The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-02-03
COLUMBUS NOTES.

An attempt Will be made to legislate against
the recent telegraph consolidation.
SHOULD the Sunday Law become law, Gin
einnai viii be completely trausmogrihed.
BILLS Of minor Importance do not seem to be
as plentiful this session Of the Legislature as
last.
TIE Sunday Law, the Pool Prohibition aud
Local Option are monOpOliZiug the attention Of
the law makers.
THE General Assembly adjourneAou the 2lst
to the 25th, this being the first regular tri-
weekly adjournment.
GENERAL. RoBTNsoS asserts that the memo
rial to General Garfield concerning Governor
Foster, never LETT the city.
A COMMITTEE has been appointed to iuyesti-
gate the Soldiers Orphans Home, at Aeuia,
among the management Of which there has
been so much scandal Of late.
KEEPERS Of pool combinations are highly eL-
ercised over the new law, and are making d
strenuous effort to have it either repealed or
amended. They claim it makes q distinction
without a difference.
A RESOLUTION was adopted in the Senate au-
thorizing the Adjutant General to have the
portraits Of the Governors now hanging in the
rOtunda Of the Capitol, moved to some place
where they viii be better preserved.
MR.. WILKINS, OF Tuscarawas, has introduced
a bill in the Senate which prohibits the Board
Of Public Works from granting, selling, leasing
or conveying in any manner any Of the public
canals Of the State to any railroad company.
Mr.. DEMPCY, Of Cleveland. has introduced
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.
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 viii
be a member Of Garfeld's Cabinet. He thinks
he will be made Secretary Of the Interior.
ABOUT one hundred grain dealers, purchasers
and millers, we're in convention last week.
RosolU tions were adopted petitiOning legisla-
com in the ear bushel during the entire year,
and cOndemning the freight lines for not max
ing the shortage good. The Convention ad-
jOurned to meet at iut-Iu Bay next June.
DIR. GREEN, CHAIR. %. Of the House Com
mittee on Insane Asylum, hss prepared q bill
providing for the erection Of an asylum for the
epiIeptic insane Of the State. 1t provides that
an asylum with a capacity for 500 patients, to
be centrally located on a site to be selected by
the State Board Of Charities, shall be built at
a cost not to exceed $500, 900. 1t is also pro-
posed to adopt a plan Of building, which has
been matured by the State Board Of Charities.
TIE Stubbs bill passed the House by q vote Of
go to %. The bill provides a penalty Of 800
and imprisonment for not more than SIX
months for running any variety show or keep
ing open any low or disOrderly house on Sun
day. Should the bill pass the Senate and be-
come q law, its enforcement is expected to
crush out the immoral and indecent shows and
theatrical performances which now disgrace
some Of the principal cities in the State, and
Cincinnati in particular.
DR.. SCOTT, OF Warren, has q new idea. He
has introduced a bill which provides that the
journal Of the House proceedings shall be
printed daily and laid on the desks OF the mem-
beTS-thus the members can ascertain in a mo-
ment at any time hat action has been taken
upon any questigI ia the past. Dr scott
thinks that besides ,siug away with the ucce5-
sity Of clerks remaining in the city all summer
to lock after the printing Of the journal, it will
save the State from S10O 900 to SO. 600.