The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-07

/ His nose was prominent, his mouth
large, as if made on purpose to talk,
and his eyes of blush cast, and so
keen that it seemed as if he could
look right through person. lie had
a fine forehead, indicatiyegOt no ordl-
nary brain. and beautiful white locks
which hung about his brow and shout
,ders. There was as much native dig
nity about him as any man | ever saw.
He seemed born to sway others. La
dress he was pattern of neatness and
plainness.
PERSONAL ITEMS.
Professor CIV. Hoss. State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction
for Indiana, whom we met at the As
bury Commencement exercises. Tues
day of last week, is doing service for
the cause oil, common schools in the
State that few appreciate, but which
the next generation will, we trust, in
mass, thank him for. We did not
know till meeting him Of the multi
tude of embarrassment that arise un-
der the present law in many sections
For instance, the legal voters of
school district nominate and elect the
teacher, not the Board of Trustees.
Very often, In consequence, the lowest
and most ignorant and migratory of
the population determine who shall
preside over the district as teacher,
and in a few instances worse than
mere worthless incumbents have been
chosen. The Legislature, strange as
it may seem, is not yet able to see the
necessity of a modification of the law,
though they are somewhat consider
ing it,
At the Commencement exercises
last week, at Indiana Asbury Univer-
sity, the honorary degree of A. NJ
was conferred on Rev. W. III. Kin
caid, assistant editor of the Pittsburg
Christian Adcocdte, and that of Doc
tor in Philosophy, Phi. D., on Pro
lessor Charles F. Hines, of Dickin-
son College. and that of ID. d. on
Rev. r. nj. Hatfield, of Chicago.
Professor Tingley, of Indiana As
bury University, has been granted
leave of absence for portion of the
coming collegiate year, for the sake of
allowing him to visit the universities
of the East and also of Europe. He
expects, should foreign affairs be
favorable, to leave for Paris at an
early day. ~
Rev. r. L. Stanton, D. d., formerly
of the Danville Theological Seminary,
KY, has been elected President of
Miami University, Oxford, O. DR..
Stanton was Moderator of the last Old
School General Assembly, which met
at st. Louis.
General 0. S. Ferry, recently elected
United States Senator from Connectf-
cut, is a member of the Congrega-
tional Church in Norwalk, regular in
his attendance, and outspoken In his
devotion to the Gospel. He is regu-
lar teacher of the Bible class in the
Sabbath School. Recently he began
a series of familiar lectures to his
Bible class, on the evidences of the
truth of Revelation. They were so
interesting that he was requested to
give them on Wednesday evenings to |
all who visited to listen. The lecture
room could not contain the audience
He was then invited to deliver them
in the church on Sabbath evenings,
and from Sunday to Sunday the
church was packed with charmed and
satisfied audiences.
When people read of Theodore Til
ton, of the Independent, they proba-
bly, imagine grave, gray, severe per-
son. The New York Citizen says:
Our associate saw him yesterday on
the floor of the House of Represent
atives, and he looked like college
freshman, with a profusion of brown
locks, and not enough beard to make
a door mat to bee hive.
Francis A. Boyd, negro, has ap-
piled to the United States Court at
Louisville for copyright on book,
a poem in three parts, entitled, TO
Columbians," and dedicated to Lin
coin, Grant and Butler.
DIR. Whedon is taking little sum
mer recreation at Middletown, Conn.
He expects, early in the fall, to com
menee volume III of his common
tary., s,-
At the late Commencement ex-
ercises of the Ohio Wesleyan Uni
versity, the honorary degree of A. M.
was conferred on Rev. d. D. Mather,
of the Ohio Conference, on Rev. A.
B. Wombaugh, of the Cincinnati Con-
ference, and on Rev. W. w. Snyder,
of the South Eastern Indiana Con
ference. The degree of ID. d. was be-
slowed on Rev. W. Goodfellow, of
Buenos Ayres, SoutL America, on
Rev. r. NJ Hatfield, of Chicago-In-
diana Asbury University doing the
same-and on Rev. j. A. NJ Eldowny,
Secretary of the late Non-Episcopal
Convention, Cincinnati, and President
of Adrian College, Michigan.
j. Tuckerman has accepted the APP
pointment of General Travelling Sec
rotary. of the Ohio State Sabbath
School Union. His salary is $4,000
per annum.
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