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 An act to prevent the employes [sic] of telegraph companies from the commission of trespasses in constructing, altering, repairing, or injuring the wires, poles, insulators, instruments, premises, buildings, without the written consent of the owner or agent, and if so committed, shall, subject the parties to heavy penalties.

To prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors in cities of the first class, in addition to other enactments on that subject alluded to, it is provided that it is unlawful to barter, sell, or dispose of any intoxicating liquors, whether distilled, malt or vinous, on any day or night of the week between the hours of twelve o'clock P. M. [sic] and six o'clock A. M., except by a regular druggist, on the written prescription of a regular practising physician, for medical purposes only. All restaurants, coffee-houses, or places where such intoxicating liquors are sold or exposed to sale, except by regular druggists, shall be closed on every day or night of the week between said hours, and for a violation of the act the proprietor shall be punished by fine and imprisonment, or both.

An important act prescribing the mode, place, and time of inflicting the death penalty in the state of Ohio, declares, that such mode shall be by hanging by the neck until the person is dead; the execution to be by the sheriff, or in case of his death, inability, or absence, by the coroner, of the county in which sentence of death is pronounced. Such sentence of death by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall only be inflicted within the walls of the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, within an inclosure to be prepared for that purpose, under the direction of the warden and board of managers thereof, which inclosure shall be higher than the gallows. The prisoner, when condemned to death, shall be conveyed, in as private and safe a manner as possible, by the sheriff of the county wherein he has been convicted and sentenced, within the next thirty days thereafter, to the Ohio penitentiary, where he shall be received by the warden and securely kept until the day designated by the court for his execution.