756 WILLIAMS, ROWLAND. 



physical article on " General Terms," pub- 

 lished in the American Journal of Science and 

 Arts, vol. xxiii., No. 1, 1832 ; a volume of 

 "Poems," 1830. Her school-books have had 

 an immense sale, and have been translated into 

 many of the languages of Europe and Asia. 



"WILLIAMS, Kev. ROWLAND, D. D., an Eng- 

 lish clergyman and author, born in Flintshire, 

 Wales, 1817; died at Broad-Ohalke, Wiltshire, 

 January 18, 1870. He was the son of a canon of 

 St. Asaph, and was educated as King's Scholar 

 at Eton, where he was Newcastle Medallist, 

 and proceeding thence to King's College, Cam- 

 bridge, obtained in his first year Battle's Uni- 

 versity Scholarship. In 1841 he graduated; 

 was elected a Fellow of King's ; was for eight 

 years Classical Tutor of his college and subse- 

 quently became Vice-Principal and Professor 

 of Hebrew at St. David's College, Lampeter. 

 In 1850 he was chosen chaplain to the Bishop 

 of Llandaff. He frequently acted as classical 

 examiner for the Tripos at Eton and Cam- 

 bridge. In 1853 he defended himself before 

 the judicial committee of the Privy Council, 

 against a charge of heresy connected with his 

 " Review of Bunsen," and obtained in 1864 a 

 reversal of such parts of the judgment of the 

 Court of Arches as had been unfavorable to 

 him. In anticipation of this event, he had, in 

 1862, resigned his office at Lampeter. In 1855 

 he published a volume of sermons preached 

 at Lampeter and Cambridge, which involved 

 him in controversies affecting somewhat his 

 position at Lampeter, and induced him to ac- 

 cept, in 1859, from King's College the vicar- 

 age of Broad-Chalke, where he remained until 

 his death. In 1856 he published "Christianity 

 and Hinduism Compared." This was fol- 

 lowed by " Christian Freedom in the Council 

 of Jerusalem" (1858); "Persecution for the 

 word of God" (1862); a Critical Preface to 

 Desprez's " Daniel," in which the positions of 

 Dr. Pusey are keenly controverted on philo- 

 logical grounds (1866) ; " Prophets of Israel 

 and Judah," with historical illustrations, 

 (1866) ; a review of a charge of the Bishop 

 of Llandaff, addressed to the Bishop of St. 

 David's ; a Critical Appendix of his lordship's 

 reply; several articles on Welsh subjects in 

 the Quarterly Review ; a paper in the Archa- 

 ologia Cambremis on the Obligations of the 

 Anglo-Saxon Church to British Missionaries ; 

 a Defence of the Maynooth Grant ; poems, 

 "Orestes," an adaptation to English readers 

 of the " Eumenides " of JEschylus ; " Lays 

 from the Cimbric Lyre," and other works. 



WISCONSIN. The Legislature assembled 

 on the 12th of January, and continued in ses- 

 sion until the 17th of March. The business 

 transacted during this time, as compared with 

 that of the preceding year, was as follows : 



ACTS PASSED. 1869. 1870. 



Appropriations 37 21 



Joint Resolutions 8 25 



Memorials to Congress 4 



Private and Local Laws 471 517 



General Laws 186 143 



WISCONSIN. 



One of the most important general laws 

 enacted was the "Esterly" bill, so caljed, in- 

 tended to encourage the construction of rail- 

 roads. It authorizes towns, cities, and villages, 

 to take stock in railroads running through them, 

 to the extent of $5,000 a mile, and issue 

 bonds therefor, on which they shall be author- 

 ized to appoint a railroad commissioner who 

 shall have a vote in the company for each 

 share of stock. To pay the interest on such 

 bonds, the increased State tax, by reason of 

 the increased value of property in such locali- 

 ties, and a proportionate amount of the State 

 license fee on the railroads constructed by aid 

 of such bonds (which is to be six per cent.), 

 are set apart, not to be used, however, until the 

 road is built. Acts were passed as follows : To 

 protect the people from empiricism in the prac- 

 tice of medicine, by requiring a diploma of 

 some medical college or society, or proof of 

 five years' successful practice of medicine ; to 

 restore the system of county government by 

 boards composed of chairmen of town boards 

 of supervisors, senior aldermen of cities, and 

 presidents of villages; regulating by strin- 

 gent rules, for the security of policy-holders, 

 the business of fire and life insurance, and 

 putting them under the direction of an insur- 

 ance commissioner, while, at the same time, 

 the rate of license they are required to pay is 

 decreased ; providing for the election and 

 classification of railroad directors so as to pre- 

 vent " rings " from keeping control of them ; 

 giving the families of soldiers, who served dur- 

 ing the war in the regular army, $5.00 per 

 month as State aid ; for the establishment 

 of an additional institution for the insane, and 

 to charter the Madison and Portage Railroad 

 Company. Joint resolutions were passed pro- 

 posing an amendment to the constitution, pro- 

 hibiting action by the Legislature, except in 

 the enactment of general laws, etc. An at- 

 tempt was made to secure the removal of the 

 capital from Madison to Milwaukee, which was 

 defeated in the Assembly by a vote of 56 to 

 30. A law having been passed fixing a bounty 

 for the killing of wolves, lynxes, and wild-cats, 

 within the boundaries of the State, and the 

 number of applications for this bounty having 

 been so large as to create doubts as to whether 

 these wild animals had been killed within or 

 without the State, Governor Fairchild advised 

 the Legislature that it was " worth while to 

 inquire how it happens that so large a pro- 

 portion of the claims of this character come 

 from counties bordering on other States." 



The regular election was held November 8th, 

 for Superintendent of Public Schools, members 

 of the Legislature, members of the Forty-second 

 Congress, and also upon the question of rati- 

 fying the proposed amendment to the State 

 constitution abolishing grand juries. The total 

 vote for Superintendent of Public Schools was 

 146,826, viz. : for Samuel Fallows (Republican), 

 77,929; for Dale (Democrat), 68,897; majority 

 for Fallows, 9,032. Total vote upon the amend- 



