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Year: 1860

No. l01. AN ACT


To prevent collisions Oh railroads within


the State of Ohio.


SECTION l. BE 1t enacted By the Gener-
al assembly of the State of Ohio, That
whenever the tracks of two railroads in the
State of Ohio cross each other at a common
grade, the crossings shall be made, kept up,
and watchmen maintained at the Joint ex-
pense of the companies owning said tracks,
and all trains of engines passing over said
tracks shall come to a full stop not nearer
than two hundred feet nor further than eight
hundred feet from said crossing, and shall
not cross until sgnalled so to do by the
watchman, nor until the way is clear and
when two passenger or freight trains come up
at the same time, the train on the road first
built shall have precedence; provided, they
are both main tracks over which passengers
and freights on said roads are transported;
but if only one is such main track and the
other is a side or depot track, then the train
on the main track shall take precedence; but
il one of said trains is passenger and the
other freight train, then the former shall
take precedence. Regular trains On time
shall take precedence over trains of the
same grade not on time, and engines, with





dence of engines without cars attached if not
on time. The same rule as above provided
shall apply in all respects where the tracks
of two railroads in any way connect.


Sec. 2. 1t shall be tho duty of the mana
ging agent or superintendent on every rail-
road in the State of Ohio, Immediately after
the taking effect of this act, to establish and
publish to all the employees on said railroad
such rules and regulations as shall, in all
cases, secure strict compliance with the pro-
visions of the foregoing section, and to re-
publish such rules or regulations on every
time table or card issued to the employees
on said road and in case such managing
agent Or superintendent shall fail or neglect
to establish aad publish such rules and regu-
lations, or to re-publish the same on each
time table or card issued to the employees
on said road for every such neglect or refu.
sal said managing agent or superintendent
shall be personally liable to penalty OF one
hundred dollars, to be recovered, together
with costs, in an action against him in favor
Of the State OF Ohio to be brought In the
Court Of Common Pleas Of any county where
any such crossing may exist; any such agent
or superintendent, and the railroad company
ofwhich he is agent or superintendent, shall
also be liable in damages to any person or
company who may be injured IN person or
property by any accident arising from ne
glect to establish, publish or re-publish such
rules and regulations as above provided, and
Year: 1860

SAID agent or superintendent shall also be
liable to criminal prosecution therefor.
SEC. 3. That every engineer, or person in
charge of an engine who shall fail to comply
| with the provisions of the first section of this
act and shall fail to bling the engine of
which he is in charge, with the train, if any,
thereto attached, to full stop at least two
hundred feet before arriving at any railroad
crossing or connection, or shall cross the
same before signalled so to do by the watch
man, or before the way is clear, shall be pcr-
sonally liable therefor to penalty of one
hundred dollars, to be recovered by civil ac-
tlon, at the suit of the State of Ohio, in the
Court of Common Pleas of any county where
any such crossing or connection exists, and
the company in whose employ such engineer
or person in charge of an engine may be, as
well as the person himself, shall be liable in
damages to any person or company who
may be injured in person or property by the
neglect or act of said engineer or person in
charge of an engine as aforesaid; and such
engineer or person in charge of an engine
shall also, in case any person be killed by
reason of his neglect or failure to bring such
engine and train of cars, if any there be at
tached thereto, to a full stop at least two
hundred feet before reaching crossing or
connection with the track of another railroad,
or by reason of his crossing the same before
being signaled so to do by the watchman
there stationed, or before the way is clear,
be liable to Indictment, conviction and pun
ishment for manslaughter; or in case any
person sustain bodily injury, not affecting
life, by reason thereof, then such engineer or
person in charge of an engine as aforesaid
shall be considered guilty of misdemeanor,
and shall on conviction thereof in the proper
court of the county where such bodily inju-
ry occurred, be imprisoned in the Jail OF the
county not less than one nor more than
twenty months, or be fined in any sum not
more than five hundred dollars, or both at
the discretion of the court.


Sec. 4. That section six of the act entitled
can act TO amend the act entitled an act to
provide for the creation and regulation of
incorporated companies in the State of Ohio, +"
passed April s., 1857, be and the same is here
by repealed.


