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Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
Incident-Baptismo OF a Dying
Girl.

The Albany Erpress says: On Sunday
morning several young folks were bap-
tized at Rev. DR.. Magoon's Church
The first person baptized was 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 mothers permission to
be babtized, and then acquainted her de-
sire. 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 some
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 Lords s
Supper, which was granted. After sup
per, when in another room, she sang the
doxology, "Praise God," and when in
her carriage Dr.. Magoon asked her how
she felt, she whispered, 81 have fought
a good fight .a
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
A sHIErLEss FARMER.

Just take a glimpse at him. He
throws his manure out under the caves
of his barn, and lets it lie in sun and
air, teaching away half of its strength
into the neighboring streams. He neg
lects also to make use of many other
useful matters which mi ght go to in
crease the compost heap, such as bones,
ashes, chip-dirt, contents Of privy, forest
leaves, droppings of hen roosts, muck,
etc., etc. Yet at the same time he buys
stable manure at the neighboring town,
pense.
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-
merous to mention. The time was when
most of these could have been extermi-
mated by little labor When they first
appeared in small numbers, very little
work with wedding hoe or dock ex-
tractor would have headed them entirely.
But now, having had full swing for sew
eral years, they laugh at The shiftless
mans puny efforts and windy threats.
But this is not the worst of the evil
The neighboring farmers are active, en-
terprising men; have done their best to
keep their land clear of foul roots, but
the seeds blow over in clouds from the
shiftless mans fields, and they are almost
in despair. What can they do2
He keeps poor fences. When he sees
a rail broken down here, or a board of
there, or a post rotten and falling down
beyond, he is very sorry, and hopes i
good time will soon come for fence mend
ing, 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 his
neighbors are soon having delightful
lawsuit
These are only few broad lines Of
our portrait; the likeness will probably
be detected without any further touches
of the brush.-American Agriculturalssts
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
4 Lady Killer.

\ Lady Killer.
John Iverson was recently arrested
and imprisoned, at the South, for polyg.
amy; he had thirteen wives. The
daughter of the jailor whose hospitality
this Unsuitable polygamist was enjoying
while awaiting trial, believed him limo.
cent, pitied him, loved him, opened the
prison doors, fed with him, becams his
fourteenth wife, After eight days of
domestic bliss the husband disappeared,
and left neither trace nor money behind
A reward was offered for his capture;
description of his fascinating person Waa
circulated; he was recognized in a Wiz:
lage tavern. by a man who thought of
the reward offered and set about pre-
pairing his coils for the victim. In order
to instil confidence into his breast, lie
made his acquaintance, invited him to his
mansion, and then went off to procure
legal assistance. When he returned, b
home was deserted alike by his intended
prey and his OWL wife, whom Iversou
had led astray. A wretched man sug-
gests that proper though terribly sei
we're punishment would be to compel tho
polygamist to live with his fifteen Wi,eA
at once, =
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
Negro Marriage.

Negro Marriage. r @
At Montgomery, Alabama, a negrd
parson performed the interesting cere:
mony of marriage as follows:
"Here is couple who have walked
out to- night, wishing to be jined to:
gether. All dem dat have anything
twixem must speak out now. If not let
them hole their peace now aid forever.
Mr.. Samuel Thompson, do you take
dis fair and lovely bride by your side to
be your beloved wife, to wait on her
through health and sickness, to comfort
and cherish her through all circuns-
fer' 'ons-and to love her master and mis-
tress.
Answer-'I does"
Miss Mary johnson. do you take Mr.
Thompson, your dearly beloved hus-
band, to nourish him through health
and confuctiom-and to love his father,
mother, brother and sister,
Answer-''I does" -
Then jine hands. I pronounce you
both to be man and wife by the com
mandments of God-hoping and trusting
that you may live right, that you may
die right, now and forever more. Now
Mr.. Samuel, sle,o youe bride.
"Let us sing hime:
Plunged in a gulf of dark depsair,
Ye wretched sinners lay &C. Amen:
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
Startling Discovery.

