The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-17
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COLUMBUS NOTES.

OVAOMDO6 nO110s
TIE King local option bill was defeated in the
House.
A LICENSE law is now looked upon as the
dark horse.
THE Arcade Market Company, Of Dayton,
capital stock $150, 600 has been incorporated
A GOOD portion of the time IN the House is
consumed presenting petitions asking for .
local option anti-iquor law.
THE Ministerial Association of Columbus are
preparing an address in English and German,
calling for o better Observance of the Sabbath.
AN appropriation Of s9s, 500 has been asked
to build new female department to the Peni-
tentiary, and tower at the east end of the
building.
CHANNoY PRICE, OF Huron County, sentenced
to two years in the Penitentiary for burglary
and larceny, has been pardoned. He had
served half his term.
AN effort viii now be made to restore the
Adair Law to where it was previous to the
amendments Of 1876. Mr.. Allen has bill
pending to this effect.
SIxTY-oNE citizens Of Scioto County have pc
titioned the Legislature for law against the
employment Of teachers who are relations of
members of School Boards.
The Ebright anatomy bill, which imposes
fine on the officers Of public institutions who
refuse to deliver unclaimed bodies on demand
| for dissection, has passed the Ohio Senate.
RESOLUTION was adopted in the Senate by
| party vote of 19 to Is requesting the Ohio
| Senate IN Congress to vote and work for the
confirmation Of Stanley Matthews as Supreme
Judge.
night for rest. Whom the court reconyenes,
Judge Boynton, who enters upon the fifth year
of his term on the 9th inst, will, by virtue of
| being the senior Judge on the bench, become
Chief Justice. ts8 -
THE bills introduced in the House last winter
| ~ RpT,raSaufqtiya Dawes rr0v1d1un for the
care and custody Of ballot boxes and their con-
| tents, and Furnishing more adequately the tam
pering with poll books and ballot boxes, have
| passed the Senate and are now incorporated
into the election laws of the State.
Il. B. SrETLER, for many years janitor of the
State House and q well-known character, at
tempted suicide by taking dose of laudanum,
in the Office OF DIR. Lecrane, on State street.
| When the doctors arrived, Stettler was uncon-
scious, but restoratiyes were applied and he
| will recover. Stettler had arm shot on in
firing salute, at Middletown, when Governor
| Hayes was first elected.
D. BErHuME DurFIEID, Of Detroit, leading
member OF the Michigan Bar, and President
of the Michigan Red Ribbon Temperance) So
ciety, complied with the request of the Speaker
of the House by addressing the General As
sembly on the subject, Especial Liquor Tax"
on the 9th inst. He said that the Michigan
Liquor Tax Law has been in operation nearly
six years. 1t has reduced the number of
| saloons fifty per cent, and drunkenness and
crime in still greater degree, and the tax pays
half million dollars into the Treasury yearly.
Wayne County, in which Detroit is situated,
alone collected S99, 800 in 1880.
IT is not often that bill presented in the
i Legislature one afternoon becomes q law before
noon on the day following; such was the case,
however, with the bill reported to the House by
the Judiciary Committee relating to the con-
solidation of the Western Union and American
Union Telegraph Companies, and providing
that they may consolidate in the manner and
f1.ls Of
ton 3470, of the Revised Statutes, for the con-
solidation of railroad companies. The bill is
now law. 1t is claimed that no consolidation
can be effected in Ohio until the proper certid-
Gates have been filed with the Secretary Of
State. As this has not yet been done, it is
further claimed that they can not now be filed,
except as above provided.
The following account in regard to the gross
earnings of the railroads Of Ohio for 1880 has
Just been prepared by the Railroad Commits
sioner, and will appear in his coming report:
Total passenger earnings. $1S, 100, ,922 II
Increase over 1873 4, ,65U,042 ~
Total freight earnings. .......... 59, 1ll,7I IL
Increase oyA 1879. 1907, 2S4 45
Total mail earnings. ,79S, ,549 48
Increase over 1879. 9.............. 90, ,2S6 ca
Total express earnings 1,275, $40 81
Increase over 1879. 17S,279 45
Total earnings from other sources. ], 1,546, 800 28
Increase over 1879. 540,217 IL
Total gross earnings from all
sources. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ol o5J ~ ol
Total increase over 1879. ....... "a, ,545, 900 Al
REPRESENTATIVE ATKINSON, of Belmont
County, introduced bill authorizing the Sec
retaryo Of State, Auditor of State, and Attorney
General to sell the State tobacco warehouse at
Bellaire. The warehouse was built In 1873,
under authority of an act passed by the Sixty.
second General Assembly, at cost to the STATE
of about s18, 600. The object in building thu
, same was to establish depot where the tobac
CO growers of the southeast portion of the Stat
could store their tobacco and have it inspected
before being shipped 10 foreign markets. 4
was also designed to have the foreign manu-
facturers come to the State warehouse and bu,
| instead of having the goods shipped to com
> mission merchants at Baltimore and othe
I | points for sale. The scheme, however, has no
been a success, and the Bellarians now ask tina
the warehouse, which is now being used as
depot by the Bellaire and Southwestern Railroad
3 shall be sold.