The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-02-23
GENERAL NO TES.

Texas has 100000 children of school age,
of whom only 16l, 900 are enrolled.
OF the I78, 1856 men composing the British
regular army, TO- PA can not read or write.
The Prussian draft of 1874 for the army
of the German empire number SO, 1873 young
men, of whom 8 1924 bad no education what
ever.
The recruits for the Austro- Hungarian
army numbered 9l,5S1 young men, of
whom 81 ,514 were not able to read and
write.
The only vacant seat in the San Francisco
stock board has been sold for $50, 900. This
is the highest price ever paid for a seat, and
is $4,000 higher than the price about year
ago.
A recently patented automatic lock is
about to be placed on the door of a Fulton
county bank vault. The lock is so con-
structed that il Can be unlocked by no per-
son except during banking hours.
1t is estimated that in the hills of Column
bia county, N. Y, there is supply of at
least 20,O0O,Oo0 tons of iron, which could
be mined and delivered in boats on the
H1dson river at a cost of not over 81 a ton.
Nevada has S25O, coo as the beginning of
university fund, and the San Francisco
Chronicle suggests that, instead of organic
ing an institution of it's own, the state shall
unite its forces with California and build up
one strong university. A college of mines
is also suggested.
A memorial is to be presented to the Wis
consin legislature asking for the passage o,
an act authorizing the women of any city,
village or county of the state to establish in
dustrial schools for the reception, custody
and training of the unprotected children of
such city, village or county.
The Western Baptist Educational Union
has bought the Pattee House, the largest
hotel at St. Joseph, No.. with the intention
of turning it into Baptist University. The
articles of Incorporation place the endow-
ment fund Of the new college at SS0C, 000
with power 70 increase it to 81 ,000, 900.
In New England the sovereigns and gran
gers aro working with great harmony to-
gether, and both seem to find il mutually
advantageous in the perfecting of arrange
ments for the purchase of flour and other
supplies from the western oranges. An
agency is about to be opened in Boston.
An effort is now making in Boston to Or
ganize a working mans social club, or
clubs, similar in character to the institu-
tions in England organized by the Rev.
Thomas Jolly and others, and which have
been very successful. Edward Everett
Hale is active in this Boston movement.
Massachusetts is the present center of Ia
Dor struggles. The Fall River difficulties
are of a serious nature. Out of 80, 900 looms
there 81 500 are idle, belonging to three mills,
the operatives in which have, with five 9TH
ers, strong weavers and other unions. The
total force employed in and about cotton
mills is about 5000.
Minnesota sold its lands granted for edu-
cational purposes by the United States for
s. 81 per acre; California, 50; Michigan, 50 %;
Iowa, 81 q; Missouri, 81 "a; Wisconsin, 81 %.
As regards the states which received only.
land scrip, the price for which this was sold
ranged from Al 4 cents per acre, in the case
of Rhode Island, to 90 cents per acre in the
case of Virginia.
The Rev. G. X. True, d. D., formerly pro-
lessor at Middleton University, has accepted
the chair OF Logic and Practical Theology in
Tabernacle College, Brooklyn. DIR. Talmage
is president, DIR. Lord has the Historical,
Prof. Thwing the Rhetorical, and Prof. Chap
man the English Department with that of
Biblical Literature. Nearly all the students
expect to enter the ministry.
The success of kindergarten training in
Boston has led Mr.. Philbrick to recommend
the establishment of thee or tour expert
mental schools, instead of one. While he is
not prepared to argue its adoption as a
permanent part of primary school instruc-
fion he believes that the system contains
many invaluable elements which should be
applied universally in the first stages of
school education.
Senator Sprague has written to the mayor
of Cincinnati, in response to an inquiry of
the latter concerning the removal of the re.
mains of the late Chief Justice Chase to
Spring Grove Cemetery, near Cincinnati,
saving that his wife is now absent in
Europe, bat that her desire is for her fathers
body to rest in the cemetery mentioned.
.sUnder what suspices the remains shall be
transferred, !" the senator adds, shat OF the
CITY of Cincinnati or the state of Ohio, or
union of both city and state, or in private
way, it is not in my power now to inform
you"
The ice trade employees at its principal
centers, Maine, Boston and vicinity, New