The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-20
Dun columns are open for Judge Geddes
to deny, ifhe can, that he voted for the con-
victed and banished traitor, vallaudigham,
for Governor of the State Of Ohio.
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DOMESTIC.


DICKSON, foreman of the Star route
jury, fled q sworn statement on the 18th con-
eerning the attempt made to bribe that jury.
BE says that members OF the jury were
offered $4,000 by agents Of the Depart
ment OF Justice to vote for convic-
to secure fos potsa ees
and that one agent OF the Department
told h'm Dickson that 1t was all arranged,
and that In case of conviction President Ar
thug would pardon the Dorseys and Brady
within thirty days. The District Attorney,
acting upon the information, will issue war
rant for the arrest of Brewster, Cameron and
Henry A. Bower to answer the charge of at
tempting to bribe juror.
THE special train with the Marquis
and Princess Of Lorne on board was run into
at Port Costa, California, on the 18th by a yard
engine. The engine Of the special train was
badly damaged, but there was no one injured.
The yearly statement of the National
Cotton Exchange of the United States for the
season ending August 81, 1882, shows that the
cotton crop Of the United States was 5,456, ,04s
bales. The stock carried from the years crop
amounts TO rs. .5S2 bales
The South Carolina Republican State
Convention met at Columbia on the 18th. The
Committee appointed to confer with the
0EctuDaCA COulullbltt As 70 the IeFtnS upon
which they can unite In the support of the
State ticket, reported that they had held
conference, and recommended What the con-
yention should indorse the State ticket of the
Greenback party, and stated that the commit
tee of that party had given assurance that
they would secure free ballot and fair count.
The proposition provoked a long and bitter
discussion, and the following substitute
by Congressman Mackey was adopted:
Resolred, That the convention of the
Union Republican par OF South Carolina,
while repudiating the financial principles ad-
vocated by the GreeDback party and reaffirm-
ing the principles OF the Union Republican
party, do recommend that at the next general
election the voters of the State In the interest
OF q free ballot and free count, cast their bal
lots as Republicans for the State ticket nomi-
mated by the Greenbaek Labor Convention on
the 9th inst. A resolution was adopted recon-
mending the Republicans to support B. s.
| Cash, independent candidate for Congress
from the Fifth district. William Mckay was
reelected Chairman Of the State Executive
| Committee
THE New Hampshire Greenback-
Labor party met at Manchester on the 13 h.
| Resolutions were passed against fusion with
/ either of the present parties and favoring the
| general railroad law. John F. Woodbury. was
/ nominated for Governor, and La Fayette Moore,
/ Wendell P. Ella and John e Norwood Rail-
nominated for Congress, First District, and
| George Carpenter, Second district.
OFFICIAL returns from sixty-one coun-
| ties in Arkansas show the vote for Governor
! to be, Berry, DEM, 75, $40; Slack, Rep, So
9f7; Garland, Greenbacker, S,271; Berry's ma
jority over slack, 5000; over both, nearly
4 2S,000. The Republicans have one Senator
| and the Greenbackers one Senator. The SEN
ate win stand: Democrats 2s out Of 81, and
House, Democrats73 out Of OIL.
PROFESSOR BARNARD, of Nashville,
announces the discovery of q comet in the con-
stellation Gemini.
/ MERRILL Mills, a prominent business
man of Detroit, died on the 14ih, aged sixty
/ three.
THE Michigan retail liquor dealers
met at Detroit on the 14th. They adopted
resolutions condeming the rising prohibition
sentiment and resolved to prosecute all the
lowest class of saloons in the State.
The report of the assignees of Sci.
| bert,s Santana Bank, at Los Angeles, Cali
fornia, shows that 1t was rotten concern.
seibert, It is stated, had fraudulently con
verted at least $4,000 since last November.
AT the annual meeting of the stock.
holders Of the Ohio Central Railway Compau,
i at Toledo on the 18th the following Board o.
Directors was chosen: Dan P. Eells, of Cleve
land; Samuel Shether, of New York; j. T
Martin and George |. Seney, Of Brooklyn, n
/ Y, three wears: L. j. French, New York; II
l. Terrell, OF Cleveland; Joseph S. Wilson, O
Charleston, w. Va, and Charles Foster, o
Fostoria, o., two wears; 9. 8 Brfce, OF Lima
o.; Samuel Thomas, of Columbus; NJ. d. Car
rington and ]. E. Martin, of Toledo, one year
! The two hundred yards shooting
match at Creedmoor on the 14th was won b
the British team by score Of S4s to SS1 by tn
Americans.
MOSES WILLIAMS, wholesale liquo
dealer of Boston, died on the 14th, leaving
property valued at ss,555QOO.
A PRIVATE detective, in the employ
of the Santa Fe Railroad, arrested Pete Nc
Carthy, notorious Chicago counterfeiter, a
Topeka, Kansas, on the 18th. He had $50
| on his person when captured, part of which
he acknowledged was stolen
FoR the three months ending witt
October it is expected that four thousan'
miles OF railway track viii be laid in the Unitel
States. The cost for new railway tracks Il
this country during this year is placed at owe
500, ,000,00
The Nebraska State Democratic Con
vention met at Omaha on the 14th and nomi
mated the following ticket: Governor,
Sterling Morton; Lieutenant Governor, j.
Warner; Secretary Of state, CharlesJ. Bowlby
General, j. G. Crawford; Auditor, Charlie
Leech; Commissioner of Public Lands an
Buildings, Henry Grebe; SuPerintendent Q
Public Instruction, Charles A Spree, Regen
7 of the University, Ike Burke.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 14t
says that in order TO facilitate the exchange G
three and a-half 10 three per cent. bonds, Chic
. Fletcher, of the Loan Division, has put on q
extra force of clerks for night duty IN his de
partment, and the exchange is being rapid
effected. The four per cent. bonds withdraw
} on the 14th for exchange into three per cent
aggregated over 1900 600, the larges
amount any day since the call. The tot
+ amount so far surrendered for exchange
$123, ,234, ,050.
A BANGOR, Maine, dispatch of th
14th says that returns received from 434 citis
and towns give the aggregate of this years vol
as 133, ,17s; OF which Robie has 20, 649; Plaiste
-6O,S11; Chase, LIZA; scattering, 554; Robbie
plurality, ASS. Majority over all, 8, 110. tt
sSwns p.Hs a: Ssa gsEs is P.sssS 49,
, scattering, 55S. Davis plurality, 1,537. II
| towns to be heard from gave in 1850 for Dav
1 | 1,eS5. Plaisted 3,e7l, scattering, A.
ENGNEER MELVILLE, of the Jeannett
, Arctic Exploring expedition, was given r
I ception in the City Hall at New York on Il
r 14th. Two thousand citizens were presen
An address Of welcome was made by Judg
Brady. Mayor Grace and others also spoke.
Z THERE were six deaths from fever ,
3 Brownsville on the 14ih-two Of them soldier
{ There was also slight increase in the nun
Der of cases Forty cases were reported fro
Meir, Mexico
! A YACHT connected with a hotel
, Alton Bay, Lake Winnepisankee, near Co
cord, N. H, for pleasure parties, capsized c
the 14th and fourteen persons were drowne'
OK the 5th inst. nineteen one-thousan,
! dollar bonds of the Leavenworth City 81 Fo
5 Leavenworth Water Company were stolen fro
5 the Adams Express Company at Springfield
: Mass-
THE Women's National Industrii
D League was permanently organized at Was
: fnrtnn ON the 14fh with Mrs. Charlotte Smit