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turn oat and encourage this important demonstration.JC8IBeal BealkeninBeal •5.Beal kens i KeighBesiRubIroi lam, !BesBrdeLeannu tern on W Men'reprtlowir Re gust Ri dene ceml Jo not fi Wlt; He Qe Fredson,Hon.FessiPhinItnamlt; enga to ot tion a m more has c pie o fereel were er wi*17,lt;sidefromOvexfor will gage lar a his b actuAisimiDicllectiMadame English.—We are sorry to record that this lady who has so long been within our midst is about to leave us with her large collection of curiosities, known as the Indiana State Museum, for Buffalo, New York, where she proposes to locate and reestablish the museum. Madame English has been emphatically a public spirited woman, one who is never idle, nor a drone in the hive of society, whom a community can looBe without the least inconvenience. To whatever city she goes as a resident she is sure to become a valuable citizen, and certain to occupy herself in such a way as to make her presence a pnblic good and her leave taking a public loss. The museum in this city established by her has been one of onr public institutions, a source of pleas, are to the lovers of the curious in nature and art, a place of resort for onr own citizens, and visitors here and a feature of the city at large. Every such person is a valuable addition to the population of a city, for their efforts being always directed in the channels of enterprise, the city is sure to come in for a large share of the results. The citizen who invests his wealth in the erection of buildings that go to improve the city, though he-reap the immediate benefits himself, is a public benefactor, for his labors go to the aggrandizement of that city. So with respect to all persons who employ their time and talents and means in a way that increases the interest that centers in a locality. Such persons are not the mere mortar that go to fill up the crevices of the social system. They are the solid masonry of the social fabric. They are not mere consumers, for they add to the revenues of the country by their receipts from their business, and add to the substantial prosperity of the city by their public spirit Madame English “won golden opinions from all sorts of people in our midst by her patriotic liberality during the war. To the draft fund she was a liberal contributor, and to all enterprises having for their object the success of the war or amelioration of the condition of its patriotic soldiery she contributed with a liberal hand. We shall not readily forget the donation of the receipts of many days exhibitions at the Musenra by her to various patriotic and benevolent purposes. She leaves behind her none but friends, and we take occasion to favorably introduce her to the denizens of Buffalo.Excursion.—The members of the Metro* pollan Literary Institute of this city, are
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Indianapolis Daily Journal
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Mon, Jun 11, 1866
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