Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1877 — Page 11

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The clause relating to the soldiers' and sailors and orphans' homes was read. It appropriates $34,000. It was adopted. The clause relating to the penal institutions was read. ; It appropriates to the northern prison $S0,000; to the southern prison, $70,000; bouse Of refuge, $53,000; woman's reformatory, $19.000; total, $222,500. Mr. Ilulet mo veil to amend by reducing the allowance to the southern prison to $15,000. . . it Mr. Hall moved to amend by inserting the words "for the support of the officers and inmates." Mr. Overmyer offered a substitute to the amendment, by inserting the words "for current expenses," for the entire clause. Adopted. The question recurring on the amendment offered by Mr. Ilulet, it was lost no one voting for iL The clause relating to the northern prison tu adopted without amendment. The cUue relating to the honse of refuge was adopted without amendment to the amount. The clause appropriating $19,000 to the women's reformatory was read. Mr Freeman moved to amend by making it $22 000. Mr. Hall was in favor of the report of the cenmiitu-e on this proposition. Mr. Freeman's amendment was not adopted. The clause relating to educational institutions was read. It appropriates to the state university $23,000; state normal school, $3 000; Purdue university, $1,500; total, $27,500. The clauses making appropriations to th state university and normal school were adopted without amendment. ' Mr. Langdon moved to amend the appropriation of $1.500 to Purdue university by inserting $5,000 for current expenses, $2,500 for apparatus, etc., $1,000 for books and $1.500 for stock; total, $10,000. Mr. Albert moved to amend the amendment by striking out the $1,500 for stock. Mr. Albert withdrew his amendrnenL and the amendment offered by Mr. Langdon was adopted. Mr. Langdon moved to amend the clause fixing the salary of the president and professors at $2,500 and $1,500 respectively. Agreed to. The clause relating to printing was read and adopted. It appropriates $15,000. The clause relating to the interest on the non-negotiable schoold bonds, war loan bonds and tempoary loan bonds, was read and adopted. It appropriates $300,000. The clause appropriating $25,000 for repaiis to the state house in case of necessity was read. Mr. Johnson, of Carroll, moved to amend by substituting $5,000. The appropriation bill was then considered engrossed, read a third time and put upon its passage. The ayes were 76 and the noes 13, so the bill passed. As the bill passed the house, the totals are as follows:

as at 3 06 iovernor's office .Secretary of state's office.. Auditor's office..... Treasurer's office Attorney general's office.. 8up't public instruction-.. State librarian's office J-iupreme con rt... Htate j udiciary State boardBenevolent institutionsenal institutions. Educational institutions.., Pri a t i n g ... I n te res t Repairs to slate house(12,160 4,130 3,.W3 o'-..,-i $20,700 6,400 13.0 0 6,700 5,500 6,300 5.650 2,6J0 loti.OOO 6,300 247,000 222,ö ) 37,000 15,000 300.010 Ö.UU0 3,120 15. Sows2 91,416? 144.NJU 18,500 21) 000 300.0U) Total. 7G3,US $1,ns-2,G70 This isa reduction of f 16.533 from the appropriations as originally recommended by the committee.) The house then went into committee of the whole, Mr. Orubbs in the chair, to consider the specific appropriation bill. The clause relating to the southern prison was read. It appropriates $120,000 to liquidate the indebtedness; $10,000 to cover the deficit incurred up to April 1, 1877, for the support of the institution, and $14,000 for the erection of new shops. The clause provides that assigned claims shall not be paid. Mr. Overmyer moved to strike out the provision that assigned claims shall not be paid. Agreed to. The order providing that the specific appropriation bill be considered in committee of the whole was set aside, and the house proceeded to the consideration of the bill in the regular order. The clauses voted upon in committee of the whole, and the same amendments adopted in committee, were adopted by the house. Mr. Scott moved to amend by striking out the sum of $14,000 for the erection of workshops at the southern prison, and substitute $10,000. Not adopted. Mr. Hauss moved to amend by striking out the per diem of the attorney general for serving on the commission to investigate claims against the prison. Adopted. The clause relating to the northern prison was read and adopted. The clause relating to the insane asylnn was read. Mr. Hall moved to amend the appropriation of $125,000 for this year, bv allowing $100,000, and $150,000 for next year instead of $175,000. The amendment was laid on the table. The clause relating to the state board of agriculture was read. It appropriates $15,000 for the year 1877, and $10.000 for 1878, provided the board execute a deed of trust to any person whom the governor may indicate. Mr. Langdon moved to amend the bill by inserting $5,000 to Purdue university for current expenses, $3,000 for debt accumulated in 1876, and $35,000 for completing and furnishing the