During the sitting of court in Con-
necticut, not long ago, on a very cold
evening a crowd of lawyers had collected
round the open fire that blazed cheer
fully on the hearth in the barrooth
when traveller 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 smart young limb of the
law addressed him, and the following
dialogue took place:
"You look like a traveller"
"Wall, I suppose I am; l came all the
way from Wisconsin afoot, at any rate. y
From Wisconsin! What distance
to come on one pair Of legs"
""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
skirts
al thought likely. Well, what are
the manners and customs there? Some
of us would like to know
"Oh, you'll find them much the same
as in this place-the Ia'oyers SIT nearest
the fre!"
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
Plant Rhubarh:

Plant Rhubarh:
When Myatt first introduced the rhu-
barb into Convent Garden Market, Lon-
don, he found it necessary to giveaway the
leaf stalks for an entire season, before
he could induce his customers to pur.
chase it. Now this same gardener has
more than hundred acres in rhubarb,
the produce of which is now sold in that
single market.
In this country, the rhubarb haf
gradually found its way into our mar
Eets, until the amount now raised in the
vicinity of New York is enormous. AL
most every gardener has half acre or
more devoted to the growth of this crop.
From less than three quarters of an acre,
we sold last year nearly FIVE hundred
dollars worth of rhubarb. Cherries, and
other fruits, however, take the place Of
rhubarb, and therefore it can only be
sold at high prices early in the season:
Occasionally we find a dabbler in
chemistry objecting to the use of rhu-
barb as food, from discovering by anal:
ysis that it contains oxalic acid Oxalic
acid, as conditioned in the rhubarb
plant, is not detrimental to health; they
might as well object to the alcohol id
potatoe or in corn, and although they
may attempt to draw lines of differences;
arising from the oxalic acid, being in
part what is called 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 large amount of pabulum.-
We have found the largest results when
nitrogenous manners have been freely
used.- Workinq Farmer:
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9oetrg.
A B A r G Al N.
BY SARAH A. BOYCE.

The following is taken from a beautiful vol.
ume entitled "Poets of Vermont"1
Goingl goingl goingl
Who bids for the mothers care7
Who bids for the blue eyed girl?
Her skin is fair, and her soft brown hair
Is guiltless of CURL
The mother clasped her babe
With an arm that love made strong;
She heaEed no sigh, but her burning eye
Told of the spirits wrong.
She gazed 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 Ing
This chubby thing will one day bring
A pile of yellow gold"
IA dollar pound, cries voice
Hoarsely from out the throng; falls:
"Tsoot threei fuer' it calls, and the hammer
olive dollars, gentlemen, gone"
Five dollars pound! and his hand,
Just stretched to grasp the child,
Is smitten aside by the giant might
Of the maniac mother wild.
One moment, and the loaded whip
Is poised above her head;
Then down, doacn it came on her helpless frame,
Like crushing weight of lead.
With 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 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 name,
And to utter cry which should pierce the sky,
The indignant cry of shamel
Our Eagles talons are red
With the reeking blood of the slave,
And he kindly fings his protecting wings
Ger the sight Of Freedoms grave!
How long, o Lordl how longl
Awake in thy mercy and might
And hasten the day which shall open the way
Of Truth, and Justice, and Right!
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15

deem it for the interest of the State so to
dispose of; and said Superintendent shall
account with the Treasurer of State for
all money received by him from such
sales.
Sec. 8. The act entitled can 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 s, 1856, and the act entitled can
act to provide for the more expeditions
completion of the new State House, pre-
scribing the order in which it may be
done" passed April IL, 1853, and all
other acts providing for the construction
of the new State House are hereby re-
peafed: -. .s--e -
Sec. 9. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after the first day
of April in the present year; provided,
however, that the appointments hereby
may be made at any time
after the passage hereof, to take effect
upon said day
RICHARD C. PARSONS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT G. KIRK,
President of the Senate
Passed March 16, 1860.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
AN ACT

