The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-03-26

CINCINNATI, SATURDAY, MARCH 20.


su,ARtEs on 0Hfo STATE orFicERs. The se-
leot COMMITTEES to whom was referred the House
Bill for amending the aot fixing the salaries Of
certain State officers, have recommended IN
increase Of salary To officers mentioned in the
bill, chiefly on the ground that the cost Of liv-
Ing and other neoessaries has greatly increased
since the year 1862, the period when the SAL
ary Act was,passed. The committee compare
the remuneration of Ohio State ofacers--Exeo-
utive and Judicial--with that Of other States,
thuss q t
Massachusetts pays the Governor $3,6O0j
New York, "a, 900; Pennsylvania, 81 200; Ma
ryland, $500; Virginia, $4,000; North Caro-
lima SO 900; South Carolina, S3,500; Georgia,
$3,5OO Alabama, $4,000; Mississippi, $4,OOOj |
$4,000; Kentucky, $4,000; Missouri, $3,O00j
Indiana, 81, 900; California, IS, ,000 while Ohio,
the third State in. the Union, and equal to
/ many two Of those named above--phys her
| Executive but 81 ,800. .b.i,r,a,i8 - tl
"The salaries Of tho Judges Of the Supreme
Court in the States above named average moro
than $1,000; and the Common Pleas Judges in
the same States average about $1,000.
teThe salaries Of the other State officers in
these States are higher in about the same pro-
portion"
/ The salaries the committee recommend for
adoption are: ttt -N. ,'|t.
Governor, $4,000; Judges of the Court of
Common Pleas, each, $4,000; Secretary of
State, $2,000 Treasurer Of State, 81, 1905 Au-
ditor Of State, $2,500; State Librarian, $500;
Attorney General, 81 500, and three per cent.
all the collections made for the State by him;
all of which sums shall be payable in equal
instaIlments at the Treasury Of the State, on
the first Mondays of January, April, July and
October, in each year.
Moreover,
There shall be paid to the Lieutenant Gov
ernor SO per day during the sessions Of the
General Assembly, and also So for every
twenty-five miles of travel, to be computed by
the most direct route Of usual travel, in going
to and returning from the seat Of government
at each session Of the General Assembly, in the
discharge Of his official duties as President Of
/. the Senate. .0InH .#..tt. .rf ..
FORTUNATE DISCOVERY. I'm removing the
rubbish from the vault Of the Old State Bank
] the other day, superannuated-looking pack
age was discovered, marked with the name Of
! Jesse Andrews. 1t was opened from curiosity
Is and, strange to say, was found to contain oil
rs order on Tippecanoe County for $500, besides
a. large amount Of old State scrip, now worth a
n least twenty-five per cent. above Its face. Mr.
Andrews was Treasurer of Tippecanoe Count
at an early day, and we presume had deposite
al this package, and forgotten all about 1t. Th
county order was promptly Dashed upon pre-
~ sentation at the Treasurer's Office yesterday
f.
Id TIE NEW CENT POISONOUS. - Several in
re- re stances have lately occurred in different part
ty of the country whore children have died fror
y the effects of poison taken into the system b
n swallowing the new nickel cent. As this col
is small and easily swallowed, there Is gres
danger in allowing young children to hav
them In their possession. The metal whic
or composes it has had fatal eject, and woul
seem to be poisonous. Parents should be oau
X tious. ......
! The new Reform Bill for England oonced
mic the electoral franchise to the following =
my dodgers, or occupiers Of part of any hOus
or whether furnished or unfurnished, at the ra
. of 8s. per week, or ego per annum; persons
the receipt of an income from personal proper
invested in government funds or annuity, Ea
D. India Stock or Bank Stock, Of 5l0 per annui
lon on or in receipt of a pension or supsrannuati
IS allowance, for services rendered in any d
- partment Of the army, navy or civil 60
or vice, and not on active service, OF f2O per q
vi mum; depositors in a savings bank to the Q
81 tent of eco. And certain educational quail
cations are created, including Graduat
clergy of the Church of England, ministers
vss all other denominations, barristers pleaders
Ter. convey ancers, solicitors and proctors, medi
this men, certifcated schoolmasters."
rfSl If you die in Cuba, it will cost your frier
WIZ VIZ $500 before your remains can be taken awi
4 is paid, you are taken in the public dead-c
'0r- and pitched into ditch, among the remains
R. paupers and those who have been execut
'.S ssed Ths 5000 is made up as follows Coffin ST.
30 embalming $500 church tax $72; hotel
x bedding, about $40.
Mr.. Thomas VittsIey, of East Warren,
H., married man, eloped with widow nan
Brown, who left two small children behind,
Friday evening last, and travelled on foot
East Haverhill, distance OF twenty mi
where they were overtaken and arrested
next day. Both parties were considered
spectacle members Of society until the elo
g., ment took place.
A few days since, while Mr.. H. Hayden
Rails County, Mo-, was at work in a corn-f
with his brother-in-law, he became angry '
him, and said he would shoot him. He
paired to the house for gun, but while on
v..r way became so overweight with passion
,n' in he became affected with bleeding Of the lu
st. OF and in few hours was corpse.
The sum Of 500, 900 has already been ra
,poS our by private subscription in aid Of the prt
that for a Museum of Natural History in Cambri
AIKEN so that the amount of $200, 900 will be at
Yoz service of Professor Agassiz, If the bill repo
at be by the Committee on Education passes the
'''u' Legislature.
A gang of Dead Rabbit ruiiians in New Y
on Friday night last, violated the person
ensd. widow, and in her struggles q limb was bro
at. which she refused to have amputated, and
:. therefore taken to the hospital, where she
on Sunday night. Two of the rufhans
sERs. caught.
A correspondent writing from Salt Lake
that, not long since, GENTLE resident of
,, town made love to young lady of MOI
Q asS family living at Provo. mob collected
opt to lover was advised to fly for his life, and
gwell the young woman was brought out into
en-. tT ~ I street and publicly whipped.
ad AN an Business men, and not party polite
Go2. are wanted to ill Offices in Evansville.
Journal says, "the citiEens, in their sele
of candidates, are forgetting party consi
tons, and are looking only to the true
6le fcI permanent interests of the oity."
Public The Propagateur Catholique, Sou
Catholic journal, learns from persons vi
Of confidence, that General Walker, rec
n tbe converted to the Catholic Church, has del
!. have ined to enter a religious order and beoo
ssnH'er' " Catholic priest. ,.
A young man named John o'Heron
committed to prison in Pittsburg last wee
DOPING threa tening the life Of his father. The r
ted, on assigned for the conduct Of the prisoner
,cumu, refuIal Of the old man to leave tho Prote