Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1875 — Mount Union College. [ARTICLE]

Mount Union College.

Chief Justice Chase once said of this famous institution of learning, that “being among the best colleges in the land it should most freely and widely extend its superior advantages equally to our country’s worthy poor or self-de-pendent.!’ The college year just, closed shows remarkable progress. From its first establishment 10,797

pupils have been received, ofijvhom 7,174 —one-third females—have taught schools. Of these 4,174 are graduates of the normal department. Total number of graduates in baccalaureate degree, 674. Over 200 commercial students now fill good situations. The students in the college department for the past year were 1,211, showing no diminution of public confidence, and that the college not only maintains the high reputation it had in the days of Chief Justice Chase, but also that it is constantly growing in public favor as its graduates go out into the world and take their places in business circles. The faculty numbers sixteen professors of ample experience. Its college apparatus and specimens are worth over a million dollars. For descriptive catalogue containiiur full information address President O. N. Hartshorn, LL. D., Alliance, Ohio. ■ ' , • fl. ■ • Violators of the game law about Rochester will be interviewed by the grand jury. * The mother of the Hon. Will Cuinback died at his residence in Greensburg recently. 300,000 bushels of corn were used by a Madison starch factory during the past year.