Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1869-01-22
News and Osherwtse. 81

The city of st Louis has been defrauded
Of Sl36,4f2 by ex-officials. ao'sa9s sd1
SHERMAN's financial bill Is not looked
upon with favor at Washington. .zsi.Ss.-,-.
The leading Conservative Virginians
now in Washington are pie sed with Grapt.
NEw ZEALANDERs at Poverty Bay have
been guilty of frightful masscre Eof
whites. 2'7sai 2t39i III ~ pa5sa sEcs1
THREE children were burned to death on
Thurdsay morning In a fire in Brooklyn,
New York. q 10 se3ilalt271q bns Soi1fb
READ the communication of G. S. Innis,
Esq, on agriculture and Protection, on
fourth page. -- S''s Z - sia1 %
The Shield and Banner publishes Hon.
F.W. Thornhill's euloay upon HonEAhe
drew Gerhart, deceased
THE House has passed bin to abolish
the fac-simile frank stamps of members
names. Right, It was . great abuse,
1T is expected that on Monday the one
thousand1h mile post'will be reached in the
track laying of the Union Pacific rail-
road.n15E ,3ya5. 50 -o9EIaHAI M
sA-MAN in Des Moines, Iowa, who sffteenf
years ago sold a lot for five. hundred doll
lars, has just bought it back for twenty
seven thousand dollars. M IN eek gu
FIFTEEN new divorce cases came up bes
fore the Circuit Court of st. Louis yester.
day. Does st. Louis propose to become the
rival of Chicago in this matter? 4OT.4N
So SURE as the Legislature votes TO- REG
build the Central sLunatic, Asylum on any
other than its present site, so sure is it that
1t will not be rebuilt in franklin county.
WE had the pleasure of meeting HonaS
s. Bloom. one of Richland's most t'enterg
prising men, and as good a Democ rat as
there is in the State who issnow linythe
city.s4sz.iI iaariM to sssisniI sdl 10 had.
GEN. GRANT is again reported in favor 5clff
vigorous retrenchment In the expenditu res
of the Government and as opposed Ito, any
more subsidies to the Pacific railroad at
present. a.: r.-s lle .sse ese .s,,gl a q
AN effort is being made-in the Tennesse 8
Legislature to fmpeach Judge Honk, OF the
seventeenth Judicial District of Tennessees
for drunkenness, bad conduct. and infidel-
ity. He is Radical just think ofsthat.g
TIE National Womens' Rightsa con9en..il
tion, that has just been in session In WASH
ington, has resolved a, demand that women
and colored men shall be eligible to seats,
in Congress. Why dothey put themselves
on an equality with Negroes? = i. s'aS'.'a i !
TIE delay in ordering the reconstruction,
OF the Central Lunatic Asylum, Is attract-a
ing considerable attention outside OF Cs.e
nmbus. The Dayton Daily Ledger OF
yesterday, Thursday in referring to the,
discussion that has taken up time in fller
House about its rebuilding, has this to saw 3
Nobody disputes that the immediate re-, +, =
building Of thar Institution, or of one else-s
where, is imperatively demanded brewery
consideration of humanity. The adjourned
session of the Legislature, it will be, recol-s
lected, convened on the 23d of November
last, only few days after the dreadful con n3 4
fagration, which laid in ashes the Asylum.
burned up several of its unfortunate In
mates, and turned the remainder ont aofI
house and home. A committee, appointed
by the General Assembly, brought In re-
port sometime ago, the majority recon-
mending as stated by our correspondence
The plan ofothe majority was a large
one. and in flush times certainly we'll
worthy the warm hearts and expansive in-i Il
tellects Of the members of the committee.
The plan of the majority is tosell the ola
Blind Asylum, which is insufficient for the
present and prospective emergencies, re7m
build upon the ruins of the Lunatic Asy-aB
lum an institution for the blind, and thenfs
purchase 200 acres of land away from Coz
\. Nt,
ings for the insane. This would probably m
involve an outlay of one million, or oneds
million and half dollars, a PROPOSE 10
tion, in the present oyer-taxed and ffna,nS. @
cially Strengthened circumstances rof; the
people, not tocbe thought of unless imper.sq
ative necessity calls for it. L is estimated :
that the old asylum may be rebuilt FOR fls,i "a
s25o,0Oo.I It mo-, unlikely thata new o .
would cost less than slO00oo0a HerepH
is aodifference &C once of $3.50 900. ~ II
at this time, or indeed at any. time, q !, =
large SUM which shou,e itpossible he saved
to the taxpayers. We earnestly desire the q
Legislature shouldllook into this matter at
once. We are not tie champions of ar =
theory, much less, any particulsr olocationI
but of economy. When q business mahsIB9
largely in debt, he ishodld practfce fbA1o
strictest economy. So with the State.
our Democratic Legislature shall 20 ons,
step further than Is imperatively demand..1 en- d.
I'd by considerations of justice and humane
ty, or expend, one dollar of the peoplesns
money beyond ndaetualneeessities, or fernaf1nol
day.in session longer than Is necesss arv lo-
o transact the public business. the me-
,ers will be Justly censurable by their