college buildings, providing the trustees shall assign to the state the sum of $40,000 out of the first money realized from the estate of John Purdue, and that the state shall hold a mortgage on the same. Adopted ayes, 43; noes, 42. SEX AXE. Saturday, Maroh 3. H. B. 39, to provide for the restoration of ounty records passed ayes, 37; nays, 4. H. B. 3-3, to amend sections 130 and 374 of the code, passed yeas, 40; nays, 5. The clerk of the house announced the passage by that body of the general appropriation and revenue bills. Mr. Givan moved to take up II. B. 551 (the revenue bill.) Agreed to. The bill was read the first time. Mr. Givan moved that the rule be suspended, the bill read the second and third times and put upon its passage. Agreed to yeas, 44 ; nays. 0. The bill was then read the second and third times and passed without debate yeas, 47; nays, 0. Mr. Givan moved that II. B. 550 the general appropriation bill be taken up. Agreed to. The bill was taken up and read the first time. Mr. Givan moved that the constitutional rule be suspended and the bill be read the second and third times. Agreed to. Mr. Givan moved that the senate go into committee of the whole on the bilL Agreed to, and the bill was taken up by the committee and considered by clauses. The first part of the bill makes appropria

tions for the seven months in 1877. The clause relating to the governor's office was read. Mr. Dykeman moved to amend by inserting $580 for incidental office expenses. Adopted. Mr. Dykeman moved to amend the clause as follows: . Increasing the allowance of private secretary to $1,166.67; for clerk to $583; for adjutant general to $466.67; also to amend the total by making it $12,822.34. Adopted. The second clause, making appropriations for the secretary of state's office, was read. Mr. Dykeman moved to insert $583.33 for incidentals. Adopted. The third clause, making appropriations for the state auditor's office, was read. Mr. Dykeman moved to amend by inserting $375.00 for incidentals. Adopted. The fourth clause, making appropriations for the office of the treasurer of state, was read. Mr. Dykeman moved to amend by inserting $533.33 for incidentals. Adopted. The fifth clause, making appropriations for the office of attorney general, was read. Mr. Dykeman moved to amend by inserting $583.33 for traveling and incidental expenses. Adopted. Clause six, making appropriations for the office of the superintendent of public instruction, was read. Mr. Bell moved to amend by increasing the allowance for traveling expenses to $583.33. Adopted. Mr. Dykeman moved to increase the allowance for salary to $1,458.33. Adopted. Clause 7, for expenses of the state library, was read. Mr. Dykeman moved to amend by inserting for expressage, etc., $300. Mr. Harris moved to amend by making the allowance $100. Rejected. Mr. Dykeman's amendment was agreed to. Clause 8, making appropriations for the supreme court, was read. Mr. Dykeman moved to amend by appropriating $1,400 for contingent expenses. Adopted. Mr. Saringhaasen moved to amend by allowing $875 for clerk hire. Adopted. Clause 9, appropriating $91,410.67 for the judiciary, was read. Mr. Bell moyed to amend by making the appropriation for superior court judges $4.606.07. Adopted. Clause 10, making appropriations for Ihe state boards amounting to $7,466.67, was read. Mr. D3'keman moved to amend by inserting $300 for the state horticultural society. Adopted. Clause 11, appropriating for the benevolent institutions, was read. Mr. Harris moved to amend by increasing the amount for repairs at the insane asylum to $10,000. Adopted. Mr. Baxter moved to amend by striking out "receipts and earnings" in the clause relating to the deaf and dumb and blind asylums and the women's reformatory, and inserting "net earnings." Adopted. Mr. Baxter moved further to amend by inserting the words "and repairs" in the clause fixing the allowance for current expenses at the soldiers' orphans' home. Adopted. Mr. Johnson, of Floyd, moved to amend by appropriating for repairs at the blind asylum, $1000. Not adopted. The 12th clause, making appropriations for penal and reformatory institutions, was read. Mr. Baxter moved to amend by increasing the appropriation for the women's reformatory to $12,000. Adopted. The clause as amended was adopted. Clause 13, making appropriations to the state educational institutions, was read. Mr. LaRue moved to amend by increasing the appropriation for Purdue university to $43,000, provided that $35,000 of the bequest due from the estate of John Purdue shall be

