The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-10-25


were unable either to read or write, to
show how much more rapidly and tho.
roughly they could be taught by the use OF
the blackboard than by ordinary means.
| After this address the question Of oral and
blackboard teaching was discussed In full
| by teachers and professors present.
This afternoon at O'Clock Professor F..
s. Jovncs, of Washington aud Lee Univer-
sity, delivered IN address on teaching Eng
| lish grammar, so complete in its entirety
| that we will not mar 1t by an attempt TO
| give an abstract. Suffice It to say that the
| subject was treated in tho thorough and ex-
| hau>tyc manner characteristic OF the
learned lecturer. MIN.
| LEXINGTON, October 81, 1871.
Last evening the Teachers Institute had
| their meeting at the Methodist church to
hear au address from the Rev. DIR. Sears,
bat owing to a political meeting which was
! going on at the courthouse, the attendance
was so small that it was determined to post
pone the delivery Of the address until this
| morning. In its place discussion of the
question Of teaching English grammar. the
| subject Of Professor JoyneSs lecture IN the
afternoon, was entered upon by DIR. Sears,
| Professor Joynes, of Washington and Lee
| University, and Colonel j. T. L. Preston,
of the Virginia Military Institute. The
debate was highly interesting, instructive,
| and witty.
At the Courthouse speeches were made
| bv Colonel Poague, one of the Conserya-
| tive candidates for the Legislature, Mr..
George Walker, and Major James Is. Dor
man. The meeting was large and enth,lsi-
| sStic, and all the speakers concurred in de-
nouncing the course OF DR.. Graham, the
| independent candidate, who, not being
nominated by the convention for reelection,
I -. 49,
| tered the field on his own responsibility.
| The BARN brought about by such u course
| Of conduct was clearly Shown-not so great
here, where the Conservative element so
greatly preponderateS, but utterly pernl-
| c,ous As IN example to the people OF East
crn Virginia, where the contest between
| Conservatives and Radicals is so close.
| This morning ut 10 O'Clock the Teachers
Institute met again ut the Presbyterian
llecture-room. The exercises Of the day
were opened with an address by Major j..
\. HotchkiSs, Of Staunton, on the subject
of teaching geography, It's interest, its i'm
portance, and the best method Of imparting
q thorough knowledge Of the study. This
lecture evinced an intimate acquaintance
with the subject; was extremely entertain
ing. and abounded with practical bits,
(which will doubtless be Of great utility to
the teachers who heard it.
public schools. u subject to which he has
devoted his life, arguing in their favor
First. that society has a right to and
needs all the talent that God has given to
man, and that this talent can only be de-
lvcloped by general education.
Second, that this general education can
he brought about by public schools and in
no other way.
Third, that if it could. that it can be
1 IN
schools; and
/ Fourth, that it can be done better since
the principle Of graduation, which enables
the teacher to instruct all the class at the
same time, instead OF a single member,
: cannot be applied in private schools owing
TO their limited number and non-coordina-
ton with one another.
DR.. Pendlcton replied in opposition.
/ Professor A. l.. Nelson, Of Washington
and Lee University, delivered a lecture
on arithmetic, calculating the fundamental
| rules.
i Mr.. Jacob Fuller made few remarks on
the manipulation Of Fractions alter which
The ASSEMBLY adjourned. MIN.
CHURCH SUIT DECIDED-Judec Wing
field on Yesterday rendered decision III
the HOpewell Church case, i'll Campbell,
lremandlng the church building to the pos
|
bershp. The case, as we understand it,
was that the church was originally built by
the Methodist Protestants for their eXclu-
sive workmanship. Some time since num-
Der Of the members of the church With
drew from it and connected themselves
with the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, and endeavored to take over with
them the right to the building. The re-
| manning members resisted, and the matter
, WAS carried into court, with the result
: above Stated.-Lynchdur9 Neacs.
THE INJUNCTION CAsE-TYSON ENTERS A
i New SuIr-Ly,tchburg, Va, October %,
So. M.-The Tyson Injunction suit to re-
strain the organization Of the Atlantic Mis-
si,si2pi, and Chic railroad, and the issue OF
its bonds, which was dismissed in Rich
mond on the 20th instant, has been reInsti-
tuled before the United States Circuit Court
for the western district ut this place. The
! bill is signed by }. Dean Smith, William and
j. W. Daniel, rs counsel for the complain
ant.
| The order of Judge Bond fixes the 18th of
November as the tiine for hearing the case.
Special dispatch to tie Progress.
Speaking of the Tyson suit, the Lynch
. burg Republican says:
| IF we are to believe the many theories
which are now in circulation, new phase
/ is given to the histoiJ Of this farce. 1t
seems that the moving spirits in this mat.
ter were citizens OF Lynchburg, some OF
the old clique whose determination TO
"1ule or ruin" has kept the city SO far in
the back ground; these sapient anticon.
= solidationsts Matched tue Tyson plan and
cave it being.
5 Proceedings are to be instituted before
$ Judge Rives, and this time these imnlacu'
: late Nirginians are to appear in person III
: company with Mr.. Tyson, to give respecta'
| biIily to the application, and to relieve It,
| if possible, of some of the odum Of foreign
interference which was so fatal to the first
, movement.
RUMoR.-There WAS iumor on Inc
streets this morning that the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad and
the AQUA Creek line of steamers had
been purchased by the Pennsylvania Cen.
trail Railroad Company for $3,OOO,O0o, but
the president of the road reported TO Dc
sold. who was in this city on Saturday last
knew nothing of it.-Ale1andria Gazette
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