Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1877-03-23
OHIO NEWS ITEMS.


into his mouth. The shot being quite
small they were the occasion of no very
serious injury. The difficulty which led
to the shooting grew out of failure of
Botley TO pay Wise twenty-five cents for
damage done to a pair of skates a short
time before
On the evening of the Sth Rev. VIM
Bean, while preaching at Milford Center,
went insane, rushing out of church into
the street, tearing nearly all his clothes
off, shouting, preaching and praying.
The next day, while in his room, he was
taken with another spell, breaking out a
window.sash, jumping out and running
up and down the streets almost naked,
it taking six men to get him back again.
He has been taken to Ostrander, where
his father lives.
Gov YOUNG, in his special message
sent to the General Assembly on the
18th, recommends the passage of the
bills now pending in the Assembly for
the creation of bureau of labor sta
tistics and for bureau of statistics of
the mining and mineral resources of
Ohio. He opposes the proposed extra
session of the Assembly in October to
complete the revision of the work of the
commission now engaged in codifying
the general statutes. He SAYS he will
not call an extra session for this purpose,
and, if one is held, the Assembly them
| selves must adjourn to a certain day.
Attention is called to the overcrowded
condition of the Penitentiary and
the unsafe and unwholesome character
of some of the county jails, and
recommendation is made that intermedi-
ate prisons or warehouses;, for the con.
| finement of less hardened criminals,
shouldn't once be provided. The estab-
lishment of district warehouses; is sug-
gested as the most practicable solution
of the tramp question. Recommends
tion is also made that laws should be
passed to perfect the organization of the
State militia as the best protection
| against riot and destruction of property.
The message speaks in the warmest
terms of President Hayes and predicts
for him peaceful and useful admins
tration.
SECRETARY OF STATE KLTPPART will
send box of the annual reports of the
State Board of Agriculture to the Smith
sonian Institute to be distributed in Eu-
rope to persons who have sent similar
reports to this State.
THE Ohio Sunday-school Union re-
quests all the churches in the State to
hold a special service, Sunday evening,
March 25, in furtherance of the cause of
| Sunday schools.
THERE are over $4,000 persons in the
charitable and benevolent institutions of
this State.
THE Republican caucus of the Legis-
lature for the nomination of U. S. Sen
ator to succeed Hon. John Sherman was
held on the 18th. The candidates pre-
sented were: Stanley Matthews of Gin
cinnati, W. P. Rowland of Ashtabula,
Alphonzo Taft, Samuel Shellabarger of
Springfield and VIM. Lawrence of Belle
| fontaine. Forty-thr votes were nee
essary for choice. The first ballot re-
suited: Rowland 80, Matthews 30, Taft
10, Shellabarger 5, Lawrence 6. Third
ballot: Matthews 43, Rowland 30, Taft
2, Shellabarger 8, Lawrence 1. The nom-
ination was then made unanimous
THE furniture factory of T. NJ. d.
Patcher & Co., and an adjoining saloon,
at Athens, were burned on the 10th.
The loss is estimated at 100000; unin-
! sured.
A COLLISION occurred on the morning
of the 10th at Stryker, on the Air Line
Division of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railroad, between a through
freight and a stock express train. The
latter stopped at a water tank, and the
freight train coming up from the rear
ran into the stock express. Three cars
of the stock train, with a number of cat
tie and the bridge at Stryker, were
burned operson was injured.
AT Cincinnati, on the nth, ex-Detect-
i've James White was sentenced to the
Penitentiary for thirteen months for i'm
plication in the election frauds last Octo-
ber
THE following is the full text of the
Compulsory Education bill as it passed
the Legislature; #- r." i
SECTION l. That every parent, guardian
or other person, in the State of Ohio, having
charge or control of any child or children
| between the ages of eight and fourteen years
shall be required to send such child or chill
dren to a common school for at least twelve
(l2) weeks in each school year, commencing
on the first day of September, in the year OF
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seveuty-seven QS77), at least six (6) weeks o
which shall he consecutive, unless the board
of local directors or the Board of Educa
tion, as the case may be, having control Of
the school district in which such parent OF
guardian shall reside, shall excuse sucl
child from attendance, on its being shown tC
their satisfaction that the child's bodily ol
mental condition is such as to prevent its at
tendance at school or application TO study
for the time required, or that its time anC
labor are essentially necessary for the sup
J port of an INDECENT parent brother or sister
or that such child is being otherwise fur
nished with the means of education for
like period Of time, or has already acquired
the branches of learning ordinarily taught
, | in common schools: PrOVided, In case the
common school of the district in which such
parent or guardian resided shall be distant
. two miles from his residence by the neares
travelled road, he shall not be liable to thu
provisions Of this act
SEC, 2. No manufacturer, owner of mills
or mines, agent, overseer, contractor, land
lord or other person in this State shall at an!
} time after the lst day of September, 1877
J employ any child under fourteen years o
, age during the established school hours o
the locality, unless such child shall have at
l tended some common or private school for
! term of ut least twelve weeks during tn
) school year next preceding the commence
: ment OF such employment aud such chill
shall deliver to its employer certificate a
with the provisions of this act, from tn
teacher or from the clerk OF the board o
J local directors, or from the President of tn
Board of Education, as the case may be
] having control of the school district in whic
, the parent or guardian of such child shal
! reside: Provided, Such child shall have re
sided in this State during the school yea
next preceding the commencement of sue
employment: And provided further, Tha
: such child Is under the control of a parent o
guardian, aud is not dependent upon its ow
resources for support; nor shall such en-
; ploymeut continue for a longer period tina
forty weeks during any school year froI
the time this act shall take effect, unles
such child shall deliver to such employer
; certificate OF excuse from the proper author
q ity, for any of the reasons mentioned in See
| | OF this act
>; SEC. 3. The School Boards having contrC
4 SHALL in their respective districts, on the SEE
. ond Monday In February and september G
each year, In such manner as they shall deer
most expedient, ASCERTAIN the condition {
u all children under fourteen years Of age en