Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-07-26

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6remen.
Miss Tourger, daughter of DR.. Ebep
Touiger Of the celebrated New England
conservatory Of music, having been teach
er of music for three years at St. Agne,
Episcopal ladies' school at Bellows Falls.
has resigned.
Rev. DR.. A. NJ. Shipp has been elected
dean of the theological faculty of Wander
bilt university in place of the lamented
DR.. T. o. Summers, who died during the
recent session of the general conference of
the NJ. E. church, south.
Charles II. Goldthwaite, a graduate OF
Harvard college, second in class of 1888,
with several years. experience, has been
chosen principal OF the St. Albans graded
school,vice S. w, Landon who resigned to
accept similar position in Burlington.
W. r. Barnes, an old chum ofthe assist
ant editor Of this paper, has Just graduated
with high rank at the medical department
of the U. V. M. The best wishes of his
many friends will go with him, and wish
him abundant success in whatever place
he may cast his lot.
The late Rev. IL. o. Higley and his sons.
Rev. II. P. Higley of Beloit, Wis, Prof.
Il. Ii. Higley Of Middlebury and A. L.
Higley of Castleton, are all natives Of
Castleton, fitted for college in Castleton
and were graduated at Middlebury be-
tween the years lS30;and 1860.
The Boston Journal says: Probably
the wealthiest sexton in the world is the
one who, every Sunday. ushers to their
seats the congregation ofSt. James chap
ell, Elberon, N. j. lie lives near by in a
$4,000 cottage, has a bank account of sew
eral millions and is known to the world as
G. w. Childs, proprietor of the Philadel.
phia Public Ledger.
Another Vermonter, resident in tho
West, is likely to be member Of cop-
grcss. Rollin A. Horr, twin brother Of
Representative IIorr of Michigan, has just
been nominated by the republicans of the
fourteenth Ohio district afte. 595 ballots.
The brothers are natives of Watsfield,
Washington county.
Rev. Ohan Giadzakyan, native of
Torsus, Asia Minor, converted through
missionary effort, is now in this country
studying medicine. He has taken one
course of lectures at Burlington and COM
pletes his preparation at Dartmouth, when
he will return to work among his own
people as pastor and physician.
The Boston Journal says somebody has
spoken of Gladstone enthusiastically as
"the grand old man." and the phrase hav-
ing been taken up and rid;culed, Sir
Stafford Northcote, the leader of the con-
servatives in the House of Commons, has
been dubbed "the grand old woman" be.
cause of his general tea party aspect"
Prof G. W. Bennett, of Syracuse Uni
versity, is spending his summer vacation
in Boston and Cambridge, not in sight see-
ing and pleasure but in historical research
in the great libraries of those cities He
is at work upon bis history of Christia n
Archaeology, which is nearing completion
He has had his work in hand since 1869
and hopes to have it ready for the printers
next year.
The Rev.. B. Vernon father of DR. Leroy
NJ. Vernon, superintendent Of the Italian
mission, and of DR.. S. NJ. Vernon, pastor
of Roberts Park church, Indianapolis, died
in Mt. Pleasant Grove, June 16, 1882. He
was q member of the NJ. +. church from
boyhood, a local preacher for forty years,
and was greatly respected and beloved in
the community where he lived.
j. j. Lafferty, d. d says In the Rich-
m0nd Christian AdCocate, The Yankees
bother us. They were on the wrong side
in the war. They are given to heresies.
They are avaricous; and, somehow,
nearly every morning in opening the
papers some Yankee has given a million
to found a charity, endow college or
start plank for the poor All those
queer things puzzle us. The religion of
the Yankee runs to udler for the feeding
of the race. The religion OF the south, we
fear. is likely to develop in the line of
Texas cattle-in horns, elevated, hard and
hollow
l Rev. Moses Pattee, famliarly called
Father" Pattee. and widely known in
Northern New Hampshire, died recently
at Bloomfield, VT, at the age of Il. He
began as o preacher in the Methodist
Church nearly half century ago, and
continued in active work until 1881 His
stations extended not only in New Hamp.
shire and Vermont, but into Canada. He
was mainly instrumental in the erection OF
the fine Methodist church at Colebrook
His character was blalueless and his long
life was one Of great usefulness. The
deceased was frequently called to civil
positions, having been four times elected
n representative to tho legislature oi
Vermont and once to that Of New Hamp-
shire, although it proved that ho had moi
been long enough resident of the state tC
qualify him for the scat. The funeral
occurred at Holland, VT, his old heme,
| heVs ~. D. Culllll vi Iuo NeW IalupSHlTt
conference othciated. "Fath or" Pattet
left widow and two children.
3 Levi Scott, d. D., one of the bishops ol
the NJ. f. church, died at his home al
Odessa, Delaware, on Thursday, July 13
4 He had been very feeble for several
. months, and tho death seemed to result
from gradual giving way of the vita
0 powers. Simpsons Cyclopsdia of Meth
odism says Bishop Scott was born il
Odessa, Del, October IL, 1882. His par
ents were members Of the church, hi
, father being class leader and local
preacher, who became in 1903 member
of the Philadelphia con ference, but dice
during the following year. He labore'
l on farm until his sixteenth year, wher
be engaged in mechanical operations. In
; 1922 he was converted aud united with the
: church, and after great hesitation anC
under thorough conviction of duty, hi