Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-02-07

CO-EDUCATION IN WIsCONSIN-A commit
tee appointed by the faculty of the university
OF Wisconsin. to take into consideration the
subject OF coeducatiOn of the sexes. have re-
ported that in their opinion a complete Sepa-
ration of students according to sex. would be
lmpractlcable, and partial separation in the
give as reasons that it would increase the
large expense of teachers. and also imply
difference in mental calibre, placing the male
students ahead. On the contrary. the expert
ence of the committee shows that females are
fully equal to the males in the class room.
They further say, i'll regard to the moral effect
OF having both sexes in the same recitation
room, it is sufficient TO state that there have
never been fewer breaches of discipline than at
present and none growing out of this rea-
ton. Any novelty at first dstractS attention.
but this has ceased to be a novelty, and stu
dents meet as students and nothing more.
The present system has worked so well that,
in the opinion of the committee any change
would be fraught with grave consequences.
To return to the old system of separate in
StructiOnS would cause diStruSt and irritation
on the part OF patrons and pupils that would
more than OVerbalance in evil consequences
any anticipated good results. They do not
believe that any general change is demanded
either by the patrons or pupils, and they do
the end for which the university was founded
than the one proposed in the resolutions before
the board OF regents.
MINERS ENTOMBED ALIvE-A telegram
from Dubuque. Iowa. ID inst, to the Chicago
Erening journal says: lone of three men
Coleman Diggings,' at the head of Mineral
street. was reached this forenoon. within
speaking distance, and is alive. WOrkmen
he was the elder Alsop, who had been for 4S
hours in living tomb. suffering the most in
tense agony OF mind and torture of body, a
large beam having fallen across his back and
held him to the earth. His son, he says, is
dead; his head is crushed with timbers and
rocks; that he heard him some 10 minutes
This afternoons work will rescue the live man
and determine the fate of the other one.'
A DEFALCATIoN OF 100000 by one of the
York, has een.discovered, and is said to have
extended over period of several years. 1t is
stated that depositors will not suffer any loss,
but the capital of the bank will be impaired.
This unsettled the New York stock market
late in the day.
In THE TRIAL OF GEN. ANDERSON, of the
Louisiana returning board, at New Orleans,
yesterday, Mr.. H. G. CastellauOS argued for
the Defense and held that the crime charged
had not been established; that the consoli-
dated statement of election returns offered in
evidence was not a public record, not being
certified by the clerk of the district court Ar
sden Tdse vii sRe his
to the jury to-day. Ex-Governor Wells is still
in jail, although his bond has been reduced to
SUICIDE OF CUBAN.-Juan Martinez Her
nandeZ, fifty years of age. a New York COM
mission merchant, committed suicide at the
evening, by shooting himself through the head.
q. He was native of Cuba, but had resided i'm
this country since 1857. Financial troubles are
supposed to have been the cause of the act.
THE CoNQUERING CHINESE.-The Chinese
have ravaged the Province of Kashgar, over
pOwering all opposition by Yakoob Beg, and
the Russian boundary is crowded with rein
gees, who complain of the atrocities COM
mitted by the cOnquering Chinese.
A MISCREANT DROwNED.-One of the sur
yivors OF the Metropolis says he saw the line
east by the life-saving crew over the vessel be-
fore She was wreck by means of the mortar,
deliberately cut with a knife by man who
was afterwards drowned. This act was evil
dentlY done to nreIent any one else from try