The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-10-18

other and Offending the public with the most /
has passed without one or the other appeared |
In some new phase in the courts. Their bills |
were generally of the least possible interest, |
and their quarrels were actively promoted by |
officious outsiders.
PAUL PRINGLE, a colored preacher,
was hanged at Mansfield, Louisiana, on the
18th, for the murder of Alfred Smith. An
immense crowd was present, including Prin-
giles wife and children.
THE tent of religious meeting was
blown down at Alexandria, Texas, on the 18th,
killing one and IA ally injuring several others.
The number of failures reported
throughout the country for the week ending
the 18th numbered 112; of these five were in
New York City and 107 distributed in the vari-
GUS States.
Two little daughters of Louis Wright,
aged twelve and zen years, while passing
through the Boston & Albany freight yard at
Natick, Mass, on the 18th, on their way to
school, were struck by freight tain. The
older girl was instantly killed and the unger
had her right arm cut OF and will probably
die.
HURD's grain elevator at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, was burned on the 18th with several
small bulldogs In the vicinity. The elevator
was supposed to be fire-proof and was filed
with grain at the time. Loss es imated at
SIS, 900.
EUGENE RILEY, q New York City
police officer, was convicted of assaulting and
needlessly clubbing q citizen recently, and
sent to the penitentiary for six months.
The Lighthouse Board have decided
to light He'll Gate, New York, by electricity.
The tower will be $50 feet high.
IT has been proposed to make the
Census Bureau a permanent institution in
connection with the Bureau Of Statistics at
Washington.
The Postoffice Department was in
formed on the 18th that the Attorney General
OF Tennessee had instructed all grand juries
to return indictments against the Marriage
and Birthday associations now operating In
that State.
THE number of applications received
at the Patent Office for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1881, including reissues, designs,
trade marks and labels, was "a, 905; during the
last fiscal year, 30,O62; an increase of 5, 156.
The statement of the financial con-
dition of the Postofice Department at the close
of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1882, shows:
Total receipts, S4l $40, ,4lO; total expenditures,
SAC, ,03a, ,6S4; increase ofreceipts, Sl,S36,7I5.
DUIING the last fiscal year twenty
thousand claims for bounty, back pay, ETC.,
have been disposed of, and over forty thou
sand are still pending. The claims have been
filed rapidly during the year that the grand
total has been reduced but Two thousand.
THE annual report of the Board of
Visitors for the Government Hospital OF the
Insane shows the whole number under treat
ment to be LIZ; the number discharged as
recovered 81; improved SO; unimproyed Z; not
n. II Il. IL
230. The number Of patients remaining under
treatment June 80, 1882, was 942.
COLLECTOR NORRIS, of Sitka, Alaska,
in letter to Surgeon General Hamilton, of
the Marine Hospital service, received on the
| 18th, expresses a hope that a member of that
service may be stationed at Sitka, and states
| that there has been raging there, confined
| chiefly, however, to the Russian creole pop
! ulation and Indians, disease resembling the
| black measles combined with scarlet fever,
making that a plague-stricken community.
THOMAS McCARrER, Charles P. Mark
er and Mccullough Marker were arrested at
Uniontown, Pa, on the 18th for passing eoun-
| terfeit money. Fayette County and the ad-
| joining country has been flooded with spurious
! coin for year past, and it was believed the
| parties arrest ed were members OF an organ
lied gang Of counterfeiters.
GEORGE Fox, one of the oldest con-
ductors on the New York, Pennsylvania &
| Ohio Railroad, was killed at Cory, Pa, on the
| 18th, by being caught between the bumpers of
train that he was making up.
A SALT LAKE dispatch of the 18th
says that John F. Game, monogamist, has
been nominated for the Forty eighth Con-
gress, and also to fill the unexpired term of
Cannon. Caine has long been manager of the
church theatre, and part owner OF the Salt
Lake Herald, and city clerk and auditor. He
is also the nominee OF the polygamists.
SAMUEL CLAY & Co., owners of the
second largest distillery in Bourbon County,
Kentucky, assigned to William Webb on the
| 12th. Liabilities Sl04 900; assets will more
than cover that amount, however.
The New York Enameled Furniture
Company, which did the largest business in
the United States, failed on the 14th, and made
an assignment to James J...Coogan. The busi-
ness will be nIinued by the assignee. The
liabilities are $3.50, 600; assets 100000.
MAYOR DEvoIsE, of Hunters Point,
| L. l., was indicted on the 14th for embezzling
city funds, malfeasance in Office and removing
Police Commissioners for enforcing the laws
Coroner OF the same city was, also indicted for
1 conspiring to obstruct the Constable in exc
cutting the warrants against pool sellers.
DANIEL M. MILLER, cashier Of the
suspended Monroe County, Iowa, bank, was
arrested on the 14th for forging the name OF
Thomas Brandon, President Of the bank, to a
no;e for 500, held by a deposition as collateral.
| There are said to be thousands of dollars OF
like manufactured collateral out. He has
| hi herto borne ap unblemished reputation,
| and his arrest caused sensation.
THE Tilden income tax case was dis
missed on the 14th at washing.on on. No further
proceedings in the case can be had in the
United States Supreme Court.
THE Postmaster Generals report for
| the fiscal year will recommend the adoption of a
postal telegraph system. He will cite the GUS
tom now in vogue in England as an example
OF its praciicability.
IT is estimated that the total amount
of postage collected in the United States (not
including registration fees on registered ar
ticles) on mails exchanged with foreign
countries, is 81, 1,956,614
SPECIAL AGENT TOWNSEND, sent to
Pine Ridge Indian Agency to investigate the
troubles between Agent McGilicuddy and the
Indians, will suggest transfer of the agent
| 10 some other point. He says, however, his
financial affairs have been properly conducted.
/ ANNIE MILLER was awarded $4,000
damages by Philadelphia jury on the 14th,
for injuries received in the burning of Ran,
dolph's mills, one year ago. It was q test
case. Over thirty similar suits pending
by relatives of the dead and injured victims.
THERE were fifty-eight new cases OF
fever and two deaths reported at Pensacola
on the 14th.
The New York Post, of the 14th. says:
4" Perhaps the strongest evidence of economy
is in shipping Chicago dressed beef to New
| York, and the best ground for believing cheap
| o r hpef will rpsnlt from the rnOvRmant is the
| report among Washington market butchers
| that four of the largest slaughterers in this
city have resolved to transfer their slaughter
| houses to Chicago and bring their meat here
for sale. The price at the ice house on the
14th was from six 10 nine cents per pound for
prime beef by the quarter"