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PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE.

The n. Y. Observer says the following
good things of progressive agriculture +:
"Under its influence, spring up tasty
and convenient dwellings, adorned with
shrubs and flowers and beautiful within
with the smiles of happy wives, tidy
children in the lap of thoughtful age
broad heartbs. and acts as well as words
of welcome. Progressive agriculture
builds barns, and puts cutters on the
builds stables for cattle, and raises roots
to feed them. Crafts the wild apple
tree by the meadow with pippins or
greenings-it sets out new orchards,
and takes care of the old ones. 1t drains
~lowlands, cuts down bushes, buy a now
er, households and wagons, keeps good
fences, and-practices solliug. It makes
hens lay, chickens live. and prevents
swine from roofing up meadows. Prog
r%essiye agriculture keeps on hand plen-
ty of dry fuel, and brings in the oven
wood for the women. 1t ploughs deeply,
sows plentifully, harrows evenly, and
prays for the blessing of Heaven. Final
ally, it subscribes for good religious, ag-
ricultur al, and political journals, and
pays in advance for them-advocates
free schools, and always takes something
besides "the family to the country fair. "
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BAD EFFECTS OF GRASS ON COLTS

When horses are turned out to grass
in the spring of the year, the succulent
nature of the food causes them to purge,
often to a great extent; this is consid-
cred by many persons a most desirable
evont-a great misconception. The her.
bage is overeharged with saddened mois-
ture, of a crude, acrimonious nature, to
such an extent that it all cannot be ia
ken up by the organs destined for the
secretion of urine, or by the absorbent
vessels of the body; the superfuous flu
i'd therefore passes off through the in
t~estines with the indigestible particles
of food, and thus the watery faces arc
thrown of. Flatulent collie or gripes is
a frequent attendant. The system is
deranged but the mischief does not
terminate here. IF the purging is con
tinued, a constitutional relaxation Of
the bowels is very facilitating to the
animal, and oft en- difficult to control
I am SO decidedly opposed to unrestrict.
ed allowance of luxuriant grass to hor.
ses at any age, that nothing could induce
me to give it to them. After the second
year, hay should form a considerable
portion of the daily food in summer tt
every animal intended for riding or dri
wing.
So says the Mark Lane Express, a,
English Agricultural journal of higl
character.
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| or memorandum in writing, exonerating
him or them from all and every individual
liability incurred by reason of such COM
nection with such copartnership firm;
which note or memorandum may be given
in evidence by such debtor or debtors in
bar of such creditors right of recovery
against him or them; and if such liability
shall be by judgment in any court of
record in this State, then on a production
to and filing with the clerk of such court,
the said note or memorandum in writing,
such clerk shall discharge such judgment
of record so far as the said compromising
debtor or debtors shall be concerned.
SEC, 3. Such compromise or compost
ton with an individual member of a firm,
shall not be SO construed as to discharge
the other copartners, nor shall it impair
the right of the creditor to proceed against
the members of such copaItnership firm as
have not been discharged. Aud the mem
der or members of such copartnership firm
so proceeded against, shall be permitted to
set off any demand against said creditor or
creditors which could have been set off
had such suit been brought against all the
individuals composing such firm; nor shall
such compromise or. discharge of an indi-
vidual of a firm prevent the other mem
bers Of such firm from a%vailipg themselves
of any defence that would have been
available had not this act been passed,
except that they shall not get up the dis
charge of one individual as a discharge of
the other copartners, unless it shall appear
that all were intended to be discharged:
Provided, that the discharge of any such
copartner shall be deemed a payment to
the creditor equal to the proportionate in
terest of the partner discharged in the
partnership concern.
Sec. 4. That such compromise or COM
position of en- individual of a firm with a
creditor of such firm, shall in no wise
effect the right Of the other copartners to
call on the individual making SUCH com
promise, for his rateable portion of such
copartnership debt, the same as if this law
had not been passed.
Sec. 5. The above provisions in ref
erence to copartners of a firm. shall ex-
tend to joint debtors, who are hereby au-
thorized Individually to compound or
compromise for their joint Indebtedness,
with the like effect in reference to credi-
tors and to joint debtors of the individual
so compromising, as is above provided in
reference to copartners.
Sec. 6. This act shall take effect i'm
mediately on its passage.
N. Fl. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker CT the House of Reps.
THOMAS II. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April 8, 1857.
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DOGS RIGHTS.