SEC 5. 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.
Year: 1860

mo. 72.] AN ACT


Further to regulate the practice of the


Supreme and District Courts in this
State.


SECTION 1. Bel enacted by the Gensr-
al assembly of the State of Ohio, That
all cases of informations in the nature of q quo
warranto, which are or may be pending in the Su-
preme or District Courts of this State SHALL the
motion of the Attorney General or Prosecuting
Attorney having charge of the same, have prece-
dence over the civil business on the docket of said
courts respectively and it shall be the duty of said
courts to require on motn ofthe officers oforesaid,
as speedy trial of the merits of such information
may be consistent with the rights of the parties
thereto.


SEC. 2. That in all cases where proceedings
are or may be pending in any OF the courts OF THIS
State having jurisdiction over the same in the ma
ture Of a quo warranto against any banking cor
poration, whether instituted by the Attorney Gen.
eral or by the Prosecuting Attorney under the pro-
visions Of the laws of this State any sockholder or
stockholders owning together not less than one
fourth of the capital stock Of such company actual
ly paid in, or entitled to the beneficial interest
therein, may file in the court in which such pro-
ceeding may be pending Petition to enioin the
directors of such corporation from making any dis
position on the assets of such corporation which
shall be preiudical to the interests Of such stock
holders, or which shall be inconsistent with their
duties as directors of such corporation, and said
court, or any Judge thereof, in vacation upon be-
ing satisfied that the directors in Office of such cor
poration have been violating, or are about to vio
late any of the franchises thereof, may require
them to give security the stockholders thereof,
to the satisfaction OF said court judge, for the
proper discharge Of their duties and for the proper
Year: 1860

oh, God pray to Thee, ....
Whose watchful eye beholds US day by day,
Whose love supports us in the darkest day;
Thou art still near him, though so far away
Watch DER him tenderly!


Make him Thy love and care!
Let sweatest peace upon his heart decend,
Be thou forever more his guide and friend;
May the rich blessings OF Thy love attend
And guard him everywhere.


Save him from every ill
Grant that the sorrows Of his life be few;
Friends whom he cherishes be fond and true:
And in the darkest paths he journeys through
Be with him still


Make his holy heart.
May he press onward In thy fear alway;
Let not temptation and the world gain sway
And when his feet would falter by the way,
Thy strength impart.


Bless him, oh God ! through all
When life Is beautiful--when life is o're.-
Grant him allhappiness for evermore--
Bless hin and keep him IL can ask no MORE
For the sad tears that fall!
Year: 1860

Local NEwsPAPERs.-We chcerfully en-
dorse the remarks ola cotemporary, that To-
cal newspapers should be reflex of the
business and prosperity of their place OF
publication, and every one ought to be i'm
pressed with the Importance of this fact
1t should be the imperative duty of all bust
ness men to patronize, encourage and sustain
all their local journals, not Only for their own
individual interest, but for the welfare of the
community in which they are published =
1t is through this source that one is qualified
to ojudge Of the business activity of towns and
villages; therefore the necessity of literally
patronizlng local papers, not only by the
way of advertising, but in furnishing the
material to make them interesting and profit.
able to all. 1t cannot be expected that an
editor is cognizant of all that is transpirine
in the town and country, and for this reason
every man should feel it privilege to as,
sist in making public through the local pa.
pers, events of daily occurrence in the com.
munity in which he resides. BY this course
editors can furnish through their respective
papers complete record of all that trans.
pires of interest in town and country.
Year: 1860

We are informed 10y the Des Moines Reg
lister, that five in one family near Rising Sun
who voted the Democratic ticket last year
are now straight out for the Republican
ticket "The cry is still they comet
Year: 1860

1861, onc-half the houses would be
empty. and one-half the people gone.


But We leave this question Of cities
for the present. hoping that wisdom
will yet direct the counsels Of men, and
that no one will be SO foolish as 10 inves.
in lots at the present monstrous prices.


