| were in the same Division with Jesse James
when he was q soldier in the regular Confed-
crate service, started q subscription for his
4 widow and children. Over $3.50 was raised.
The Ohio Republican State Central Commit
tee held q session on the 14th and resolved to
hold the State Convention at Columbus on
June z. The ratio Of representatives from the
! several counties win be one delegate for every
| Eve hundred votes cast for Governor Foster
last fall and one additional delegate for every
fraction Of two hundred and fifty and over.
A LETTER from KirbYville, In one of the
southern counties of Missouri, says that o
good deal Of horse stealing had been done in
that section lately, and that few days ago
three men, ringleaders in the depredations,
were hunted down and hanged by party OF
citizens. The names of the men are not known
but they are believed to have belonged to Green
/ County, that State.