assigned to the state. Mr. Hams offered a resolution limiting speeches to 10 minutes. Adopted. Mr. LaKue's amendment was adopted. The clause as amended was adopted. Clause 14, making appropriations for printing and interest of $320,000, was read and adopted. Mr. Fowler moved to amend by inserting a clause appropriating $136,000 to pay indebtedness, etc., of the southern prison, $50,000 for the northern prison and $275,000 for the insane asylum. Adopted. Section 3 of the bill was agreed to. Section 4, making appropriations for the next fiscal year, was read. The clause relating to the state library was amended by reducing the pay of assistant librarian to $500. The clause relating Co the supreme court was amended by allowing $1,500 to the re porter for clerk hire. The clause relating to state boards was amended by appropriating $300 to the horticultural society. The clause relating to penal and reformatory institutions was amended by making the appropriation for the women's reformatory $21,000. Mr. Dykeman moved to amend the clause providing for repairs to the capitol and state buildings from $5,000 to $15,000. Adopted. The next section, making the same appropriations for 1879 as for 1878, with the addition of $30,000 for printing and $1,500 foY distribution of laws, was adopted. Mr. Burrell moved to amend the bill by appropriating $1,000 lor the incidental expenses of the secretary of state. Adopted. Mr. Fowler moved to amend by appropriating $1,500 for incidentals in the auditor's office. Adopted. Mr. Dykeman moved to amend by allowing $1,000 for office expenses of the attorney general. Adopted. Mr. Johnson, of Floyd, moved to amend by increasing the appropriation for the blind asylum" to $30,000. Mr. Dykeman moved to amend the second section by appropriating $15,000 to the state board of agriculture for 1877 and $10,000 for 1878, to be repaid by the board on sale of their grounds. Adopted. Mr. Hendricks moved to increase the allowance for the deaf and dumb asylum from $55,000 to $65,000. Mr. Dykeman moved an amendment providing that as to the foregoing no teacher, professor, etc., shall be boarded at the expense of the state. Adopted. Mr. Major moved to amend so as to restore the salary of the governor's clerk to the sum formerly paid. Adopted. Certain house amendments, affecting Purdue university, which had been omitted in the engrossment of the bill, were adopted. The committee rose, reported the bill to the senate and the amendments were concurred in. Mr. Stockslager offered a resolution allowing $300 each to the principal and first assistant secretary, and $100 to the principal journal clerk, for preparing, indexing and superintending the publication of the senate journals. Adopted. Mr. Fowler introduced S. B. 329, making certain specific appropriations:' To southern prison, $136,000 to discharge indebtedness, etc., and to be expended by the attorney general; James F. Harney and V. W. Curry, as commissioners to northern prison, for completing new cell house, etc., $80,000; to the insane asylum building fund, $275,000; for the reformatory for women for the current year, $12,000, and for the year 1878, $21,000. Mr. Fowler offered to strike out the appropriations for the two prisons, but objection was made, and Mr. Johnston, of Parke, modified his motion so as to move to lay the mo

tion to suspend the rules on the table. It was agreed to yeas, 34; nays, 8. Mr. Peed moved to amend the bill so as to appropriate an extra allowance of $300 each to the deputy wardens of the state prisons north and south for each year. Agreed to. Mr. Dykeman moved to amend by reducing the appropriation for repairs at the insane asylum to $5,000. Agreed to yeas, 29; nays, 13. Mr. Dykeman moved to amend by fixing the salary of the superintendent of the insane asylum at $2,200. Agreed to yeas, 25; nays, 17. Mr. Givan moved to amend the amendment by striking out the entire clause, making special appropriations to the prisons, etc, and placing the expenditure in the hands of a commission, but withdrew it to allow Mr. Fowler to move to strike out that part of clause 15 relating fco the prisons. Agreed to yeas, 35; nays, 10. The proviso forbidding any teacher or other employe to board at the deaf and dumb asylum was stricken out, and the bill was then passed yeas, 37; nays, 6. The totals in the bill are as follows:

1877. 1878. Governor's office Secretary of state.. .. A uditor- - .... Treasurer .. Attorney general Superintendent of public instruction State librarian Supreme court .... Jutliclarj Htate boards- .. Benevolent institutions.. Prison4, etc Educational institutions.. State board of agiicalture Interest Print! f 12.K22 34 4,732 33 8,241 60 3,919 99 2,108 33 3,379 99 3,120 00 18,261 66 3,1Ö 66 6,516 m 141,800 00 130,000 00 61,500 00 15,000 00 t 20,700 7,400 9,500 6,720 5,500 6,300 5,650 29,620 159,000 10,Ho0 254, 0S0 377,000 37,Ut0 10.UO0 300,000 15,000 15.000 State house appropriat'n.. j f230,000 lor 1879 for the Insane asylum building fund. IL B. 422, to amend the assessment law, was read the second time, the constitutional rule was suspended, the bill read the third time and passed yeas, 36; nays, 1. II. B. 352, to amend the act authorizing the employment of short-hand reporters in certain courts, was taken up and passed yeas. 29; nays, 6. The senate then adjourned. HOUSE. The specific appropriation bill underwent numerous changes at the hands of the house, and as it finally came up for passage, shorn of many of its original provisions and with multifarious additions, it provided for the appropriation of $615,850.16. It failed to pass ayes, 32; noes, 60. ' S. B. 107, for the protection of wild game, was passed ayes, 70; noes, 23. It makes it unlawful to kill deer between