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OHIO. 



Only eighteen companies paid dividends, as 

 follows : Baltimore & Ohio Short Line, 8 per 

 cent. ; Central Ohio, 6 ; Cincinnati & Balti- 

 more, 8 ; Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & 

 Indianapolis, 3; Cleveland & Mahoning Val- 

 ley, 6 ; Cleveland & Pittsburg 7 ; Columbus & 

 Hocking Valley, 8 ; Lawrence, 10 ; Little 

 Miami, 8 ; Massillon & Cleveland, 5 ; Pittsburg, 

 Fort Wayne & Chicago, T ; L. M. & N., 4. 

 These were on entire capital stock. 



The Dayton & Michigan paid 8 per cent, 

 dividends on preferred, and 3 on its common 

 stock ; the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, 

 10 on preferred, and 3J on common; and two 

 companies, the Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleve- 

 land 3 per cent., and the Ohio & Mississippi 

 7 per cent., on preferred stock only. 



The aggregate number of casualties to per- 

 sons occurring' within the State upon the sev- 

 eral railway lines for the year, as reported, 

 is, of passengers, killed, 8 ; injured, 27 ; of 

 employes, killed, 93 ; injured, 181 ; and of 

 others, on track, trespassing, etc., 115 killed 

 and 98 injured making a total of 216 killed, 

 and 306 injured. 



Compared with years previous, there is an 

 increase of two in number of passengers killed, 

 that of employes is the same, while of others 

 there are three less, the total showing a de- 

 crease in fatal injuries of three. 



Of the non-fatal injuries caused by accident, 

 there was an increase in number of those to 

 passengers of 15 ; to employes of 16, and to 

 others of 29 a total increase for the year of 60. 



The number of persons supported in the 

 county infirmaries, and otherwise, from the 

 poor-fund, for the year ending March 31, 1875, 

 with the cost, as reported to the county audi- 

 tors, is as follows : Number admitted to in- 

 firmaries during the year, 4,870; number sup- 

 ported in infirmaries, 5,879; otherwise sup- 

 ported from the poor-fund, 4,300 ; total cost, 

 $546,903 ; average cost per day, about 25 

 cents. This shows an increase over last year 

 of $4,178. It is difficult to determine the ex- 

 act aggregate of average cost of the poor per 

 day under the care of the county infirmaries 

 from the reports, as other expenses are re- 

 ported in the gross amount of costs; the 

 above very nearly approximates the real cost. 



The total number of prisoners confined in 

 the county jails, for the year ending June 30, 

 1875, is reported by the sheriffs as 7,454. Of 

 this number 6,773 were white and 681 colored. 

 Aggregate cost of keeping them, $84,048. 



Inquests by coroners : 62 by homicide, 113 

 by suicide, 360 by accident, 246 by violent 

 and unknown causes ; total, 781 ; number of 

 inquests, 655. By justices of the peace: 37 

 by homicide, 48 by suicide, 110 by accident, 

 72 by causes unknown ; total, 257. Total 

 deaths reported, 1,038. 



Number of deaths, giving the aggregate of 

 counties, of males, 14,906 ; females, 13,261 : 

 total, 28,167. ^ In the details of the reports of 

 the probate judges, which in some cases are 



very imperfect, it is shown that there were 

 13,646 males and 12,424 females, making an 

 aggregate of 26,170, showing 1,997 deaths of 

 persons, sex unknown or not stated in the de- 

 tails of deaths in the reports. Of the deceased 

 whose ages are given in the reports, 4,436 

 were under one year of age ; 8,421 under five 

 years; 9,895 under ten years; 11,595 under 

 twenty years ; 14,053 under thirty years. Of 

 the deaths and ages as reported, 16.32 per cent, 

 were under one year; under five years, 31 per 

 cent. ; under ten years, 36.42 per cent. ; under 

 twenty years, 42.68 per cent.; under thirty 

 years, 50 per cent. 



The following is a summary of the school 

 statistics for the year ending August 31, 1875, 

 from the State School Commissioner's report : 



Number of primary schools 14,413 



high-schools 450 



" teachers in primary schools 21,851 



" high-schools 641 



" scholars enrolled in primary schools. 637,911 



" high-schools.... 24,212 

 Total enumeration of youth, six to twenty-one 



years of age 1,017,726 



Amount paid teachers in primary schools $4,818,871 20 



' " high-schools 469,592 56 



for sites and buildings 1,3 18,514 86 



" for fuel and other contingent ex- 

 penses 1,391,704 42 



" on bonds and interest 519,003 SO 



" for managing and superintending. 158,778 64 



Total amount paid $8,170,959 98 



The following shows the amount and num- 

 ber of deeds, leases, and mortgages, in all the 

 counties of the State for the year ending June 

 30, 1875: Deeds recorded, 84,922; leases re- 

 corded, 2,675 ; mortgages recorded, 54,861 ; 

 amount of money secured by mortgage, $67,- 

 061,716 ; number of mortgages, other than 

 railroad mortgages, canceled, 31,018 ; amount 

 of money released by same, $44,515,868. 



The reports of the clerks of Courts of Com- 

 mon Pleas for the year ending June 30, 1875, 

 show the following results: Number of civil 

 judgments rendered, 18,468 ; number for money 

 only, 12,361 ; amount adjudged due, $9,562,- 

 146.43; number of decrees, 4,713; average 

 amount of judgments, $773.57. Compared with 

 1874, it shows 1,808 increase in the number 

 of civil judgments rendered, and an increase 

 in amount of $1,023,827.43. 



The reports of the probate judges show that 

 1,288 persons (665 males and 623 females) were 

 sent to the insane asylums during the year 

 ending March, 1875. These reports show an 

 increase, compared with 1874, of 153 males 

 and 117 females : total increase, 270. 



The Adjutant-General reports a settlement 

 with the United States, under the act of Con- 

 gress approved March 3, 1875, whereby the 

 State received a credit on its arms and ord- 

 nance account of $149,800.05, which settled 

 all the indebtedness of the State to the United 

 States for arms drawn in 1863, and placed to 

 the credit of the State the sum of $44,771.14 in 

 arms, upon which requisitions have been made 

 for improved arms to the amount of $44,320. 

 These arms have been distributed among the 