The following is from the Fremont
Democratic Messenger Of April 10th
"a little boy in Green Greek town
ship was horribly torn and maDgled by
a couple of dogs, last week. His bow
els were torn out ; ard in this condition
lived about three hours. We have been
unable to learn the name of the un
fortunate boy. He was about five years
old
The similar tragedy enacted last year
in our " city-The timely relief of q
boy at the back of the Post Off e, who
was torn down andone Of the dogs noun.
ted on and furiously tearing at his hip
when his cries brought felief; together
with numerous instances of children and
even grown persons being driven from
the sidewalk by these costly n%uisanees,
seem to invite US to the consideration Of
dog'srigkts as compared with our ehsl.
dreu's.
IF there is a species of piouS de0aAry
it must be in feeding s%trichnino to these
unrestrafned, furious, useless brutes.-
Cleveland PMindeaLer.
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mo. s9.1
AN ACT

LNo. OS.I AIN ALL
Supplementary to Gan act regulating ap-
peals to the District Court" passed
March %, 1852.
Sec. l.: Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That in all
cases where an appeal has been or shall be
taken from the Court of Common Pleas to
the District Court, and the surety in the
undertaking for the appeal shall have re.
moved from the State, or for any cause
whatever shall be insufficient, or if such
undertaking shall be insufficient, in
form or amount, it shall be lawful for the
District Court on motion, to order a
change or renewal of such undertaking,
or said Court, may order a new under
taking to be given, with security, to be
approved by said Court, or the Clerk
thereof; and if the said order of the seid
Court shall be complied with and obeyed,
said appeal shall not be dismissed, but
said Court shall proceed to hear and de.
termine the cause in the same as
fthe said order had not been made, but
if the said order of said court shall not be
complied with and obeyed, said appeal, on
motion for that purpose, shall be dismiss
ed, and the judgment or decree in the
Court below, shall be revived.
N. Fl. VAN WORRIES,
Speakersof the House of Representatives.
THOMAS H. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April sth, 1857.
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April s, 1857.
%. S2.1 AN ACT

mo. S2.1 AN ACT
Relating to Dover, and the mode of fix
ing the value in money of Dover Es-
tates.
SEC. l.. Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That in
all cases and proceedings for partition of
real estate, when the same cannot be d.
vided and is ordered to he sold and in all
cases actions and proceedings for the sale
of real estate by executors, administrators
and guardians, when the widow of any
decedent being a party, has a dover inter
est therein, it shall be lawful for such
widow to file her ans wer in such proceed
ing, and waive the assignment of dover
by metes and bounds, in said real estata
and ask the court 10 have such real estate
sold free of dover, and to allow her in
lieu thereof such sum in money out of the
proceeds of sale as the court may deem
the just and reasonable value of her said
dover interest therein.
Sec. 2. That said answer of any such
shall have the same force and eff
feet, and shall be taken and held to be in
all respects as a deed of release to the
purchaser of such real estate, of the dow
er interest therein, of such widow.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
N. H.. VAN VOORHEES,,
Speaker of the House of Reps.
THOS. FL. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April 9Th, 1857.
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AN ACT.
mo. 92.1

Supplementary to an act entitled. Can act
to authorize the Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas of each judicial dis
trict to fix permanently the times for
holding the Courts of Common Pleas
and District Courts therein" passed
March 90, 1856.
sEc,l. Be at enacted By the General
Assembly of the State Of Ohio, That
whenever the Judges of the District and
Common Pleas Courts have omitted to
change the times of holding said courts as
fixed by the statutes in force prior to the
passage of the act to which this act is
supplementary, the said Judges are here
by authorized to fix the times of holding
said courts any time after the passage OF
this act, all orders for such purposes shall
be recorded and published as is provided
in said act and the orders when made shall
be subject to the same conditions as
therein prescribed.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on
its passage.
Speaker of the House of Reps.
THOS. Fl. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April 9Th, 1857.
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April 3D., 1857.

