The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-02-17
COLUMBUS NOTES.



A LICENSE law is now looked upon as the
dark horse : zsg11 sesEE9 s5ss IR<
The Arcade Market Company, of Dayton,
capital stock $150, 900 has been Incorporated.
A GOOD portion of the time in the House is
consumed presenting petitions asking for .
local option anti7liqnor law. .l4tssyg -
TIE Ministerial Association Of Columbus are
preparing an address In English and German,
calling for better Observance Of the Sabbath.
An appropriation Of e9S, 500 has been asked
to build new female department. to the Peni-
tentiAry, and tower at the east end OF the
d CsANscY PRICE, OF Huron County, sentenced
to two years in the Penitentiary for burglary
and larceny, has been pardoned. He had
sGsod half his term. r& a9 " y = q
Az effort will now be made to restore the
Adar Law to where it was previous TO the
arneAdmehts Of 1875. Mr.. Allen has q bill
pending 70 this effeot. ee..e .,s --.ise
SIxry-oNE citizens Of Scioto County have pc
titioned the Lcgislature for q 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
q A HEsoLUrIoN was, adopted in the Senate by
z party vote Of 19 b 10 requesting the Ohio
confirmation Of Stanley Matthews as Supreme
Judge l2s feff se lz
The Supreme Court has adjourned fort
night for rest. When the court recouvenes,
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. - -
THE bills introduced in the House last winter
by Representative Dawes, providing for the
care and custody of ballot boxes and their con-
tents And, ,pnnishing more adequately the tam
pefnig With poll books and ballot boxes, have
passed the Senate and are now incorporated
into the election laws of the State.
H. B. STETLER, for many years janitor of the
State House and well-known character, at
tempted suicide by taking dose of laudanum,
in the Office OF DR.. Lecrane, on State street.
When the doctors arrived, Stettler was uncon-
scious, but restoratiyes were applied and he
will recover. Stettler had an arm shot OF in
firing salute, 1t Middletown, when Governor
Hayes was first elected. sgs., sF- ..t
ID. BETHUME DUFFIELD, of Detroit, q leading
member Of the Michigan Bar, and President
aof the Michigan Red Ribbon Temperance) 30
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. It has reduced the number Of
n aelsa ana and se ss ana
half million dollars into the Treasury yearly.
Wayne County, in which Detroit is situated,
alone collected $99, 800 in 1880.
57 Iris not often that q bill presented in the
Legislature one afternoon becomes law before
noon on the day following; such was the case,
however, with the bill reported to the House by
the Judiciary COMMITTEES relating to the con-
solidation of the Western Union and American
Union Telegraph Companies, and providing
! that they may consolidate in the manner and
order the rules provided in Chapter 2, Of Sec
solidation Of railroad companies. The bill is
now, law. It is claimed that no consolidation
can be effected in Ohio until the proper certih-
Gates have been filed with the Secretary Of
further claimed that they can not now be filed,
except as above provided. & sat g. 14Gas
/. TIE following account in regard to the gross
earnings OF the railroads of Ohio for 1880 has
Just been prepared by the Railroad Commits