The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-02-03
COLUMBUS NOTES.

The Athens University asks for $20, 900 ap.
preparation.
An attempt will be made to legislate against
the recent telegraph consolidation.
SHOULD the Sunday Law become law, Gin
cinnati will be completely transmogrifed.
BILLS of minor Importance do not seem to be
as plentiful this session Of the Legislature a.
last.
The Sunday Law, the Pool Prohibition and
Local Option are menopolizing the attention Of
the law makers.
The General Assembly adjourned on the 21st
to the 25th, this being the first regular tri-
weekly adjournment.
GENERAL ROBINSON asserts that the memo
rial to General Garfield concerning Governor
Foster, never left the city.
IT is stated that $4,000 appropriated for or
phans, outside of the Soldiers Orphans Home,
is wanted by every county in the State.
SENATOR O'HAGAN has petition signed BY
one hundred and s:xty-nine Germans and saloon.
keepers of Sandusky, in favor of stringent
Sunday law.
MEMBERS who live on the Panhandle Road,
it appears, have to pay railroad fare the same
as other people. This, however, is because
that company failed to issue passes. Simple
thing.
KEEPERS of pool combinations are highly ex-
ercised over the new law, and are making Q
strenuous effort to have it either repealed or
amended. They claim it makes q distinction
without difference.
SEVERAL members of the Legislature an
nounce that they have discovered defect in
the charter of the American Union Telegraph
Company, and in that fact they rest their hope
of preventing the consolidation of that sys-
tenn.
DIR. R. GALBRAITH, of the Ross Highland
District, has rendered his resignation as men,
Der of the State Board of Equalization, on ac-
count of illness in his family. F. d. Crocker, Of
Cuyahoga, appointed in place Of MIR. Pelton,
has been sworn in.
Mr.. ROBERTSON, of the New York Times, who
has spent much time at Mentor, Cleveland, and
travelling over the State, says he has learned
enough to satisfy him that Governor Foster will
be member of Garfeld's Cabinet. He thinks
he will be made Secretary of the Interior.
Mr.. DEMPcY, of Cleveland. has introduced q
joint resolution instructing the Governor and
Board of State Officers to sell eleven acres of
very valuable land belonging to the State, and
situated in the eastern part of the city. The
proceeds are to be set apart for an Executive
Mansion.
The State Board of Public Works have drawn
a check for $18,820 to be divided among the
sixteen lessees of the Ohio canals. Wash. Nc
Lean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, receives
three shares, and Samuel Reed, of the Gazette,
one. The remaining shares are owned in vari-
GUS parts of the State.
In the House, Mr.. Price, Of Muskingum
County, last week, introduced railroad bill
TO &uunOrlZe Unat county 10 sell SlUU,UUU worth
of Central Ohio Railway bonds and apply the
proceeds, in addition to $50, 900 to be raised by
taxation, and $50, 900 to be raised by subscrip-
ton, to the construction OF a railway from
GAINESVILLE to the coal regions Of Monroe
County.
MR.. LEGaETT's bill compelling keepers of
hotels and boarding-houses to keep their
guests informed of the quality of butter set be-
fore them. or whether it is butter at all, ID
meeting with some opposition from Hamilton
County members. Butterine is manufactured
in Cincinnati, and commonly sold for butter,
and should Mr.. Leggett's bill become a law,
their business will be irreparably injured.
The Legislature year ago passed a law au-
thorizing the Board Of Public Works to con-
struct four locks on the Wabash branch Of the
parties owning the Indiana end Of the canal
should give bond for the maintenance of their
portion of the canal. Representatives of the
Indiana parties now appear before the Board
and state that they will not give bond; hence
the locks will not be built.
DIR. GREEN, Chairman, of the House Com
mittee on Insane Asylum, has prepared q bill
providing for the erection of an asylum for the
epileptic insane of the State. 1t provides that
an asylum with capacity for 800 patients, to
be centrally located on site to be selected by
the State Board of Charities, shall be built at
a cost not to exceed 100000 1t is also pro-
posed to adopt plan of building, which has
been matured by the State Board of Charities.
THE General Assembly will attend the in
auguration ceremonies at Washington, March
4 in body Governor Foster will attend ac-
companied by his full civil and military stan,
as well as by the Governors Guard. The Bar
racks Band will also attend, and the Adjutant
General of the Army has issued orders for the
band to report to the Governor for instructions
at that time. The plan, SO far is known up to
the present time, is for the Governor and his
escort to leave Columbus probably on the I'd Of
March by special train to Newark. There the
party will meet General Garfield and his friends,
who will leave Cleveland on the c., c., c. and
I. Road, and proceed via Shelby, another B.
and o. Road, to that point. Provided with
this double escort, the President-elect will
plan is not finally agreed upon, Governor Fos-
ter will, it is thought, go to Mentor himself,
and there join the President-elect.
The bill providing for new asylum for the
epileptic insane, will probably be passed. The
building will have capacity for not less than
600 patients, and the cost, not to exceed $780,
600. According to the provisions OF the bill,
before any plan is adopted for the buildings the
State Board of Charities is directed to employ
some skilled specialist in the treatment of the
insane at certain fixed salary. AL plans and
specifications are to be submitted to said spe-
cialist, and when approved by him shall be
adopted by the Board. One hundred thousand
dollars is hereby appropriated to enable the
Board to carry into effect the provisions OF the
act As soon as the asylum is completed the
Governor is to appoint a Board Of Trustees for
the government of the same. County Com
missioners are empowered to issue bonds NOT
exceeding $50 600, and to levy taxes to pay the
same if they deem it necessary, in order that
their county may compete for the site OF the
buildings.