Pomeroy Weekly Telegraph, 1860-05-15

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. No, 52. AN ACT To provide for the completion of the state house, atid for the care of the building and grounds, and to repeal certain acts therein named. Section A.--Be it enacted by the Gen General - eral General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That there shall he appointed by the Gover Governor, - nor, Governor, with the consent of the Senate, a "Superintendent of the1 State House," and also a "Janitor of the State House," who .'shall hold their offices for the term of two years,' a'nd until their successors shall be appointed and qualified. In case of Vacancy in either of said offices during the recess of the General Assembly, the same shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, who snail, within ten days after the ; General 'Assembly shall next meet, appoint in the manner originally provided a successor for such unexpired term. The salary of such Superinten Superintendent - dent Superintendent shall be twelve hundred dollars, and that of said Janitor shall be eight hun hundred - dred hundred dollars, yearly, in quarterly pay payments, - ments, payments, to be drawn from the Treasury oh the warrant of the Auditor of State. Sec. 2. The Superintendentshall have the supervision and control of the State 'House, the grounds and appurtenances thereto attached, and of all work pe pe-ftrweduponj - ftrweduponj pe-ftrweduponj and , ma terials .furnished for the same; and he shall also have 'charge of the tract of land in Franklin county purchased by the State for a qtrarry. Every contract for such work and Materials snail be' in Writing, signed 'Ottfcehalf of the State by the Superin Superintendent, - tendent, Superintendent, and a copy thereof shall be de de-jposited - jposited de-jposited in the office of;tbe Secretary' of State; and no contract shall exceed the gmount appropriated by . law applicable ito such purpose. . The Superintendent shall have power to appoint a clerk, re removable - movable removable at his pleasure, whose duty it :shall be to keep & true record and ac 'count of all the proceedings and expend Htures of the Superintendent; and he may also employ, when necessary, the servi servi-'ces - 'ces servi-'ces of an architect;, tsaid clerk and archi architect - tect architect to be paid a reasonable compensation out of the State . House fund. The Su Superintendent - perintendent Superintendent shall, annually, before the fifteenth day of December, make report of his proceedings to the Governor, who shall lay the same before the General Assembly. ' .' .' Sec. 3.. The Janitor shall have the charge subject to the direction of the Su Superintendent, - perintendent, Superintendent, of the State House build building, - ing, building, and the grounds and appurtenances thereto attached, and he shall keep the same constantly watched, .protected) and in order; and he may employ such as assistants - sistants assistants .as the Superintendent mny ap approve - prove approve and deenr necessary, whose couir pensation shall be fixed by the Superin Superintendent - tendent Superintendent and paid out of the State House fund. It shall also be the duty of the Janitor to.,, prepare the legislative halls for the reception of the' General Assem Assembly - bly Assembly at the c ommencement of each regular and extra session. " . , Sec. 4. If any person shall wilfully or maliciously injure or deface in any man manner - ner manner any portion of the State House build building, - ing, building, its fixtures, furniture, or appurte appurtenances, - nances, appurtenances, or shall commit any nuisance therein,. or shall purposely commit any injurious trespass upon the grounds at attached - tached attached thereto, or shall wilfully injure any tree, shrub or plant growing upon said grounds, or any fixture place thereon, or any enclosure or .side- walk about the . same, such person shall, upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum not Ices than five dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the jail of Franklin county not less than one day, nor more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court;, and shall moreover be liable to the State of Ohio in double the amount of the injury done. The Janitor .shall have the power and authority of a Constable' as to the arrest of all persons guilty of the offenses above described; and all prosecutions for said offenses shall be conducted in the same manner and before the same courts as other offenses committed within the city of Columbus, the punishment whereof may- be less than imprisonment in the penitentiary.- r ; -1 ,,.. SECi 5. The" work to he done for the completion of the State House building shall be as follows: Tilins the floor of the rotunda; putting gas fixtures in the rotunda arching and flagging the north-west court, '"and -placing therein steps, balcony and iron railing for second story; and repairing and painting the flagging on the north and west sides of the building. .. For the payment of the labor and materials of said work, there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury for general revenue pur poses, the sum often thousand dollars, which may be drawn from the Treasury thn t r ii.. q.ii;ui uiutmiu r ii.. in favor of the person or their agents to wnom tney same may be due for work actually done or materials delivered, and so certified to by the Superintendent. The aid work shall be finished by the ifirst day of Oct: of the present year, and '.upon said day the State House building ;shall be held to have been completed, ;and all work - upon the construction thereof shall cease, and all contracts rel relative - ative relative thereto shall be at an end. Sec. 6. