The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13
WHOLE NUMBER 7I5.
COLUMBUS NOTES.

THE 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 new Superintendent.
scarcely the face of a single statesman in the
city.
ABOUT the first thing the members of the
House did was to draw their mileage. It cost
about $4,000 to bring them together.
An effort will be made to enact law prohib-
iting gambling and pool selling. 1t will be
meant to apply particularly to Cincinnati.
SAM BowLEs, convicted of forgery in the Gin
clnnati Common Pleas Court, whose case was
appealed to the Supreme Court, will have
hearing on the Goth 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.
COLONEL T. HOLMES, of Columbus, has been
employed by the Board to draw up an answer
by the 10th inst. to the suit brought by the
lessees of the Ohio canals to compel the pay
ment of some $4,000 still claimed to be due
them.
1t 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 endeayoring to find something that may
accrue to tho 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 rs 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-
culture for the same purposes, Fl 'ty acres of
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 YEAR's 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. Brickell, business r1anager 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 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
clerkship: J. P. Smith, of Scioto County; Chas.
Kelland, OF Richland; VIM. Robinson, of Car
roll; George Moore, Of Hardin, VIM. jackson,
o. @. Stewart, ]. Mitchell, and Captain W. b.
Horton, of Franklin.
ANattorney from Bolivar, Tuscarawas County,
has appeared before the State Board of Public
Works, and asked the members to indorse q
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 branch of the Ohio Canal
and which serves as feeder to it. The at
torney says the canal is nuisance to the resi-
dents along its borders, and that it would be 9
benefit to the Board to have it abandoned
The Board fails to look at it in that light, and
no action has been taken in the matter.
The Hon. Otto Dressed, q leading an6
| 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 borr
in 1924 at Detmold, the capital of Lippe, q pro
vince in the North of Germany. He had .
| thorough college training, and was a school
| mate of Carl Schurz. He at one time edited /
Republican paper in Germany and in the re
volution of 184S, was compelled to fly in haste
| only escaping by Disgusting himself. The fol
lowing note was found lying upon his offic,
desk: "Here am, sitting again in my lionel,
office, trying to think; can not. Feeble witt
age, stupid, no business, no income, no friends
no prospects; burden to myself, to my family
| to all. My fault! my fault! Terrible! Dark
ness in my head, as in q prison. Air! air!'
| Signature unreadable.
| The State Board of Agriculture was in ses
sion the past week at which, Mr.. D. G. Pope
the Treasurer, made the following report:
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