Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1856 — The Fomale Institute Burned. [ARTICLE]

The Female Institute Burned.

: About hall past D o’clock yewterj day morning, an alarm wan given that Mr. Win. 11. Churchman’s Female Institute building was on fire- Our citizens, in large numbers, as usual | in such casco, were nromntlv on tint spot, doing cverythumin their power to \, but owing to the , extreme cold weather, thermometer at 14 deg. below zero, and the iinposI sibility of applying water to the fire, their efforts to save the building wero unavailing. The library, furniture, carpets, and everything movable that : could be saved by ~extraordinary ex I ertion was taken out of the building -- j a large portion of it in a damaged j condition; The pianos, five or six in number, we learn were saved without injury. The clothing and hooks bedongiiig to the young ladies, boarding in the Institute, were nearly if ' not quite all saved. One of the la lv teachers, we learn, lost all of her | clothing except what she hud on her person. A large, quantity of goods , were stored in the fourth story, none, , of which were saved. The tire originated in the fourth story, or attic, of the building, it is ! supposed, in consequence of a defect i iii a chimney.

The Winter session of tho*school commenced on Monday last, and the“ students for the term had not all nr lived; bin t!icre wci‘e - 'prbbab!y 'ov;v one hundred young ladies in the building fit the lime the fire occurred, .son cral of whom wero boarding in the Institute. . Tilfi-Jqditifl from a distance were promptly provided for at the private residences of somo of our most wru lthy citizens. ' The building was a large four story irame.bniltoriginally for the Indiana ; .Medical College, qnd eq«t about 000. Mr. ('liarcflrntih purchased if. last summer, and liad it remodelled and fitted up in the most tnstrfat style, expressly for his Female liuti tute. His los; in building and furniture is not less titan ft )—probably more. lie was injured to tho amount of J ) on the building, and .SI,OOO on the furniture, in tho /Etna Insurance Company. The 1.)53 will fail heavily upon Mr. Churchman-.-lio had spared no Fx • penac in endeavoring to btiild up jui _ institution Yn wfaTch would Ita m linen amrejli t to 4he-pk»ce. From present indications, Mr. ChurchmanV enterprise writ not be permitted to fail. A subscription paper wns circulated yesterday and about SBOO subscribed for hi j relief, and much more will be added. We hope and believe that mean* will ! be placed at Mr. Churchman's disposal which will enable him to erect ja brick building of the first clas ; s, sufficiently commodious toaccommb- | date more students than the old one could.— Leporte Union. .¶ Determined Assassin. —A correspond - ent of the Lynchburg Republican, gives an account of a number of attempts which have been made on the life of George W. Richardson, of Smythe county, Va.— About three years ago while at Marion’s Hotel, at a late hour of the night, he was called by a voice in the street and upon putting his head out of the window a heavy stone was thrown at him from the direction from which the voice seemed to proceed. Shortly afterward, while, walk - ing the streets of Marion, a gun was snapdep [ped?] in his face. On annother [another] occasion, some one knocked at the door of his residence, and upon Mr. R.'s opening the door an arm was thrust in, having a large bowie-knife in the hand, which slightly cut Mr R.’s clothing. About a month since an apple, thoroughly poisoned with arsenic, was sent him by some nuknown [unknown] person, but the plot was detected. The last attempt on his life was made while he was at a house of a relative, where he had gone in consequence of his receiving, a message which turned out to be false. Thinking it was a plot to waylay him, he remained at his relative's house during the night. At a late hour the window of his bed-room was broken, and a pistol fired at him; the ball narrowly escaping his head.