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury for general revenue, purposes, the following sums of money, to be applied to the fol following" - lowing" following" purposes, viz: In payments for work and materials necessary to be done and furnished in grading and flagging the State House lot sidewalk upon High street, fifteen hundred dollars, and for procuring and planting trees and shrub shrubbery - bery shrubbery on said loteight hundi el dollars, and for contingent expenses of said State House building, grounds and appurtc appurtc-'nances, - 'nances, appurtc-'nances, thirty-seven hundred dollars.- Said sums of money to be paid from the "Treasury upon the warrant of the Audi tor of State, in favor of the persons or their agents to whom money may become lue for work or materials as aforesaid, and which may be certified by the Su Superintendent - perintendent Superintendent to have been performed or "delivered. . Sec, 7 The Superintendent is hereby Vutli'ori'zed to make sale of such machin machinery - ery machinery and implements procured for, but not further needed in building the State House, and, also, of all unused materials procured for such building, as be may

dispose of; and said Superintendent shall account with the Treasurer of State for all money .received by him from such Sec. 8. The act entitled "an act to provide for the prosecution of the work on the new. State House, prescribing the order in which it shall be done, and making appropriations therefor," passed April 8, 1856, and the act entitled "an act to provide for the more expeditibus completion of the new State House, pre prescribing - scribing prescribing the order in which it may be done," passed April 12, 1858, and all other acts providing for the construction Of the new State House are hereby re repealed: - pealed: repealed: Z'".'" " t :' -- Sec. 9. This act shali take effect and be in force from and after the first day of April in the present year; provided, however, that the appointments hereby authorized . may be made at any time after the passage hereof, to take effect upon said day. v RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. . U 1 ROBERT C. KIRK, , President of the Senate.-: "Passed March 16, 1SG0. J"No 35. To amend AN ACT " - Act entitled "an Act to an provide for the establishment and gov government - ernment government of Reform Schools," passed April 2, 1858. Section A. Be it enacted ly the Gen eral Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section ten of the act aforesaid be so amended as to read as follows: Sec. 10. It shall be lawful for the Board of Commissioners aforesaid, to re receive - ceive receive upon said Reform Farm, and detain there under their control and guardian ship, such male youth as may be received ahd detained in Houses of Refuge, under sections six, seven, eight and nine, of the said act, entitled "an act to authorize the establishment of Houses of Refuge," and the manner and form prescribed in sec sections - tions sections ten and eleven of said act, in ref reference - erence reference to the examinations and commit commitment - ment commitment of such youth, is hereby extended to and shall be held to apply to the ex examination - amination examination ahd commitment of youth to said Reform Farm; and all poers vested by the act aforesaid in the Boards of Di- rectors of Houses of Refuse, With refer refer-ence - ence refer-ence to such institutions, is hereby con conferred - ferred conferred upon said Board of Commission Commissioners, - ers, Commissioners, in reference to the State Reform Farm. Sec, 2. Section fifteen of the act afore aforesaid - said aforesaid shall be so amended as to read as follows: Sec. 15. The parents or guardians df any j'outh committed to any Reform School, may, be required by the authori ties ot said Ketorm hchool, to , pay a weekly charge for the support or said youth, not exceeding onedollar and fifty cents, the money so received to be duly reported and expended, as oihcr moneys, for the benefit of such Reform School, and said parents or guardians nlay also be required to pay the expense of remov removing - ing removing said youth to the Reform School ahd of returning him to his friends. Sec. 3. Sections ten and fifteen of the act aforesaid are hereby repealed. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. RICHARD C. PARSONS, U Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT C. KIRK, President of the Senate. March 10, 1860. No. 34. AN ACT lo ar amend section three of an Act enti tled an "Act of the Jurisdiction and Procedure before Justices of the Peace, and of the Duties of Consta Constables - bles Constables in Civil Court,." Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen General - eral General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section three of an act entitled "an act of the jurisdiction and procedure before Justices ot the Peace, and of the duties of Constables in Civil Courts," passed March 14, 1853, be so amended as to read as follows: Sec. 3. That no house householder - holder householder or freeholder resident of the county shall be held to answer any sum summons - mons summons issued against him by a justice in a civil matter, in any township of such county other than the one where he shall reside, except as otherwise provided by section two of this act and in the cases following: First Where there shall be no Jus Justice - tice Justice of the Peace for the township in which the defendant may reside; or, Second Where the only Justice re residing - siding residing therein is interested in the con controversy; - troversy; controversy; or, Third-Where he shall be related as father, father-in-law, son, son-in-law, brother, brother-in-law, guardian, ward, uncle, nephew, or