Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1873 — State Certificates. [ARTICLE]

State Certificates.

Examinations for State certificates will be held by the members of the State board of education at the following places: . (1) Kendallville and (2) Muncie, conducted by J. 11, Smart. .... i (1) Bloomington and (2) Greensburg, conducted by Dr. C. Nutt. . (1) Richmond and (2) Indianapolis, conducted by A. 0. Shortridge. (1) New Albany and (2) Evansville, conducted by-Alex. M. Gow. (1) Laporte and (2) Lafayette, conducted by Wm. At Jones. (1) Kokomo, conducted by M. B. Hopkins. At the cities marked (l)the examinations will be held on Tuesday, July 8 th, commencing at 2 o’clock; at those marked (2) the examinations will commence on Monday, July 14th, at 2 o’clock. The board will meet atlndianapolis at 9 o’clock on Thursday, the 17th of July, at -the office of the State superintendent of public instruction, to examine the papers of the candidates. The result will be made known to each immediately thereafter. There will be first and second grades of certificates, and the standard of qualifications of each shall be as follows: 1. Satisfactory evidence of good moral character, certified by boards of trustees who have employed the candidate, or by other reliable persons known to the board. 2. Superior professional ability, ascertained in the manner above indicated, and also certified by teachers of eminent ability known to the board. 3. A comprehensive knowledge of the theory and practice of teaching; twenty-seven months of practical experience in the school room, nine of which shall have been in this. State. • ■ It is well to hear all sides on the questions now agitating tho public mind. We clip the following from Mr. Joy’s recent speech on the railroad question, before the Michigan Legislature: , Now, in Illinois and the West last year there had been a most abundant harvest. The corn crop alone exceeded.l,ooo,ooo,ooo bushels. If it could all be got to market to-day it. would bring scarcely a song. This enormous over-production and its results—the low rates of corn—were all laid to the railways. The farmers said they had to give one bushel of corn to get another to market. Twenty years ago, before there was a railway in any section of Illinois, he could buy a farm of prairie land for $2.50 an acre, and from second hands. Everywhere great cribs holding a thousand bushels could be seen, and purchased at ten cents a bushel. From that time to this the Illinois railways have been built, and the Illinois farmers’ range of prices for corn has never gone below forty cents a bushel, and more frequently never below sixty. The country had filled up with .population, and its products were transported far and near for a tenth part of the former cost. All this enormous increase of wealth, unparalleled in the' history of any nation, had been caused by railways. And yet these men, getting rich by these very railways, fancy' they arc, by means of them, the most oppressed men in the world. John Donalds, an Englishmans living some three miles south-west of the Crossing, hung himself last Thursday. He was about forty years old, had a wife and one child and owned a small farm. About: one year ago he attempted to hang himself but was discovered and cut down in time to be saved; this time he carried out his designs; by hanging himself to a small tree near where he had been working. Extreme dissipation was the probable cause of the rash act.— Valparaiso Vidette.