The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1870-03-24
Agricultural College Bill.


this county. as chairman of the Com
mittee on Agriculture, has passed the
Senate by a vote Of yeas 25 to IL nays.
1t had passed the House by an equally
decisive vote-75 yeas, to a nays, and
is now law. The following is a
synopsis of the bill:
The bill provides for the establish
ment of one college, tosbe styled the
Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical
College, in accordance with the actsof
Congress passed July 2, 1867, where
the leading object shall be, without
excluding other scientific and classical
studies, and including military tactics,
to teach such branches of learning as
are relaled to agriculture and the me-
chanic arts.y The government of the
college to be vested in a board of
teustees, consisting of one member
from each Congressional district, to
be appointed by the Governor for a
term of six years, one third Of the
board to be appointed everytwo years.
The board are authorized to sue and
be sued, to make rules, and the gen
eral management is to be confined to
anexeeutize committee of three. All
persons over fourteen years ofage are
to be eligible as students, each county
to be entitled to a proportions accord
ing to population. No debts are to BE
contracted without authority from the
General Assembly. The board is au-
thorized to appoint officers, fix the
amount of the Treasurer's bond, and
prescribe the compensation. Feei ai'l
Section ten provides for collection
and preservation of specimens in the
departments of minerology, geology,
botany, &C., the establishment of a L.
brary, collection of arms and accoIi-
terments, etc, and preservation of the
same. The trustees are authorized to
receive bequesfs in money and lands,
and apply them to the endowment
fund, unless otherwise directed Full
reports of all transactions are to be
made annually to the Governor The
Attorney General is made the legal
adviser of the board: sb5oR j5ii9d
By section sixteen is provided
that thes endowment fund, now
amounting to about four hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, shall be- kept
intact, unless ten per cent thereof
shall be appropriated by the, General
Assembly for buildings, as authorized
by Congress. = q '7sl's' itiAASi p
Section seventeen provides that the
trustees shall locate, on or before the
18th of October, 1870, ON lands not
less in area than one hundred acres,
centrally situated, and accessible by
railroad. No location shall be accept
ed unless'aceompanied by apdonation
of not less than one hundred thousand
dollars in money or lands or BOTH
Don PIATr, the Washington cores
I fpondent of the loyal Cincinnan Com
mercial, says he finds this to be the
fact about the. present Administra-
ton: -.
!" We have seven Presidents; Fish
controls the State Department, With
out reference to any one; Boutwell, is
lord of the Treasury Cox conducts
the Interior, and Belknap the war
Department; and so throughout. Tie
President is a solemn, silent, smoking
fgure-head, with abundance Of time
to put on a white choker and swallow
tail, and attend every entertainment
TO which any one may invite him.
meet him frequently upon the streets,
incoming along, with cigar in mouth,
and ungloyed hands behind his back" /"
sci The same writer adds the following
prophecys doum ooi saitiuaigoqqo
q For the first time in our history,
we make an approach to the bureau
ocracy of France, under the monarchy.
/ Such Government means routine, at
home, and drifting abroad. In our
foreign affairs we have no policy, and,
at home, his serene Hghness9 fires an
other cigar, and says: Better move
on without change for another year,
although the people are burdened to
the death with heavy taxation and
hard times. We have had a year of
| this sort of thing, with the grim pros
,pect of having, in another, the Demo
cratic party intervene |; and, when it
does our excellent President will
quietly swing over, and smoke silent
lyon the other side" a8l y7a4 oaaia
A Mixed Jury.9i saoi 10
A jury of one man and eleven. wo-
men, recently impaneled in the Dis
trict Court at Laramie City, Wyoming
Territory, to try cases, had a severe
seige Of it at the very outset. A miullr--
der case was submitted to them at the
beginning Of the month. A dispatch
of the 18th inst, says: aThe jury
cannot agree, and have been ordered
| to be confined until 9. o'clock in the
morning, when the Court agrees to
meet them, They were allowed a din
ner and supper. The women looked
sick and fatigued, this being. the
fourth night of their confinement
There is a general complaint among
| the married men," Another dispatch
Of the 18th, says: "The jury III the
Cowie murder case returned verdict
at IL o'clock last night, guilty of man.