The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-28
COLUMBUS NOTES.
Mr.. R1MER's Ditch Bill is now law.

Mr.. RIMER's Ditch Bill is now law.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned sine die
April 20.
THERE was lively time during the last few
days of the General Assembly.
TWENTY thousand dollars are to be used for
better ventilating the State House.
The bill to appropriate $15 600 for the York
town celebration was killed in the House by
vote of AZ to Is.
The warmer weather created desire in the
breasts Of our so1ons to go home and attend to
their gardens.
The Longview bill as it now stands limits
the amount to be paid for the institution by
the State to $3.50, 600.
Mr.. RAYS House of Refuge Bill is law,
and will make some important changes in the
management of that institution.
TEE Brown County tobacco bill passed the
Ohio Senate with amendments, which were
concurred in by the House, and is now law.
The reader may shed a tear over the fact-if
he wants to-that our columbus Notes. will
be hereafter numbered as one of the things OF
the past.
sentence of Conrad Rauterback, who was to
have been hung at Sidney, to imprisonment in
the penitentiary for life.
The General Assembly did lots of things that
some people are not very well pleased with:
That is o very good indication that they were at
iSdc1 SuuGy VI uoiItS SOfHeututJ.
UPON the day of adjournment of the Legis-
lature, in the House, Judge Estell, on the part
of his Democratic brethren, presented Speaker
Cowgirl with q costly cameo rihg.
The Davis Smoke Consumption Bill was
finally put through and the City Council of
Cincinnati is now authorized to take measures
to abate the much-complained-of smoke nui-
sance. a- So. --.--..... .
The matters of difference between the Sen
ate and House with reference to the Deficiency
Bill were settled by the committee of confer
ence, and reported back to the House, and that
report was adopted, making the bill a law.
A STATE Association of County Auditors has
been effected, with the following list of perma-
nent officers President, Griffith Ellis, Cham
paign; First Vice-President, J. Wilkins, Guern-
sey; Second Vice-President, c. Conner, Della
ware; Secretary, j. 81. Cooper, Greene; Treas
urer, W. J. Shrsver, Perry.
THE pages of the House, through Charles
Bell, their spokesman, presented the Speaker
with Goethe's works, in eight volumes-a very
handsome present. The Speaker appropriately
| acknowledged it, and complimented young
| Bells presentation speech, as well as all the
| pages of the House for their faithful and vigi-
liant services. - @ sa -
GOVERNOR FOSTER has made the following
appointments Charles H. Moore Columbus,
Gardner, Washington Court House, and N. B.
| Payne, Cleveland, Trustees of the Reform
/ Farm School; Rulof Brinkerk Mansfield, and
| Charles Bersel, st. Mary's, members of the
Board of State Charities.
| LoNGvIEw AsYLUM.-A committee of the
| Legislature visited Cincinnati and had several
| protracted interviews with the Board of County
Commissioners respecting the purchase by the
State Of Longview Asylum. The latter were
asked to name their price for the institution,
ground and all, and placed the figure al
1000, 600. After the committee returned and
| met in Columbus, the price set by the Com.
missioners was deemed too high, and DR.. Scot
introduced bill or joint resolution author
izing the State to pay the County Of Hamilton
$3.50, 900 for the institution. This sum Colone
Hill and other members of the Hamilton
| County delegation considered altogether toe
small, and hence their opposition to it. Thil
| opposition resulted in the defeat Of the bill
| and the adoption of Col. Hills substitute, au
thorizing the appointment Of commission tc
fix the value OF the property and report the
same to the Governor, by whom it will b.
| transmitted to the next Legislature. By thi
| action it will be seen that the asylum cannot
change hands until after the election an(
meeting of the next Legislature. Governor
Foster will have the appointment of the ap
praisers, and will probably take his time ir
making his selection.