Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-08-08
Personal and ImpersOnaI.

The work on the new Baptist church at
St. Adams is being rapidly pushed forward.
Prof. E II. Higley of Middlebury col
lege has returned after years stay in
Germany.
Prof. Egbert G. Smith of Andover
seminary has declined the presidency Of
Bowdoin college.
The coming national council of Congre-
gationalists will be held at Concord, N.
H., some time in October.
Prof. Harper of Morgan park theology.
cal seminary, Chicago, has a correspond.
ence class in Hebrew of 635 pupils.
1t is said that thirty-three reformed
drunkards joined the Methodist Episcopal
church in Cleveland, Ohio. in one year.
Rev. d. Dorchester, Jr., formerly of the
faculty of the Vermont Methodist semina-
ry and later of the New England confer
ence, has been elected to the chair OF
political economy in Boston university.
Rutland Baptists have invited Rev
Chas. A. Reese of the Dearborn street
Baptist church, Boston. to become their
pcstor.
A ship canal across Florida is now
talked about. 1t would lessen the cost per
trip of steamer hound to southern port
some $1,000.
Rev. Mr.. Adams of Pennington. N. H.,
has accepted a call from the Free Baptist
church at St. Johnsbury and will begin
work at once.
The St. Johnsbury Lnder says that the
Methodists are making good progress at
Sutton and that Rev. H. P. Gushing draws
crowded houses.
The Howe sewing machine works at
Bridport, Conn.,. were consumed by fire
last Thursday evening. Loss $35O,000;
insurance $270.OOo.
Bishop Hargrove of the M. II. church
South goes to China the coming year to
organize the missions of his church into
an annual conference.
Louisville, KY, has one minister to
every 200 houses, one physician to every
100. one lawyer to every 80, and one
whisky or beer saloon to every 30.
W. r. Blackwell of Philadelphia has
given eleven $1,000 scholarships to Lewis
burg university (BaptisD the recipients of
which are not to use liquor or tobacco.
Rev. f. E. Clark of Portland has been
called to the pulpit of Phillips Congrega-
tional church, South Boston, made vacant
by the resignation of DR.. r. r. Merideth.
Father O'Haron of St. Mary Catholic
church, Wilksbarre. Pa, has proclaimed
that hereafter no lady will be allowed to
attend his church who wears "frizzes" or
"bangs."
Widows in India get nearly three cents
day for grinding grain.
The city of Foo Chow exports S25,OOO,.
900 worth of tea each year.
Over 10000 people have thus far died
from the pestilence in Egypt.
Two hundred and fifty trains run in
Massachusetts each Sunday.
The M. f. church, South, has 2 $50
members in its Mex lean missions.
The city of Lowell, Mass, increased in
valuation three and one-half millions the
past year.
France has 122, 254 more females than
males, the whole population being
81 ,4O5. 200.
Rev. DR.. Geo. N Boardman of Chicago
is spending the vacation at Pittsford, the
home of his wife's father.
Chester A. Arthur, Jr., has been fishing
in the provinces with the Marquis of Lorne
and the Princess Louise.
Eighteen Congregational theological
students are preaching in Minnesota
during the summer vacation.
Rev. DR.. De La Martyr, formerly a
greenback M. c., has returned 10 tie
ministry and will preach In Denver.
King Kalakua and the royal Hawaiian
band will attend the triennial conclave of
the Knight Templars at San Francisco.
S. N. Putnam, a graduate of the Ran
dolph normal school, is to take the position
of principal of the graded school at Derby,
Conn.
A man in New York was fined recently
$500 for giving tobacco to giraffe in
Central Park. Almost simultaneously
tavern keeper in Chicago was fined S. for
selling whiskey to children.
The salaries of the clergyman of the
United States are about $4,000, 900 a year.
The dog tax nets the government about
S16,0O0,000 a year, and the commissioner
of agriculture says it costs $4,000, 900 to
feed them.
A copy of the New Testament can now
be bought for five cents-the price of a
morning paper. In the thirteenth century
it is said Philip the Hardy, the Duke of
Burgundy, paid 100000 francs for copy
of the Bible.
The St. Adams Messenger says: III.
butcher of St. Adams is to be principal of
Barre academy the ensuing year. Mr..
butcher is a graduate of the U. V. NJ,
End acquitted himself we'll last year as
principal of the Hinesburgh academy.
The Methodist ministers salaries in
New York city (including house rent) vary
from 81, 800 to $500, the average about
So, 500. OF the 55 churches, seven or eight
have membership of less than 100. and
as many more below 200. The most
numerous membership is L littl, less than
900.
The Independent speaking of Gov. But
ler's recent religious utterances at Will
lams college and on the occasion of refus-
ing to pardon defaulter Chase, says: 1--WE
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