cousin, to either of the parties, and there . is no - Justice in the township competent to try the cause. iii Uru hjiiiIu" ciucpimi i'u;55s the action may be brought before any Jus Justice - tice Justice of an adjoining township of the same county, and the Justice shall state on his docket the reason of his taking jurisdiction. Fourth Where the summons is ac accompanied - companied accompanied with att order to attach prop property, - erty, property, the jurisdiction shall be co-extensive with the county. Fifth When two or more persons shall be jointly or jointly and severally bound in any debt or contract, or other otherwise - wise otherwise jointly liable in the same action, and reside in different townships ef the same county, the plaintiff may com commence - mence commence his action before a justice of the township in which any of the persons li liable - able liable may reside; except that in joint ac actions - tions actions against the makers and indorsers of.notes, due-bills, or bills of exchange, the action shall be commenced in the township where one of the original makers, drawers or indorsers reside, and if it be claimed by the plaintiff that an indorser indorsed the note or bill at the time it was made, and the jurisdiction depend thereon, before the justice shall take jurisdiction, the plaintiff, or some j person for him, shall file an affidavit set ting forth the fact. Sixth In cases of trespass to real or personal property, it shall be lawful to bring the action in the township where jthe trespass was committed, or in the : township where the trespasser, or any one of several trespassers reside. oec. i. lhat section three ot the act to which this is amendatory, be and the same is hereby repeald.

be in force from and after its passage. RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives ROBERT C. KIRK, President of the Senate. March 10, 1860. No. 99 AN ACT To amend an act entitled "an Act for opening and regulating Roads arid Highways," passed January 27, 1853. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gene General - ral General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That when the route of a proposed township road is along a dividing line between two townships, or crosses such dividing line, the person r persons intending to apply foraid road shall notify the trustees of both townships of his or their intention, and on receiving such notice, the trustees of the two townships in which the pro proposed - posed proposed road lies or runs, shall appoint some time and place at which they will meet in joint board; and the time fixed for said meeting shall be so arranged that the applicant or applicants will have ample time to give the requisite thirty days, notice, as required in the act to whicn tnis is an amendment; wnicn no notice - tice notice shalL be given in both townships, and shall state the time and place of meeting of the joint board of trustees, as provided in this act. Sec. 2. That the joint board of trus trustees, - tees, trustees, when so met, shall be governed by the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment; and if they shall grant a view and survey, they shall appoint a time and place when and where they shall meet to receive the report of the viewers and surveyors; and the proceed proceedings - ings proceedings at such meetings shall be recorded in both townships; and in case of an ap appeal, - peal, appeal, the appellant shall be governed in all respects by the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, except that he shall be required to enter into bond in both townships in which a part of the road is located. Sec. 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage. .. - RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT C. KIRK, President of the Senate. : Passed March 24, I860.. No. 103. AN ACT To provide for the confinement of Pris Pris-' - ' Pris-' oners under the laws of the United States, in the Jails of this State, and to repeal certain Acts therein men mentioned. - tioned. mentioned. Section L Be it enacted by the Gen General - eral General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the sheriff or the keeper of every jail in any county of this State shall be and he is hereby authorized and required to receive-all prisoners , charged with crime committed to his custody by the authority of the United States, and to keep them safely until discharged by due course of the laws of the same; and if any sheriff or jailor shall neglect Or refuse to per perform - form perform the services and duties required of him by this act, or shall offend in the premises, he shall be liable to the like penalties, forfeitures and actions as if such prisoner or prisoners had been committed under theauthority Of this State; provided that every prisoner who shall be com mitted for any offense, by the authority of the United States; shall be supported at the expense of the same during his or her confinement in said jail; and Ho greater compensation shall be charged by any sheriff or keeper ot any jail for the subsistence of said United States prisoners, than is authorized by law to be charged for the subsistence of State prisoners; provided also, that the com commissioners - missioners commissioners of any county in which said prisoner may be confined, shall be en entitled - titled entitled to receive from said United States,, the sum of one dollar per month for the use of said jail for every person so com- j mitted. Sec. 2. That the act entitled "an act for the confinement of prisoners under the authority of the United States in the jails of this State," and the act entitled an act to amend section one of an act for the confinement of persons under the authority of the United