The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-17
COLUMBUS NOTES.

DR.. GREENE's bill for an asylum for the epi-
leptic insane passed the House by vote Of
62 to 21.
SINCE their return from Washington MEM
bers of the Legislature seem disposed to get
down to business.
The Scioto Valley Fair Ground Company of
Chillicothe, with capital of $4,000, has been
incorporated.
]. 8. LOWE, of Steubenville, has been ap-
pointed transcribing clerk IN the Adjutant Cen
erals Office. Mr.. Lowe will remove his family
to Columbus about April /.
In the House, the bill Of Mr.. Allen, Of Full
ton, amending the Adair Liquor Law SO that
the wife Of . drinking man will not be required
to give ten days notice to saloon-keeper not
to sell to her husband, was lost by . note Of
Al to As.
The sandusky, Ashland, Millersburg and
straitsville, Perry County, through Erie,
Huron, Ashland, Holmes, Coshocton and
Muskingum counties, has been Incorporated;
capital stock, $500, 600; A. W. Hendry, A. G.
Wheeler, Ira T. Davis, David Coghlin and Geo.
W. Dane incofporators.
The Cleveland, Delphos and st: Louis Rail.
road Company, beginning in the town OF
Delphos, Allen County, on the line of the
Toledo, Delphos and Burlington Railroad, and
passing through the counties of Allen, Putnam,
Hancock, Seneca, Huron, Ashland, Medina and
Cuyahoga, terminating in the city Of Cleveland,
$50, 900. Jos. Bochmer, G. A. Evans, ]. F.
Shane, Geo. F. Long and Alex. Shank are tho
incorporators.
MIR. BARTON, of Wayne County, has intro
duced railroad bill in the House which pro-
vides that no fictitious subscription to the cap.
ital stock shall be received, nor shall the Board
of Directors issue stock to the purchasers OF
the bonds, nor to contractors for the construc-
tion Of the road, nor for any other purpose, at
less rate than the par cash value for such
any railroad company within this State, who
shall be judged guilty within the meaning Of
this section, shall be fined in any sum not less
than 300 nor moro than 81 900, and imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary not less than one or
more than ten years.
The liquor question is monopolizing consid-
cradle attention. Among the bills under con-
sideration is that Of Mr.. Pond, in the Senate.
1t proposes to levy . heavy license on saloon
keepers. When . saloon-keeper's place Of busi-
ness is located not within any village or city,
nor within one mile thereof, he win be required
to pay license Of el0O; when within village
having population Of less than 2,000 by the
next preceding Federal census or within one
mile thereof, &200; when within any other
villsge or city, having apopulation Of less than
$780, when within any city Of the second class,
having . population of 10000 inhabitants, or
more, or within two miles thereof, $3.50; and
when within any city of the first class, or
bWO IAuob tucIcOis p4UU. 1Hic, uOWcFcA,
was amended so that the tax should remain at
@250 in ali cities of the first class, and in all
other places, e100. The bill then being placed
on its passage was lost. A motion to recon-
slider was afterward carried, and Mr.. Pond is
yet hopeful Of his measure.
THE House has passed DR.. Green's bill to
provide for securing . site and the erection
thereon of suitable building for an asylum
for the epileptic insane. 1t makes il the duty
of the Governor, with the advice aud consent
OF the Senate, to appoint . Board Of Ave Com
missioners to serve For two years, and whose
duty 1t shall be to select location and site for
an asylum, with . capacity Of not less than GOO
patients; the grounds must contain not less
than 400 acres. As soon rs the site ia selected
the Commissioners shall proceed to erect the
buildings at . cost not exceeding e200, 600 the
buildings to be Of brick, plain and substantial,
and the main building to be hre-proof. In
order to secure the best results In the construc-
ton of the asylum, the Commissioners are en-
powered to employ some skilled specialist In the
treatment Of the insane, and the appointment
| Of the asylum at cmpensation not exceeding
| $4,000 year to actas superintendent OF Con-
| struction. One hundred thousand dollars ID
now appropriated out Of the moneys in the
| State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to
carry out the provisions Of this art.