January 1 and October 1 ; to trap quails at any time, or to kill quails or pheasants from January 1 to November 1; to kill prairie chickens between February 1 and October 1. The bill also makes it unlawful for any railroad company to transport any of the game killed in violation of the law. S. B. 124, t prevent the getting on or off of moving cars, was passed ayes, 78; noes, 2. S. B. 14, to amend section 2 of the act for the establishment of the female prison, changing the board of managers from men to women, and appointing Mrs. Rhoda Coffin, Mrs. Eliza Hendricks and Mrs. Iioach as the first board of managers, passed ayes, 09; noes, 18. S. B. 17, to provide for the election of township officers in April was read a third lime and passed ayes, 51; noes, 33. The house reassembled at 2 p. m. Mr. Cole, from the committee which waited on Governor Williams to ascertain his reasons for not commissioning the recently elected trustees of the benevolent institutions, reported that the governor claims the election was not made in accordance to law. The report embraces a. resolution that the house and senate proceed to elect the above oflicers by a concurrent vote on Monday March 5. The resolution was adopted 5a to 14. S. B. 177, concerning the construction of highways and bridges, and for commutation labor thereon, and for the election of supervisors of road districts, was passed ayes, 60: noes, 33. The bill provides for four days' labor on roads instead of two, as at present, and authorizes a tax levy of five cents per acre when necessary to keep the roads in repair. S. B. 296, providing that when township trustees shall acquire $5,000 or more by will or devise, for the purpose of erecting school buildings, they shall be allowed to raise a like amount by the issue of bonds, upon a written petition of a majority of the taxpayers passed ayes, 51 ; noes 30. S. B. 199, extending the time for the completion of railroads to five years when stock has been voted them by townships, was passed ayes, 72; noes, 10. S. B. 208, declaring abandoned certain incompleted lines of railroads. It is to apply to the old Indiana and Illinois Central road where the right of way has been abandoned. The bill passed ayes, 69; noes, 11. S. B. 61, providing that in localities where there are an insufficient number of colored children to form separate schools they shall be admitted to the white schools, passed ayes, 64 ; noes, SO. Mr. Yaryan moved to take H. B. 182, in relation to railroad corporations leaving the state, from the table and put it upon its passage. Agreed to. Mr. Craft moved to reconsider the vote by which the specific appropriation bill was defeated. Agreed to. The bill was recommitted to the ways and means committee. 8. B. 57, to discourage the keeping of worthless and sheep-killing dogs, was read a third time and failed ayes, 34; noes, 49. S. B. 89, to prevent the sale of liquor on Sundays, election days or legal holidays, was read a third time and passed ayes, 57; noes, 38. The bill providea that the penalty for a violation of its provisions may be a fine at any sum from $10 to $50, to which may be added imprisonment. It includes druggists. S. B. 203, to require officers of corporations having taken up abandoned gravel roads to make annual statements of all receipts for toll, etc., and requiring them to convert all their profits in excess of 15 per cent, on their investment into the school fund. The bill failed ay es, 38; noes, 43. S. B. 108, for the settlement of decedents' estates and dispensing with special pleadings, passed ayes, 78; noes, 4. S. B. 05, for the organization of campmeeting associations and authorizing them to arrest offenders on the grounds, passed ayes, 76; noes, 23. 8. B. 93, for the establishment of a state board of health, was returned from the committee on rights and privileges,- with a majority report that it be indefinitely postponed, and a minority report favoring its passage. Mr. Viehe moved that the bill and reports lie on the table. On this the ayes and noes were demanded, and the vote resulted ayes, 54; noes, 31; so the motion prevailed. S. B. 62, to enable married women owning real estate in their own right to convey the same by deed when the husband is insane, providing certain steps are taken to legalize the contract, passed ayes, 51; noes, 27. S. B. 13, requiring surviving pariners to file inventories of the property of the deceased partner with the clerk r.f the court within GO days after the death of the partner, and requiring them to furnish bonds for the full and complete settlement of the

estate of such partner; passed ayes, 72; noesO. S. B. 77, allowing males of 18 and females of 1G years of age to marry ayes, C5; nays, 4. The general appropriation bill was then taken ud and the senate amendments read. Mr. Yaryan moved that the house do not concur in the report. Agreed to. The clerk was instructed to o inform the senate. II. B. 191, to amend sections 4, 6 and 7 of the act for the election of a reporter of the supreme court by increasing the price of the supreme court reports to $3.50 per volume. Pending roll call the house then at 12 o'clock, sharp, adjourned.

