Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-02-28
Our correspondent, esprit Fort, %
writes as from New burgh as follows:

asylum IS being rapidly puSheQ FORWARD.
and when Completed wlli be s5s feet ir
length and the main part 416 feet deep
There will be 1,024 rooms besides the base
ment and cellars. The appropriations re
been, admitted to the Institution 1850 pa
tients, of which 1,266 have been dfscharg-
ed: recovered, 4S0; improved. 700; unim-
proved, and 25s have died; ~ have been
sspe been e. peins
three times as many as of any other 0ccu-
patton. We find that but one editor, one
droyer, one harness maker, one cOnfec-
toner and one dentist, have been admitted
since the opening of the institution
Among the many causes of insanity the
principal one is intemperance, there be-
ing over four times as many cases caused
by excessive intemperance as by any
causes being religious exeitements disep-
pointed affection and loss of property
There Is, of course, great expense at
tending this institution. The gas bill
alone amounting $2,01o.25in 1878.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The taxpayers convention of South
Carolina adopted memorial to Con-
gress reciting the miserable condition
Of the State under the present govern
ment and asking for redress and relief.
INDIANA.
In New Albany. on Thursday, q six
year old child of Mr.. Hughes, while
playing with matches in the lumber
garret. set fire to the house and was
burned to death before it could be res
cued.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Steve Lowery, the last survivor of the
notorious band of Robson county,
North Carolina outlaws, was instantly
killed in the upper part of Robson Co.,
by three citizens. He was tuning his
banjo preparatory to playing for some
wagoners when three shots were fired
at him, taking effect in his head, killing
him instantly.
NEW JERSEY.
The strike on the New Jersey Southern
Railroad, begun about five weeks ago, is
at an end. The business of the road is
started in accordance with bill Of the
New Jersey Legislature, which provides
for the appointment of receiver to run
any railroad that has ceased running ten
days and which guarantees that employ
es of this road shall receive two months
back pay from the first earnings.
VIRGINIA.
Washington's birthday was celebrated
at Richmond by a parade Of the First
Virginia Regiment and review by
Governor Kemper and other State OFF,
GERS. The streets and squares through
which the regiment passed was thronged
with citizens. In the afternoon ma
tional salute was fred. This was the
first parade in ten years that the people
entered into with spirit. The colored
militia.
| MICHIGAN.
The mother of boy who was habit
ually furnished with liquor at grog
shop in Detroit, interviewed that grog
shopman with a big club in her hand.
She requested the brute not to furnish
her boy with liquor, and the man or
dered her out of his rum hole. She de-
clined to terminate the interview just
then, whereupon he seized the woman,
and she hit him with her club, and he
went over a chair. Spectators cheered
the woman and she tried her "suasion"
on the bar bottles and decorations, de-
/ stroying the beauty of the establishment
very suddenly.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
The House thus far has passed one
hundred and fifteen bills and about fifty
resolutions calling upon, departments
for information. The Senate business
makes small showing compared with
the House.
The select committee appointed to in
vestigate the affairs of the District of
Columbia will not again meet for busi-
ness until Cover nor Shepperd shall have
finished the detailed Information re-
lquired. The committee have not as yet
called upon the memorialists to present
specific charges and name witnesses.
The Subj Committee on Banking and
Currency will begin next week the ex-
animation into the affairs Of the First
National Bank of Washington. They
will propose certain written interroga-
tives to be answered by the Secretary of
the Treasury, Comptroller Of the Cur
rency and Receiver of the Bank, before
summoning witnesses.
KANSAS.
At meeting of the State Grange res
olutions were adopted requesting the
Kansas Legislature to pass prohibito-
ry liquor law and declaring that the
greatest good and highest happiness Of
an enlightened, virtuous and prosperous
people are the legitimate results of thor
ough and practical education, diffused
among the masses.
The Senate passed three joint resolu-
tions to submit the question OF female
suffrage to vote of the people of the
State.
The State Grange has passed resolu-
ton asking tie Legislature to pay the
indebtedness of the State Board of Ag.
!. riculture and discontinue appropria.
tions to it.
LII IuC AAOuoG u A1A SO AAuAAOCA Va ACeo-
. lutions were offered on various subjects,
but it is difficult to get reliable informa.
tion of the proceedings.
I'll ILLINOIS.
The National Crop Reporter publishes
estimates in relation to the percentage
/, of the hay and Irish potato crops of 1S7:
in producers hands February 1st, In
f the States of Illinois. Iowa, Kansas
= Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. The
y following is an extract of the main fea
e lures presented: The States named
e produced last year over nine million
t tons of hay of which there was on hand
i February 1st little over AZ per cent.
f or about four and half million tons
f Illinois retains the lightest percentage
e a trifie less than 46 per cent, and Wis
o consin the heaviest, nearly 81 per cent
;, OF Irish potatoes the States above men
;, toned produced in 1873 some twenty
;, three and one-half million bushels. TIL
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