With Kansas in general We are well
pleased. Its soil is magnificent, and
will sustain a fabulous population. The
drouth of the present season is unfor-
tunate, but will not be as disastrous as
many suppose. 1t has its good as well
as its unfavorable features will prove
beneficial to the health of the territory
in The end. and perhaps develop as much
as retard the permanent growth of the
territory, by inviting capital to it to be
invested in lands which the hard times
will force the present owners to sell
cheap.


Blu. this letter is already too long.
More anon. j. w. K.
Year: 1860

~ and pleasant towns in the territcry.
For an inland place ii is admirably stu
ated, and is in the center of one of the
best counties of Kansas. 1t must
become one Of the most flourishing in
terror towns of the territory or state.
We were gratitied to find the citizens
so quiet. orderly and intelligent. In
these respects it is an exceptional vii
lage.


When the Reserve comes into mar.
ket. the town will have a country
around it unequalled by any other in
the territory-at least in the eastern
portion; and being SO near market, the
farmers of Jefferson will always be
able to command the highest prices fol
their products.


We fear there is little of the river
towns-fever among our people. Rents
are almost fabulously high, and lots are
held at prices which we fear the sur.
rounding circumstances do not justify
We hope our citizens will not get the
contergion from the "ci.ies" and make
fools OF themselves.


Our true policy is to invite capital
here by holding out inducements to
bring it. Any man who owns two lots
can well afford to sell one of them fol
a tribe to be built upon, as the other
will thereby be made worth double
what they both would bripg before. =
High rents and high prices will drive
capital and settlers away; liberal poll
cy will bring them here. Let us be
wise. We may as well have large
population here as not, but we must
attract not repel it. 20


Let us invite those whom the hiyl,
prices Of the river towns drive away to
our midst, and in less than FIVE years
Oskaloosa will be known more widely
than any town Of her age in Kansas.


j. w. r.
Year: 1860

AccIpKSr.-We learn that young
man engaged in shirgling house near
the lower part Of Commercial street,
was dangerously injured BY falling from
the roof a few days since. but that he
will probably recover.-Akch;soa Union.
Year: 1860

! I Y


Steam Train from the Lake to the city week days


The Steam Train will stop at Gelly Station when notified
except trips during the hulf-our
Sunday Fare 10 each way and conductors
must have timely notice TO stop.
Year: 1860

ExrRAORDINARY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENoME-
NOS-THE SIGHT OF BEAUTIFUL BLIND GIRL
RESTORED BY MARRIAGE.-A physiological
wonder occurred a short time since in New
York city. A young and exceedingly interest
ing girl residing on Eighth street, whose ami.
able disposition, elegant manners, and placid
beauty of soul, had endeared her to all who
knew her, was, year or two ago, compelled to
discontinue her studies and leave school, in
consequence of a partial loss of eyesight, tha,
threatened to become total. She was entirely
unable to read. A number of our most skillful
physicians were employed by the family, and
she was even taken to some Of our most noted
Occulists; but all their learning, dexterity and
management proved unayailing. Her eye.
looked healthy, were beautifully pensive in
their expression, and seemed deep as her soul
was pure, but they were nevertheless to hel
almost wholly useless. Notwithstanding thi.
rather melancholy physical defect, young
man who had long been devoted to her offered
her his hand in marriage. She became hi
wife, and, strange as it may seem, from tha
day her eyesight began to improve, and she il
now able TO read the finest print by gas light
without pain and without any apparent optica
injury.
Year: 1860

