Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-03-28
Religious and Educational.

"A little boy, after saying his prayers,
rose up and said to his irreligieus parent,
CHOW, father, + have said my prayers i
have you saidIyours or don't men pray"
"A gentleman who suppressed his name,
has given a hundred thousand dollars to
found an Episcopal Theological School at
Cambridge, in some sort of connection with
Harvard. Il Il u ~S-1s 5s+ r.
The next sensation of London is to be
the smallest Methodist preacher in the
world, now drawing great crowds in the
provinces. The reverend gentleman is said
to be Just an inch taller than General Tom
Thumb.
+ "A New England paper, discussing Ell.
quette IN church, well says, That 1t would
be more becoming for persons, sitting at the
held of pew to move along and give seats
to ladies than to disturb the audience by
filing out.
"A Parent" in the GAINESVILLE, Ohio
Courier gives some Of the results of the
non-whipping system of the School Board
in that place: T. The order randi scholar
shin have deteriorated more than twenty
five, per cent under the Board new tangled
ezperiment-so say large majority of the
parents, and so say large majority of the
teachers 2. 1t has caused q considerable
number of children to1b6iturned out of the
school. Those children mostly belong to
the class for whom free schools" were
created Any boy who prefers playing in
the streets to going to school, has only to
take advantage of this beautiful "rule,"
and get dismissed from school. One of
our, sid and honorable citizens informs me-
/ that HIS business for many years has re-
uuired him almost daily to meet the pupils
of one of the ward schools as they leave
the school room, Moons and evenings, and
that until within a few months past he was
never treated uncivillY, by them. They
| have now become so impudent and SO rude
to him that he avoids as much as possible
meeting them A few days since he thre eat
ened to report them to their teachers for
their rudeness, and was answered by "d--n
The teachers; they don't dare to tonch u.s.
The family of the late)J6hn P. Grocer,
SAYS the Delaware Republican,, has given
1.-THE large, beautiful and substantial ediace
near " estchester, Pa, now occupied asa
military school, together with forty acres
! of ground surrounding it, the whole valued
at SS5 900, to the Baptist denomination for
a theological seminary. In addition to this
the family also gave $4,000 IN money for
the erection of residences for the professors
and an endowment fund. To this Mr..
William Bucknell, of Philadelphia, adds
$4,000 for the beginning of Library for
| the Institution. This makes in all the
handsome sum Of $500 the contribac
tion Of single family, Mr., Bucknell being
SON in1lawI of Mr.. Grocer. The act of In.
corporation has passed one branch of the
Pennsylvania Legislature, and will soon
pass the, other The institution will be
opened for instruction in the fall of 1868
It IS the intention of the faculty and Board
| of Trustees at the University at LewisbuTg
to transfer the theological department Of
the institution to Chester, This will still
further increase the endowment fund of
the new institution to be called the "Cro-i
yer Theological Seminary"