THE WORK OF THE SESSION. Bills Panned tty Ilotti Ilonnn of the Ecrlslntnr? Daring Its Sixty Days' Life. The following is a complete list of the bills which passed both houses of the legislature up to the final hour of adjournment. A great number of these were rushed through in the closing hours. The number of house bills which reached a passage was 47; of senate bills, 52. Thus it will be seen that out of 982 bills introduced in both houses, only 99 passed. SENATE BILLS. S. B. 1, appropriating 1125,000 to defray ex penses of 5oth general assembly. Passed January 19 Senator Dykeman. 8. B. 22 to legalize the acts of the board of commissioners of Martin county in removing the records of the county. Passed January iz. S. ß. 103, to localize the election of the township officers of Gosport. Owen county, for the year 1874. Passed January 17 SSenator Buchanan. S. 15. 6, to legalize the acts of the board of commissioners of Grant county in relation to ordering elections in certain townships, to vote aid for the construction of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railroad. January 31 Senator Underwood. fc. B. 7, to legalize certain payments without the formal service of process aud sales. February 21 Senator Moore. s. B. IS, to amend the 52Sth section of the code. Feb. 21 Senator Harris. S. B. 1, to amend the Nth section of the school law. Feb. 20 Senator Baxter. S. B. 25, to legalize the official acts of the trustees of the town of Marion, Grant county, Feb. 22 Senator Underwood. S. B. 33, to amend the act for Incorporation of towns, relating to the election of officers thereof. February 21 Senator Wilson. S. B. 30, to amend section 120 of the code. February 22 Senator howler. S. B. 35, to amend sections 4 and 7 of the swamp lauds act. February 22 Senator Givan. S. B. 43, to amend section 7 of an act concerning mortgages. March 3 Senator Harris. S. B. "1, to consent to the improvement by the United States of the Wabash and Ohio rivers. March 3 Senator Heilman. S. B. 142, declaring school lands taxable after they have been sold and before deed has been made. Feb. 6 Senator Reeve. S. B. 152, regulating the Indebtedness of cities having a voting population of over 16,000. March 8 Senator Streicht. S. B. 104, legalizing the acts of the board of trustees of the town of shoals, Martin county. Feb. 22 Senator Iteed. 8. B. 100, a bill supplemental to the act to enumerate the white voting Inhabitants of the state. Maroh 3 Senator Harris. S. B. 107, providing for the protection of wild game. March 3 Senator Trusler. 8. B. 110. to legalize the acts of the trustees of Loogootee, Martin county. February 22 Senator Peed. 8. B. 14, to amend section 2 and repeal section 39 of the women's prison and reformatory bill. March 3 Senator Baxter 8. B. 20, to estiblish a superior court In Cass county. March 3 Senator Dykeman. S. B. 85, to amend section 2Ö0 of the code. March 3 8enator Bell. 8. B. 101, to legalize the Incorporation of Bloomington. March 3 enator Treat. 8. B. 113, to prevent railroad trains from obstructing public highways. March 3 Senator Bears. Ü. B, 201, to establish a supet lor court in Allen county. March 3 Senator B 11. fc. B. 20, to amend sections 1 and 2 of the act to declare abandoned certain unfinished railroads. March 3 Senator Johnson. s. B. 224, to create the 42d Judicial circuit. March 3 Senator Htockslager. 8. It. 235, to concentrate court records In the auditor's office. March 3, Senator Dykeman. S. B. 24, to amend the first section of the code. March 3. 8. B. 41, amending section 10 of the bastardy act. March 3 Senator Givan. S. B. 4(5. to amend section 315 of the code. March 3 Senator Bell. 8. B. 08, to provide for the more speedy trial of causes. March 3 Senator Moore. S. B. 124, declaring it unlawful to get on or off railway trains iu motion. March 3 Senator Taylor. 8. B. 17, to provide for township elections. March 3 Senator Kiley. 8. B. 29. to legalize defective organizations of corporations. March 3 Senator . 8. B. 5ö, to amend the act to incorporate the Wabash railroad company. March 3 Sena' or Heilman. 8. B. 3, to amend the charter of the Evansville and Illinois railroad. March 3 Senator Heilman. 8. B. 241, to amend the 1st and 13th section of the act establishing superior courts March 3. 8. B. 168, to legalize certains acts of the trustees of the Fort Wayne Concordia college. March 3 Senator Saringhousen. 8. B. 177, providing for the election of supervisors of highways. March 3 Senator Trusler. 8. B. 189, defining the powers of cities over harbors. March 3 Senator Winterbotham. 8. B. 195, amending section 4S of the fee and salary act. March 3 Senator Taylor. 8. B. 200, legalizing the issue made by the school trustees of Logansport. March 8 Senator Dykeman. 8. B. 296, authorizing township trustees to issue bonds In certain cases. March 3. 8. B. 320, for the relief of the surety on the bond of the defaulting trustee of Rosa township, Clinton county. March 3 Senator Kent. 8. B. 61, to amend section 3 of the act to render taxation for school purposes uniform. March 3 Senator Dykeman. 8. B. 199, to extend the time for the completion of railroads In certain cases. March 3 Senator Kent. 8. B. 65, for the organization of camp meetings. March 3 Senator Larue. 