The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-12-11
LETTER FROM OHIO.
Observation-Disclosures In England
The Delaware University.
DELAWARE. Ohio. Dec. 5, 1874.


DELAWARE, Ohio, Dec. 5, 1874.
Editors OF the Register.
Chas. Bradlaugh, the English Repub-
lIcan, lectured here last evening, subject:
Cromwell and Washington. This was
the first this season of the University
course of lectures and was the finest that
has ever been delivered before a Della
ware college. His thoughts, his compar-
sons, as well as his subject, wei
.trikingly original, and Throughout
his address he was Ia
rored with the closest attention,
and manifest interest OF his hearers;
and il could not be otherwise, for his
eloauence was such Tvs to demand the at
tcntion and sympathies OF any audience.
But notwithstanding the superiority OF
his effort, it was evident that he had in
reserve power which, when the occa-
sion might call it forth, would effect what
nothing but the genius of man could do.
His peroration WAS an appeal for support
and sympathy for the Republican cause
in England; and when ne had ended, he
received the hearty and prolonged APP
plause of his large audience.
In an interview after the lecture, Mr..
Bradlaugh gave an interesting account
of his life in England. and the progress
Of the Republican movement in that
country. lie stated that shortly before
he left England he addressed, in North
cumberland county, an aSsemblarge OF
seventy-tive thousand, and that he had
4, - al cd Of tpa
tv-fvc 70 forty thousand souls. The
cause has taken strong hold upon the
people, whom, before long, our republic
can expects to represent in Parliament,
and advocate their cause before the lords
of England.
Daniel Dougherty, of Philadelphia,
lectures here next Wednesday night.
y terrible accident occurred at the
depot of the G. c. &. " l. railroad this
morning. At about one o'clock the
engine OF the Columbus express was
brought from the round house, placed
upon the track. and was undergoing the
necessary preparations for departure,
when her boiler burst, driving out both
ends, killing Hutchns, the fireman, badly
scalding the engineer and slightly injur-
ing several others. The fireman was
thrown some 200 feet, striking the cor
nice of the passenger depot, his body
wis fcariully narglcd and his head and
face so horribly dlsfigured as to leave no
scmblancc of his former self He was a
Young man aud was highly esteemed by
his employers and fcllow-employees.
The university Of this place is in
thriving condition, as is also the female
college. The course Of study in each Of
thrs. institutions has been greatly i'm
proved within the last two wears, and is
still undergoing improvement. There
are now no Institutions of the kind in
the west, which can compare with
them in facilities for impartlng
thorough education. The uniting of
the two institutions has been considered,
and is still talked of, but it is sincerely
to be hoped that no such steps will ever
be taken; for as far us the connection be-
tween the two IS concerned, II more dcsi-
r.lblc state could not be; since the stu
dents of each enjoy all the benefits and
privileges of each others society, which
could hc reasonably granted without
the i'll results wich arise IN colleges where
the opposite sexes are educated together.
And since it is an undeniable fact that
Substance lends cnchantment to the
vicw," let them remain ut the opposite
ends of town, ut the distance which they
have been separated by adcSigning Prov
idrncc in the shape OF Methodist Con-
ference, 5. &. W.