State in the jails of this state, passed December 20, 1806, and to repeal section two of said act, be and the same are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT C. KIRK, , President of the Senate. Passed March 26, 1860. No. 14. AN ACT Supplementary to the act to give addi additional - tional additional security to Land Titles in this State, passed March 22, 1849. Section 1. Bell enacted the Gen General - eral General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That whenever any deed" mortgage, lease, or other instrument of writing intended to or convey or encumber any real estate any interest therein, heretofore or here after executed, may not have been or shall not be printed or written on a single sheet, or whenever the certificate of ac knowledgment thereof may not have beeh or shall not be printed or written on the same sheet on which said deed, mortgagej lease, or other instrument of writing may be printed or written, and such defec defective - tive defective conveyance shall be corrected by the judgment of a court, Or by the vol voluntary - untary voluntary act of the parties thereto, such judgment, or the instrument correcting the same, shall relate back so as to take effect at and be operative from the time of filing the original conveyance in the Recorder's Office. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT C. KIRK, President of the Senate. February 10, 1860. No. 101. AN ACT To provide fotf the better protection of health and property in certain cases. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen General - eral General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the township trustees of any township through which any stream or river, sub subject - ject subject to overflow, passes, on application of any party, shall have power to enter upon any land in their township to view any proposed levee or embankment, for tho purpose of protecting any land held

The Allowing is taken trom a beautiful vol volume - ume volume entitled "Poets of Vermont' Going! go'irigl going! Who bida for the mother's cafe? Who bids for the blue eyed girl? Her skii is fair, and her soft browri hair Is guiltless of a curl! The mother clasped her babe With ,ari arm that love made strong; She headed no sigh, but her burning eye Told ofjM spirit's wrong. She gtiied on the heartless crowd, But no pitying glance she saw, For the crushing woe her soul must know Was Sanctioned by the law. "Going! gentlemen! going! The child is worth your bids; Here's a bargain to be gained This chubby thing will one day bring . A pile of yellow gold." "A dollar a pound," cries a voice Hoarsely from out the throng; falls: 11 Two! tltreel five' it calls, and the hammer "Fire dollars, gentlemen, gone!" Five dollars a pound! and his hand, Just stretched to grasp the child, Is smitten aside by the giant might Of the mauiac mother wild. One moment, and the loaded whip Is poised above her head; Then down, down it came on her helpless frame, Like a crushing weight of lead. With a tightening grasp on her kidnapped child She falls to the cold, damp ground; And the baby is laid on the scales and weighed, And sold for five dollars a pound! And the eye of the sun looks down Undimmed on such scenes of sin; dumb, And the freeman's tongue must be chained and Though his spirit burn within. O God! for a million tongues To thunder Freedom's name, And to utter a cry which should pierce the sky, The indignant cry of shame! Our Eagle's talons are red With the reeking blood of the slave, And he kindly flings his protecting wings O'er the sight of Freedom's grave! How longj O Lord! how long! Awake in thy mercy and mightj And hasten the day -which shall open the way Of Truth, arid Justice, and Right! HANGING IN LOUISIANA. The author of "Rural life in Louisiana" thus describes a hanging in the rural dis districts - tricts districts of the State: "Why," exclaimed we. as .we ap approached - proached approached the jail, "we thought the law Iroquitft -thtrfrtWe-oa.,i. utiuu nUn uld-ta-L-a- place within an enclosure! "So it does," says the sheriff, "and don't you call that an enclosure say?" pointing with his long cane to a worm fence surrounding the building; "I put that there this morning; the law don't require me to build a stone wall, nor a brick one nuther, just to hang a fellow, nor does it require, that I am aware of, that I should chink the cracks between the rails, nuther, to keep any body from seeing." "Where have you erected your gal lows?" ' "O, that ain't erected yet, but soon will be; here Bill," he continued, "take this rope (drawning from his pocket a piece of plough-line, about eighteen inches in length) and go and tie one end of it round Tolly's neck, and fetch him here." The deputy departed and soon re turned, leading the culprit, secured as commanded. He was a short, chunky, "don't-care-a-cuss" looking fellow, who sauntered along with his hands in . his pockets. . He was placed by the side of a long cotton-Wood sapling, which was lying on the ground. It had recently been stripped of its bark, except the fork at one fend: The sheriff drew off his blanket coat, threw it across the fence, looked full in the culprit's face, and addressed him: Mister Tolly, you re a mean looking ! sneak, ain't you?'.' Durn yer, I'll teach yer how to set fire to a shanty, and bte guilty o arson pull on yer hat, sir, and hold up yer head." .