8. B. 89, to prohibit the sale of liquors on Sundays, holidays and election days. March 3 Senator Johnson. 8. B. 140, to fix the time for the holding of courts in the 12th judicial circuit. March 3 Senator Peed. 8. B. 108, to amend section 3 of the act for the settlement of decedents' estates. March 3 Senator Givan. 8. B. 326. to legalize the incorporation of the town of, Waterloo. March 3 Senator Mercer. II0ÜSK BILLS. II. B. S,legalizing the subscription of the city of Vincennesto the Vlnoennes Draw Bridge company. March 2 Viehe. II. B. 8, amending the exemption law March 2 Peele. H. R 9,amendln(t the act for the organization of courts Crumpacker.II. B. 13,deflnlng felonies and prescribing punishments therefor. March 2 Branyan. II. B. 23, fixing the fees, salaries, duties and compensation of certain officers and persons named. March 2 Copeland. H. B. 33, for the Incorporation and continuance of bullding,loan, fund and saving associations. March 2 Branyan. H. B. 34, authorizing boards of county commissioners to construct gravel, niacademized. or paved roads upon petition of majority o resident land owners. March 2 Cole. II. B. 37, amending act for the report of all general laws for the incorporation of cities. March 2 Oaft. II. B. 88, amending 132 and 874 of the code. March 2 Peelle. H.B. 40, fixing the time Of holding the Circuit courts in the Thirteenth district. January 25 Hall. iL B. 39, providing for the restoration and preservation of the record of the various conn ties and courts. March 3 Grubbs. II. B. 47, providing for the construction of partition fences along railroads. February 28 Kennedy. II. B. 48, regulating the sale of mineral and other substances of Ulumlnating purposes Coffman. II. B. 60, authorizing cities and Incorporated towns to change and reform their boundaries. March 1 Lee per. II. B. 61, enabling cities and Incorporated towns to use the special school fand for in

debtedness created in the erection of school buildings. March 1Leeper. H. B.6.), amending the act of Maroh 11, 1875. February 13 -Langdon. II. B. 76, abolishing the 27th Judicial circuit and criminal circuit courts. February 7 Albert. H. B. 87, legalizing certain acts of the commissioners of Morgan county. March 8 Grubbs. H. B. 116, providing for the continuance of causes. January 31 Carlton. H. B. 120, legalizing the acts of the common council of Greencastle. January 19 Collins. H. B. 1ÖO, exempting all creditors from the benefits claimed by minor children and defendents of members of masonic, odd fellows and other charitable societies. February 2& Craft. H. B. 181, confirming and legalizing the corporation and organization ol the liose polytechnic Institute. March 1 Carlton. H. B. 214, fixing the time of holding court in the 41st Judicial circuit. March 2 Copeland. H. B. 244, amending the act for the incorporation of cities. March 2 Adam -. H. II. 250, amending the et authorizing county commissioners to organize turnpike road companies. February 2ti Endsley. H B. 256, amending the act regulating foreign insurance companies doing business in tliis slate. March 1 Grubbs. 11. 15. 2til, amending the act regulating general elections and prescribing duties of officers. March 2 Collins. H. B. öS, regulating the hanging of doom to the entrances of theaters, opera houses, publlc.halls, museums, churches, colleg.s, M-ini-naries and school buildings. March 3 Davis. 11. B. 311, amending the act providi g for the uniform assessment of propeity. March 3-Smith. H. it. 10, fixing the time of holding circuit courts in the 11th Judicial circuit. March 1 Hauss. U. B. 328, legalizing the election of office rs ot the town of Kentland. March 2 H.iil. H.B. 3, authorizing cities to is: iu- bonds for the purpose f funding thier indebted m-ss. March 2 Welborn. II. B. 34, fixing time of holding terms of superior court of Tippecanoe count v. March 2 Langdon. H. B. 350, establishing a superior court in Vanderburg county. March 2 Dannetelle. H. It. 359, amending act authorizing plank, macademized and gravel road coiipanies to consolidate. March 2 Yaryan. H. B. 370, amending act approved February 2, 1875. March 1 Viehe. H.B. 379, authorizing allowances In aid of agricultural associations. March 3 Foster, of Allen. H. It. 3115, fixing time of hold ing court in 25th judicial circuit court and length of terms thereof. March 3 Ijockhart. H. B, 404, legalizing the acts of the incorporation of the town of Noblesville. March 3 Garver. H. B. 420, amending act for improvement of harbprs. March 2 Hosmer. H. B. 4J0, legalizing certain ordinances of the common council of the city of Indianapolis. February H Adams. H. B. 412, ning time of holding courts in the loth Juui Tai circuit and prescribing length of terms. March 3 Foster of Monroe. H. B. 471, to amen 1 the law in relation to the removal of county seats. March 1 Perigo. H. B. 603, supplemental to an act providing for a general system of common schools in all cities of thirty thousand inhabitants and election of board of school commissioners. March 3 Chawnerf H. B. 551, bill to levy an annual tax for the purpose of raising revenue. March 3 Committee of ways and means. H. B. 54S, Increasing the time of holding court in the Twenty-ninth judicial circuit. March 3 Carr. H. B. 2z, to amend sections 60 and 290 of the assignment act. March 3 Henderson.

