Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-05
LITTLE WASHINGTON.
The Teachers Instituts-A Brilliant Week
ofLectures.

OF Lectures.
Special Tsis1ram 30 Ia Sunday Register.
WASHINGTON, Pa, December 4.-Ihe
thirty-sixth annual institute of the teach
esr of Washington county convened In this
city last week. The meetings were held
in the Opera House. The regular hours
for assembling during the week Were at .
in the morning and in the afternoon, and
each teacher was expected to be in his
seat at the hours named.
Last year there were 292 teachers regis
tered. On this occasion there were fully
300 present. The exercises each day Will
be opened each morning with prayer and
music. after which the different instructors
will speak.
The following gentlemen have been Sc
cured by Supt Spindler: Thomas Nd.
Ballet, A. NJ, of Reading, Pa; L. Z.
Mendenhall, Phi. D., of Terre Haute, Ind. (;
Hon. Henry Houck, of Harrisburg, Pa. (;
Prot. Geo. Z. Little, of Washington, D.
c., James D. Moffat, president of Wash
ington and Jefferson College, Washington,
Pa, and Prof. W. C. McClelland, A. NJ,
also of Washington and Jefferson College,
Washington, Pa. The music during
the week was furnished by Prof. o. E. EN-
cell, of Chicago, Miss Jean Glenn, of Mer-
Ger, Pa, and Miss Emma Bingler, of
Pittsburg. Miss Mary NJ. Rogers, Of the
Female Seminary presided at the piano.
The musical as well as the other part OF
the programme could not have been bet
ter, as the conductors and ladies are good
artists and rank high in their respective
arts.
On Monday evening last the
Rev. Joseph Cook delivered his
last and best lecture on Property and
Poverty" The house was crowded to the
doors.
On Tuesday evening the Hon. Albion
TourGee gave his lecture, What's the
News?n He spoke of the demOralizing
influence of the newspaper of to-day,
illustrating by saying that murder was
given two columns while one of q ladstOne's
speeches received about ten lines. 1t was
one of the greatest literary treats we have
had for some time.
On Wednesday evening, Donald G.
Mitchell, like Marvel" read paper on
odd club men of a century ago" Mr..
Mitchell is the distinguished essayiSt who
wrote "Reveries of Bachelor and other
works of note. He ap0logized to
the assembly for sitting during
the delivery Of his lecture which he read
from a manuscript.
Mr. Mitchell opened with DR.. Samuel
johnson, the great cynic, dictionary maker,
and author, rs the first of the old Club
Men," he also spoke Of GibbOn, the His
torian, Goldsmith and Boswell.
On Thursday night. Geo. w. Cable the
popular novelist, delivered his lecture
"Grande Pointe." Mr.. Cables lecture
was an interesting one, and he held his
audience throughout.
On Friday night, DR.. T. c. Mendenhall,
who was one of the instructors during the
past week delivered discourse
on earthquakes" The Doctor
was well known TO most
people and received crowded house. His
lecture was one of the best of the course.
The doctor, having visited Charleston
during the earthquake there, gave full
description of it and its causes,
Charles Hobbs and wife, Of Wheeling,
spent last Sunday in the city, as the guests
of |. G.. Hamilton.
Numerous are the remarks made about
the good order kept by Prof. Spindler, at
the Institute.
Gen. John Eaton, ex-United States Com
missioner of Education, addressed the In
stitute last Wednesday.
c. d. Robbins, the Pan Handle coal
man, has just completed his $25, 900 dwell
ling here.
Mrs. John 4. Best is viting in Wheel
ing,
Editor K. T. Wiley, of the Elizabeth
Herald, is attending the Institute.