Smyrna times., 1880-06-09

A CONFERENCE ACADEMY SENSATION Dover
cOrreSpOn lent of the RepdbiicH gives the following
episode of students life at that place:
The class of 1850 i'll the Conference Academy here
is composed of eleven studentsfouri girls and seven
boys The young ladies studious and ubcdient
Their conduct is uneXceptlonal. On the other hand
the representatives of young America in the class
tull OF fun ana indulge i'll as many pranks as ever
characterized those halcyOn days of Tom Brown at
Rugby" Everything has passed oil smoothly for the
class until recently, but now the town is talking
Il little matter which gave the boys great deal OF
trouble and drove The sad members of the faculty to
the verge of distraction
II seems that on Friday May 2Sth, the seven stu
dents cOngregated in of the upper rooms and
Ceeded to hold mock Democratic Convention. II
was pretty stormy gathering ana those III thelOWeT
part of the building who heard the noise confess that
they were filled with amazement. The convention
continued IN session Tor considerable length OF time
and concluded after a turbulent sess' on. When
adjournment reached the wOudbe Rupers of
political debate discovered that it was recitation time
| butno lesson had been prepared
AS the only resort which presented itself the boys
pledged each other that they would go down into the
class room and each i'll turn ask the Professor e. W
Freley, teacher of Chemistry to excuse them. Prof
| Frcley was amazed and asked an explanation The
students had none to give Then he said, young
! gentlemen l cannot consider il anything but open
rebellion. You are rebels and shall treat you as
| such"
The boys at once took umbragc at this and stung by
the unjust remark of the teacher Withdrew from the
| recitation. room and solcmnly concluded to take no
further part in the studies until the words had bec
rc:raced. They organized themselves into body
with Il Chairman and secretary, and sent TO the
faculty resolutions stating the case holding that the
teacher was i'll the wrong in branding them rebels.
enter recitation room until the unjust imputatiun
| had been taken back And they held out in their
| determination despite threats and expostulations.
This continued fora week, and on Thursday last the
young seekers after satisfaction word into
hetuCuly that they would summarily withdraw from
the school unesss their terms were complied with.
| The trouble now assuming SeriOns proportions
and the faculty were at a loss to know what to dc.
Finally Prof. Freley agreed to come to terms and he
made an open acknowledgement that he had misun-
derstood the boys, and that he would take back the
declaration that they were rebels. The affair has
been the most serious that has ever bcfalen the Con-
ference Academy.
4 SKETCH OF Mr.. GARFIELD-Jamcs Abraham
Garfield was born November 49, 1891 in the township
of Orange, CuyahOga county, Ohio about fifteen miles
from Cleveland. His father Abraham Garfield, came
from New York, but, like his mother, was of New
England stock. James the youngest of four
children. The father died in 1888 leaving the iamy y
dependent upon small farm and the eXcrtions oi
the mother.
Young Garfield worked hard on the farm, and
afterwards n bOGtman on the Ohio canal all the
while eager to get an education. lie attended mn
academy in an adjoining county working part of tho
time to earn money, and being his own cook and
b hOusekeeper to save expenses
AT the age of %, having saved some money and
borrowed more life insurance policy, that he as
signed to the gentleman from whom he borrowed
he entered Williams College, Massachusetts and grad
, uated in 1856.
ON returning to Ohio he became professor of Latin
and Greek, in an obscure college, and later he was
. made president OF the institution. During this
period Garfield married Miss Lucreta Rudolph, the
daughter of neighbOrng farmer
+. V. Smalley says of her. "She quiet thought
tul girl, OF sngularly sweet and refined disposition
fond of study and reading, possessing warm heart
and mind with the capacity of steady growth The
marriage was love affair on both sides and has beer
Il thoroughly happy one. Much of General Garfield
subsequent success in life may be attributed to thC
neverfailing sympathy and intellectual companion
\ ship of his wife and the stimulus of loving homt
circle. The young couple bought neat little cottag,
5 fronting on the college campus aud began thei
welded life poor aad in debt but with brave hearts
In the Summer of 1861 he was elected Colonel of tn
Forty y-secOnd Ohio Infantry many of his fellow sol
i diers having been his pupils Very soon after h,
4 became brigade commander, and he early distin
guished himself by surprising and routing rebe
y force in Eastern Kentucky. lie took part i'm tn
/. battle Of4lttsburg Landing and for his conduct
- the battle of Chickamauga was made Majorgeneral
At this time he elected to congress and soul
u, arose to the position of leader and one of the chic
q deboters in that body EX-Representative Jas. VII
lams pronounced him the ablest man in the IIous
| while he was a member.
1 In January, 1872 no was elected TO the Senate +
u succeed Allen G.. Thurman and had no change takeI
IS place in his affairs he would have taken his scat ii
}. that body March 4th, Of next year.