The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-06-02

beg space to add that she admired David
Swing most Of all for bis great tolerance
that, being a Presby terrain, he could see
good in those who held other views. She
loved David Swing tor his true and noble
character.
Clark Evans, a youth OF twenty-oae years,
who is on to be executed at Csrollton,
Ill. has /. AIDE confession. in which be adj
mits that 70 did the deed for money He
concludes by the following strange request:
al know 1 have been guilty of a terrific
crime, and have no doubt that L Will b
hung. If so, | 90 not want to be hung IL
iaii but in public. where everybody can
witness it, especially the little boys. have
little brother at home that want 10 see
me hung, and want my father to bring
him. L think it would be an advantage 10
BOYS to see such sight"
New York has appropriated $4,000 for
monument in commemeration OF the sur
render of General Burgoyne to General
Gates, October IL, 1877. 1t is to be OF granite,
$50 feet high, the pllnth IS feet square, while
the base OF the shaft Is to be 40 feet. and It's
apex eight feet square. The gable inches
are to have representations OF Generals
Schuyler, Gates and Morgan, the fourth be-
ing vacant, with the word Arnold inscribed
underneath. Within the base of the mOnu-
ment will have historical tablets, memorials
ETC., while on the four corners are 10 De
mounted four bronze guns taken from the
English at the surrender.
The program for the college regatta at
Saratoga is arranged and is thus: On July Is,
IA, and 10, the Yale and Harvard base ball
clubs play a series of three games at Glen
Mitchell. Interspersed with these games
will be a number of running races. open to
collegians only. On the afternoon OF the 10Th
thoro ho al a races a the lax
to collegians only, for two elegant prizes, to
be given by the ladies of Saratoga. On the
afternoon of the 10th there will be race for
slx-oared freshmen crews, and Immediately
thereafter the university race will take plac'.
In the evening. grand ball will be given II
the town hall, or one OF the leading hotas.
The following colleges will enter the uni'er-
sity race: Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cor1ell,
Princeton, Trinity, Wesleyan, Williams:
Dartmouth, and possibly Bowdoin.
A man to-day is generally regarded as in
sane who is found opposed to tie higher ed
ucation of American youth. Yet the
Dunkards lately in convention in Illinois
have placed some Objections on record
which are equally remarkable for their SIM
plicity and their novelty. fhe question OF
collegiate education heiDg lp for discussion,
it was decided that it was not advisable to
give their children sud education, as it
weuld have tendency Il lead them astray
from christian simplicityand primitive doc
trines, and thereby crate discord in the
church. They considerd it a difficult mat
ter for a man of finished education to take
up his cross and folloS Christ in christian
humility, and did notApprove of the men,
bers establishing bigtschools in the name
of the brethren, but hey might do so as in
dividuals. The college at Salem, Ind, had
cost the northern ditrict of that state 81, 800,
by permitting the ue of their name i'm con-
neciion herewith and they wanted no
more high schoolseuntrolled by the church.