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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-04-11

hames- The building was erected within
the past year, and had been considered un-
safe, the walls being very light.
Hon. L. ID. ODELL, a pioneer of
Wayne County, Ohio, died at his residence,
Big Prairie, that county, on the 7th. Mr..
Odell was amember of the Ohio Legislature
thirty years ago and was also in the State
Senate in 1So5-56.
The Industrial Works, a manufactory
of barrels, buckets, tubs and similar ar
ticles, at Augusta, Ca, was burned on the
7th. Loss $4,000.
The agricultural implement house of
George W. Rouse & Son at Peoria, H., was
burned on the 7th. Loss, S45, 900; insurance
S27, 500.
|. COLONEL ID. G. CARR, a native of
Otsego County, N. Y, but for many years
a resident of Petersburg, Va, died at the
latter place ON the 7th in the seventy-fift
year OF his age. The deceased was ap-
pointed by President Grant in 1863 Collector
of Customs of the Petersburg District and
again reappointed by President Hayes.
FREEMAN YoUNGLovE, treasurer and
business manager of the Cohoes IN. W
Strawboard Company, and a son of the
ex-Speaker of New York Assembly, left
that city for parts unknown on the 9TH. 1t
| is alleged that he forged the name of
Nicholas Clute, his brother-in-law, to notes
| for So, 900. His accounts were in such q
condition that the company suspended.
The Mount Vernon paper mill, at
Troy, N. Y, was destroyed by fire ON the
Tth. Loss $40. 900; insurance $4,000.
The Iirst passenger train over the Rio
Grande Railroad left Salt Lake City for
Denver on the Sth.
MowBRAY's flour mill, at Stockton,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire on the eth.
Loss $50, 900, insured for $4,000,
The Society of the Army of the Po-
tomac will hold its annual feunion In
Washington on the 18th and 18th of May.
THE Bureau of Education at Wash
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-04-11

We guarantee to keep bodies
intrusted to our care any length
of time, and will stake our
reputation as undertakers on
this assertion.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19
Travelling by Electricity.

When steam was first brought into
general use as motor, a great deal of at
tentiOn was paid by inventors to the
problem of making its use universal in
stead of combining it to certain conditions
that had to be prepared expressly for it
at great labor and expense. They felt it
was desirable to make it a draft force
upon common highways as we'll as upon
railways, but the weight of machines
that would have to be used and the diff
Guilty Of making engines that would
traverse the natural distractions of or
binary roads were found to be so great
that no satisfactory results were ever OBJ
tanned. But steam is looked upon in its
turn as too cumbersome and too slow,
and leaving that to do its work in the
channels where it is now operating, the
inventors have dashed out upon the
plains of science and lassoed that more
powerful and fascinating force-electric-
ity-and they are now engaged in tanning
it and teaching it the tricks that are in
demand In the great arena of human in
dustries. They gain thereby, force
swiftness and delicacy, and as their IN
derstanding of the action of the new
servant brOadens and deepens, mankind
is to be made the gamer in ways little
dreamed of now. The great value of the
new force in all its possibilities of de-
velopment will be its universal applica-
ton to common things. Let it be known
to you, happy and unfortunate lad of
the not remote future, that it will churn
the cream, rock the cradle and turn the
grindstone, among its more prosaic duties,
and it will utter no complaint Of aches in
its back, or WEAKNESS in its limbs. The
Pail Mall Gazette recently said: ''Elec-
tricity is now entering the field against
the horse as a means of traction. Two
eminent electricians claim to be able to
bottle up twelve horse power in a storage
battery, weighing three hundred weight,
and they promise to produce, in a few
months, a perfectly practical electric
tricycle., capable Of running fifteen or
twenty miles without recharging the
accumulators, and able to ascend all
such hills as are now possible for the foot
tricycle., and even sleeper gradients if
auxiliary foot gearing be used to help
the electrO-motOr, when the incline is
great. This is no measure of,what is
coming. 1t is merely a hint of what
science expects to Immediately accom-
plish But the youth Of to-day will not
be an old man before he can see the
public travelling over suburban roads, up
hill and down hill, drawn by an unseen
but not unknown force. The horse has
qualities that will make him always a
favorite, no matter to what more capable
and tireless servant his burdens may be
transferred, but he will not long remain
the necessity that he is to-day. Elec-
tricity is awakening the world and giving
an impulse to the development of a
grand civilization that has never before
been available. Post.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19
A Wagnerian Adventure.