KOTfcS OX EDUCATION. Cornell college has 50 young lady students. Several of the buildings belonging to Hobart college, Geneva, have been remodeled and the work has cost about $5,300. Prof. Newton, of Yale college.wants everybody that saw it to send him an account of the great meteor seen in the west recently. Judge Wickham, of St. Louis, and V. H. F. Hall, formerly in the Georgia legislature, and now of Colorado, are the only members of the class of 1846, University of Virginia, now living. The whole number attending the free evening schools in Ixwell during the term just closed was 1,278, of which 797 were males and 401 females. Two of the schools were kept 55 evenings and two of them 52 evenings. The number of teachers was 57. The summer school of biology in connecnection with the Peabody academy of science, at Salem, will be resumed during the present year. The sessi jn last season was so successful as to warrant the permanent establishment of the institution. A summer school in geology will be conducted during six weeks in Julj and August, by Prof. N. S. Shaler and Mr. William N. Davis, Jr., at the mueseum of comparative anatomy in Cambridge. A fortnight will be spent in preparatory work, after which the time will be occupied in field-study in Massachusetts and New York. Boston university had duringlast year C27 students in attendance; 144 of these are young women. The graduates of the year numbered 132. The whole number thus far graduated is by departments as follows: College of liberal arts, none; college of music, 6; college of agriculture, 21; school of theology, 80 (of whom 48, or an average of 12 a year, were bachelors of divinity); school of law, 146; school of medicine, G6; school of oratory, 21; total of graduates, 3C0. Of the above number the young women graduates are as follows: In music, 1; in theology, 1; in medicine, 16; in oratory, 16; total, 34. The president reports that in no department of the university has the presence of young women depressed the standardof scholarship. In several it has aided in elevating it. In quite their fair share of classes and sections have their representatives led, both in daily work and in the stated examinations, oral and written. In the selection of electives they have never shown a disposition to pass by the hardest of mathematical branches or the most difficult of the languages. At all times their influence has been promotive of order, studiousness, and a true social culture. The committee on education of the Michigan legislature is about to report a bill touching the educational interests of the state. The first section provides that every teacher who receives a certificate shall pay 50 cents to the examiner, who in turn pays the money so collected over to the county treasurer, with a report of the persons from whom received, every three months. This fund can be expended only in the county where it is raised. Section two makes it mandatory upon the state superintendent of schools to hold a teachers' institute each year in every county where the school population exceeds 2,000. In counties where the school population is less than 2.000 he is authorized to draw from the state treasury, from the fund already provided by law for that purpose, a sum, not to exceed $100 for each institute, it being left to his discretion whethe'r he shall hold an institute in such county, and in no case is he to hold except 25 or more teachers petition therefor. Section 3 provides that the state superintendent shall hold each year a state normal institute, at an expense not to exceed $400, and at which he is expected to employ the best educators in the country, one object of this 6tate institute being to train teachers to take charge of the county institutes. The county institutes are to be so conducted that in no instance shall an institute cost the state more than $50. the superintendent in each case being charged with the payment of the bills. The sum already provided by law for county Institutes is $1,800 a year, and it is estimated that the total additional expense involved in the enforcement of the new law will be 9400.

LOVE'S DREAM.

