Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-24

Rev. G. S. Sargent will be installed al
pastor of the Congregational church
Fairhavcn, on Thursday, January 49, Rev
s. b. L. Spear, of Middlebury, will preach
the sermon. Rev.S +. Calhoun, OF Orwell
Rev. G. Hall, of Vergennes. President
Hamlin and Prof. Foster, of Middlebury
college, will also take part In the exer-
cises.
The late DR.. Titus Coan could look
back upon we'll spent life. Forty-eigh'
wears of service in the Sandwich Islands,
in which time the inhabitants were
changed from barbarians to Christian
community; must have been pleasant
retrospect and must have increased the
Joy of the prospect as the aged saint looked
forward to his reward.
Rev DR.. Jessup, a prominent mission
airy of the Presbyterian board, at Beirut,
but now in this country, was recently
appointed consul. general at Teheran,
Persia, but declines the appointment. as
he considers his position at Beirut OF
paramount importance. S G. w. Benja-
min, well known as an artist and a
writer, has now been appointed to the
place.
Nearly 5000 Sunday school scholars
met at St. James church, Montreal on
New Years. A report given at that
time showed that the various Methodist
Sunday schools in the city had contributed
S3,4795l for missions during he past
year, the number of scholars being
2473, officers and teachers 318. What
American city can show a record OF
more than dollar per member for its
Sunday schoolsp
A New York clergyman edited his
hearers last Sunday with the announce
ment II am kept from stealing and lying
only from the dread of future punishment.
He must be chad lot" and the sooner
he is invited to "step down and out" from
the pulpit, the better for his congregation
and the public. -Monitor.
Judge Seymour D. Thompson tells the
Missouri state bar association that "the
failure of the law" is due in part to the
character of the bar. He thinks thai
admission should be made less easy, and
that the bar itself should take this matter
in hand, somewhat as in England, where
barristers and solicitors are not created by
the courts.
HIS HOPES BLASTED. For short time,
a very short time, Pennsylvania miner
imagined he was the car of Russia. He
the Pennsylvania man. put can of
dynamite in the stove to dry. All the
neighbors have been supplied. without
going for it, with kindling wood from the
house the stove was in. The man who
buys the lot where the house used to be
will have no occasion 10 dig any cellar.
There is one already on the site of the
house that was. The miner himself has
not reported yet. When it come to
removing men suddenly, dynamite can
teach Arthur great deal. The man who
is removed by dynamite never publishes
explanatory cards in papers, and never
asks to be reinstated or vindicated. On
the contrary he sinks down, or rather
rises up into obscurity.-TrIs Sytings.
1t is not in this country alone that self
made men rise to eminence in the public
service. 1t sometimes ha opens in England
and remarkable instance of it is the case
of Rt. Hon. w. ii. Smi h. His father
kept small news stand in an obscure
and disreputabie street, but rose in the
world by establishing newspaper boot h
at railroad station, which was the begin
ming of business now worth $250,000 a
year. The son acquired good common
school education and assisted his father in
the business. After rising almost to
control the newspaper selling business in
L ,ndon and making himself useful in
parochial and local matters he stood for
parliament in Westminster and was de
feated. But on II second trial he VS.
successful. He soon made himself promi-
nent in the House rs a man of business,
and Dlsraeli m lde him financial secretary
of the treasury and afterwards head of the
He retains his place in the
news agency and is said to be popular
member of society in London and in
Buckshire, where he owns a fine country
seat.
The long haired apostle of the lily and
the dado is not receiving a very warm
welcome back 10 England. The Pal!
Mall Gazette says that although his
mission is an admitted failure, he had
been allowed to leave the United States in
peace;' and quoting Nine. Missions
remarks that In England hr. Wilde did
not appear clad AS he did in America,
because that would not be tolerated there,
the G0zeNe says; "In this the songstress
does wrong to the measureless liberation
of contempt which prevails in this coun-
try. Except the little street boys, no one
would take any notice of the way in
which Mr.. Wilde was clad, so long as he
to be clad at ALL" The 81
james Ga7eIe hopes that Oscar will fall
into the hands of other ladies rs sensible
and as Christening to his ignoble spirit rs
NINE. Nilsson, for from woman alone is
his hope of salvation. They are ever
hopeful TO the weak and soft TO the soft,
and besides. there is much in Mr.. Wids's
which leads to the ir ference
that he himself is II woman spoiled"
The Daily News calls him "a melancholy
and monolonous lmpoSer." Is this not n
pretty dish to lay before the king of the
sunfower and the storkp