Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-01-25


N. Y. have formally accepted bequest Of
300 900, left to the institution by the Hon.
Edwin B. Morgan of Aurora The college
has now n permanent endowment fund Of
100000 all of which. besides $4,000, in
buildings and other forms, has been the
gilt of The same benef;.ctor.
management that safety Improvements
can only he intro laced at the price of
blood. Senator Wagner, who in the grim
hunor of New York politics was chair
n,n OF the Senate committee on rtilrua j.
which killed the bill for railroad com
mission, has paid the extreme penalty iol
himself -Boston Transcript.
The annual report of The national board
of trade quotes statement made on the
authority Of Sir John Lubbock, that the
trade of Crest Britain at the present time
IS Car led on BY means Of 80 2 per cent
piper, and only a half Of / per cent pre-
clous metals. and states that this would
seem to confirm the view that advancing
civiIz uiun tends to put gold and SILVER in
he b background, AMI to sh,w that the fear
nterlained by some that commerce NAV
p ssiby come TO u sttnd>til ior want OF
coin Is altogether groundless.
The newspapers have revived this an.
cirnl anec0lote of the elder Bennett: When
Page, the artist. had p'inted his picture OF
Venus, the public would not come 10 see
1t, and his friends begged the elder Ben
nett to give such notice of the painting
as would attract the public. II will.
SAID MIR. Bennett, "bul must do it in IN,
own way" Pages friends gratefully
agreed. The next morning Mr.. Bennel
attacked the ploture rs immoral; the ex
hlbilion was crowded; Page made LITTLE
fortune and always abused Mr.. Bennett.
At Dallas, Texas, A. Little, who ha.
been guest at hotel there, went into the
office at night, when nobody was present
but Ford Parker. the night clerk, and II
coloted waiter. Little handed P.u ker II
parcel asking him to put 1t in the ,fe.
Parker turned toward the safe, when Lllh
>prang nj him with II drawn revolver
ordered him 10 throw up his hands and
keep still He then attempted to rob the
sale, but Parker rushed ON him, wrencheu
the p'sol from his hand AMI shot him
through the body, lnhicting a morta
wound.
A Scotch correspondent writes of tn,
work of Moody and Sankey in Edinburgh
The labors of the evangelist among tn,
lapsed masses ofthe city are being crownec
with manifest tokens OF success. Day after
day thousands of e'ple assembled in the
Corn Exchange, many of them men and
women who have been leading hopeless
and wicked lives, and who were perfec
strangers 10 religious services. Converse
tions in the inquiry meetings have ELECTED
many heart rendlng tales of woe. OF family
strife. of misery and degradation, o
drunkenness and vice."
The supreme court of the United State
has just rendered an important decision
covering a large class of cases in whicI
litigants have sought TO transfer their suit
from state to federal courts on the groun,
that the parties were citizens of differen
states or on other grounds The decision
in The case OF Hames against tt e Contr
Costa water company OF the city of Oak
land. Cal, depr' catesthegrowing endenc,
to invent EXCUSES for seeking transit.
lrnun tot n tn I'D ;n,;nx
down number of conditions which mus
he met before such suits can be entertain
ed by The federal courts in cases OF com
plant BY stockholders against directors q
corporations. Jus ice Miller rendered tn,
decision, all concurring. This is likely t
check practice which was rapidly l0ld
my down the federal courts with suits O
his character.
True believers are greatly agitsted owe
the expected coming of the Mehdi or Nc
hammedan Messiah. The prophet himseI
ioresnw this event, and prophesied that h
would be an Arab and descendant of hi
own house. FL Mehdi is expected to unit
the faithful, restore Islam. and rule owe
The Mohammedans throughout the world
According toa prophecy til 1t has flr sew
eral years been carefully oirculated anon
The Moorish Musulmans, he will make hi
appearance on the first day of the mont
Moharram in the year 1900 NOV. |:
1882. He will be forty years of age an
Of noble appearance, and one OF his arm
will be longer than the other. A religion
devotee of great sanotily 10 North Airic
is already known MS Ell Mshd (literaIy
the teacher), and 10 personal appearauc
corresponds exactly with the desc, iplio
in prophecy. He will probably attempt
play the pat of the Messiah, and, aide
by fanatical following. may seriousl
threaten European influence in India, Egg
and Algeria.