Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-08-14

bound, in humanity to hear him.
James Lewis stood up again instantly,
and turned his white face and dark
piercing eyes upon Mr.. Carman:
"Let him take that oath if he dare!'
he exclaimed.
Mr.. Carman consulted with his coun-
sci and withdrew.
After brief conference with his asso-
ciates, the presiding judge said, address
ing the criminal:
'In consideration of your youth, and
the temptation to which in tender years,
you were unhappily subject, the court
gives you the slightest sentence, one
years Imprisonment. But, let me SOL
emnly warn you against any further steps
in the way you have taken. Crime can
have no void excuse. It is evil in the
sight of God and man, and leads only to
suffering. When you come forth again,
after your brief Incarceration, may it be
with the resolution to die rather than
commit crime!''
And the curtain fell on that sad scene
in the boys life. When it was lifted
again, and he came forth from prison a
year afterward, his mother was dead
From the day her pale face faded from
his vision as he passed from the court
room he never looked upon her again.
Ten years afterward man sat reading
a newspaper in far Western town He
had calm, serious face, and looked like
one who had known suffering and trial.
drought to justice at last!'' he said
to himself, as the blood came into his
face. "Convicted ON the charge of fraud
Nlent insolvency, and sent to State S
Prison. So much for the man who gave
me in tender years the first lessons in
ill-doing. But, thank God, other les
SONS have since been Remembered
s When you come forth again. said
the judge, may it be with the resolution
to die rather than commit crime!' and
I have kept this injunction in my heart
when there seemed no way of escaping
except through crime; and God elping
me, [ will keep it to the end"
EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.
The following questions were pro-
pounded for written answers at the Ex-
animation of Teachers held on the 4th
Inst.
GRAMMAR
l. What is the distinction between a
simple and a compound word?
2. When is noun or pronoun in the
independent case?
g. What is the antecedent of pro-
noun?
A. Give list of the relative pronouns.
5. To what adjectives are the words
mere and most prefned to form their
degrees Of comparison?
6. When is a verb in the passive voice?
Z. Give the various lenses of the diff
ferent moods.
8. Give the voice, mode, tense, per-
son and number of the verbs in the fol-
lowing sentences: Stephen could not
have been giving attention. Could it
not be accomplished?
9. wNor he nor are capable of har-
boring a thought against your peace. -
Correct the sentence.
10. 81 Had I commanded you to have
done this, you would thought hard of
it." Correct and parse the sentence.
" ARITHMETIC.
1. Define Reduction, name the differ
ent kinds, and give an example of each
kind?
2. If 1 pound 4 drains of calomel be
divided into doses of Is grains each, and
sold at II cts mills dose, what Will it
amount to?
3. How many kegs of 4 gals. 3 dts.
and l pit. each can be filled from one
wine hogshead?
4. Into what classes are fractions di-
vided? Define each, and give an exam
pie?
5. What is the effect of annexing and
prefxing ciphers to decimal? Why
6. Find the value of 3 of a year Col
365.25 days) in integers?
Z. Define Ratio, Proportion, Interest
Square Root, Cube Root, and write out
an example of the last two?
8. 1 spent $3.50 for apples at $1.3(
per bushel, part of them rotted, 1 SOLD
the rest at 40 per cent. profit and cleared
s13 on the cost of the whole; how many
bushels rotted?
9. / Ireceived 1009.29 for note having
60 days to run, discounted in bank a
per cent. how much should I have re
ceived for the same note discounted by
true discount, at II per cent?
10. A can NOW 3-5 of a meadow in
days, and B 81 in ten days, in wha
time can both NOW it?
By analyses to be written in full.
GEOGRAPHY.
/. Name the Eastern, the Middle, the
Southern and the Western States of the
Union, each State in its respective divi,
sion. .....s...
2. What is the distinction between {
sea and an archipelago?
3. By what different names are the
circles of the earth known
f. How are latitude and longitude
reckoned, and how expressed on maps?
5. Where is McKenzie's river, wha
course does it run, and into what water
does it empty?
6. Where is the peninsula of Alaska
Z. Where are the Caucasus noun
tains, aud in what direction do they
extend.
8. What does the strait of Babelman
del connect, and what separate?
8. How are straits, channels, ane
sounds distinguished from each other
10. Into how many departments il
the Government of the United States di
vided? and what are they?
The Political Press of Ohio.
The State Journal classifes and pub
fishes full list of the political papers
in the State. It gives the list:
Lincoln Papers,.... .........................126
Douglas. .........,.......... 80
Breckinridge............ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 8