Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1881 — Another New Railroad. [ARTICLE]

Another New Railroad.

At a meeting of capitalist held in this city yesterday a company was formed to construct and equip a railroad to be known as the New York and Chicago railroad, the corporation to have a capital stock of ten million dollars. The road will be two hundred miles long, and will run from the east line of Allen couuty Indiana In a northwesterly direct!an, via Fort Wayue, to the State line between Illinois und Indiana. It will pass through the counties of Allen, Whitley, Huutiuutoii, Wabash. Miami, Kosciusko, Marshall, Fulton, Puluski, Starke, Jasper, Porter, and Lake. The following are the officers: President CS. Brice, vice president, Wm. Fleming, treasurer. Samuel Thomas; secretary, James E. Neal; directors: C 8. Brice, damuel Thomas, George I. Seny, Walston H. Brown, C. It. Cummings W. B. Howard. Win. Fleming. James E. Neal, and J. A. Latclfer. ft will be seen that the uicorpotra tors of the road are stockholders of tlie Lake Erie and Western, and that thty contemplate making a connection of of tlie two roads, thereby forming a through line from New York.— Indianupoli* Journal.

The Indiana Legislature exhibits a commendable determination to susta 1 ii our btate educational institutions b> adequate and reason appropriations. It is very gratifying to see evidence that the uurrow policy which has heretofore barely kept these institutions alive, has bud its day. The three institutions—the Pilate Uuiversiy ty at Bloouiiugtou, the Normal bchool at Terre Haute, and Purdue Uinv«?rsity at Lafayette—arc credl table to Indiana. They in no way conflict with each other. They are all supplementary to a school system which is doing more for Indiana than ail other agencies. They should be generously sustained, so that they in iy advance' with our growing population, our needs and the times.

Every citizen of Indiana should take pride in the growth of these iusliututious. II liberally sustained they will repay a hundred-fold. Wo want Indiana youths educated in Indiana, and are n<>w ahuuduntly able to pro vide them with instiutioos sec-wud to* none in the country. If the spirit which is manifested by this Legisla* ture is maintained, soon the hundreds of young men who go to other dute* f< r education,will find it tc their inteiest to attend our own colleges. But such institutions should not be dealt with 5 n a niggardly spirit, hut generously, that they may vie witlj the best on the continent. — Indianapolis Journal.