LIFE AN EPIC.-Life is an epio nav. the
greatest of all epics. Whether it be drsped
with the surroundings of palace or shivers
In the penury Of cottage, still it is an epic
conflict, heroic or not, as choose to make
1t. History, ever eloquent in praise of the
statesmen and warriors who have ruled and
oppressed mankind, has made little account of
that obscure but no less real valOr that has
lived and burned in the bosOms of the uncount-
ed multitude. In our ignorant and childish
folly, we all are too much prone to look for
real men in places of power-while in fact we
are surrounded with them, though, alas too
often we know them not Look upon those
who have just begun to try the hard temper of
the world, with scarcely friend to cheer them.
and crowd te push them back See with
what patient fOrtitude and cheerful courage
they labor on, struggling like the swimmer in
his agony, both to keep from sinking and TO
gain the wlshed-fOr shore. Or look again and
see them occupants of a field in which they
have pitched their tents and reared their ban
ners. Still around them rolls the din of envious
hate and the sharp rattle of the sIanderer's
spears. In its outward experience and cOndi-
tions, their lives full of conflict and of epic
daring. Nor is this less true of women than OF
men. While marriage should be to them a
shelter and home, defense, yet as they are
partakers of this mortal life, so must they share
its inevitable sOrrows, too And the mother
who keeps watch ard guard through weary
days and tOilsOme nights over her Juvenile
care, and who survives long enough to see her
mothers hopes blasted and her pious labors
disappointed, though she may have no marble
obellsk, when she is gone, to tell what things
she did or suffered, is nevertheless to be ranked
among those who have illustrated the epic
grandeur Of human life.
Year: 1860

THE WRoNG CoFFIX.-A late Cincinnati paper
tells the following "Quite funny incident has
come to our knowledge. 1t is not exactly wa
king up the wrong passenger. 1t was burying
the wrong coffin. The wife Of well to do Ger
man, the other day, gave birth to an infant
whose span of life was very brief indeed 1t
withered in an hour and died. The German
did not think there was need of much ceremony
in its funeral. So he called on an undertaken
and requested him to send a coffin and carriage,
and putting the corpse in the former, to put that
in the latter, and remove it to Spring Grove
Cemetery, where grave was ordered to be dug
The undertaken came and put the body into a
coffin, which he closed, and then departed
Presently the undertaker's man, an irishman,
came with carriage, and took a box lying on
the table, which he carried to the cemetery and
safely buried. When night came the German
sought his cremona, which he had left in its
case on the table. But there was no violin to
be seen. He hunted about the house and found,
not the cremona, but his babes coffin. He sent
the next day to the cemetery, exchanged coffins,
left his babe, and brought back his cremona.-
We know the story has an apocryphal air, but
it is nevertheless true"
Year: 1860

THH S CELEBRATED GIN-pretending to


i nothing but what it is, viz: pure and I'M
adulterated article, and assuming no artificial
merits of what it is not as some of its rival mi-
tators do-after five years of public approval
and very extensive sales in California has been
pronounced by the public to be superior, not on
ly as beverage of general use, to any other ar
ticle competing against it, but is
UnrivaIIed in It's Medical Efficiency
in most cases of complaint. Topersons travel
ing in these days of rapid transit from East to
West, North to South, who are constantly chang
ing their water as well as their climate; who are
drinking, indeed, dozen kinds of water in ev-
cry twenty -four hours, and each draft contain
ing some property acting in chemical antagonsm
to the preceding one, thereby causing an unnat-
ural degree ofexcitement to the stomach-it is
positively and absolutely he essary to use a
counteracting agent From the fact that the


"London Club House Gin-
is prepared expressly to meet such exigences,
and TO act we know it will act, as an anti
dote, we confidently prescribe it as the very best
article in the country. The name of +" Aromatic
Scheidam Schnapps" has never been attached
in any way to this article. In first presenting
the


sEondon Club House Gin"
to the public, my aim was to give them pure
and unadulterated article of Gin, and to call it
by its right name. The success attending its
introduction and extensive sale in California is
sufficient guarantee of the high appreciation
of the article by consumers.