mo. 34.] AN ACT
To amend section three of an Act enti-
tied an 'sAct Of the Jurisdiction and
Procedure before Justices of the
Peace, and of the Duties of Consta-
bles in Civil Courts.
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted 5y the Gen.
eral assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That
section three of an act entitled ''an act
of the jurisdiction and procedure before
Justices OF the Peace, and of the duties
of Constables in Civil Courts, passed
March IA, 1853, be so amended as to
read as follows: Sec 3 That no house
holder or freeholder resident of the
county shall be held to answer any sum
mons 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
tice of the Peace for the township in
which the defendant may reside; or,
Second-Where' the only Justice re-
siding therein is interested in the con-
troversy; or,
Third-Where he shall be related as
father, father-in law, son, son-in- law,
brother, brotherin 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.
tt---F-s-ta.u-401rzss0f rzzss0fngg excepted cases the
action may be brought before any JUS
tice 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-
companied with an order to attach prop
erty, the Jurisdiction shall be co-exten=
sive with the county.
Fifth-When two or more persons
shall be jointly or jointly and severally
bound in any debt or contract, or other.
wise jointly liable in the same action
and reside in different townships of the
same county, the plaintiff may com,
mence his action before a justice of the
township in which any of the persons Ii.
able may reside; except that in joint ac,
tions 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, anc
if it be claimed by the plaintiff that al
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
person for him, shall file an affidavit se;.
ting forth the fact.
Sixth-In cases of trespass to real OF
personal property, it shall be lawful tt
bring the action in the township where
the trespass was committed, or in tht
township where the trespasser, Or any
one OF several trespassers reside.
SEC. 2. That section three of the ac
to which this is amendatory, be and tn,
same is hereby repeald
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
mo. 56.] AN ACT
To provide for the more effectual pun
ishment of certain ohenses.
AN ACT
President of the Senate.
Passed March 10, 1860.

mo. SCI AN ACT
To provide for the more effectual pun
ishment of certain offenses.
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted by the Gen
eraz assembly of the State Of Ohio, That
whenever hereafter any person shall be
convicted Of any criminal offense, COM
rhitted 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-
lnent, 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 not exceeding
the term Of Imprisonment NOW by law
fixed as the penalty for said offenses re
spectively, at the discretion of the court.
Sec 2 That labor thus to be per.
formed shall be under the direction of
the commissioners of the county, who
may adopt such orders, rules and regu-
lations in relation thereto as they may
deem best, and the sheriff or other Off
Ger having the custody of such con-
victs shall be governed thereby; and it
shall be the duty of the sheriff Of the
county to collect and pay into the treas
ury 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-
bling the county commissioners of any
county in this State to employ, in prof
table manner, all persons who may be
convicted 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 OF places within the limits OF
the proper county, at which the convicts
may be advantageously employed, with
out 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. ..s
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 G. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
Passed March 15, 1860.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
ILL., folIo;, o.dar .,...bat TN,

m- The following order, vcrbatin ct
literatint, 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 Hol-bi the said Of my
too Tther Waifs. Lett il be t7c~,'
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
Wonders of the Telegraph.

w On0trS OF tne 1eleSFdphs
Messages are constantly being received
or sent to and from Paris, Berlin, Ham
burg, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Pesth,
Prague, Constantinople, ETC.; indeed,
there is no town of any Importance on
the continent with which direct tele-
graphic communication may not be had
The largest stretch which has yet been
taken without break is that to Odessa,
via St. Petersburg-a distance by tele-
graph of $500 miles The electric
spark started from Great Bell Alley,
dashed off along the eastern COMMITTEES,
leaped into the sea near Lowestoft, trav-
ersed the German ocean, rose up at the
Hague, crossed the Elbe, passed through
Hamburg, few to Berlin, fastened on to
St. Petersburg, travelled to Moscow, sped
along over the bleak steppes of Southern
Russia, looked in at Keif, glanced at the
busy ship-wrights at Nicolaieff, passed
over the swamps of Simpheropol, and
leaving the Crimea, skirted along the
northern coast of the Black Sea, and
rang the little bell of the slumbering
clerk at Odessa, to call his attention to
the winged words of the message which
was following close at his heels.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
AN ACT

