OHIO. 



two years at Barombi, exploring the interior and 

 making valuable collections of natural specimens, 

 maps, and reports. He was invalided home in the 

 summer of 1889, returned in the autumn, and, when 

 the malarial season came, was prostrated again and 

 did not recover. 



OHIO, a Central Western State, admitted to 

 the Union in 1803 ; area, 39,964 square miles ; 

 population, according to the last decennial cen- 

 sus (1890), 3,666,719, an increase during the de- 

 cennial period of 468,657. In the census of 1880 

 it ranked as the third State in the Union, but it 

 fell to the fourth place in the census of 1890. 

 Capital, Columbus. 



Government. During 1890 the State officers 

 were : Governor, James E. Campbell, Democrat; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, William V. Marquis : Sec- 

 retary of State, Daniel J. Ryan, Republican; 

 Auditor, Ebenezer W. Poe ; Treasurer, John C. 

 Brown ; Attorney-General, David K. Watson ;. 

 Judges of the Supreme Court, Marshall J. Will- 

 iams, Chief Justice, Franklin J. Dickman, Will- 

 iam T. Spear, Joseph P. Bradbury, Thaddeus A. 

 Minshall; Clerk of the Supreme Court, Urban 

 H. Hester ; Commissioner of Common Schools, 

 John Hancock ; Board of Public Works, Wells 

 S. Jones, William M. Hahn, Frank J. McColloch. 



Population. The population of Ohio by 

 counties, according to the national censuses of 

 1880 and 1890, is shown in the following table : 



* Decrease. 



Finances. The balances in the treasury to the 

 credit of the several funds at the close of the 

 fiscal year 1889 were as follow : General revenue, 

 $22,363,88: sinking fund, $245,040.45; State 

 common-school, $114,255.54; total, $381,659.87. 

 The receipts into the treasury during the year 

 from all sources amounted to $5,853,677.82; 

 total receipts, including balance, $6,235,337.69 ; 

 disbursements for same period, $5,832,751.25 ; 

 leaving cash balance in the treasury, Nov. 15, 

 1890, $420,586.44, credited to the following 

 funds: General revenue, $71,998.52; sinking, 

 $198,258.45; State common-school, $132,329.- 

 47. During the year payments of $255,000 had 

 been paid on the public debt of the State, leav- 

 ing the amount outstanding Nov. 15, 1890, of 

 public funded debt $2,541,665. The irreducible 

 State debt (trust funds) was at the same time 

 $4,609,863.04. The aggregate of local debts was 

 $62,992,956.74. Of this amount, the debts of the 

 counties were $6,974,779.22 ; of cities, $50,580,- 

 409.96 ; of incorporated villages, $2,008,050 ; of 

 townships, $325,887.47 ; of special school dis- 

 tricts, $3,103,830.09. During the year there had 

 been a net increase in local indebtedness of $2,- 

 764,835.11. The increase was in the debts of 

 cities, school districts, and villages, aggregating 

 $4,283,918.75, the debts of counties and town- 

 ships having been reduced $1,518,083.64. The 

 value of all taxable real estate and personal 

 property in Ohio, according to the consolidated 

 tax duplicate of 1890, was as follows ; Real estate 

 in cities, towns, and villages, $506.663,058 ; real 

 estate not in cities, towns, and villages, $725,- 

 642,254; chattel property, $545,833,165; total 

 taxable values in 1890, $1,778,138,477 ; net in- 

 crease in the valuation, as compared with 1889, 



