Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-01-15

.,u IEGlrLAT,vE RUSH, YEr-THE INAUGURATION
FEARS OF A FREE TRkIN-sEARcH FOR sTATE
-rASnARD- MATTERS.
Especial to the Commercially
DovEp, Jam II.
II really seems as IL no business of Importance
aa- to he pushed in the Legislature until aftei
tie Inauguration of the Governor, next Tues
day. committee has been appointed to make
the necessary arrangements which will not be
~! IL very extended scale, though 1t il expected
That there will be II crowd present to witness
the ceremony. State Temperance Convention
10 be held here on the same day will contribute
considerably to swell the numbers. The report
tial u free train will come from Wilmington Oh
the day of the Inauguration is causing consider
cradle uneariness amongst many OF the citizens
who have Vivid recollection of the scenes eu-
acted on Il previous occasion when free train
Uie run.
A STATE FLAG.
The resolution to purchase United States
llag WAS yesterday recalled IN the Senate and
amended by instructiug the committee also to
procure State flag THIS was all well enough
bat when the committee came to inquire after a
state flag, none of them could recollcct having
ever seen one and although the oldest inhabi
tunts bad some recollection of such n banner,
nome of them could tell what 1t looked like OF
now it was made. In the meantime an active
search and inquiry will be made for that flag.
MINOR MATTERS.
Mr. Will- has given notice that he would i'll
trG1uce bill to preserve the purity of the bal
nt box, by making it a punishable offence by
lne OF imprisonment or both, to mark the ballot
If any person 20 AZ to control hls vote. Alr.
Wllds showed us some tickets voted at the last
clccion that were marked by long broad black
lines beng stamped upon the back
The Louisiana resolutions which passed the
House on Tuesday, went through the Senate,
lp n voted
against them.
In the reports Of Tuesday the name of Mr..
Pyle has somehow ,been omitted from the COM
niittce on Education and the name of Mr.. Wids
substituted in its stead. This is an error which
We Wish to correct by placing Mr.. Pyle on tho
Committee mentioned in place Of MIR. Wilds.
Tho bill to incorporate the Wilmington *
chesapeake Railroad Company is still in the
hands of the Committee on Corporations, and
viii no doubt be reported with II favorable rec
ommendatioo and pass the House, though its
success IN the Senate II not 30 assured.
The claim Of lieny j. Row, Sheriff of Craw-
ford county, Ohio for the $500 reward for the
capture of Joseph III. Taylor charged with the
murder of Nlackey, was laid before the House
Yesterday afternoon, and referred to the Com
inlttee on Claims. or course the amount will
he allowed, but whether all to Sheriff Row re-
mains yet to lie seen.
There IL considerable talk here in reference to
the llqnor license law, but it il pretty well estab-
lrhed that if any change is made, 1t will be to
make 1t more stringent,
We have be;n visited with another deluge of
Iue and sleet which on Tuesday night and yester-
dag morning male the streets and roads almost
mpaasible. a reporter of the Legislature quot
ui tho toMMEECtAL) was the first to bo tripped,
1ud the next we observed h0rs d't combat was a
loading merchant, while following him was about
"a pounds of senatorial dignity laid HAT on his
oack looking at that time anything else than
,pmed T. H.