-. The deputy, having fastened the othet end of the rope to the sapling, Mr. F. seized a prongot the fork in either hand, poised it above his head as high as he could reach, but not quite clearing Mr. Tolly's toes from the ground, while the deputy stood by, watch in hand, count counting - ing counting the minutes as they passed. The sheriff, still with his arms aloft, becom becoming - ing becoming very red in the face, called out: "I say, Bill, how long has he been hanging?" "Jest three minutes and a half," an answered - swered answered the assistant." "Then he's got one minute ahd a half more, and he don't begin to be dead yet." "Aleck," observed we, "if I may be permitted to venture an assertion, 'twould be that the supreme law of the lahd makes it obligatory upon you to keep him in suspense until the vital principle is ho more." "Counselor, shet up; I know what I am about. You may know all about the theory of the law, but you don't know nothing about the practice; and it stands to reason that you should know nothing about the duties of a sheriff, but I tell you I've heard ever since I was born that arter a gentleman had hung a given length of time and warnt kilt and I think five minutes is the time he's en entitled - titled entitled to life, and I think he orter be, too; Knowirt' that to be the law (for how could so many be mistaken if 'taint), I'm eoins to let him down So saying he threw the sapling as far front him as he was able, jerking the culprit very hard to the ground, thereby prejudicing his comfort more than his pendant position did. Loosing the hal halter - ter halter from his neck and smashing his hat down over his eyes, the sheriff took him by the collar, planting the toe Of a num number - ber number eleven pegged boot extremely low in tho dorsal region, and exclaimed: "Look a here, Mister Tolly, you've escaped death by a fiction o' law now go, but hang me if ever I catch you in this parish again I'll kick you till you're a jelly fish d'ye here? then scoot. Come, boys, let's go and get up a small game of draw."

The following questions were pro propounded - pounded propounded for written answers at, the Ex Examination - amination Examination of Teachers held on the 5th inst. GRAMMAR. 1. How are pronouns classed? 2. What are personal pronouns? 3. What pronouns have forms to de de-note,gender? - note,gender? de-note,gender? 4. Decline I, thou, and it. 5. Of what two parts of speech does the relative pronoun perform the offices? 6. This is the same pferson who we saw yesterday. Uorrect the sentence, and give the reasons why. - 7. Give the second person singular, with,he pronoun, thou, of the verb, be: gin, in all the modes ahd tenses. 8. "Hope, the charmer, lingered still behind." Parse each word, mentioning all its properties. 9. "The strong encourage the weak, and all exhort each other to be vigilant and acquit themselves like men." Parse the word3 in Italics. 10. "A healthful old man. to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in tlieir soft but strong embrace." Parse the words in Italics. arithmetic. 1. State, in full, the analogy, and the difference between simple, and com compound - pound compound numbers, and between common, and decimal fractions. , 2. Define Reduction Ascending, and Descending, and state how each is per formed. 3. Define Ratio and Proportion, and write one simple, and one compound pro proportion. - portion. proportion. I. It the 6 cent loat weigh 7 ounces when flour is 3J a barrel, what ought it to weigh when flour is $2 J a barrel? 5. One-half ot three-fatths ot 50 per cent, of 120, is 10 less than 20 per cent, of what? 6. What is the present worth of 55, due 5 years hence, reckoning interest at 5 per cent.? and what is the discount? 7. Change peven-tenths ot a furlong into the equivalent decimal fraction of a mile. 8. The factors of a certain number are 321, 15 and one-seventh, and 19 and four-fifths; what is of of four-sixths of the number? 9. An army consists of 546121 men; how many shall be placed in rank and file to form them into a square -10. Extract the cube root of 676836152. GEOGRAPHY. 1. What are the Republics of North America? 2. Where are trie Scandinavian Moun Mountains, - tains, Mountains, and in what direction do they ex- inl? '-" 3. Where is the Libyan Desert? 4. From what part of what State and into what water does Cape St. Roque ex extend? - tend? extend? 5. From what part of what State does the peninsula of Yucatan project; and by what waters is it embraced? 6. Where is the Island of Borneo, and by what waters is it surrounded? 7. What coast or shore does Baffin's Bay indent, and wliat Strait at its en entrance? - trance? entrance? 8. What lands does the Strait of Do Dover - ver Dover separate, and what waters does it connect? 9. Where is the Caspian Sea, what are its outlets, and into what do they flow? 10. Of what State is Buenos Ayres the capital, and on what water is it? The True Source ot Alcohol. All alchohol, whatever apparent form it assumes, has one origin. It comes from the destruction of sugar, and has no other source in nature. It is not a production of vegetable growth, like those substances which are created to form the food of man. No chemist has ever yet found it among the compounds built up by plants. The solar beam that "reaches like the finger of God across the abysses of space," and in the laboratory of veg vegetation, - etation, vegetation, takes to pieces poisonous gases, ahd puts together their atoms in new groups which are capable of nourishing the aniihal body the celestial force never arranged together the atoms which form alchohol.. On the contrary, it is product of dissolution of the. wreck and disorganization of the principles of human food. It has the same origin as those malignant ahd fatal exhalations which constitute the genius of pestilence the death and putrefacation of inor inorganic - ganic inorganic manner. Indeed the same act which gives birth to alcohol, also brings into the world a twin compound, which is one of the promptest and subtlest of all poisons carbonic acid gas. You You-mans - mans You-mans on Alcohol. Wonders