mo 35.1 AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled can Act to
provide for the establishment and gov
ernment of Reform Schools passed
April 2, 1858.
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted by the Gen.
erat assembly Of the State of Ohio, That
section ten of the act aforesaid be so
amended as to read as follows:
Sec. TO- It shall be lawful for the
Board Of Commissioners aforesaid, to re-
ceive upon said Reform Farm, and detain
there under their control and guardian
ship, such male youth as may be received
and detained in Houses Of Refuge, under
sections six, seven, eight and nine, of the
said act, entitled can act to authorize the
establishment of Houses of Refuge" and
the manner and form prescribed in sec
tions ten and eleven of said act, in ref
erence to the examinations and commit
ment of such youth, is hereby extended
to and shall be held to apply to the ex-
animation and commitment of youth to
said Reform Farm; and all poters vested
by the act aforesaid in the Boards of Di-
rectors of Houses of Refuge, with refer
ence to such institutions, is hereby con
ferred upon said Board of Commission
ers, in reference to the State Reform
Farm.
SEC. 2. Section fifteen Of the act afore-
said shall be SO amended as to read as
follows:
SEC. Is. The parents or guardians of
any youth committed to any Reform
School, may be required by the authori-
ties of said Reform School, to pay a
weekly charge for the support Of said
youth, not exceeding onedollar and fifty
cents, the money SO received to be duly
reported and expended, as o.her moneys,
for the benefit Of such Reform School.
and said parents or guardians may also
be required to pay the expense of fremov-
ing said youth to the Reform School and
of returning him to his friends
SEC. 3. Sections ten and fifteen of the
act aforesaid are hereby repealed
Sec. t. This act shall take effect upon
its passage. g
RICHARD C. PARSONS, a.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT G. KIRK,
President Of the Senate.
March 10, 1860.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
The True Source of Alcohol.

Ali alchohol, whatever apparent form
it assumes, has one origin. 1t comes
from the destruction of sugar, and has
no other source in nature. It is not a
production ofvegetable 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
citation, takes to pieces poisonous gases,
and puts together their atoms in new
groups which are capable of nourishing
the animal 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 1t has the same origin as
those malignant and fatal exhalations
which constitute the genius of pestilence
the death and putrefacation of inor-
ganic manner. Indeed the same act
which gives birth to alcohol, also brings
into the world twin compound, which
is one of the promptest and subtlest of
all poisons-carbonic acid gas.-Iou-
mans on Alcohol.
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nm-A chap up country, speaking of
the rainy season the year he was married,
said, cit 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 u
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
mo. 101.1 AN ACT

To provide for the better protection of
health and property in certain cases.
SECTION l. BE 1t enacted by the Gen.
eros assembly Of the State of Ohio, That
the township trustees of any township
through which any stream or river, sub
ject 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
the purpose of protecting any land held
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
nra The town of Rreman No i !,

na The town of Bremen, Me-, ii i
remarkable place-it has neither n,inisi
ter, doctor, la,cyer, vittage nor post-o6iee.'
And yet, says correspondent of the
Rockland Gazette, its people are moral.
intelligent, healthy, and by no means
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by more than one person, and to cause
said levee or embankment to be located
and constructed, whenever, in their opin-
ion, the same is demanded by, or will be
conducive to the public health, conve,
nience or welfare.
SEC 2 For the purposes mentioned
in the first section of this act, the town
ship trustees shall have power to appro-
pirate private property, according to the
provisions of an act passed April 30th,
1852; entitled can act to provide for
compensation to owners of private prop
erty appropriated to the use of corpora
tions;;" provided that before any pro-
ceedings shall be taken by the township
trustees under this act, the expenses and
cost of locating, constructing, and all
othereosts and expenses necessary or in
cident to the location or construction of
the proposed levee, shall be guaranteed
or paid to the township trustees by the
parties, or some of them, interested in
the construction of such levee.
Sec g. That this act shall 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 "a, 1860.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15

B9 There are some who write, talk
and think SO much about vice and virtue
that they have no time to practice either
theone or the other.
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Sec: 3. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
RICHARD G. PARSONS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,:
81 ROBERT G.. KIRK,
President of the Senate.
March 10, 1850
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-15
ExAm1NAT1oN OF TEACHERS.

The following questions were pro-
pounded for written answers at the Ex-
animation of Teachers held on the 5th
inst.