LAFAYETTE (ante), a city in Indiana, organized in 1857, in the co. of Tippecanoe, on a bluff by the banks of the Wabash river; pop. '80, 14,860 of American birth. It is on the line of the Wabash and Erie canal, and is the terminus of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette railroad, and a junction of the Lake Erie and Western rail way and the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific railway with the Louisville, New Albany &ad Chicago railway. It is 63 rn. n.w. of . Indianapolis, 130 ni,s:s.e. of Chicago, and 37 in. s.w. of Logansport. At the head of navigation, with these railroad facilities, it is the center of a constantly enlarging system of freight transportation, which commands the patronage of a large commercial interest, and the trade of a vast extent of fruitful country. 5 national banks with an aggregate capital of $2,505,000, also 25 churches, including a Jewish synagogue, 3 daily and 4 weekly newspapers, and a German semi weekly. It is 7 in. s. of the field where the famous battle of Tippecanoe was fought, Nov. 7, 1811, an engagement between Tecumseh's brother Elskwatara, chief of the Shawnees, with 400 Indians, which he had induced to join him by promises of aid from tEngland, and the American general, Harrison, with 800 men, who attempted to drive them within the limits prescribed by treaty. Elskwatara, making the attack on the American camp, was defeated, the battle resulting in a new accession of territory to the 'United States. Among its industries are the manufacture of plows, reapers and
mowers, pumps, barrels, clothing, boots and shoes, carriages, and the business of pork The manufactories include a number of breweries, ornamental iron works, marble works, and foundries. It has a complete municipal government, with an efficient police force and fire department, and medicinal springs in the center of the city, brought to the surface by means of an artesian well 230 ft. deep. Within its limits are the county fair grounds and the county jail, costing $95,000. Mitts an opera-house costing $02,000, and a court-house, a monastery, a convent, orphan asylrtm, and a hospital, the latter a Roman Catholic institution. It is the seat of the state agricultural college, called Purdue university ou account of a gift of $150,000 and 100 acres of land from John Purdue; congress by the land grant furnishing $212,238, and the state and county $110,000 and its support. It has line public school buildings, superior educational advantages, and several Roman Catholic schools, including SCMary's academy; also, a free reading-room and library supplied by the Young Men's Christiad Association.