TNo. T9.1 AN ACT
10 amend an act entitled " an act to in
corporate the original surveyed town
Ships" passed March IA, 1881.
SEC. 1. Be 1t enacted bg the General
Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That sec
ton fifteen of the act entitled "an act to
incorporate the original surveyed town
ships" passed March ID, 1881, be SO
amended as to read as follows
That in such township or fractional
township wherein Section No. 20 is re-
served, it shall be the duty of the Trus-
tees to meet on the first Monday of April
annually at the most convenient place
nearest the center of such township or
fractional township, and then make a div
idend of the rents and interest accruing
from said section % to each religious So
ciety agreeably to the thirteenth section
of the act to which this is IN amendment,
and in making such dividends each socie-
ty shall be entitled to receive a just pro-
portion of the money received by the
treasurer.
SEC. 2. That section 16 of said act be
amended so as to read as follows: Sec.
l6. That whenever and so often as it may
become necessary by the terms of any
lease, and by tho law authorizing the
leasing of either of said sections or any
part of lot of either of said sections, it shall
be lawful, and it is hereby made the duty
of the trustees Of any original surveyed
township in which any of said lands may
be situated to apply to the court Of COM
mon pleas of the proper county by petit
ton, setting forth therein the facts, show.
ing the necessity of said re-appraisment
it shall also be the duty Of said trustees to
give each of said ~lessees, assignee or as
siguees,-at least twenty days notice in
writing of the tendency of such petition,
and the our OF being satisfied of che
truth of said petition, and that the notice
aforesaid has been given, shall make an
order appointing three disinterested citi'
zens of said county, whose duty it shall
be to appraise, Con oath or affirmation,
within twenty days. such tract or lot Oh
part of a lot Of land, on actual view there
of, without reference to the improvements
thereon, and within five days thereafter
to make out a report of such appraise-
ment, and deliver the same, together with
said order of court, to the clerk. of the
township in which said land may be stu.
ated. Said court shall make such further
order as to the payment and taxation o.
costs as may seem just and equitable.
SEC. g.. That sections fifteen and six.
teen of the act entitled San act to ineor.
porate tn original surveyed townships"
passed March IA, 1881, are hereby re-
pealed.
SEC. 4. This act to take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
N. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Reps.
THOM AS Ell. .FORD,
President of the Senate.
i Columbus, April 8, 1857.
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April 8, 1857.
mo. ss.l AN ACT
For the relief Of partners and Joint Debt

mo. SS.1 AN ACT
For the relief Of partners and Joint Debt
ors.
SEC. 1. Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly of the State Of Ohio. That
whenever any copartnership firm shall be
dissolved, by mutual consent or otherwise,
it shall and may be lawful for any one or
more of the individuals who was or were
embraced in such copartnership firm, to
make a separate composition or compro-
mise with any one or all of the creditors
of such copartncrship firm; and such com
position or compromise shall be a full and
efectual discharge to the debtor or debt
ors making the same, and to them only, of
and from all and every liability to the
creditor or creditors with whom the same
is made or incurred by reason of his or
their connection with such c~opartnership
firm, according to the terms of such COM
promise.
SEC. 2. Every such debtor or debtors
making such composition or compromise,
may take from the creditor or creditors
with whom he may make the same, a note
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SIMPLE CURE FOR GROUP.

When child is taken with Group, and
a physician cannot Immediately be had,
let the mother instantly apply cold wa.
ter, (ice water if possible,) suddenly and
freely to the chest and neck with q
sponge. The breathing will almost i'm
mediately be relieved. So soon as posi-
BILE, let the sufferer drink as much as il
can, then wipe it dry, cove it up warm
and soon a quiet slumber will relieve the
parents anxiety, and lead the heart il
thankfulness to the Power which has
given to the pure gushing fountain such
medicinal qualities.
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farmer s Column,
How blest the Farmers simple life,
Far from the noise of the City's strife.
~ @~~n
EVERY FARMER GROWING HIS
OWN SUGAR.