t the Telegraph. Messages are constantly being received or 6ent to and from Paris Berlin, Ham Hamburg, - burg, Hamburg, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Pesth, Prague, Constantinople, etc.; indeed, there is no town of any importance on the continent with which direct tele telegraphic - graphic telegraphic communication may not be had. The largest stretch which has yet been taken without a break is that to Qdessa, via St. Petersburg a distance by tele telegraph - graph telegraph of 3.500 miles. The electric spark started from Great Bell Alley, dashed off along the eastern conntics, leaped into the sea near Lowestoft, trav traversed - ersed traversed the German ocean, rose up at the Hague, crossed the Elbe, passed through Hamburg, flew to Berlin, hastened on to St. Petersburg, traveled to Moscow, sped along over the bleak steppes of Southern Russia, looked in at Keif, glanced at the busy ship-wrights at Jsicolaiefl, passed over the swamps of Simpheropol, and leaving the Crimea, skirted along the northern coast of the Black Sea, and rang the little beU of the slumbering clerk at Odessaj to call his attention to the winged words of the message which was following olose at his heels. BQk,A chap up country, speaking of the rainy season the year he was married, said, "it rained when he went courting, rained when he got published, rained when he got married, and squalled the same night as he went after the doctor." B"There are some who write, talk and think so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either tboono or tb otli

weight, all within the circumference of a few miles. A small portion of one of these we have" in our sanctum. At Bellair the concussion was so strong as to force open the large doors of a car house. At Malaga some of the inBaMtaffts were frightened, thinking it an earth earthquake. - quake. earthquake. The shock at Barnesville seemed to jar the buildings to their foun foundations. - dations. foundations. Some boys were out in the woods near McConnelsville, which is perhaps thirty miles from Concord, and observed what they termed a large red ball descending to the earth with a fiery tail to it, but were so frightDed as immediately to return home. From the Colunibns Statesman, May 5th. A correspondent in New Concord, Muskingum county, in a letter published in the Statesman on Tuesday morning, mentioned a singular phenomenon in that neighborhood on Tuesday. It was an astounding noise in the sky like the roar of a cannon, which was followed by the fall of a number of stones, weighing from two to fifty pounds. Since the date of our correspondent's note we have received other letters from the same region of country, which not only corrob corroborate - orate corroborate his statement, but add greatly to the sigularity of the phenomena. It ap appears - pears appears that the noise alluded to was heard through a wide rage of country, and that stones of the kind described were found freshly imbedded in the earth in the same manner, miles apart In Morgan, Muskingum, Coshocton. Morrow and Tuscarawas counties the ex explosion - plosion explosion was distinctly heard. Near McConnellsville several boys observed a huge stone descend to the earth, which they averred looked like a red ball, leav leaving - ing leaving a line of smoke in its wake. A gen gentleman - tleman gentleman walking in his field, near New Oonoopiil, linnril n t rrifiphrash llkft tlilin- der, which lasted half a minute, and then plainly saw a large body descending through the air in an angling direction, with a velocity apparently much greater than it could have attained by its own momentum. Going to the spot where it touched the ground, he found a rock weighing over fifty pounds, embedded in the earth a depth of two feet. The phenomena seems to be unprecedented. These stones were found nearly fifty miles apartj although the explosion was heard at all the places mentioned from the direction of New Concord. Houses were shaken by the shock, and in one or two instances the doors bursted open. It occasioned a great deal of consterna consternation - tion consternation in that section of the country, as well it might. AOectinz Incident Baptism of a Dying Girl. The Albany Express says: Oh Stiilday morning several young folks were bap baptized - tized baptized at Rev. Dr. Magoon's Church. The first person baptized was a young girl, perhaps sixteen years old, in the last stages of the consumption. She was literally arrayed in her grave-clothes, it being understood that the white robe in which she was baptized was to be worn by her when she was placed in her coffin. She obtained her mother's permission to be babtized, and then acquainted her de desire. - sire. desire. 1 She was brought to the pool in the arms of her uncle, attended by her mother, and lifted in the arms of the pastor, who gently immersed her head, after repeating the usual words. The scene was very affecting, causing sdme of the spectators to sob with emotion. She was so far gone that it was feared she might expire during the ceremony, yet after it was performed she expressed a wish to be brought to the Church in the afternoon to partake of the Lord's Supper, which was granted. After sup per, when in another room, she sang the doxology, "Praise God, ahd when in her carriage Dr. Magoon asked her how she felt, she whispered, "I have fought a good fight." Startling Discovery. During the sitting of a court in Con Connecticut, - necticut, Connecticut, not long ago, on a very cold evening a crowd of lawyers had collected round the open fire that blazed cheer cheerfully - fully cheerfully on the hearth in the bar-rooih, when a traveler entered, benumbed with cold; but no one moved to give him room to warm his shins, so he