The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-11-21

Some modest man. who refuses 10 give
his name to the public. has made 500
900 donation 10 the female college AT
Grcencasile. Ind.
President Potter. Of Union College.
Schenectady. y. u. has been notified Of a
new endowment of $4,000. the giit Of "A
gentleman who desires his name and the
details of the donation withheld for the
present.
Miss Mary L. Whtcside. who was
elected Superintendent Of the Peoria coun-
~. ILL.,. schools on the Republican ticket.
i teacher in the It. Louis Normal School.
Her opponent was a popular young Irish
man named O'~hOughnc>sy.
"A Boston journal states that Miss Ella
VI. Moves. "A graduate Of Mount Iiolyokc
Seminary. class of 1872. left home recent
~. for Tallcquah. the capital 81 the Chero-
kcc Nation. where she j. ~ take chargc OF
the Park Hill Female Seminary. which was
closed during the war. but which has now
rcopcncd with good promise OF success.
The Old school Presbyterian synod Of
Missouri al il recent session discussed a
proposition To unite with the Southern
Presbyterian and the Reformed Church.
II was finally carried bv forty-seven yeas
10 thiriy-iwo navs. Subsequently a meet
ing Of the thiriy-two objccior~ was held.
n which. however. il wa~ decided : to
take no action until after the Prcsbyterians
have voted on sending commissioners to
the next meeting Of the Southern General
Assembly.
An important interview between the
German delegates 10 the Evangelical Al
lance and the representative Lutherans
II the United States took place before the
delegates returned home. Ii was agreed.
Tor the assistance Of the German Lutheran
churches IN the United States. 10 send
I'D Young unmarried ministers, who.
for fixed salary. will come to America for
three or five years: GU From Or. Wich-
crnS institutions. and other similar ones.
teachers and colportcnrs." Ii was sug-
gcsted that the Luihcrans Of this country
should secure a German professor and
place him i'm one OF their Institutions. and
also cndow one or two scholarships in a
German university for the benefit OF stu
dents from the United States.
-Thefolly offrcquently changing school
books has Just had a striking cxemplitica-
ton in Vermont. The State Board Of Ed
ucatinn recent adopted :. French's Arith-
metic'' a. "A common-school textbook. Ii
was introduced in many of the schools.
but the fact soon became apparent that he
had made failure in treating Of the sub
ject of annual interest-a defect for which
no excuse can be- made. Upon it, discov-
erv petition was sent up 10 the board
praving that its sale n a school book
might b. prohibited. The author there
upon called in his first edition. and posted
on to New York Ia confer with his pub
fishers and try and patch up an appendix
with sundry errata for second edition.
The book already contained one appendix.
and il another Is added for a new edition IL
will present patched and boiched appear
ance that will more than ever condemn II
a. a worthless Job. Ii j. stated that this
fiimsy work was adopted through the
management Of ring" in the State
Board of Educttion-a set Of gentlemen
from whose position better things were 10
be- expected We are almost bored 10
death here In the West by the constant
succession of new school books-an oner-
ons tax upon the poor. and q pest TO
everybody we had expected better
things from down East The Green
Mountain Journals are waxing indignant
over the exposure. while the state Board
have issued long explanatory address. IN
which their case and that of MIR. French
are not whit improved.
The Ninth Census reports the aggre-
gate amount OF church property IN the
| United States in 1870 mt S3ji, is5,5Sl,