The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-10-27
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are now in South Carolina
3.O57 free schools, instructing 6l,339
white and u, colored children
Detroit Post.
DIR. Newman Smythe. after passing
a rigid examination as TO his orthodoxy.
has been installed pastor of the Center
Church, New Haven, the pulpit occupied
for fifty years by DIR. Leonard Bacon
" y. 1lnaeS.
in the Sa7ttarian. DR.. Bell takes
the ground that the most common con-
ditions that depress and stunt the in
.tellect of school children are bad school
house construction, criminal crowding,
exposure to soil emanations and bad
ventilation.
The Unitarian Conference held its
session at Saratoga, n. Y, recently.
There were go delegates present and
an attendance of oyer 2. .000 A resolu-
ton was adopted to raise the sum Qi
-, ptl9 Al ana ~ for The sfext tIQ Eearf.
Tor the a sican Dnitaria aa Asstl1 Lis3ii.
! an eH0ft . afso being made TO fAise the
sum of 5000, 600 fol the endowment OF
the proposed Wade Theological School
at cleveland, Ohio. Mr.. Wade has
pledged the association S400, 900 unde.
certain Conditions. = Cbristian Union
"A convention of the colored clergy
men of Maryland, irrespective of denom-
ination, was held in Baltimore. The
object of the gathering, which was large,
was TO carefully consider the present
condition of the colored race in Mary
land, religioasiy. morally, educationaliy
and financially, and devise ways and
means to better the present status of
the race along every line of duty. through
all the avenues of PHILADELPHIA
Press.
The Sandwich Islands are following
the example set them by Japan in the
matter of educating their young men.
There arrived in New York recently six
young Hawailans sent over by their Gov
ernment to receive foreign education.
One is to remain in California, another
will attempt to enter Yale College, three
go to Glasgow as apprentices in a cele-
brated machine and engineering estab-
lishment, and the other will study medi-
cine and surveying in England.
AT the school of the mobiles in To-
kio, Japan. is physical map of that
country 800 or 400 feet long, in the
court behind the sehool-building. This
map, or model. is made of turf and rock
and is bordered with pebbles, which look
at little distance so much like water
Every inlet, river and mountain is re-
produced in this model with fidelity to
detail which is simply wonderful. Lat
itude and longitude are indicated by tel
egraph wires, and tablets show the posi-
ton of the cities. Ingenious devices
are employed in illustrating botanical
studies also.-Ihe Workman.
Following is the opinion of the edi-
tor of the London Truth in regard to
the education of children: The school
hours ought to be shortened. All the
work should be done in school, in alter
nate hours for study and repetition
There should be no evening preparation
at home, and no child oughtto be taught
anything but to tell the truth, and say
If you please and No, thank you,'
much before seven years of age. Two
years later he would, [ venture to pre-
dict, be far better scholar than the av-
erage nine-year-old victim of the School
Board, and he would furthermore have
at least the chance of being a fine,
healthy, happy and well-grown urchin."