The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-08-08

ell, <f Bradford county. The platform
adopted indorses the administration OF
Governor Pattison; advocates such tax
the necessities of the Government,
economically administered, and that i'm
port duties should be so adjusted in their
application as TO prevent unequal burdens,
encourage productive industries at home
and afford Just compensation for labor, but
not to create or foster monopolies; the peo-
pie should only be taxed so much as is alb
solutely Indispensable for the frugal con-
duct OF their affairs, not one cent for sur
plus and no unnecessary taxation, and that
the existing surplus in the treasury should
be applied to the payment of the public
debt. They favor the entire abolition of the
present system of internal taxation as a
measure of relief demanded by the people
from an unnecessary and unequal burden.
B. F. SENIG, Assistant Surgeon in the
United States Army, was found dead in
his room at a hotel in San Francisco, Cal,
on toe morning of the 1st. A bottle was
found labeled "poison" by his side. His
friends reject the theory of suicide and say
he d'si from heart disease. He had bril-
liaH cord and lost a leg in the Modoc
wal ..'
1sE Bishop of Cassamicciola, who
was killed by the earthquake on Ischia
Island, on the 10Th ult. was Monsignor
Mazzella, who was preconized in pdrtibus
for his devoted services on the occasion of
| the earthquake on that island in 1881.
THE President on the I'd promoted
James P. Dubois, Consul at AK la Cha
pelle, to be Consul at Calais, and George
F. Lincoln, Consul at Stettin, to be Consul
| at AK la Chapelle. Warren A. Warden,
Commercial Agent at Guelph, and later at
| st. Hyacinthe, to be Consul at Charlotte
town, Prince Edwards Island.
HoN. AUSTIN F. PIKE was elected
| kaI 0fota Narv Hap
shire on the forty-second ballot, on the I'd.
| Mr.. Pike was a delegate to the first Repub-
/ lican National Convention which nomi-
mated John c. Fremont as a candidate for
/ President
| CAPTAIN WILLIAM STEWART, the
| oldest steamboat man on the western
waters, died at his home, Steubenville,
Ohio, on the 1st, in the eighty-fourth year
| of his age.
Rev. S. ScovILLE, of Pittsburgh,
who was recently chosen as President OF
the Wooster, o., University, sent his ac-
ceptance to the board Of trustees on the
3D.. -
Hon. MARK A. BLANFoRD, of Colum-
bus, Ga, was elected to the Supreme Court
of that State on the Sd to succeed Martin
]. Crawford, deceased.
COLONEL E. S. MARSHALL died a
Canandaiga, N. Y, on the Sd from the
effects of wounds he received during tht
Rebellion.
GEORGE F. ToDRY died at Suffoll
County, L. l., almshouse on the 9th in th'
ninety y-eighth year of his age. He serveC
under Napoleon in the French army, anC
was with him at Moscow and Waterloo
He had been in the almshouse for severa
years.
PROFESSOR F. w. TEAsIN, well known
throughout the West as q scientist of con
siderable standing, and whose lectures ol
explosions in -four mills attracted wide in
terest, died of consumption at Louisville
KY, on the 4th. He was at the head of tn
Polytechnic Institute of that city.
MILTON II. SANFORD, the noted turf
. man ef New York, died at Newport, R. l.
ON the 4th.
G. w. KARNs, en- route from Kansa
City to his home in Venango County, Pa.
committed suicide on the cars at Dinsmor
Station, Pa, on the 4th. IL was suppose
that he was mentally unsound.
Hon. JOHN PAUL, Readjuster, mem
Der of Congress from the Seventh Virgini
r District, has. rendered his resignation
take effect September 1. He was appointe
| by the Governor District Judge for th
Western District of that State.