The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-03-29

cINc1NNATI, TuEspAY, MARCH 20.

OHIO LEoIsLATURE.--In the SENATE, on Sat-
urday, the following bills were passed To |
prevent and punish fraud in the use Of false |
brands, labels and trade marks; to authorize |
the City Council Of the city Of Hamilton to |
appoint Commissioners to drain Old River, and |
for other purposes directing the sale of lands
in Union and Summit counties.
The bill prohibiting members of the General
Assembly from accepting free railroad passes,
was indefinitely postponed. I
Mr.. Vanatta, the Senator from the Perry
and Muskingum district, rendered his resigna-
ton, but the Senate refused TO accept Of the
same.
In the HOUSE the following bills were passed:
To provide for the renewal and to regulate the
final payment Of the funded debt Of the State;
to make the incorporated village of James
town separate road district; to authorize the
Commissioners of Henry County to borrow
money to pay the county debt; to amend the
fourth section of an act TO authorize the making
Of real estate indexes in certain counties, etc.
A communication was received, accompanied
by a map Of the city Of Cincinnati, presented
to the House from the Council Of that city.
A bill was introduced to repeal the act of
1855, to provide for the prosecution Of the work
on the new State House.
The Senate bill, providing for geological
survey Of the State, was postponed till January
lst, 1850.
A resolution was adopted providing for the
appointment of Commissioner to ascertain
the amount of damages occasioned to the
contractors, by the repudiation of the Canal
Contracts.
Mr.. Brooke's bill, relative TO Insurance Com
panies, was indefinitely postponed
INTOXICATING LIouoRs.-The Supreme Court
of Ohio, in tho case of Chaffner Us State OF
Ohio, has decided that "Any person may law
fully, in good faith, give away intoxicating
| liquors for medicinal or other purposes, or may
lawfully sell them in any quantity for such pur-
poses, to be drank elsewhere than where sold;
but he can not lawfully sell them Except such
as are especially excepted by the statute) tc
be drank where sold for any purpose.
"The administering of liquors, as a medicine
to patient by physician, could not properly
be denominated a SALE"
PUBLIC TRoRoUaHFAREs.-Judge Peck II
case village Of Fulton Us. John MarenfielC
held
l. That dedication of ground for publ
use mHy be made in Ohio, either under tn
statute or according to the rules of the com
mon law.
2. When q valid dedication of street ha
been made in either form, an action may b
maintained by the proper municipal corpora
ton to recover the possession from any one VIII
wrongfully withholds it.
8. That the statutory dedication, under tn
laws in force in A. D. 1888, operated to trans
fer the estate by way of grant, requiring n
assent on the part of the public, and to b
effective as to dedication, the solemnities re
quired by the statute, as to acknowledged
and recording, must be complied with.
4. A defective dedication under the statute
is evidence, as an act in pals, of q dedicatio
at common law by the owner.
5. Dedication Of land to public uses at com
mon law, in general, operate by way Of estol
pei, and not Us grants or transfers OF an IL
terest.
6. To constitute a valid dedication of
street or highway at common law, there mu
q. be not only dedication to public uses by Il
owner, but also an acceptance of such dedic
tion by the public, and these may be shown
the acts and declarations of the parties al
;. the surrounding circumstances.
FIGHT ON THE DAVID TATUM--A fight, whi
occurred on this vessel while lying at the Lo
isville wharf on Friday, is narrated by b
Democrat:
"There was party on board the boat boul
for Pixies Peak, among whom was james Phi
ips, from Scott County. Philips sat down
the bench near the boilers where the deck pa
! sengers eat their meals When they came
is eat breakfast they asked Philips to getup.
2 was under the influence of liquor, and refuse
/. Words passed, and the parties soon were 9
d gagged in fight. Knives and pistols we
e drawn, and freely used. One deck hand nam
I. Bob Jones, was shot in the thigh; anoth
named Ed. Wall, cut in the arm; a man nam
ID Patrick 0'Niel was cut in the hand, a
slightly scratched in the leg by bullet. I
the most seriously Of all who were wound,
was James Philips, the creator of the distul
ance; he received stab in the right brea
), The wound is between the sixth and sever
" ribs, and is about one inch and half
ID length; the lung is cut in q shocking mann
Y 1t is the opinion of the doctors that he can
a. live. Wall and Jones have been arrested, a
i'll conveyed to Jail. Philips, feeling convinced Il
!, he could not live, has given statement of
= facts, of which the above is the substance"
ANOTHER ELoPEMENT.-We clip the follc
ing from the Madison (Wisconsin) State 10
%. nal: e..
"An elopement and poisoning case are
corded as having been enacted in Beloit.
Janesville Gazette says that the parties are
negroes, named, respectively, George L. Bro
William McGill and Rosanna johnson.
Brown says that her husband tried to poi
her, though the dose was not fatal, and Z
ran away with Mrs. johnson, who has
4 band in Chicago, taking with them the priI
~ pal portion of Mrs. Browns clothing.
elopement took place on Saturday event
Young McGill 1--WE do not understand in W
manner he is implicated) came on to this Q
Is. and took lodgings at tavern. But IL
course of true love was not destined to
smooth, for their wooing was summarily in
| rupted by the entrance, in the we sma' hou
nd of Sheriff Lawton and under sheriff Putin
au I.S who surprised and arrested the guilty pal
their room, from whence they were brough
de. this city and lodged in Jail. Yesterday t
were delivered over to Officer Croly, '
started with them to Beloit, having meanwl
=, arrested McGill.
4 SAD ELoPENEST.-An exchange says
stances of connubial Inconsistency are becon
remarkably numerous of late, and almost e'
exchange we read has one of its own. An
- dividual in sandusky, who has been piI
- away with consumption for the past year,
deserted by his unfaithful wife on Tues
last, who stripped tho house of every Il