The strangely exceptional patronage
with which Wagner was favored by King
Louis II, may have had something to do
with this, as it is we'll known that the
BayariaR Kings melo mania has not been
pleasing to other German sOYereigns,
owing to the public comments which it
has provoked. 1t was not quite 50 graft
flying to Wagner himself as has been
generally supposed-that is to say, that
some of its manifestations were at times
rather embarrassing. When the King
shut himself up with Wagner at HOhen-
schwagen, refusing to see his Ministers;
when he ordered midnight performances
of "Lohengrin" at the Theater Royal for
himself alone, Wagner, who had an ear
for the murmurs of the multitude, must
have unused intentionally on the fate
which is apt to OYertake royal faVOrites
in times of popular cOmmotion. Baron
Won Pfretzchner, the PRIMER and Minis
ter of the Kings household, once wrote
to him peremptorily, 81 mustsee the King
this afternoon, 50 arrange the matter
without fall" but Wagner had no more
power to cOntrive an audience with the
King than he had to bestow lock Of the
mOnarch's hair. A little adventure which
once cost him a bad ducking, and might
have had still worse results, illustrates
the precarious footing on which fayorites
stand with a sovereign highly sensitive as
to his dignity A water party by moon
light had been organized on the lake near
King Louis's summer palace, and a cele-
brated prima donna had been invited to
sing some of the duets from Tristan and
Isolde" with the King. Wagner, in his
fancy dress, and a page, who sculled,
completed the quartet in the royal boat.
1t was all very poetical, and the lady,
carried away by the romance of the Oc-
casion, made so bold as to administer a
gentle caress to the King, who resented
this breach of etiquette by push which
sent her overheard. Wagner plunged
after the soprano, whose tuneful voice
was being raised with rare force, and
succeeded in rescuing her; but it was
a doleful party that presently stepped on
shore-IsoIde sobbing and wringing out
her clothes, the Meistersinger creaking in
his shoes Tristan murmuring as he stalked
away with an injured air, and the page,
no doubt, laughing in his sleeve, after
the manner of his irreverent kind.
Wagner used to say that the King had
always given him more than he should
have dreamed of asking, but that he had
been cured of proffering requests by the
significant tone in which his Majesty
said ''Nein'' the first time he was asked
for something which it did not suit him
to grant.-LOndOn Times.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19
GEN. FEATHERSTONHAUGH AND
HIS MASK.

General Adolphus Macpherson Feath-
erstonhaugh would have been fully justi-
fed had his name been thrice as long and
as loud. He was over six feet high, and
was broad of shoulders, far-reaching of
arms, of symmetrical expanse and vigor
in every sense. Not merely was his head
of the largest dimensions; his sandy red
hair was of luxuriant growth, which was
the despair of every bald-headed man who
saw him, and he would have re-
joiced in beard of the most patriarchal
downpOur if it had not been almost an
article of his creed to shave himself as
closely as might be every morning of his
thoroughly regulated life 1t was his use
to shake hands if he met you a dozen
times day, and it was almost as good as
fur-lined glove to have him take your
diminutive hand in his of a cold day, so
large it was and so warm. There was
always a rich, almost purple health in
his magnificent breadth of couRtenance.
and nothing was in more perfect keeping
with his sumptuOusnesS of size than were
the deep organ tones of his voice, whose
every depth, height, meditation, infiec-
ton, had been most afectionately cult
waited.
For the General was an orator. Early
in life he had published volume on
elocution, and it was his delight to revise
and improve it as, year after year, it
passed through successive editions, yet
larger and fuller heightened likeness of
himself as the frontispiece of each. I
cannot truthfully say that there was
much originality or suggestiveness of
thought in any of the many discourses
delivered by him. AS to his words, you
might as we'll try to quote Niagara; and
it was yet harder to try, after, let US say,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19