leaned back against the wall in the back part of the room. Presently a smart young limb of the law addressed him, and the following dialogue took place: "You look like a traveler?" "Wall, I suppose I am; I came all the way from Wisconsin afoot, at any rate." " From Wisconsin! What a distance to come on one pair of legs!" 1'Wall, I done it, any how." Did you ever pass through hell, in any of your travels?" "Yes, sir, I've been through the out outskirts." - skirts." outskirts." " I thought likely. Well, what are the manners and customs there? Some of us would like to know." "Oh, you'll find them much the saine as in this place tlie laicyers sit nearest the firer g.The following order verbatim et literatini, was received by one of our undertakers last Friday morning, from an afflicted widower on the West Side: "Sur; my Waif is ded and Wonts to bee berried, At wonner klok. U nose wair to dig the Hoi bi the said Of my too rthor Waif?. Lett it b? 'T-'

from and after its passaee. RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT C. KIRK, President of the Senate. Passed March 24, 1860. No. 47. AN ACT Supplementary to "an act to relieve District (Jourts, and to give greater efficiency to the judicial system of the State," passed April 12, 1858, and of the act amendatory thereof, passed March 31, 1859. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen eral Assembly of the State of Ohio, That in all cases in which a second trial has been, or shall be allowed, and an under taking entered into by the party demand ing the same, as provided in sections one and two of the said act, "to relieve the District Courts, and to give greater effi ciency to the judicial system ot the State," and the surety in the undertaking shall have removed from the county, or the undertaking is insufficient in form or amount, the court shall, on motion, order a new undertaking to be executed, with security to the satisfaction of tho clerk of such court, and if such order shall not be complied with in such rea reasonable - sonable reasonable time as the court determine, it shall be the duty of such court,on motion, to render judgment Vil such cause against the party demanding the second trial for the amount of the judgment rendered upon the first trial, together with the interest accrued thereon, and for costs of suit, and to award execution thereon as in other cases. Sec. 2. This act to be in force on and after its passage. RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ,-min.i.'r)- n k President of the Senate. Passed March 10, I860. No. 56. AN ACT lo pr( ovide for the move effectual pun- ishinent ot certain onenses. Section 1. Be it enacted by the eral Assembly of the State of Ohio, Gen Gen-That - That Gen-That whenever hereafter any person shall be convicted of any criminal offense, com committed - mitted committed "after the passage of this act, all Or any part of the punishment of which by law is an imprisonment in the county jail, the court; in lieu of such imprison imprisonment, - ment, imprisonment, may, on the recommendation of the prosecuting attorney, sentence such person to hard labor in the jail of the proper county, any length of time not exceeding six months, and nbt exceeding the term of imprisonment how by law fixed as the penalty for said offenses re respectively, - spectively, respectively, at the discretion of the court. Sec. 2 That labor thus to be per performed - formed performed shall be under the direction of the commissioners of the county, who may adopt such orders, rules and regu regulations - lations regulations in relation thereto as they may deem best, and the sheriff or other offi officer - cer officer having the custody of such con convicts - victs convicts shall be governed thereby ; and it shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county to collect and pay into the treas treasury - ury treasury of the county the amonnt of the avails of the labor of such convicts, and take the treasurer's receipt therefor. which receipt he shall forthwith deposit with the auditor of the county. Sec. 3. That for the purpose of ena enabling - bling enabling the county commissioners of any county in this State to employ, in a prof itable manner, all persons who may be convieted under the provisions of this act, the county jail, in such cases, is hereby declared to extend to any stone quarry or quarries, road or roads, or other place or places within the limits of the proper county, at which the convicts may be advantageously employed, with without - out without the walls of the prison, by the county commissioners aforesaid. Sec. 4. That all other acts heretofore passed,inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT C. KIRK, '. President of the Senate. Passed March 15j I860, No. 104. AN ACT Extending the time for enclosing Rail Railroads - roads Railroads by fences and Cattle Guards. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen General - eral General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the time fixed in the act entitled "an act providing for enclosing railroads by fences and cattle guards," passed March 26, 1859, for enclosing railroads by fences and cattle guards, so far as relates to roads in operation at the time of taking effect of said act, be and the time is hereby extended so as to require said roads to build fences and cattle guards within . three years from the passage of said above recited act. RICHARD C. PARSONS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT C. KIRK,. President of the Senate, Passed March 26, i860. Office of the Secretary of State, "1 Coixmbcs, Ohio, (itk March, 1800. I certify that the foregoing acts are true copies from the Original Rolls on file in this office. A. P. RUSSELL, Secretary of State.

