The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-03-14

The Michigan Derocrat State Con-
vent on In session at Lansing, that State, on
the 7th, resolved to divide the State ticket
with the Greenbackers. They then nominated
John W. Champlain, Of Grand Rapids, for
Judge of the Supreme Court, long term;
Arthur L. Clark, of Sanilac County, First
Regent Of the State University. The Green
hackers accepted the proposition and nomi-
mated Thomas G. Sherwood, of Kalamazoo,
for Judge Of the Supreme , Sourt, for the short
County, for Second Regent Of the State Uni
versity.
The old breasts of the Reliance Col
liery at Mount Carmel, Pa, csved in on the
sth, cracking large area OF surface under
nine houses, leaving only thin shell of frozen
earth between the houses and the mine.
Twenty other houses, the public road and the
Reading Railroad depot and tracks are In dam
ger. The properly belonged 70 the Reading
A FIRE at Buena Vista, Col, on the
9th, destroyed q block Of eight buildings, in
cluding Heller & Halleck's bank.
JOHN QUINLAN. Catholic Bishop of
Mobile, Ala, since 1859. died at the st. Their
esa pastoral residence in New o rleans on the
9th. He had been sick about two months
THE tobacco factories of w. I. Clark.
W. T. Patton and L. L. sirause, q. DanvIlle,
Va, were destroyed by fire on the 9th. The
buildings were tenanted by eight firms, who
lost stock and fixtures estimated at SO, 900.
They were all fully insured.
MOSES T. RAY, book-keeper and as
sistant cashier Of the Merchants and Planters
Bank, Montgomery, Ala, committed suicide
on the Sd. Curtis, the National Bank examiner,
finds that he was adefaulter to about $4,000
Of the banks money.
CHESTER CARPENTER, who was fore
man Of the celebrated Beecher- Tilton jury, died
at Brooklyn, N. Y, on the sth.
Ascow having on board thirteen labor
ers was sunk by q schooner near Washington
Street ''Gsp," Jersey City, N. j., on the 9th,
and nine of them were drowned.
MARY BRosNAHAN, a young girl Of
Erie, Pa, was horribly scalded on the Slh by q
cauldron of boiling water falling on her. Her
parents, uegleeting to call q physician, rubbed
the parbolled body with oil from their kero-
sene lamp. When they attempted 70 remove
her clothing the nesh came away fr,m the
bones and she died In horrible agony.
The business failures throughout the
country for the week ending the 9th numbered
252, compared with 81 the previous week
They were distributed as follows: New
England s ates, 21; Middle States, 40; West
ern, so; Southern, So; Pacific Coast and Ter
ritories, Il; Canada aud the Provinces, 81;
New York City and Brooklyn, 10.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from He
lena, Ark on the 9th, gives the following view
OF the situation along the Mississippi River
from that point to Memphis: "There are not
m re than two or three spots Of dry ground be-
tween Memphis and his point, and scores OF
the best farms in Arkansas and Mississ ppi
are in q complete state of wreck. Most OF
them have been abandoned, the owners and
laborers having fed to higher ground. In
many places cattle were standing in the water
overnowing the platforms, and almost every
gin house was filed with colored people,
At Hardin's Landing eighteen colored men
and women in two boats were moored g.
q tree on q flooded bank waiting for q
| a foot of dry land In forty miles. Skiff-loads
of colored people and their household goods
were seen at various points seeking Tor
ground to rest on. At Sterling the eolored
ately huddled in the upper story OF
the only store there. Most OF the
| fences and houses along the river bank are
still intact, though many Of them have been
/ are full Of cattle and the gin houses full OF
negroes. The prospect Is certainly favorable
| for big rise below here, as the how OF water
from the st. Francis River is undiminished.'
A GERMAN servant girl named Cath
crime Metzger, in the employ Of Samuel May
at Pittsburgh, attempted to murder Mrs. May
and the latter's child on the 9th. She as
saulted Mrs. May with hatchet and fractured
i the skull OF the child with q bo' tie. The cir
| came from Germany three mon BIS ago and
gave no other reason for the murderous assault
| than that she was directed by some unseen
1 power in q dream to commit the deed. Nc
| doubt she is insane
A TERRIBLE explosion of dynamite,
resulting in the instant death OF Daniel Hen
ninger and the serious injury OF George Hen
ninger, Noble Gillxy and an unknown coloreC
man, occurred at Fleming's stone-quarry
Deadman's Hollow, near McKeesport, Pa, OF
| the 9th. One OF the workmen attempted u
thsv out a can OF dynamite used for blastinE
purposes, which had been frozen, when 1t ex-
were hurled in every direction. The wounded
were not expected to recover.
The President on the 9Th re-appointeC
Nathaniel P. Banks United States Marshal a
Boston and Joseph II. Gee.for the Western
District of Missouri.
!. JOSEPH T. RYERsoN, a prominent anc
wealthy business man OF Chicago, died sud
denly on the 9th. He had been an activ,
merchant In that city for fifty years and wa
the first man 10 engage in the Iron business II
Chicago.
The Methodist Episcopal Conference
/ IN ecbcNOu ~ "AnCuCotchs W. Ou bAAc Veu
adopted resolution indorsing the action o
the Maryland State Temperance Alliance fl
The cause Of p ohibition; also resolutions con
demning the carrying and distribution o
malls, running steam or street cars, and pub
lishiug, buying or reading secular newspaper
on Sunday, and condemning all camp-meetinl
associations which receive rebate trnw Sunda
travel
ISAAC s. WATERMAN, one of the mos
| h,.t~o.. r,ar, oft tha cfata ofD Daou
sylvania, and for sixty years q wholesal
grocer of Philadelphia, died in that city o
the 10th.
The Arch Deacon hotel at Bloomfield
N. J., was destroyed by hre on the 10th.
Il Hon. JOHN A. HAYES, late Commo
dore Of the New Bedford, Mass, Yacht Clut
ex-Deputy Commander Of the g. A. R Q
Massachusetts, and ofdistinguished service Il
the State Senate and North Carolina cam
paign, died at Boston on The 10th in the ffty
ninth year OF his age.
THOMAS MAHAR, JR., Isaac L. Stree
: and Joseph Myers, Of Philadelphia, were cor
victed on the 10th Of making fraudulent n
turns as election officers, and were eac
sentenced to three months Imprisonment
fined 500 and disfranchised for four years.
A FIRE at Grove Station, on the 10th
few miles from Pittsburgh, on the Monon
gahela River. destroyed two frame houses, 1
one OF which two children named Crawfort
aged i've and three years, were burned Z
death.
LIEUTENANT CHARLES SEYMOUR, Of tn
United States Navy, died at Charleston, C
on the 10th OF pneumonia
REAR ADMIRAL j. W. A. NICHOLSON
lately In command OF the European station
: was placed on the retired list on the 10th. II
was succeeded in command by Rear Admir-,
Charles II. Baldwi,, formerly member of I'll
, Light House Board.
SECRETARY CHANDLER instructed th
Q Naval Board on the 10th to proceed at ono
Z and prepare plans for FIVE new United Stat