The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13
COLUMBUS NOTES.

TEE project to abandon the Miami Canal will
be generally opposed by the present Legislature.
IT Is given out that the Columbus Asylum
for Insane is to have a new Superintendent.
THE opening of the New Year witnessed
scarcely the face of single statesman in the
city.
ABOUT the first thing the members of the
House did was to draw their mileage. 1t cost
about $S, 900 to bring them together.
AN effort will be made to enact a law prohb-
iting gambling and pool selling. It will be
meant to apply particularly to Cincinnati.
SAM BowLEs, convicted Of forgery in the Gin
clnnau Common Pleas Court, whose case was
appealed to the Supreme Court, will have
hearing on the Doth inst.
A STRONG effort will doubtless be made early
this session of the Legislature to remove the
county seat of Belmont County from st. Clairs-
vile to Bellaire.
PETER ODELL, a confidence swindler Of con-
siderable notoriety, and said to be the inventor
OF the game of three-card-monte as it is now
played, is in Jail on suspicion.
CoLoHEnSE HOLMES, of Columbus, has been
employed by the Board to draw up an answer
by the Goth inst. to the suit brought by the
lessees of the Ohio canals to compel the pay
ment Of some 900 still claimed to be due
them.
IT is reported that one of the attorneys in the
Sprague divorce case is in Columbus looking
after the past history of Kate Chase Sprague,
and endeavoring to find something that may
accrue to the benefit of the Governor in the
pending case.
A RESOLUTION has been introduced by Col
onel McClung, requesting the General Assem-
bly, to create such legislation as will enable the
County of Franklin to donate the Franklin
County Fairgrounds to the State of Ohio for
fair purposes, and grant to the board of Agri-
ground now used by the State University.
BUSINESS at tho capital is beginning Be
sides the assembling of the Legislature and the
convening of the State Board of Equalization,
there will be meetings of the State Board of
Agriculture, the Ohio Shorthorn Breeders As
sociation, Ohio Wool Growers Association,
Ohio Sheep Breeders Association, the Jersey
Cattle Breeders Association, and the Ohio
Swine Breeders Association.
NEW YEARS day Captain L. D. Myers, editor
OF the Dispatch, was represented with gold
headed cane by the employees of the paper, and
Mr.. William D. Brickel1, business manager of
the paper, was made the recipient of pearl
opera-glass. Warden Thomas, of the Peniten-
tiary, was also surprised with gold watch and
chain from the guards, who were in turn treated
to an oyster supper.
THERE is to be quite a contest in the House
for the position of Message Clerk, left vacant
by the resignation of Captain C. G. Wheeler,
who resigned to take the position of Clerk of
the Fund Commission. The following are some
OF the names mentioned in connection with the
CicIhbmp. u. = oIillbil, OI SclOCO county; CQa6.
Kelland, Of Richland; VIM. Robinson, of Car
roll; George Moore, of Hardin, VIM. Jackson,
D. c. Stewart, ]. Mitchell, and Captain w. H.
Horton, of Franklin.
AN attorney from Bolivar, Tuscarawas County,
has appeared before the State Board of Public
Works, and asked the members to indorse
bill which he says he is about to have introduced
in the Assembly. The bill provides for the
abandonment of the Sandy and Beaver
Canal, which is a branch of the Ohio Canal,
and which serves as q feeder to it. The at
tOrney says the canal is a nuisance to the resi-
dents along its borders, and that it would be
benefit to the Board to have it abandoned.
The Board fails to look at it in that Hight, and
no action has been taken in the matter
THE Hon. Otto Dressed, leading and
wealthy German lawyer of Columbus, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself in his law Office.
Mr.. Dressed represented Franklin County in the
Fifty-fourth General Assembly. He was born
in 1924 at Detmold, the capital of Lippe a pro-
vince in the North of Germany. He had a
thorough college training, and was q school
mate of Carl Schurz. He at one time edited a
Republican paper in Germany, and in the re-
volution of 1S4S, was compelled to fly in haste,
only escaping by Disgusting himself The fol-
lowing note was found lying upon bis office
desk: "Here l am, sitting again in my lonely
Office, trying to think; can not Feeble with
age, stupid, no business, no income, no friends,
no prospects; burden to myself, to my family,
to all. My fault! my fault! Terriblel Dark
ness in my head, as in prison. Air! air!''
Signature unreadable.
The State Board of Agriculture was in ses-
the Treasurer, made the following report: