Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-09
methods, and the bitterness which such
difference ALWAYS breeds,


difference always breeds.
Virtually, of course, we have all made
the election between these parties.-
Those of us who think that the rem
nants of despotism and the barbarit
ages are to be weeded out of this natior
belong already to the party of liberty
of civilization, of America, of peace
progress, and prosperity. Those of us
who believe that there is no necessary
antagonism, in a nationzbf laborers, be
tween a system which respects and one
which degrades labor,swho suppose
that the laborers of the Free States are
going to look on quietly and see the
homes of their children in the Wesi
Preoccupied by slaves, and who think
it wise to maintain an overwhelming
fserviie class restrained by laws Of TOR:
rorism, and whom it must be necessarily
criminal to teach or to treat as human
belong already to the party of despot.
ism, ignorance, and anarchy.
| EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.
The following questions were pro-
pounded for written answers at the Ex.
animation of Teachers, held at Pomeroy,
on the Sd inst:
GRAMMAR.
/. Define case
2. Define the active and passive voices,
and illustrate each by an example.
3. What is parsing2
4. Conjugate the verb to loue in the po-
tential mode, first, second, and third
past lenses, first person.
5. In writing, what words should be
commenced with capital letter?
6. "lty getting certificate is doubt
full" Analyze the sentence, giving bo tn
its general and grammatical subject.
z. 81 have more money than I know
aohat to do soith." Analyze in full, and
parse the words in italics.
8. II do not know but what it NAV be
right" Correct, if necessary, and parse
the words in italics, giving the object
of "know," if transitive.
9. 'Let each one of you attend to
your own work. Correct the sentence.
10. "To us who dwell on its surface,
the earth is the most extensive orb our
eyes behold" Analyze the sentence,
and parse "to.
GEOGRAPHY
1. What officers form the Cabinet of
the President of the United States?
2. Bound Tennessee. Give the name
and situation Of its capital and metrop-
oils.
3. What large island in the Gulf of
St. Lawrence, at the mouth of the St.
Lawrence river?
4. What political divisions does the
strait of Dover separated
5. Which is the largest continent,
ocean, island, sea, lake, river and city,
in the world?
6. What lakes have their outlet
through Mackenzie's river?
Z. What grand divisions lie wholly
north of the Equator2
8. What large desert in Chinese
Tartary2
9. Which are the two largest rivers
of North America, whose waters reach
the Pacific Ocean?
TO- During what months of the year
is the sun north of the Equator?
ARITHMETIC.
1. In adding numbers explain the
reason why we carry one for every ten.
2. In subtraction state why it is nee
essary to borrow and explain the pro-
cess by an example.
8. Multiply $50 by the prime factors
of Is.
4. Divide 364o by the prime factor S
of IS.
5. Divide ( of ! by / ofs and explai n
why you invert the divisor.
6. Multiply eighty seven hundred :
thousandths by two hundred and four
thousandths. .-. ......-
Il. s42930. PoMERoY, April 13, '61.
On demand I promise to pay John
Smith, or order, four hundred and
twenty mine and thirty -hundredth dol
lars, value received. f. KEYS.
Indorsed: Oct. z, 1861, SO.
6 Dec. 8, 1861, $50.
" July II, 1862, 5000.
What will be due Jan. 1, 1863?
8. The dogs killed 40 of my sheep
which was 4 of my flock; how many
had I left?
9. { of AS age is Z Of BIS; and A is
81 yrs older than 3. How old is each?
Work by analysis.
10. In room Is #. long. 10 #. wide,
10 ft. high, what must be the length of
a brace which shall reach from one of
the lower corners to the opposite upper
corner?