OHIO. 



ONTARIO. 



609 



victory for the Democratic party. The follow- 

 ing are the official figures of the vote : 



GOVERNOR. 



George Hoadly, Democrat 359,798 



Joseph P. Foraker, Republican .347^ 54 



Ferdinand Schumacher, Prohibition 8,362 



Charles Jenkins, Greenback-Labor 2^937 



Scattering 12 



LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 



John G Warwick, Democrat 856,413 



William G. Rose, Republican 850,009 



Henry T. Ogden, Prohibition 8,381 



William Baker, Greenback-Labor 2,934 



Scattering 2 



JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT SHORT TERM. 



Martin D. Follett, Democrat 360,404 



William H. Upson, Republican 846,431 



Zeno C. Payne, Prohibition 8,208 



Henry A. Chamberlain, Greenback -Labor 2,940 



J. H. Upson 615 



Scattering 5 



JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT LONG AND UNEXPIRED 

 TERM. 



Selwyn N. Owen, Democrat 



John H. Doyle, Republican 



David C. Montgomery, Prohibition 8^216 



lames Grogan, Greenback-Labor 2,892 



Scattering 6 



Elections for members of the sixty-sixth 

 General Assembly were also held, resulting as 

 follows : 



The following was the vote on the constitu- 

 tional amendments : 



Total number of votes cast 721,310 



Judicial amendment Yes 400,922 



Judicial amendment No 141,636 



Regulation and taxation of liquor-traffic Yes 99,849 



Regulation and taxation of liquor-traffic No 192,117 



Prohibition of intoxicating liquors- Yes 323,189 



Prohibition of intoxicating liquors No 240,975 



To carry either of those amendments required 

 a majority of all the votes cast. The judicial 

 amendment was the only one receiving the 

 required majority, and was therefore the only 

 one adopted. 



The Liquor-Question revived. The defeat of 

 the prohibition amendment was claimed by its 

 supporters to be due to foul play on the part 

 of the election officers. Unofficial recounts 

 were made in some counties, and it was claimed 

 these indicated a falsification of the returns to 

 an extent that affected the result. No legal 

 steps were taken, however, to dispute the count. 

 But the liquor-question was not finally dis- 

 posed of by the vote on the constitutional 

 amendments. On the 27th and 2&th of De- 

 cember the liquor-dealers held a State Conven- 

 tion in Columbus, at which a preamble and 

 resolution were adopted, declaring the Scott 

 law unconstitutional and unjust, and asking 

 the Legislature to enact a judicious and consti- 

 tutional law in place of it. 



This brought into immediate action the 

 Women's Christian Temperance Union, which 

 prepared for a new struggle by sending out 

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circulars for signatures to a petition to the 

 General Assembly, declaring that the second 

 amendment received a majority of the ballots 

 cast, but they were not honestly counted ; and 

 asking that a single proposition, to amend the 

 Constitution so as to prohibit the manufacture 

 and sale of intoxicating liquors within the State, 

 be submitted to a popular vote. 



Woman Suffrage. The Woman's Suffrage As- 

 sociation of Ohio met in convention at Colum- 

 bus, June 13th, and effected a permanent or- 

 ganization by the election of officers for the 

 ensuing year, including the following : Presi- 

 dent, Prof. N. S. Townshend, of Columbus; 

 Recording Secretary, Dr. Kate Kelsey, Elyria; 

 Corresponding Secretary, Miss Francis G. Jan- 

 ney, Columbus ; Treasurer, Mrs. Elizabeth Coit, 

 Columbus. This was the first concerted move- 

 ment of the advocates of woman suffrage in 

 the State for several years, and, although the 

 attendance at the convention was small, the 

 reports of those present were hopeful. 



ONTARIO, a province of the Dominion of Can- 

 ada. Area, 220,000 square miles; population 

 in 1881, 1,923,228. Capital, Toronto. 



Climate. The southwestern peninsula, be- 

 tween Lakes Huron and Erie, enjoys a much 

 milder climate than Toronto. In the northern 

 districts early and late frosts sometimes occur, 

 but rarely damage the crops. At Toronto, 

 which occupies the average position regarding 

 temperature, the mean for the forty-one years 

 ending 1882 was 44-16 F., the extreme ranges 

 of mean annual temperature being 47 - 09in 1878 

 and 40'77 in 1873. The average of the warm- 

 est months for that period ranges from 76-66 

 in 1881 to 64-46 in 1860 ; and of the coldest- 

 months from 10-16 in 1875 to 26 in 1848. 

 The coldest day was in 1859, when the mer- 

 cury fell to 26'5, the mean temperature of 

 the day being 14-38. 



Agriculture. The settled portion of Ontario, 

 the peninsula south of the forty-sixth parallel, 

 is admirably fitted for agriculture, more espe- 

 cially the western and central districts. The 

 chief products are wheat, barley, oats, corn, 

 and potatoes. The value of good farms varies 

 from $60 to $140 an acre. The provincial 

 Government has always encouraged advanced 

 farming, and supports a fine agricultural col- 

 lege. In the eastern portion of the peninsula 

 a wing of the Laurentian plateau crosses, but 

 the land is good for grazing and dairy pur- 

 poses. The northern regions of this peninsula, 

 lying between the Georgian Bay and the river 

 Ottawa, are well timbered with pine and oak, 

 chiefly the former. In the counties along 

 the Lake Erie shores, the finer cabinet-woods 

 abound. This district is also well adapted for 

 vineyards and fruit-growing, which is exten- 

 sively carried on. 



Minerals and Oil. Mining in Ontario is in its 

 infancy. Petroleum -wells exist in the south- 

 western peninsula, in Campton county, at the 

 foot of Lake Huron. There are salt-wells at 

 Clinton, Seaforth, and Blyth, in Huron county, 



