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Tiie decisión of the Ohio Suprema 0 ourt, nnanimously holding tlie Boescl Kailroad law uneonstitutional, will put the brakes on a host of ineipient enterprises in that State ; bat then it will save townsand ctties and connties froin piling up big debts and perhaps frOni municipal bankruptoy. Tlie court olearly bolcb tbat railroads owned or operated by private eorporations are not of sueh a pub li 3 nature as to bis aided by taxation, and that for the public to build a portiotl of a road and a corporatii n complete and opérate it is iilegal and uneonstitutional. This decisión ge e i as far as the decisión in this Stato holiíing railroad aid bonds illegally and unoonstitutionally issued and void. - Eev. J. D. Ful ton, of the Tremont Temple society (Baptist), Boston, bas dissolved his pastoral connection with the society, and says that " no power on eaith shall keep him longer in the Temple." Ileason: the society declined to publish a weekly newspaper in which he o uld enlarge his congregalion and force his 8erinons upon a public not privileged to hear him, or if privilegod not willing. Brooklyn would do this thing and placo hirn on an equality with Spurgeon : that is if a paper to be under his control can do that thing. - Oakos Ames, of Union Pacific Railroad and Credit Mobilier notoriety, died at his residence in North Easton, Mass., on the evening of the 8th inst., aged 69 years. Ames was not the worst man in the last Congress, notwithstanding he was made to carry the sins of his radical associates and censurod for bribing niembem who wero acquitted of being bribed. His fun-sral took place on the llth iust., and was largely attended by prominent men. Eight of his employés acted as pall-bearers. - A San Francisco dispatch says : " The heuds of Chief John Schonchin and several other fallen Modocs are being forwarded to the military headquarters here." They may inspire a great deal of awo in the good citizens of San Francisco, but their exhibition at headquarters will scarcely strike terror to the hearts of Capt. Jack and hú " braves" in their impregnable mountain fastnesses. - During President Grant's recent visit to Central City, Colorado, his path from the carriage to the Teller House was pavod with silver bricks, ten in nuinber, valued at over $17,000. They were the product of the Caribou miue which has been sold to a Holland company for $3,000.000. Grant would much rather have had tho bricks given hiin : ho would. - It Í3 now given out that President Grant will not appoint ft successor to exChiof-Justioe Chase until after the opening of tho next sessiou of Congress, so that his nomineajmay be confirme! beforo entering upon duty. Meantime third-rate Iawyers and small poiiticians will proseonte their claims vigorously, - Grant's late visit to Colorado stirred up a hornet's nest in that Territory. Hü tarried too long in Denver which excited thu jealonsly, ill-will and angor of Grant admirers and Denver-haters in otlier towns, the big men of which didn't get the opportunity to hold their axes on the presidential grindstone. - It is reported of Congressman Punout the few and small black spots left on his conscience by bis partieipation in the back-pay steal, he sent $75 to his pastor (a Baptist), who refused the gift, not desiring to make hiinaelf a receier of stolen property. - By an ordinance reeently passed all the saloons in Chicago are to be closed at 11 o'clock each evoning : to thegreat disgust of the bummers and gamblers who prefer to ply their vocation in the mid hours of the night. It is a wholesome regulation and ought to be rigidly enforced. - Gen. Farnsworth gave his " back pay " to Kane county, but tho money burned the lingera of the local authorities and so the County Treasurer was directed to turn it over to General Spinner, one of the watoh doga of the national treasury at Washington. - And now it is given out that tho irrepressiblo Gilmore is to hold a musical jubilee in Chicago soine time in Junc with batween two hundred and three hundred performers. The immensu now depot of the Michigan Southern Kailruad has been secured for the blow out. - Contrary to previoua announcement President Graut did not attend the funeral of the lato Chief-Justice Chase. A newspaper correspondent says he was out on the road " exercising a pair of under three year old colts" sent on from his St. Louis farm. - In the Supremo Court at Boston on the lOth inst., a a deeree of divorce absolute was entered in case of Charles Sumner vt. Alice M. Sumnor. Desertion for live years was the ground of the complaint. And so ends that drama in high Life. - On Wednesday of last week the Fourth Universalist Society of New York celebrated the twenty-fifth or silver wedding ammersary of Rev. E. H. Chapin's pastorate. Dr. Chapin was presented with $10,000. - Senator Morton ia named as one of the aspirants for the robes of Chief Justice Chase. Who ever heard that he was noted for his knowlertgo of law ? He would certainlygive odor to the Supremo Court. - At tho recent session of the American Medical Association, held at St. Louis, Mo., Detroit was selected as tho next place of annual meeting, and tho date fixed for the first Tuesduy in June. - The Boston Herald is anxious to know if the Massachusetts Legislature will censure Senator Sumner for refusing to roceive his share of the back-actiou ealary plunder. - It is now announoed that Senators Chandlei and Ferry have paid into the U. B. Treasury their quotas of the plunder callnd back pay. " Let it be recorded" to their credit. - The Ohio Constitutional Coucntion met at Coluinbus on Tuosday, and effected an organization. On the fifth ballot Hon. M. R. Waite, of Toledo, was electod President. - Lueca and Kellogg are advertised for tro more concerts in Dotroit : May 19th and 2Oth, and will bring outMignon and Favorita. - Judge Pierrepont, of New York,. has been appointed minister to lïussia vice ex-Gov. Orr, deceased. - The Central Methodist or Vanderbilt Univeraity has boen located at KnoiFille, Tenn. - The Printing G i etle, publishod ut Cleveland, Oh Lo, says t.hat "Colfax was once a printer boy, and sonio think ho ought to ba a printer boy itill." Colfax never was a "printer boy " or a " printer man " and tha Ga?.rtla ought to know beitel' than to make auch a statement - Jackson 8. Schultz, of Now York, luis been nppointed Coramisjioner at Vienna, tke Gen. Vm Buren suspended. Ho will havu a job unknotting tlie tangled web and restoring the lost (sold) or-"üt of the country. - i'ho Woodhull threntens Tilton with a L uil aspase of tlmir relatlena. What a tootbsome scandal that would be. - Train bas been pronounced Bne, and ia, therefore, to be put on trial at an early day. In THE Suprenie Ouurt, on ïuesday, a vexed question was decided, oue which has long bean in disputo : that is who is lialile to pay tho taxe.3 levied on lands which have changed owuers after the valuation roll is made out by the Supervisors in May - or after tho second Monday in Muy - and before the assessment roll goes into the hands of the collector, the first Monday of December. Tho Court holds that while the State my hold the vendor i'or the taxes and levy his jiersonal property to satisfy the sanie, tha.t ;is between the vendor and vendoo the latter is found to pay the taxes if be acqnires titlo before the ñrst Mouday of December, at which dato the taxes becouie a lien upon the land and belong to the vender to pay, tho same as au iucumbrance by inortgage.