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OHIO. 



the persecutions and the elegies referring to 

 them, a passage that was taken by George 

 Eliot as the text from which much of " Daniel 

 Deronda" was written, the key- note being 

 struck in the following : " If a literature which 

 owns a few classical tragedies is deemed rich, 

 what place should be assigned to a tragedy 

 which extends over fifteen centuries and which 

 has been composed and enacted by the heroes 

 themselves ? " A Zunz foundation was estab- 

 lished in commemoration of his seventieth 

 birthday, and his ninetieth birthday was cele- 

 brated as a festivity in the synagogues through- 

 out the German and Austrian Empires. 



OHIO. State Officers. The State officers for 

 1886 were : Governor, Joseph B. Foraker ; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Kobert P. Kennedy ; 

 Secretary of State, James S. Robinson ; Au- 

 ditor, Ernil Kiesewetter; Treasurer, John G. 

 Brown ; Attorney-General, Jacob A. Kobler ; 

 Commissioner of Common Schools, Leroy I). 

 Brown; Board of Public Works, Wells S. 

 Jones, John P. Martin, C. A. Flickinger. 

 Judges of the Supreme Court : Selwyn N". 

 Owen, Thaddeus A. Minshall, Martin D. Fol- 

 lett, William T. Spear, William W. Johnson; 

 Clerk of Supreme Court, J. W. Cruikshank. 



Finances. The total of balances in the treas- 

 ury at the close of the fiscal year 1885 was 

 $254,088.79. The receij>ts into the treasury 

 during 1886, from all sources, amounted to 

 $5,775,908.74. The disbursements for the 

 same period were $5,573,721.29, leaving a 

 cash bal.ince in the treasury, November 15, of 

 $456,221.24. The receipts include $500,886.97, 

 received from the sale of bonds authorized by 

 the act of May 13, 1886. The general reve- 

 nue fund showed a deficit, to meet which a 

 temporary loan was obtained. The actual re- 

 ceipts for the fund were $2,755,733.90 ; the ap- 

 propriations for the same period were $3,079,- 

 852.89, and the actual disbursements $3,079,- 

 511.41, the appropriations being $324,118.99, 

 and the disbursements $323,777.51 in excess 

 of the receipts. To provide for this deficit a 

 temporary loan of $500,000 at 3^ per cent, was 

 made, due July 1, 1887. In his annual report, 

 at the close of the fiscal year, the State Auditor 

 pointed out that the estimated disbursements 

 for the coining year are very largely in excess 

 of the estimated receipts, -and unless provision 

 is made for a larger revenue, or the expendi- 

 tures greatly decreased, the State will have to 

 suspend payment before the fiscal year closes. 



Property and Taxation. The grand duplicate 

 of the State for 1886 showed 25,524,067 acres, 

 valued at $714,769,130; real estate in cities, 

 towns, and villages to the value of $458,337,- 

 575; chattel property to the value of $515,- 

 569,463, giving a grand total of value for taxa- 

 tion purposes of $1,688,676,168. The State tax 

 was 2 and T V mills, yielding $4,894,593.98, and 

 the total taxes for all purposes, including delin- 

 quencies and forfeitures, except a per capita tax 

 on dogs ($208,748), was $33,378,558.16. 



State and Local Debts. The public funded debt 



of the State, Nov. 15, 1886, was as follows : 

 Loan payable after Dec. 31, 18S6, 6 per cent., 

 $2,025,139.19; payable July 1, 1887, 8 per 

 cent., '$500,000 ; July 1, 1887, 4 per cent., 

 $500,000; July 1, 1888, 4 per cent., $600,000; 

 July 1, 1891, 3 per cent,, $18,425; July 1, 

 1894, 3 per cent, $100,000 ; July 1, 1898. 3 per 

 cent., $100,000 ; canal loan, riot interest-bear- 

 ing, $1,665 : total funded debt, $3,845,229.19 ; 

 an increase during the year of $125,000. There 

 is also an irreducible State debt (trust funds) 

 of $4,515,778.45. The local debts aggregate 

 $53,528,386.75, being an increase during the 

 year of $237,988.22. 



Railroads and Telegraphs. The State Commis- 

 sioner of Railroads and Telegraphs reports the 

 number of miles of railway of standard gauge 

 at 6.407-2; narrow gauge, 839-3. Of these 

 there were in the hands of receivers 1,020*6 

 miles of standard gauge and 290.4 miles of 

 narrow gauge. Capital stock paid in, $525,- 

 238,034.41; funded debt, $518,729,643.83; un- 

 funded debt, $42,640,210.44; total stock and 

 debt. $1,086,607,908.68. Gross earnings, $98.- 

 110,120.60; decrease of 2.84 percent.; oper- 

 ating expenses, $69,832,521.38; per cent, of 

 gross earnings, 71.18 ; net earnings, $28,277,- 

 5yi;.22. Passengers carried, 31,781,707; pas- 

 sengers carried one mile, 1,100,569,058; aver- 

 age receipts per mile, 2 P 139 cents. Tons of 

 freight, 74,883.939; tons one mile, 10,134,- 

 250,983 ; rate 'per ton per mile, 0'658 cent. 

 There has been a graded reduction of freight 

 rates for the past nineteen years. Killed, 68 

 passengers, 94 employes, 1 93 others ; total, 

 295. Injured, 41 passengers, 447 employes, 

 and 177 others; total 665. The ratio is 1 pas- 

 senger killed to every 3,960,213 carried, and 

 1 passenger injured to every 775,163 carried. 

 The telegraph companies report 9,996 miles of 

 poles and 43,840 miles of wire in the State, 

 with 834 offices and 1,158 employes. 



School Statistics. The State School Commis- 

 sioner reported the number of youths of school 

 age in the State, September, 1886, at 1,101,- 

 358, an increase in the year of 5,957 ; number 

 of school-houses erected within the year, 397; 

 cost of same, $799,747; estimated value of 

 school-houses, including grounds, $28,467,005; 

 number of teachers necessary to supply schools, 

 18,454 ; number of teachers actually employed, 

 24,620 ; average number of weeks schools were 

 in session in township districts, 29; in separate 

 districts, 34. The number of pupils enrolled in 

 the schools was 1,875,149; average number of 

 pupils in daily attendance, 517,844; number 

 of school-officers, 52,198. Total expenditures, 

 $10,121,897.77, being an increase of $27,959.60. 



Criminal and Benevolent Statistics. The reports 

 of the several State institutions for the punish- 

 ment and reform of criminals, and care and 

 treatment of the unfortunate, show the number 

 in the different institutions for the year, with 

 the per capita cost, to have been as follow : In- 

 sane asylums Athens, 1.013, $158.21; Cleve- 

 land, 916, $170.17; Columbus, 1,180, $159.02; 



