Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-07-11
Personal and ImperSOnaI.

Personal ana ImperSOnaI.
The English house of lords has refu-ed
third reading for the bill legalizng mar
riage with deceased wife's sister.
During the fiscal year just closed tho
national debt was reduced $l25,OOO,oOO
greater reduction than in any other year
save one.
Rev. r. X. Meredith, ID. D., of Phillips
1 Congregational church, South Boston has
resigned TO accept n call to Union Con-
gregationll. Boston.
Sebec, Maine. uses over thousand
cords OF wood annually in the manufacture
of wooden tooth picks, and turns out
two horse load daily.
The preparatory Lecture" in the
Congregational church began to grow up IN
New England toward the close of the hrst
quarter Of the 18th century.
The lato Longfellow described Felix
Adler's belief as reminding him OF 1.-THE
blank pages in the Bible which come
between Old and New Testaments.
|
The St. Louis CtriSt,1n Adcocdte APP
pears in new and greatly improved
dress. Rev. E. NJ Bounds has just been
appointed associate editor of this paper.
The salary of the dean of Windsor is
ten thousand dollars year, with palace
provided free of rent, a thousand dollars
for every funeral attended, and other
perquistes.
Cassel, Peter and Golpn, London
publishers, have made their business CO.
operative 10 limited extent, giving all
their employees an opportunity to become
stockholders.
Frank l.. Goodspeed, member of the
recent graduating class of the Vermont
Methodist seminary, breaches for the
Warren Congregationalis during The
present summer.
During the past nine years 25O children
between the ages of seven and fifteen
have committed suicide in Paris. The
chief cause of this is supposed to be
desertion by parents.
With two exceptions, Theodore Thomas
and tho Rev. DR.. Storrs, every prominent
man in New York and Brooklyn was said
to have been present at the celebration OF
Beecher's 10Th birthday.
! According to DR.. Dorchester there were
in 1880 6Gl,35S colored Blptists and 9o9'
S95 colored Methodsts. At the same time
there we're 1874 9G9 white Baptists and
1926, Alb white Methodists.
Rev. DR.. Herrick johnson has resigned
the pastorate of the Fourth Presbyterian
church, Chicago, and will give himself
wholly 10 his professorship of homiletics
in the Chicago Presbyterian seminary.
Garrett Biblical institute, the theological
school Of the northwestern university, had
an income last year of $4,000 and
doesn't need any more money" This
the first institution we have ever known to
be similarly situated.
In his Phi Beta Kappa address at the
Harvard commencement Hon. Chls.
Francis Adams, Jr, severely criticised the
preponderance of classics in college cur
ricuums and illustrated his points by the
lives Of his illustrious ances. ors.
John Jacob Astor has cottage" at
Newport, for which he spent over 200, 900.
The interest, taxes, and running expenses
of Pierre Lorillard's Newport property
cannot be less than $50, 900 and as he stays
there on y eight weeks yearly it costs him
nearly 81, 800 week to recreatc and re-
cuperatc.
In the American almanac for 1883 Il
number of brewerics in the United States
is given at 2,74l and the number of
gallons of beer brewed at 5l3, 1920, or
over ten gallons for every man, woman
and child in the land. This is bad enough
but what will it be when we produce an
average of twenty-five gallons for every
inhabitantP
Through the energetic and protracted
efforts of President Cummings of north
western university, Evanston, ILL.,, the debt
on that institution has been wholly iqui.
dated. The school has property, which
because of the growth of the city in that
direction, will soon become worth several
millions and make it one OF the richest
colleges in the country.
Many OF our foreign missionaries are at
home resting and recuperating. Rev. c.
w. Dress of Mexico is at Xenia, Ohio;
Rev. f. w. Parker of India at St. Johns.
bury, VT; Rev. B. II. Bailey of India,
Bevington, Iowa; Rev. Jas. Nudge of
India, SO Bromfield St., Boston, (care j.
P. MageeD; Mrs. I. S. johnson of India,
Williamsburg, Indiana; Mrs. Il. Hoskins
of India, Lynn, Mass; Mrs. G.. II.
McGrew OF India, Kingswood. West
Virginia; Rev. H Mausel of India, Dele.
ware, Ohio; Rev. V. C. Hart of China.
Parksdale, Ontario; Rev. J. c. Davidson
of Japan, Pennington, N. j.. Rev. M. c.
Harris of Japan, Meadville, Pa; Rev. W. t
F. Walker of North China, Greencast,e,
Indiana. s