H. throws his manure out under the eaves of his barn, and lets it lie in sun and air) leaching away half of its strength into the neighboring streams. He neg neglects - lects neglects also to make use of many other useful matters which might go to in crease the composf heap, sach as bone ashes, chip-dirt, contents oi privy, forest leaves, droppings of hen roosts, mucc, etc., etc. Yet at the same time he buys stable manure at the neighboring towrf, and carts it home at considerable ex expense. - pense. expense. He allows noxious weeds to overrun his land, white daisy, snap dragon, bur dock, yellow dock, quack grass, Canada thistles, and many other vile roots too nu- htef pus to mention. The time was when mosi of Inese' cduldf have been -exterminated by a little labor.' When they first appeared in small numbers, s very little work with a weeding hoe or dock Ex tractor would have headed them entirely. But now, having had full swing for sev several - eral several year's, they laugh at the shiftless man's puny efforts and windy threats. But this is not the worst of the evil. - The neighboring farmers are active, en enterprising - terprising enterprising men; have done their best to" keep their land clear of foul roots, but the seeds blow over in clouds freffn he" shiftless man's fie'.ds, arid they are alfnosi in despair. What can they do? . He keeps poor fences. When he sees a rail broken down here, err a board off there, or a post rotten and falling down beyond, he is very sorry, and hopes it good time will soon come for fence mend mending, - ing, mending, but he don't repair it at once. - Bad becomes worse; hungry cattle leap the tottering fence, and down it all comes; wheat fields and corn fields ' and hay fields are all trampled down; the farmer suffers loss, and very likely, he and hM neighbors are soon having a delightful lawsuit. These are only a few broad ItotfaVof our portrait; the likeness will probably be detected without any further touches of the brush. American Agriculturalist Plant Rhubari).' When Myatt first introduced the rnti- barb into Convent Garden Market, Lon London - don London he found it necessary to giveaway the leaf stalks for an entire season, before he could induce hj3 customers to par par-chase - chase par-chase it; Nbw this Same gardener natf more than a hundred acres in rhubarb, the produce of which is now sold in that single market. v . . , .- In this country, the rhubarb "taJ'" gradually found its way into our mar markets, - kets, markets, until the amount how raised in the vicinity of New York is enormous. Al-i most every gardener has a half acre or or-more - more or-more devoted to the growth of this crop; crop;-From - From crop;-From less than three-quarters of an acrey " .gg sold last year ncarly five hundred dollars worth of rhubarb. Cherries, ahif other fruits, however, take thft placfe of rhubarb, and therefore' it can" Oftlybe'i sold at high prices early in the season: Occasionally we find a dabbler in chemistry objecting to the useofrhu-' barb as food, from discovering by amtl- ysis that it contains oxalic acid. Oxalic acid, as conditioned in tha rhubarb, plant, is not detrimental to health; they , might as well object to the alcohol in A potatoe or in corn, and although they may attempt to draw lines of difference; arising from the .oxalic acid, being in part what i3 called a free acid, yet in practice it is found to be harmless. In fertilizing rhubarb, it should be" remembered that it is a fare feeder, and : calls for a large amount of -pabulum. We have found the largest results when -nitrogenous manners have been freely used. Working Farmer. Negro Marriage. .. At Montgomery,, Alabama, a negrd negrd-parson - parson negrd-parson performed the interesting cere? , mony of marriage a3 follows: ' . "Here is a couple who fcave walkeot out to-night, wishing to be jined to-i gether. . All , dem dat have anything twixem must speak out now. If not let , them hole their peace now arid forever; . Mr. oamuel lhompson, do you take dis fair and lovely bride by bur aide to 1 be your beloved wife, to -wait' dh her : through health and. sickness, to comfort ; and cherish her thrbugh , all aVcwm- ftvx'ons and to love her master arid ini8"-