Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-03-15
THE BUCKEYE CAPITAL.
New Hotel-DemOcratic Com
mittee-''That" County Seat
Fee Bill-The Ohio Legislature
-Incendiarism O'Learying.
CoLUMBus, o., March Is, 1873
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CoLUMBus. o., March Is, 1879.
| Correspondence Of the Register.
The Park Hotel opening OF a few
evenings since, was simply immense.
Everything was conducted on the grand
est scale imaginable, and the hotel one
of the grandest in the State, modern and
perfect in architecture and design, rich
" and elegantly furnished, makes it not
only the hotel OF Columbus, but prob
ably he hotel of the State, with her
beautiful park attached and belonging
TO the Hotel. You also have a full and
complete view OF GoOdale Park, which
is situate adjacent to the hotel park, to-
gcther with hospitable and clever
landlord, the travelling public have GER
tainly resort, and to show the public
appreciation OF this new institution, it
is filled iull with the best class OF Gus
toners.
Ii NAV not be remarkable to some,
but it is certainly very remarkable and
noticeable that We have not had an alarm
Of fire for quite twenty-fOur hours, al
though the hour or moment when we
may hear the revengeful cry we know
not.
The policeman, the State militia and
private citizens are patrOling the city,
and the detectives are on the alert.
The Democratic State Central Com
:. 1. Of, li.V
from each Congressional district in tn"
State, have been called by the chairman,
John G.. Thompson, tomeet in Thurman
Hall. this city, on Friday, March 2Sth,
nj > o'clock T. VI. An invitation Is also
extended t. prominent Democrats to
meet with the committee. The purpose
of the meeting is to council and reason
o7r with another as to the easiest way
10 bounce the Radicals this fall, and fix
the time of holding the State COnvcn-
ton.
The Committee on Hospitals for
the Insane, together with Il
large number of members and their
wives visited Toledo to-day to take in
the city and 20 through the public lnStl-
tutionS located there, and ii possible
stumble INTO the addition, division and
silence manner Of radical mlsman-
ayrment of public institutions. There
has been something dark in that dircc-
ton for some time, and some OF the AS'
scmhly think they can give 1t to the
world.
The Senate has been very busy for
the past week on the vast volume OF
colifving work that was left on its door
stoop one dark night. 1t is only Il small
bill Of three thousand pages, and before
il becomes a law must be read three
times in each house, and at the rate OF
one page i'm every two minutes, or thir-
tv pages per hour, allowing ten
hours for each days labor, it
,.ould take ten days for each reading,
the hill must necessarily consume the
time of each House for one month, be-
sides the lengthy and monotonOus de-
bates. Then talk of the work OF this
Legislature, with other codiiying bills oi
from 800 TO 800 pages, not being perfect
" immense, ii they had nothing else
to do.
our Solons skip home tomorrow on
their regular monthly adjournment To-
take in their wives and babies. And it
has ever been thus.
Probably YOU have heard OF these
numberess petitions sent in from many
parts of the State by the temperance
folks: but the OriginatOrs We know not.
But do assure YOU it was a deeply laid
scheme. Perhaps the petitions alto
gether bore the names OF 10000 men,
women and children. composed primer
pallv of the latter two, praying Tor a
local option law 1t must be re-
mcmbercd that 10000 people is very
small chipping off OF block of 100000
citizens. the number of inhabitants ol
our state, hut tile question waXed
warm, the debates ran high and after
two davs ardent and severe Argument,
the child died So young that II was
never even christened and was only
Nulsarly known rs the Quimby bill. The
Democrats who voted for the bill were
Alexander. Barker, Elliott, Eylar, Lever
iug and TYLER. Of Licking, the vote
standing - against ~.
The parties most interested IN the
county seat of Belmont county are on
band in large numbers, and both parties
iecl quite confident OF success. The bill
will be read second time on next
"Wednesday, the l9thl we noticed an
ola man 81 the county decorating the
walls otthe House that hal gone through
two or three similar battles, one
in 1888 and one in 1870, but # this one
should h. successful, she will l." laid
carefully away, otherwise it will he the
battle riag for future engagements.
THE BOOTH ZEE BILL.
House Bill No +2g-To reduce the
fees and salaries Of county officers, wa,
reported hack iron the Committee ca
Fees and Salaries, with SUndrv amend
mcnJS. The amendments cut down tie
reductions in the SIX classes about = per
cent. in each, a. follows:
CuyahoSa county instead ot 10 per
cent, - per cent. reduction.
Franklin. Lucas, and counties oi the
~,con class, instead q; -, but - u.
nj. ie luCtInn.
/ The bill was set Tor thri r-aijH.