The great demand made at the Pat.
ent Office, this year, for the Chinese su-
gar cane, indicates that the cultivation
will be very extensive, the only difficult,
ty in the way being the want of cheap
and portable machinery for extracting
the juice Of the ans This difficulty,
we see, our own inventors are eudeavor-
ing to remove. A. M. Hodges, of Gin
%cinnati, has a machine on exhibition at
Washington which is designed for a su-
gar mill. 1t consists of three vertical
cast iron rollers, supported between cast
iron plates, resting upon a triangular
wood frame, about eight feet on its
sides. Under each corner is a large
truck wheel, so adjusted, when working,
as to revolve in a circle, the shaft of
one of the rollers occupying the centre
Of the frame, and clutchcd fast to a tim
Der below, preventing its turning, while
the other two, being gearod into it at
the top, are made to r%evolye around it
as tho whole frame is turned by the
horse. On one corner is a feed table,
from which a man feeds the. cane, which.
having been acted upon by the two ro'-
lers passes out upon a table IN the 9TH
err corner, which is removed as often as
q sufficient quantity accumulates. The
juice passes down through the bed-plate
and is recovered in a vessel made for
that purpose. Cheap and portable ma
chinery is all that is wanted to test the
great experiment, which is now being
tried with the Chinese sugar cane
Phil. Ledger.
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April 9th, 1857
mo. S4.1
AN ACT

No. "a. AN ACT
To amend the act entitled can act to es.
tablish a code of civil procedure"
SEC. 1. Be 1t enacted ly the Genera
assembly of the &ate'of Ohio, That the
two hundred and eighty-second section Of
the act entitled San act to establish u code
of civil procedure" shall be and is hereby
amended so as to read as follows: When
the parties do not consent, the court may
upon the application of either, or of its OWL
motion, direct a reference in any case in
which the parties are not entitled by the
constitution of this State to a trial by
jury.
SEC. 2. The original two hundred and
eighty-second section aforesaid is hereby
repealed.
N. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Reps.
THOMAS II. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April 9Th, 1857.
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mo. 96.) AN ACT
10 amend section 526 of an act entitled
Gan act to establish a Code of Civil
Procedure" passed March IL, 1858.
SEC. /, Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, That Sec
ton 526 of an act to establish a code of
civil procedure, passed March IL, 1888,
be SO amended as to read as follows: Sec
ton 526. When a judgment or final or
der has been or shall be reversed, either
in whole or n part, in the court of COM
mon pleas, the district court, or supreme
court, the court reversing the same shall
proceed to render such judgment as the
court below should have rendered, or re-
maud the cause to the court below for
such Judgment; and the court reversing
such Judgment or final order, shall not
issue execution in causes that are remov-
ed before them on error, on which they
pronounced judgment, as aforesaid, but
Shall send a special mandate to the court
below, as the case may require, to award
execution t~hereupon; and such court to
which such special mandate is sent, shall
proceed in such cases in the same manner
as if such judgment or final order had been
rendered therein; and ON motion, and good
cause shown, it may suspend any ezecu-
ton made returnable before it by order OF
the court of common pleas, the district
court, or supreme court, in the same man
ner as if such execution had been issued
from it's own court, but such power shall
not extend further than to stay proceed
ings, until the matter can be further heard
by the court of common pleas, the district
court, or supreme court, as the case may
be-; Provided, this section shall not apply
to judgments of justices of the peace.
SEC. 2, Original section 526 is hereby
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Dated April 3, 1857.

