Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-29
COLUMBUS.
GATHERING OF THE LEGISLATIVE
/. CLANS.
Contests for the Offices Of the General As
sembIy-State Agricultural ConVen-
ton-Board of School examin-
ers- Father Gallagher, Of y
Belmont County. a
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.
Special Correspondence Of the Register.

Special Correspondence " 6tc 1lcDtses8.
CoLuMBUs, OHIO, December S.-On my
return from the Christmas festivities OF
Sandusky, | find Columbus swarming with
candidates for legislative offices. There is
a comparative scarcity of members as yet,
but they are beginning to arrive. The
trains of to-day and tomorrow will bring
most of them to the scene OF conflict. DIR.
Scott, the venerable representative from
Warren county, is at the American Hotel,
and reports his prospects for the Speaker
shin as being good. Some of the strikers
for other candidates for Speaker are on the
ground, but their chiefs have not put IN an
appearance yet. They will, however,
very soon, and then the fur will fly!
Pugsley declines to run for Speaker pro
lem. to oblige Hodge, and is understood to
be for Scott. This spoils the combination
that Hodge was trying to form, and he
will try another d. J. Edwards, Chief
Clerk OF the last House, will be reelected,
notwithstanding the effort TO beat him.
cant Donaldson, Chief Clerk of the last
Senate, will be reelected without opposi-
tion. -.
The Temperance people will be on hand
early, toask for additional legislation. They
purpose to hold State Convention in tins
city, in-January, and the Legislature Will
find il hard to refuse to hear them. Many
pledged in favor of very stringent meas
ures. We shall see how far they keep their
promises.
The tricksters are already at work to see
how many Republican Congressional dis
tricts they can make. They mean to give
the Democrats Just as few as possible. The
Apportionment Bill of the incoming Cen
erat Assembly, will be the worst and the
meanest gerrymander that the history of
parties in this country records.
The State Agricultural Convention, and
several other State conventions OF KIN
dred character. will be held in this city
next week. There will be sharp contests
for the membership of the State Board Of
Agriculture which are about to expire.
A big military display is promised for the
9th of January, on the occasion OF the re-
Inauguration OF Charles Foster as Governor
of Ohio.
The State Board of School Examiners met
Yesterday, in the Hall OF Representatives,
with class of twenty-Seven, three OF whom
are ladies. All of them are teachers OF ex-
perience. Ii they pass the examination,
! they receive certificates for life and need
never again pass through that ordeal IN
Ohio. The State Examiners are: A. b..
| Johnson, of the Avondale Schools, Cincin-
natl: H. NJ. Parker, Superintendent of the
| Elyria Schools, and Prof. w. G. Williams,
| of Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware.
! The examination will be concluded to-day,
but the result will not be made known un-
| der two weeks.
1t is announced that Very Reverend
| Nicholas A. Gallagher, now Vicar General
| of Columbus has been made Bishop OF Cal
weston, Texas. Father Gallagher is ma
| tive of Temperanceville, Belmont county,
| Ohio, and is now in the 37th year of his
| age He stands high in -ihe Catholic
Church, aSd is esteemed by Protestants
wherever he is known. He is pastor OF st.
| Patrick's Church here, as well as vicar
| General of this diocese. This is the second
Bishop taken by the Pope of Rome from
! St. PatriCk'S of Columbus. The first was
| Right Rev. Edward Fitzgerald, now Bishop
| of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Fred. w. Newburgh, late Assistant Sec
| retary of the Board of Public Works, was
! Yesterday brought before Mayor Peters,
| waived an examination, and was bound
over to court on six distinct charges of for
gerry. etc, in 5000 on each charge, max
| ing $4,000 in all In default OF security
| he was remanded back to prison, and, last
| evening was taken to the county jail. de
! will hardly be able to give the required
| bail. The State was dcfrauded out OF 81
Geo in round numbers, by the six transac.
| tons of Newburgh, which are the basis OF
| these charges. The investigation IS still IN
| progress. and several additional cases OF
| croOkedneSS against him have been un'
carthed, The bottom has not yet been
| reached. and nobody knows how high the
| figures are destined to run, ALAiM.