Various parties have from time to time put up
and shipped to California an article which they
call "Club House Gin" Ny Gin, which has
geined such a reputation in California, is brand
ed on the cases,





The bottles also have white label with fac
smile of my signature. ] caution all parties to
beware of limitations. WM. H. DAILY
f5:tfis Sole Importer, New York.
Year: 1860

THAT BALL.-The New York Ball in honor of
Baron Renfrew, seems to distress the youngsters.
The Express of Friday says:


1t was said at the Opera last night that not two
young men in New Y York have been able to secure
invitations to the Princes ball. If this be so, those
will then have to dance that never danced before,
but those who danced before will hardly be able to
dance the more. Full ball dress for men and wo-
men is to be insisted upon, whether the guests
choose to sit in the boxes or go upon the floor
Year: 1860

HAYTIEN EMIssARY IN MoBnE.-We learn, saws
the Mobile Advertiser of the Goth, that full grown
and blown Haytlen. black as ebony, and bevring
Hayti, made his appearance in Mobile yesterday,
and attracted considerable attention. His business
here was to promote the emigration of free negroes
to Hayti, and he represented that a vessel was in
readiness to transport such emigrants thither as
might choose to avail themselves of the opportuni-
ty. We understand that the agent waited upon
his honor the Mayor, who politely directed him to
his worship the Sheriff of Mobile county, who in
formed him that the laws of the State of Alabama
did not recognize or look favorably upon the OBJ
iects of his embassy, and advised him that speedy
departure from within the limits of this Common
wealth would probably best comport with the tenor
and spirit of the statutes thereof. The Haytien i'm


proved the hint, made his way under escort of the
Chief of Police, to the mail boat and by the time
this reaches the eye of the reader will probably be
Year: 1860

SEIZURE OF CHURCH PLATE IN MExlCo.-Since our
last we have been shown a number of private let.
ters from Mexico in reference to the recent demand
Of the MiramOn Government that the church plate
be placed at its disposal to raise money for the de-
fence Of the capital and the continuance of the
in most cases refused, and at the last accounts
received at Vera Cruz, only paltry sum had thus
been raised is stated, moreover, that in nearly
every where the plate has thus been taken and
sold, 1t was by force alone And among those who
most active in this work of sacriege was
Robles Pezuela, late Minister to Washington, now
commanding at Puebla, who was daily packing up
such pieces he was able to put his hands on, and
sending them off to Mexico-M. o. Picay,rne,
Sept. 10.
Year: 1860

..y i66h It, and we certainly consider that
this days trial is a complete failure, under the
peculiar circumstances, of which circumstances
every one connected with the Agricultural SOcety
is well AWARE
Year: 1860

THE EQUrNoX.-Prof. Loomis stated before the
American Scientific Association that there is not
always heavy storm at the time of the equinoxes,
for statistics show that such seasons are more often
marked by fair weather than foul. He accounted
for the popular opinion by the fact that the change
from warm to cold weather, or the reverse, was
generally attended by great storms which fire.
quenty occur near the time of the vernal and au-
tumnal equinoxes
Year: 1860

Parry an MAGNOLIA. acknowledge the
compliment Of an invitation to an autumn party,
To be given at the Central House, Magnolia, on the
Ioth of next month. From the names Of the COM


ittec, we conclude that il will be very interest
ing occasion. Magnolia IS on the line OF the Jack
son road, and easily accessible from the city.
Year: 1860

One of the most eminent American d.
vines, who has for some time been com.
PEELED to forego the pleasure of reading,
has spent some thousands Of dollars in
vain, and lost years of time, in conse-
quence of getting up several hours before
day and studying by artificial light. His
eyes will never get well.


Multitudes of men and women have their
eyes weak for life, the too free use of sight
in reading fine print and doing fine sewing
In view of these things, it will be we'll to
observe the following rules in the use of
the eyes


Avoid all sudden changes between light
and darkness.


Never begin to read, wrtc'or sew, for
several minutes after coming from dark
ness into a bright light.


Never read by twilight, or moonlight,
or on very cloudy day.


Never read or sew directly in front of
the light, or window, or door.


Iii best to have the light fall from a
bove obliqucly, over the left shoulder.


Never sleep so that, on the first awaken
ing the eye shall open on the light of a
window.


Do not use the cycsight by light so
scant that it requires an effort to discrim-
mate. The moment you are iustinctively
urged to rub the eyes, that moment cease
using them.


If the eyelids are glued together on wa
king up, do not forcibly open them; but
apply the saliva with the 6ngcr-it is the
specdiest dilutant in the world then wash
your eyes and face in warm water


Hats Jou,7ial Of Healh