An eighteen months old child and a
little terrier were left alone in an open
Widowed room at Newburg, n. Y, the
other day, and, when, after three min
utes' absence, the child's mother re-
turned, she found her youngster hanging
out of the window with the little ter
rieTs teeth fastened in its clothes, the
dog bracing with all It's strength against
the inside Of the sill, and looking mutely,
anxiously and appealingly for haste and
help. When the rescue had been effect
ed, the dog relieved of his burden few
ioyfully around the mother and child,
barking out the delight it could not exc
press in human language.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19

"A six-months experience with the
Brush electric light, in large railway
station in California, thirty lights being
used every night an average of five hours,
gives an average cost for light per hour
of eleven cents. The company making
the experiment reaches the conclusion
that while the station was brilliantly IL
Illuminated by electricity, and better than
gas could possibly do it, yet that sufficient
light could have been obtained from gas
for half the money"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19
LATER-THE FARMER AHEAD.

DEAR BROTHER JOHN:
I'm very glad you sent that money
through,
you!
The fam'ly's just so much ahead; 'twere best
1t never came,
If Jeroboam Jones adtwined his fingers round
the same.
For that young man has principles fit only to
abhor,
And isn't the kind of a relative that was look
ing fOCt
ny sakesl Millennium's nowhere near, when
men so false can be
AS to equivSoate themselves into my family
tree,
& their design,
And make me think they're good because
B they're relatives of mine,
While under those fraternal smiles robber6
frOWn is hid:
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19

1.-THE town of Mason has elected the
following officers: Moderator, L A.
Bean; clerk, J. G. Bean; selectmen, J.
N. Bean and F. I. Bean; treasurer, F. I.
Bean; supervisor of schools, J. H. Bean,
and agent, J. G. Bean" You are mis-
taken if you think Mason is suburb of
Boston; it is in Oxford County, Me.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19

Isaac n. Soils inherited quarter of
q million, in Philadelphia, and lost many
thousands of the money in gambling be-
fore he learned that the winners were
cheaters- He has begun suits, not to
recover the cash. but to punish the ras-
Gals
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19

Mrs. Henrietta Wiley, of White
Plains n. Y, was recently acquitted by
a local justice, whereupon she testified
her great Joy by repeatedly kissing that
official, presumably much against his
will. 1t is not yet determined whether
she will be held for an assault and bat
terry, or an attempt to bride the court.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19

Mrs. Peter Snyder, of Plattekill, N.
Y, cut her hand slightly few days ago,
and in knitting with blue yarn some of
the coIoring matter entered the wound
and poisoned her blood. It Is feared that
she may die.
Connecticut western news., 1883-06-27
How They Married in Boston.

The Boston Gazette says:-The statis- tics of marriage in Boston the past year are interesting. The number of mar riages registered during the year was 4. .63l, an increase of 261 over the pre- vious year. The most marriages oc- cured in November and the smallest number in March. There was 3,99S erooms who were married for the first time. Of this number 245 married wid- ows, and married brides who had been twice widowed There were 5S3 grooms who were married for the second time. Of these AS married spinsters, 160 were united to widows. and 5 married brides who had been twice widowed. Of the 46 grooms who had been twice widowed 2S married spinsters, IA mar ried widows, and were united to brides who had lost two husbands. Of the remaining grooms who were over 70 years of age, 2 married spinsters and 2 married widows. Of the S4 minor grooms, 4 were IS years of age, 26 were 19 years, and 61 were 20 years old. Of the 62 minor brides were 15 years of age, IS were 16 years, and 45 were IF years of age. There were IA marriages of which both grooms and brides were colored, 23 of which the grooms were colored and the brides white, and there was an instance of the marriage of an Indian to 8 colored bride.
Connecticut western news., 1883-06-27
A Curious Divorce.

