Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-06-27
parsonaI and lmDerSOnaI,

Personal and lmperS0nai.
Ludlow people are making an attempt
to secure the removal of the Proctorsvlile
hank to that place. If this project fails 1t
is proposed to start n new bank.
Rutland has nine banking houses.
Rev. W. j. Murphy of Portland. Me-.
has received a call TO the Congregational
church in Chester.
Rev. Thos. Mackie, formerly supply
in the NJ. +. church at Weston, Cam
bridgeport, and elsewhere, is candidating
in the Townsend Congregational church.
D. W. Abercrombie, formerly professor
of Greek in the Vermont academy at
Saxton's River, is now principal OF the
Worcester, Mass, academy.
Rev. f. w. Parker, D. d., was an
nounced to preach at st. Johnsbury last
Sunday. Bro. Parker has been very
successful missionary in Moradabad'
India, and will receive cordial welcome
from his many Vermont friends. We
hope that he may be able to make tour
of the churches and inspire greater zeal
| in the great cause of missions.
What does the St. Johnsbury hader
mean when it says, under head of Barnet,
John Buffum has been paid $500 by the
lumber company for injury done TO his
meadow by the laws" We never knew
before that any kind of a law could injure
a meadow, and, if such thing were
possible, We see no reason why lumber
company should be called upon TO pay
$500 for such injury. Will Bro. Harriss
rise and explain'
Lyndonville Y. M. G. A. opened their
new reading room on Saturday last.
Kentucky has $4,000 Baptists.
Japan has Buddhist priest for every
$50 inhabitants.
The Marion, Iowa, first national bank
has a woman, Mrs, Louisa A. Stevens, for
president.
i, A hundred years ago the United Stat cs
had one church for every LOO inhabi.
tants, now it has one for every 529.
France has over 100000 people who
live in houses that are wholly destitute Of
(; windows.
l. Ga July 4th Oberlin college celebrates
its anniversary IS college and colony
:, This school was founded on the principle
{; of free and equal rights to all.
. Vermont Congregationalsts contributed
for benevolent purposes the past year al
average of S4.0l for each member.
) Vermont Mehodists increased 907 il
r. number during the past year, Vernon
T.; Congregationalists decreased 2l0 in tn
l. -ame time.
!, II costs the American people more TO
obacco than for bread and potatoes.
j. Vermont NJ E conference has Is So
y members, New Hampshire conference
y, 1850. The probable value of churcl
s. property in Vermont conference is 1851,
90S; in New Hampshire conference
S667, $50.
A In speaking of Japan as an "overrate,
l nation" the Rev. 7. F. Clark says in tn
II Northern: There is only one decent roa
a in the island of Nippon, the others ar
= little better than bride paths. Alon,
Is these the products of tho interior ar
If brought on the backs of men or pack ami
e mails, and it costs rs much to bring a to
a of rice from a point fifty miles inland t
the coast as it does to send it to England
o Only one tenth of the land yields anythin
ee and not one fourth of the fertile land
u under cultivation. There are only tw
"a saw mills in the nation and only few
L. thousand horses."
Several of the seminary students ar
q engaged in agency work during the sun
t. mer vacation.
le Hon. j. f. Dickerman of New York
q who has been appointed one of the thre
e civil service examiners for Vermont, is a
'e old Sc minary student.
IS Congregational home missionaries j
% Vermont, received last year an averae
,e salary of $49S.50. In about half tn
i'd instances the use of the parsonage Wa
80 given in addition to this.
M OFT the 100 Congregational churches il
h Vermont only 40 have settled pastors
ie four less than last year; of the remainde
, eighty-three have acting plstors, clever
re less than last year; and forty four ar
I'd wholly without pistors, thirteen NOR
G. than last year.
ne Rev. 7. j. Clark has been engaged t
10 supply the Congregational church in PERT
" The recent Andover commencement hs
an demonstrated that Joseph Cook, while
lie may possess great abilities in some diret
as tions, lacks tact and an instructive know
b. edge of the proprietes of the occasion.
8. Tufts college has received S175,0C
I'D during the past two years; wills hav
y; also been made which, upon the death
d, the testators, will give the college $3.50, 0C
tn more. How many are remembering OF
tx seminary in their willsp
ce The last piece of Kentucky kukiuxis
| fat l;cn etnI hn I've