606 



OHIO. 



Grand total, white and colored 1,043.320 



Number between 16 and 21 years of age 273,250 



Grand total high and primary school enrollment.. 747,138 

 Per cent, average daily attendance is of average 



monthly enrollment, townships .77 



Same as to separate districts .88 



Number and cost of school-houses erected 

 within the year : Houses erected, 442 ; total 

 cost, $711,835. 



The number of school-houses in the State is 

 12,143; value, $21,851,718. The number of 

 school-rooms is 16,247, and the number of 

 teachers necessary to supply the schools is 

 16,627. 



The statistics of the Ohio Penitentiary for 

 the year show the number of convicts who can 

 not read to be 111 ; number who can not write, 

 165; number who can not read or write, 955; 

 number having common school education, 40; 

 collegiate education, 3. Total number of con- 

 victs in the prison, October 31, 1880, 1,231 ; 

 male, 1,214; female, 17; white, 1,057; col- 

 ored, 180. Under twenty-one years of age, 

 267 ; between twenty-one and fifty years of age, 

 883 ; between fifty and sixty years of age, 63 ; 

 over sixty years of age, 18. Terms : Under ten 

 years, 1,043; over ten years, 113; for life, 75. 



The annual cost per capita of each inmate in 

 the different State institutions is figured out 

 to be as follows : 



The State Board of Agriculture made, during 

 the year, an endeavor to obtain more accurate 

 returns of the crops of the State than had been 

 obtainable through the township assessors, and 

 at an earlier period. The result was satisfac- 

 tory so far as regards wheat, the other crops 

 being partly estimated. The returns showed 

 2,909,657 acres cut in 1880, yielding 52,673,083 

 bushels, or 18'1 bushels to the acre ; 46,489 

 acres were reported winter-killed. The num- 

 ber of acres sowed for 1881 was 2,994,210. 

 Nearly all the poor yields of wheat are found 

 in the two tiers of counties nearest the Ohio 

 River, which are largely mining regions, hilly, 

 and more adapted to sheep than to wheat. In 

 the twenty poorest counties the yield was a 

 little over ten bushels to the acre, and in the 

 remaining sixty- eight counties nearly twenty 

 bushels to the acre. The other crops, partly 

 estimated, were 115,321,472 bushels corn; 

 17,867,289 bushels oats; 1,396,098 bushels 

 barley; 287,095 bushels rye; 1,129,425 gallons 

 sorghum; 32,126,685 pounds tobacco; 17,722,- 

 626 bushels apples; 2,038,466 pounds maple 

 sugar; 383,791 gallons maple-sirup. The 

 amount of butter and cheese reported was 



over 50,000,000 pounds of the former, and 

 26,000,000 pounds of the latter. The Board 

 of Agriculture report pronounces these figures 

 unreliable, being in some of the most important 

 counties far below the facts. Of the agricul- 

 tural products of the State, wheat ranks first in 

 commercial importance ; next corn ; the wool 

 and mutton crop was reported more in value 

 than all the coal mined in the State, at net 

 prices; during the year the number of hogs 

 raised decreased twenty per cent., while the 

 number of sheep materially increased ; butter 

 is of very uniform production throughout the 

 State, and even at the insufficiently reported 

 yield, ranked one fifth as much as wheat; 

 cheese is mainly produced in about twenty 

 northerly counties, though its production is 

 gradually spreading over a wider area ; hay 

 was a large and valuable crop. Oats, barley, 

 rye, and buckwheat are reported as not paying 

 crops in Ohio, taking year by year. 



The cultivated land of the State is reported 

 at 8,770,402 acres; pasture-land, 5,852,185 

 acres. About one fourth the entire area of 

 the State is woodland. 



The Sixty-fourth General Assembly met Jan- 

 uary 5th, with a Republican majority in both 

 Houses, the previous Legislature having been 

 Democratic. In the Senate were twenty-two 

 Republicans and fifteen Democrats, and in the 

 House sixty -nine Republicans and forty-five 

 Democrats. The organization of the House was 

 effected by the election of Thomas A. Cow- 

 gill as Speaker. One of the members of the 

 House, G. W. Williams, of Hamilton County, 

 was colored, and, on entering a restaurant in 

 Columbus just after the organization, he was 

 refused to be served on account of his color. 

 The matter was brought to the attention of 

 the House, and a committee of investigation 

 reported the proceeding to be an insult to the 

 House in the person of one of its members. 

 On the 12th of January Charles Foster was in- 

 augurated Governor, succeeding, as a Repub- 

 lican, the Democratic Governor, Richard W. 

 Bishop, Lieutenant-Governor Hickenlooper at 

 the same time succeeding Lieutenant-Governor 

 Fitch as presiding officer of the Senate. On 

 the 14th James A. Garfield was elected United 

 States Senator. He subsequently resigned his 

 seat in Congress as Representative from the 

 Nineteenth District, and Ezra B. Taylor was 

 elected to fill the balance of the term, receiving 

 11,791 votes against 1,395 votes cast for all 

 others. 



The previous (Democratic) Legislature had 

 redistricted the State for Congressional pur- 

 poses, it being the first instance of change in 

 the districts between the regular decennial 

 apportionments. This had formed one of the 

 issues in the State election of 1879, and, in ac- 

 cordance with the apparent verdict at the polls, 

 the new Legislature passed, among its first 

 laws, an act restoring the districts as they 

 stood before the change made by the Sixty- 

 third General Assembly. Another proceeding 