Mary Clemmer Ames, the authoress, was married in Washington to we'll known editor there. A curious episode in the history of divorce cases was that of Mrs. Clemmer and her husband, Mir. Ames, who were divorced in 1875. It was unique. because neither of them at the time or afterward bore any malice and neither had then picked out any other to marry. It was managed purely as a business transaction and by mutual consent. He obtained the divorce at Harpers Ferry, w. Va, where he then resided, making certain letters he had from her the grounds for procuring 1t. Iu speaking of it year later to friend of both he said: "I thought it would make Mary happier to be free, and as l have always studied her happiness l gave her her freedom" As there were no children the matter was the easier arranged. He used regularly to call upon her when he visited Washington after the divorce and often consulted her. He even discussed with her his proposed marriage to another lady before propos- ing to the lady in question. He has now been married several years. He and his family have since his marriage lived Ill | the West,
Connecticut western news., 1883-06-27
The First Brooklyn Bridge.

One of New York's oldest citizens has favored St. Nicholas for July with the following account of single span bridge which was proposed for the East River many years ago:
 "Perhaps few, if any, of my young readers are aware that any attempt was ever made to bridge the East River from New York to Brooklyn before the pres ent great structure was begun. Yet Q plan for bridging the river was made and published as early as 1911 by MT. Thomas Pope, an architect, then resid- ing in Canal street, New York, 8 short distance east of Broadway.
 "Thomas Pope's speciality was bridge building. He proposed toput one across the river on the line of the present Full ton Ferry boats-namely, from Fulton street, New York, to Fulton street, Brooklyn-a bridge of @ single span, sufficiently high for the largest sailing vessels to pass under. MT. Pope made model of his bridge, published book with an engraving of it, and solicited aid to enable him to fulfill his object. Had he succeeded, New York long ago would have had bridge-way to Brook lyn. But the enthusiastic engineer was doomed to disappointment. Not only was aid denied, but he was assailed with ridicule. No man in bis senses, they said, would seriously p<opose to bridge that river, though, doubtless, if such a thing could be done, it would tend to make Brooklyn building lots quite valu- able.
 ''I was playmate with MT. Pope's children, saw him often, and have heard many pretty anecdotes of him and his bridge. It is said that he, in company with Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat, and large number of other distinguished New Workers, on certain day made trip around the city In one of the new steam boats. The afternoon was showery, and just as the boat rounded Castle Garden the rain ceased and there was seen rainbow spanning the East River. See there! says Full ton tapping Pope on the shoulder there's your bridge, Pope. Heaven fav ors you with good omen.'
 ''The bridge was not built, however and the model was destroyed.
Connecticut western news., 1883-06-27
Cure for Smallpox.

The Mexican Consul at Madrid, Spain, under date of April 15, 1883, writes to his government in Mexico as follows:
 In El Liberal newspaper, which is published in this city, appears an item which believe should be made known in our country, in order that the medical faculty may make use of the informa- tion in the treatment of that terrible scourge, the smallpox.
 A surgeon in the English army in China has discovered very efficient remedy for the smallpox. The disease is treated as follows: When the fever has reached it's highest point and before the eruption appears rub the chest of the patient with croton oil and tartaric ointment, which makes the eruption appear in that part of the body and not on the rest of it. By means of this treat ment they also obtain the result of caus- ing the eruption to break out entirely and of preventing the disease from at. tacking the internal organs.
 Such is the treatment adopted in the English army in India, and it is con sidered perfect cure.
Connecticut western news., 1883-06-27
A POOrmaster's Joke.

