Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-10-25

A church in a country village recently
circulated a paper among its congregation
asking for contributions "for the purpose
of paying the organist and boy to blow
the same"
A three years old boy. of pastor, who
lives in the town of F. on the st. Al
bans district of the Vermont Conference
asked his mother this question: "Is Mrs,
Jesus Gods wifep"
Brooklyn furnishes the latest novelty
in the way of churches. A large congre-
CATION in that city Sunday, in new edi. /
fee, owned, it is said. by workingmen, to .
worship humanity and TO drink beer. .
A new political weapon is used in Min /
nesota against Senator Window. Photo I
graphs of his fine house in Washington are
being circulated. The theory is that a sen
ator has no right to own a good house. /.
An ugly looking tramp chased SONG
school children in West Randolph Mon
day. He probably belongs to the band
that has been committing depredat'ons
and lewdness in that vicinity for some
time. No arrests have been made.
Mrs. Desire Victoria Touchard Koop.
manschap gets all the property of her late
husband, whose name occupied great
deal of space in the newspapers few
years ago.-S. Louis Post Dispatch. We
should say so.
The students of the Columbian univer-
sity law school at Washington would look
wei filling a protest" against a colored
fellow. student. They could not disclose
their ignorance of the fundamental law OF
the country more completely.
A colorcd man, j. r. Ballard. was
recently ordained in st. Johns church,
Jacksonville, Fla, which is called the
most arstocratic church in the state, by
Bishop Young. in the presence of IL distin-
guished audience. 1t was the first case in
the state where a colored man has been
ordained in white church.
/. The governor of South Carolina has
appointed the commissioners of election
for that state. The whole number is 20l,
of whom Is are republicans and six green
hackers. The remainder are all demo.
Gratis. A democratic correspondent thinks
that "Gcv. Hagoods course in this matter
must be highly commended"
Our worthy lieutenant gov ernor started
out Sunday with the laudable intention of
attending divine service at the Baptist
church, but by mistake strayed into the
Methodist sanctuary, aud did not discover
7 his error until he was told of it in the
afternoon. Rev. Mr.. Miller must be
preaching good Baptist doctrines these
, ! Jova - W'nfcb71l1u
G The canvass of Will L. Eaglish for
: congress in the seventh Indianna district
n is not prospering so we'll as might be
expected. He has made bad failure rs
speaker, and has had to trust to others to
talk for him. Besides, he has Il popular
man to contend with. Mr.. Peellc, the
republican candidate, is making a fine
y canvass, and will be reelected unless
, overcome by the corrupt use of money,
1t is currently reported that digitated
stockings, calculated to relieve soft corns
: are to take the place of the pudding bags
If now in vogue; also, that mismated stock
t ings are to be all the go this season
Concerning the latter announcement
a shrcwd observer has sad This seems
!. to be making a virtue of necessity-pcuplC
ings which are not mis- mated"
The fight over the spcakcrship is occu
pying the attention of the democratic
IS organs to the exclusion of almost every.
y thing else, it being taken for granted that
10 tho party is to have tho next House
. Carlisle is believed to be the strongest
- man, and in square, open fight would
doubtless win. But Randall is known Il
be sly and to have made himself sole
=, with the southern members.
8. Prince Bismarck has just celebrated The
~ twentieth anniversary of his services n
} the prime minister of Prussia. lie foun,
g his king harrassed by domestic part,
lie troubles and the cordial hatred of nearl,
everybody in what, twenty years ago, wa
called Germany. To-day, the king is al
Mt emperor, Herr Won Bismarck has become
y prince aud q chancellor, and German
is great empire of over forty-fivc millio
people.
&c Among the stories being told of AIDE
10 laide Phillips, since her death, is on
1t about how years ago in Havana sine nurse
poor and freindless girl in her compan,
through the yellow fever, and tinall
III caught the dreaded disease herself. Here
N too, report says, Miss Phillips met wit
m the nishap Of Il disappointed love, bu
at those draw to heavily upon their imaginl
=, ton who attribute 10 any such matter th
too early death of that brave and buoyan
m life.
Objection is made TO Mr.. New, tn
r. assistant secretary of the treasury, an
now acting secretary, that he is the vice
- president of the American tinlnco com
OF panv, with capital of million dollars
rd which promises TO promo'e li1aucit
oil undertakings of various kinds. The la>
b. one by the way which kept A. Stewal
No out of the clbne t-forbids the secretary
to engage in any private business; an
~ another law extends II similar prohibition
" to clerks in the department. Mr.. New
81 should choose between his private aft tir
tn affairs and the public service, and ab lndo
lis one or the other of them.
nS Thurow Weed has now been sutfern
er from chills and fever for ovcra fortnight
~ and though he is enough better to take h
customary interest in politics, he does NJ
H. think he shall recover. He takes no stoc
'o in the citizens movement in New ! or
en- city; good men in it, TO be sure, --indee
We he has "nevcr seen political outbrea
T., backed up by men of so much integrity
T character, devotion to true Interests Of Il
=. city, all of the city, all of whom are pc
lis fectly disiuterested, and mostly men
he large wealth but it is sure 10 becon
CO an object of plumber to "all the hummer
a strikers and good-for nothlngs generally
and will result Sin tho biggest political Ii
zle imagi nable."
n The director OF the mint reports tn
,w the fiscal year en- ling with jane 30, 1873
m. was the year of greatest coinage in Il
10 history Of tho government rA' TOT
ne coinage of gold was SS0,4l3,4lG5), Il
th total coinage of silver, 1927, 1888, $3.50, N
r's the total coinage Of base metal, SG4f.757
aL rs, making grand total of Sly, Sil 80
oh As the entire money store of the countr
) is is 1913, II 0 ,432, of which S7lS,S00, SOC
Ill, ~, IS !