Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-10-12

he astronomers nave discovered large
red spot on the face of Jupiter Perhaps
Jupiter is blushing at the star route swim
die.
The proposition to salute the Enelish
flag at Yorktown is received with much
satisfaction in England.
The English language is spreading very
rapidly in India, and large numbers o
the educated Hndoos use it in preference
to their own. This is making mission
work somewhat easier.
A beautifully written and expensvely
bound Testament of the year 100 has
been brought from Susa, the ancient capr
tai of the Ahasuerus, mentioned in the
Bible, and given to the Presbyterian
foreign board for sale, the proceeds golng
for the soclety's work in Hamadon.
Dr.. Howard, of the woman's foreign
missionary society, is suffering from over
WORK. All missionaries have more than
they ought TO do, but this is especially
true Oh medical missionaries. When
once they become known as successful
missionaries they have almost countless
calls from far and near to perform possible
and impossible cures.
Canon Campbello, one of the strongest
supports OF Popery, has recently renounced
Romanism and received baptism in a
Methodist Episcopal church in Rome
His conversion from Romanism to Prot
estsntism occasions as much surprise and
as great a sensation as the relapse OF
Cardinal M,nuing from the English
church to Romanism.
Teynen, kloyn as the Poultnev barn
burner Was tried in Rutland last week
and j. B Phelps and George E. Lawrence
were assigned to defend him. While hev
were visiting the prisoner with a Welsh
interpreter. Tsynen lief. the room and
shortly appeared with loaded sixteen
shooting carbine which had been standing
behind door He aimed the weapon at
his counsel, but before he could fire it the
interpreter seized him from behind. It is
said hat Teynen is crazy. His co unsel
could certainly plead for him thus With
iul belief in that theory
Governor General Lii Hung Chang has
written from the viceroy's palace at TENT
sin. China, letter to the secretary of the
English society for the suppression of the
opium trade, in which he criticises severe.
ly the course of England with regard tc
the opium traffic, and says that while thai
country views the matter from a fisca
stand point China looks at the case wholly
from a moral standpoint, and that the I'm
perial government does not wish "tC
thrive upon the lives or infirmities of III
subjects" The viceroy notes the fact thai
The Angel treaty between the United
States and China contains a prohlbitury
clause against opium, and halls this "A,
one of the signs that broad principles o
Justice and humanity are soon to prevail
in the negotiations between China auC
western nations.
The SIXTH observation-disclosures receiv
ed at the Warner Observatory, Rochester
~ Y, from Bristol, England. states tina
Prot W. F. Denning discovered brigh
new comet on the 4th instant. 1t is loca
ted in the constellation of Leo, right as
cension nine hours twenty-five minutes
declnation north Is degrees. daily motion
thirty minutes east. This is the sixth
comet which has been seen since Nav LIST
Ave being new discoveries, all but two O
which we're first observed by Americans
and it is certainly high compliment to
the industry and skill of American astron
omers that they have shown so fine q
record, The total amount which Mr.. Il
II. Warner has given in comet prizes dur
ing the past year is 81 300 which show.
that the interest taken in astronomical
affairs In this country is greatly increasing