Some days ago well-dressed man, ap- parently in the prime of life, entered the office of the poormaster and said he was sick and desired, if possible, to obtain a ticket to the general hospital. Clerk Arnold, seeing that he was 8 stranger and apparently in better circumstances than the class of individuals who usually make such applications, expressed regret at not being able to grant the request, as all parties receiving such assistance must be residents of the city and come recommended by ratepayer. The stranger admitted that he was not 8 resi- dent having only reached Buffalo that morning from Rochester. He wished it understood, however, that he had seen better days and that he made the appli- cation in good faith. After some further conversation Clerk Arnold took him to the Poormaster's room and intro duced him to MT. Kraft, who questmned him closely, as he does all applicants for assistance. With his usual good heart edness, MT. Kraft hated to refuse re- spectable person driven by the force of circumstances to seek public charity, but he did not know how he was to get over the rule which requires all applicants for admission to the general hospital to be residents of the city. After puzzling over the matter for several minutes he again began to question the stranger and finally asked him what his name was. The stranger then replied, laugh ingly:
 My name is Thompson. I arrived this morning from Rochester. When at home 1 am Poormaster of that city, and being on business in Buffalo, I thought I would call and see you."
 A hearty laugh greeted the recital, and our worthy Poormaster, relieved from ar embarrassing situation, enjoyed the joke amazingly. MT. Thompson was then in troduced to the officials and after pleas ant afternoon chat returned home. He expressed himself we'll pleased with tho manner in which the Buffalo Poor De partment is conducted and especially tht careful investigation which all applica tions receive before relief is granted.
Connecticut western news., 1883-06-27
Educated to Use the Hammer.

Mir. Charles H. Ham, of Chicago, calls attention in The CleUeId,ad Herald to the fact that in the Dwight School of Boston, under the direction of its master, MT. Paige, the introduction of the common wood cutting tools of the carpenter has been entirely successful. Professor Hagar, of the Salem Normal School, tried the same experiment in his school, in which all the pupils are girls, and he describes the results thus: "The girls engaged in the undertaking with alac- rity, and following it up with ever ir- creasing interest and advantage. It is giving them health and strength and Q command of their nerves and muscles which they would be likely to attain in no other way. When the time allotted to the handiwork arrives, there they may be found busy as bees hammering, plan ing, saving, chiselling, and all the rest, with devoted enthusiasm. I am glad they are learning to hammer. For any considerable number of women to know how to handle hammer so as to strike a nail squarely on the head is 8 phenom- enon seldom witnessed.
Connecticut western news., 1883-06-27

"'She's going to hide that away, young master whispered. See, she is opening that old trunk Now, look and see if she has anything else in the trunk
 "And, peering from behind the huge chimney in hessmiddle of the garrett, we both watched, breathlessly, as slowly and carefully madame unlocked the trunk.
 "And what do you suppose we saw Bits of lace and ribbons, and odds and ends of all sorts, even to @ china teapot which, six months before, madame had been ready to swear was broken by Mary Jane.
 "But, greatest of all, there, amid the rubbish, were the sapphires, flashing out their purple splendor from the dingy depths of the trunk!
 "'Lord massy' I gasped stagger- ing against the chimney. Madame took the sapphires and hid them there herselfp
 "'That's just it, said Master Ancel. My mother is a sleep-walker. sus- pected it this week, and have been on the watch. But, hush We must not wake her now, or it might do some injury to her brain. Come down quietly, Martha.
 "Of course, madame was dreadfully angry the next morning when her son told her. She declared up and down that she wouldn't believe it. But when he took her up to the garret, and the trunk was unlocked and everything she had stored away there lay revealed be- fore her, she was forced to give in; and then she broke out into such violent fit of crying that even Master Ancel was frightened.
 "'Poor, poor Ethel r she cried. I can never forgive myself for misjudging her Do try and find her. Ancel. want to ask her to forgive mer
 "And did they find Miss Ethel? Oh, yes. She was teacher in the French school where she had received her own education. But it didn't take much teasing on the part of the young master to get her home again.
 "And madame never said another word against the marriage, and even went so far as to have the pretty bride wear the Seyne sapphires. Mary E. Brush, a'a Illustrated World.