The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-12-20
NUMBER IA.
PERSONAL AND IMpERsoNAL.

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Mrs. John Jacob Astor is said to give
away more money than any woman in
the United States-N. =. Mail.
-Ex-Gov. Dillingham; and wife, Of
Vermont, have recently celebrated theii
golden wedding at their home in Water
bury 9s
Major Hilary Snickbaum and John
Markley, of Germantown, Pa, are said
- --',tively the oldest living railroad
and ingineer in the United
DIR. Norvin Green, who is to retire
Union Telegraph Company, is said to be
worth $40, ,000,000. His salary is only
$500 year, and his immense fortune
has been made in stock manipulations-
Miss Jennie S. Tweed, the youngest
daughter of the late William NJ. Tweed,
died few days ago, at the residence of hel
brother, General W. NJ Tweed, atLitch-
field, Conn. She was twenty years Of
age. She had been an invalid nearly all
her life.-N. r Sun.
Louis Jansen, convicted before q
Chicago court for illegal liquor selling
was, four years ago, chief counsel to the
King of Denmark. He lost his fortune
of about 81, 100000 by the failure of
bank at Copenhagen, and lost his placs
with his money.-Chicdgo Neaos.
Forty years ago Ex-Governor Morgan
was grocery-dealer in Albany. Russell
Sage was one of his customers. Jay
Gould was only eight years old then, and
William II. Vanderbilt was kept at work
on his fathers farm, and was also court
ing Dutch dominie's daughter, who Is
now his wife.-N. r Herald.
The Rev. Granville Moody, of Ohio,
popularity known as ''the fighting par
son." has requested the M. E. Confer
ence to place him on the superannuated
list. He takes this step because of fail
ing health and strength, caused by
disease contracted in the army, from
which he has never recovered fully. He
has been engaged in active ministerial
work for more than half century, and
proposes now to spend the rest of his life
in retirement in Iowa.-Chicago Times.
Henry o. Flipper, the colored grad
uate of West Point, in a letter from
Camp Rice, Tex, to the New York
Tribune, denies the story that he has
been appointed Captain in the Mexican
army. He says: GAS a matter of fact,
am not in Mexico, but in Texas. / have
not. received any appointment, civil,
military or otherwise, in Mexico; have
asked for none and have no expectation
of ever receiving any, though I read3
write, and speak the language huently."
Annie Surratt, daughter of Mrs.
Surratt, who was hanged for completely
in the assassination of President Lincoln,
lives in Baltimore. She is the wife of
Professor Toury, leading chemist of
that city. A correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercial says that after her
mother was executed, the girl was ostra-
cised and prosecuted, and Mr.. Toury,
who was then Government clerk, was
discharged because he married her. She
is but little more than thirty years old,
but her hair is white as snow, and her
health is wrecked, the result of that Last
day of her mothers life.
king Kalakaua, of Hawaii, thus pro-
claimed the coming of the United States
Minister: Ellis Elk. the President of the
United States of America, Our Great and
Good Friend, has accredited unto Us, to
reside near our Court, His Ex. Rollin
NJ. Daggett, in the character of Minister
Resident of the United States Of America
at Honolulu. And We require all Our
subjects, and all Departments of Our
Government to pay high consideration to
his person and property, and his retainers,
and to give full faith and attach full
credit to all official acts as such Minis
ter Resident"