Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-03-18
INDLANA NEWS.
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous. I
AT a Logansport spelling school the editor of
The Pharos went down the word ''abut-
ment"
The following is list of the most important bills
that have become laws during the regular session
of the Legislature Requiring suits prom
issory notes to be brought in the county where
the maker resides incorporating the State
Horticultural Society for assessment of cor
porate property at the same rate as the property
of private firms continuing the Office of
County Superintendent for the appointment
of official court reporters for one insane
asylum at Indianapolis repeating the gravel
road assessment law; continuing the State
geological survey : for the organization of State
and District Oranges; extending time for rail-
ROADS to complete their lines, in cases where aid
has been voted to five years for the removal
of county officials for intoxication reducing the
price of the Supreme Court Report to 3 per
volume for appeal in cases of suits for APP
pointment of Receivers limiting the power of
Township Trustees to contract debts without
the authority of Commissioners allowing
~ lSSuS AdDctAo SOi phc.
TIE Logansport Sun has suspended publica-
cation and its material las been shipped to
Clinton, H., where new publication is to be
born.
IN consequence of reduction Of wages in
the offices of the Terre Haute Journal and
Express, a few days ago, the printers of both
papers at once struck The Journal compro-
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weeks, which was accepted, and work resumed.
The Express Company adhered to the reluc-
!, ton, and declared lis intention of rafting"
An oratorical contest between representatives
ton a few nights ago. in the University Chapel.
BY the withdrawal of other candidates, tie con-
test was limited to four men. The honor Of
representing the State University awarded
! by the judges. Profs. Hoss. Owen and Ballan-
tine. to Dir. W. j. Mcleod. of Browns Valley.
! The second honor rests with Mr. y. Il. Smith
of Kokomo.
| THE smallpox is raging in epidemic form i'll
Sullivan and Clay counties. In Clay county it
has broken out among the miners. Fifty
deaths have occurred in and around Bowling
Green, and hundred people are down with the
loathsome disease. The presence of the dis
ease created a panic and the county courts
were adjourned last wee,, in consequence.
Never was the county afflicted. and the peo-
pie are pulling up" and leaving. The dis
ease is rampant in Sullivan county, and general
fear is expressed. 1t also RACES to some extent
in the western part of Vigo county.
THE following are tine main portions of Gov.
Hendricks message converting the Legislature
in extra session:
: "GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REP
EEsESTATIvEs: You have been called in special
session by virtue of provision of tie Constitution
which so authorizes when the Governor shall be
opinion that the public welfare requires it. II is
your duty to provide for the exgency which has in
volsed the public welfare. When that work is COM
pleed, the occasion for the special session viii have
ceased and adjournment should immediately
follow. At the close of the recent session there
was disagreement between the Senate and House
of Representatives upon some general bills which
were important, if not essential the public well
fare. Among these were the Revenue and General
Appropriation bills, bills regulating the fees and
salaries of public officers, and bill regulating
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be put in shape that the judgment OF the
two houses may harmonic upon them. BY
virtue of the act of Dec. 6. 1872, they stood upon
the files Cor Your action if the two sessions had
been one. The Revenue bill should provide for the
ordinary expenditures and for the State indebted
ness. Such appropriations have been agreed upon
aggregating about 100000 each year. Under the
new appraisement, as provided for taxable property
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The.poll-tax will be about $4,000 1 anticipate
delinquency at 20 per centum upon both during the
years 1875 and 1876. Extraordinary expenditures
will be required for additional insane asylums $780,
900 for the payment of bonds; $4,000 to meet the
loan of $4,000. do not think good policy requires
that these be provided for by extra taxation.
ommend that authority to make loan conferred
by the act Q: March 10, 1873, be continued. As
suggested in my January message, all construction
fees and changes should be made impossible, but
compensation should be sufficient to command
efficient and reliable service. Public officers ac-
cept positions understanding that fees and salaries
under legislative control except when otherwise
provided for by the Constitution, but they have the
right to expect that after the election compensation
shall not be unreasonaby reduced.
'we without any efficient law regulating the
sale of intoxicating liquors. Society should not be
left in that condition. The judgment of the people
has been expressed in favor of carefully-guarded
license law. The Supreme Court has decided that
under the existing law there is restraint upon
the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday, at
night time on election days, except in cases
where the liquor is drank upon the premises.
81 trust harmony will characterize your proceed
ings, and that by successful and prompt dispatch
of public business you may have the qualification of
an early adjournment"
THE LEGISLATURE.
SATURDAY, March 6.-Sendte-Much of the