Res0lved By the General Assembly of the State of
Ohio, Three-thths of the members elected to each
House concurring therein n, that il he. and HEREBY is
proposed to the electors of this State to vote, on
the sec ond Tuesday of October next. upon the APP
prevail or rejection of the following amendment
as as an additional section to article eleven of the
Constitution. Every county which now is OIL may
Representative for the residue of the present de-
cennial period. or for all or any portion OF any
subsequent decennial period shall be divided into
as many Senatorial and Representative districts as
there may be Senators or Representatives elective
cennial period, which districts shall be of con
tiguous territory, andeach district shall contain as
attainable, without violating the rule herein given
as to contiguity of territory, and without divid-
If any Representative, or Senatorial district, COM
posed oftwo or more counties shall by reason Of
any excess of population over a ratio, be entitled
to additional Representatives or Senators for an
portion of the present or any subsequent decennial
period, the district shall be divided into two dis
tricts. for each portion of such tecennial period,
which shall be contiguous territory, and each shall
contain as near a ratio as is attainabie without di-
viding counties.
Irby reason of the annexation of one Senatorial
district to another, there shall be any excess of
population over q Senatorial ratio, which shall be
entitled to alditiona! Senatorial representation for
any portion o. any decennial period, each district,
as now constituted, shall elect one Senator.
Counties shall be divided into districts by the
County commissioners or such other board of of.
fcers elective and resident in the proper county
as may be provided by law. At least four months
prior to tie general election in 1883, the counties
entitled to more than one member OF either house
shall be divided into districts for the residue OF the
present decennial period, and at least four months
prior to the general election in the first year of
each subsequent decennialp period, the counties en-
titled to more than one member for all, or any ror-
ton of such decennial period, in either or both
houses, shall be divided into districts for the whole
of the deCennialp period. a description of the dis
trict of each county shall be published as may be
directed by the county commissioners or as may
be prescribed by law.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
TH0MAS-H. FORD,
President Of the Senate.
-n,+a5 Aar;I . TeE-
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repealed, and this act shall take effect on
its passage.
n. III. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Reps.
THOS. III. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April II, 1851.
April II, 1857.
AN ACT

mo. 99.1 AN ACT
70 amend an act entitled Gan act to restore
to the Court of Common Pleas the juris>
diction of minor offences in certain
counties in this State"
Sec. 1. Be 1t enacted by the General
Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That sec
ton nine of an act cutitled 'tan act to
restore to the Court of Common Pleas the
jurisdiction of minor offences IL certain
counties in this State" passed April 9th,
1886, be so amended as to read as follows:
Sec~ 9. The provisions of this act shall
not apply to the counties of Vinton, Meigs,
Hooking, Lake, T%rumbull, Harrison,
Portage, Putnam, Henry, Lucas, Pike,
C~uyahega, Medina, Mercer, Lawrence,
Miami, Summit, Woods, Ottawa, Carroll,
Monroe, Lorain and Scioto, Montgomery
and Licking, and the repeal herein Of
chapter four of an act defining the juris-
diction and regulating the practise of pro-
bate courts, passed March IA, 1858, shall
not apply to the counties named in this
section, but the jurisdiction of the probate
court in said counties shall remain the
same as if this act were not passed: Pro-
yided, that all business pending in any
PlOOdGS- COukb Ii lis OldL6 Sudlk NC nulSQ-
ed in the same manner as if this act had
not been passed.
Sec. 2. In the counties of Gallo,
Seneca, Jackson, Adams, Fayette, Guern-
sey and Delaware, which by the provis-
ions of this act are taken out of the ex-
captions to the operation of the act of
which this is amendatory, the several of
fences specified in said act shall be prose.
cuted in manner as therein required, and
said counties shall hereafter be subject to
the provisions of said act the same as if
included in the operation thereof.
Sec. 8. That section 9 of the act en-
titled Gan act to restore to the court of
common pleas the jurisdiction Of minor
offences in certain counties in this State"
passed April 9, 1856, is hereby repealed.
JOSEPH TRUESDALE,
Speaker pro tenn. of the House of Reps.
THOMAS Ii. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April 10, 1857.
SECRETARY OF STATES OFFICE,
COLUMBUS, May 20, 1857.
l hereby Gritty that the foregoing acts
are correctly copied from the original roll
on file in this Office.
JAMES II. BAKER,
Secretary Of State.
AUDITORS OFFICE, Ashland, O.
May 81, 1857.
L hereby certify that the foregoing acts
are correctly copied from the original acts
as reported to this Office.
JAMES SWINEFORD.
Auditor Ashland County.