BY MILT HAWTHORSK. To liquid muslo's flowing rhyme My heart keeps singing Like chiming bells that all the time Joy's peals are ringing. And happy thoughts through all mj Their way are winging. Tis Joy and bliss, with peace combined. These thoughts are bringing. Till every nerve, from heart and brain, Is throbbing, thrUling. With rapturous love; I wear Lome's chftn. A captive willing. En rapt in glowing dreams I He So real their seeming; In happy dreams I fain would die, Ho sweet the dreaming. FASHION AO I ES. Unglazed percales are the best. The new round hats are very small. Angot collars for ladies are worn wiUk plush cravats. Cream colored dresses are made with ruby velvet sleeves. Another novel trimming is parallel rows of silk tape in different shades. Seal brown and navy blue are still the fa vorite colors for little boys' suits. Rose and blue is a favorite combination of color in the new Scotch plaid ging hams. Stout women with broad backs are recom mended to wear basques aud polonaises with many seems. Striped silks are much "worn, both in en tire suits and in combination with other designs and materials. For earliest spring costumes the new trimming is cloth and braid fringe, em broidered on the heading with floss silk. Yellow in all sorts of shades is now the fashion. It runs through a series of gorgeoua tints, including orange and a brimestoae hue called "Lucifer." I am sorry to say the ladies prefer the latter. Flowers are arranged in bouquets,wreathJL and in half wreaths for face trimming. Roses with mignonette, or rose buds with fem leaves, make beautiful clusters. There are many salmon tea roses that have much coral pink in them. Twists of silk notted, plai tings of raveled silk and ruches of tulle will be worn inside the Xorraandy and capote bonnets, but the novelty for the face will be a half wreath of dwarfed roses of three or four sh des, worn inside the front of the bonnet Morning jackets for dressing or for breakfast are of twilled wools and of flannels of pale or of dark shades of blue, rose or cardinal, and are embroidered lightly with white floss. They are made with a deep sailor collar, and are slightly sloped in with the figure. Opera flannels are also used for this purpose, and are trimmed with pinked bands or with bias bands piped or corded with white. The manner of trimming the bonnet is very simple. Loosely folded ribbons or else scarfs of bias silk are laid around the crown, and a bouquet of flowers is on one side near the top, or else there is a cluster of loops instead. When flowers are used in profusion, they form a broad wreath that almost covers the'brim of the little capote, and some tendrils climb up the crown. Streamers will not be given up by those who like them. Yellow predominates in the spring colors. The delicate cream tints have given place to darker shades as deep in color as the yellow of the fine straws they are to trim. First bf these is mandarin, a vivid yellow shade, which is the imperial color of China; then comes the buttercup color, maize, tea-rose, Isabel; and last of these shades is vieux Tort or old gold, a quaint brownish yellow, that needs to be lightened by the brilliant coral shades that are shown in great numbers. riain Swiss muslin and the figured muslins will both be worn next summer, and in some dresses both materials will be used. The figured sheer muslins have sprigs, dots, stars and lace-like arabesques in them. For dressy occasions there will be princcsse dresses made of many graduated muslin puffs, with insertions between, and lace on the flounces. For other dresses the Breton style will be made up in muslin and lace, with colored ribbons or silk laid under the lace. The greatest merit of this rage for fancy dress is this, that the skill and insight into the peculiar fitness of certain attire to certain individuals which a fancy ball brings out can often be applied to ordinary clothing. A festival of this nature always gives rise to great and serious discussions on toilet Male advice is asked for and freely given. Each individual may hear lavish comments on his or her peculiar merits or defects, and a certain amount of latitude is accorded to personal remarks at such a time. A girl will liave a special dress chosen for her, not, as usual, by a partial mother or servile costume monger; she will hear what many indifferent persons think of her good or bad points, and what the general verdict may be about her peculiar style. In this way the more elegant of the old fashions become grafted on the new, for the effective modes of wearing a garment or of dressing the hair, are copied by those who admire them, and the style outlives the single evening for which it is revived. It is to some of these costume balls that we owe many of the pretty fashions of to-day; for although the stage and the paintings of the old masters alike show the world how picturesquely its ancestresses clothed themselves, they had no power to set a fashion. It has been the attiring of some of the quiet gentlewomen who lead the better part of society, in these quaint old dresses, that has created a fashion; periods and anachronisms are forgotten; the sole ambition is to knot a kerchief, poise a hat or drape a mantilla, not like the original wearers of the graceful garments, but like this or that lady who leads the ton of to-day. The Boston Globe says that at a recent meeting of the trustees of Dartmouth college, Professor Young was unanimously requested to remain as one of the faculty of the college, and it was voted that he be appointed professor of astronomy, distinct from the chair of natural philosophy, and that the funds necessary to establish the chair should be raised by an appeal to the alumni and friends of the institution, as soon as practicable. At the annual meeting of the London society of telegraph engineers, a report was read which showed that the total number of foreign members, members, and associates exceeded 800. About 600 were present at the meeting, among whom were o be found nearly all the prominent members of the telegraphic profession. The display of apparatus was very fine, and included all the novelties whicn have been invented in connection with this branch of science within the past year.