Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-02-14
Personal and ImnersOnal.

Great Britain is over $400 ,00O, 900 year
The Garfield memorial hospital fund ha
received $4,000 from citizens of Lyons
France.
William and Mary college, one of The
Oldest in the United States has beer
closed.
Cardinal Manning, the highest Roman
Catholic prelate of Great Britain, wearl
the blue ribbon.
Baltimore, Md, has 10000 children .
school age yet the average attendance il
only 100000
DR.. Geo. F. Pentecost received 26i
members into his church last year, 1873 by
confession, " by letter.
Prof. G. H. Dunton, principal of Troy
Conference academy, has been qnite il
from overwork at fire.
Major White, the evangelist, has beer
at Factory Point and other place.
in Vermont the past few weeks.
Harvard college is worth over $5, 900, 00C
yet there was last year deficit of ovel
$4,000 in the running expenses.
DR.. Curry thinks that the M. f. church
should develop more home rule and sell
support among its foreign missions.
Bishop Ireland of St. Paul, MINI, ha'
issued an edct prohibiting Roman Catho
lies from acting as saloon keepers.
Rev. DR.. Carter, president of william:
college, has raised 100000 for thai
institution during his administration.
1t is rumored that DR.. Vincent will bt
at the coming conference at St. Alban;
and will lecture on "That Boys Sister,
The president of Harvard college
approves of and the faculty of Amhers
college strongly disapproves of athletic
ports.
The sixteen old slave states contain
over four and half million persons allow
sixteen years of age who are unable Il
wife.
During the month of December tht
American Bible society issued 1861
volumes and received an income o
S79,9O6.45.
The American Missionary calls woman
,pnortunitu FIR 1porly Il, tho bop,o on,
md foreign missionary field the opportunit,
of The age.
Prof S. S. Greene, the author of serie
Of grammars and for rs years professor o
mathematics in Brown university, die
January oath.
John II. Ingraham is TO edit a series O
books on Eminent Women" The frs
is to be biography of Geo. Elliot b,
Mathilde Blind.
Messrs. Brady, Dorsey and Vail hay
already spent 100000 in the defence O
he Star Route trial Evidently it is ric
thing for the lawyers.
The Presbyterian church purposes t
spend S650,000 for foreign missions tn
coming year. Nearly every missionar
board proposes an advance.
Montreal is 100000 better off becaus
of the money brought in by the lecen
carnival. The Windsor House alon,
accommodated 3,131 guests.
Colorado Legislators deem themselve
either too good to ho prayed for or pas
praying for, since they have dispense,
with the services of the chaplain.
In an old building on Broadway in New
York city there are not fewer than fiiteel
millionaires whose aggregate propert,
will foot up over $200,OO0,0OO,
In recent article Prof. Will, m Well
considers the Roman Catholic church an
the army are the two great foes of tn
French republic in the present crisis.
Rev. j. F. Lowering, past grand chaplain
of the grand post of the G. A R., deliver
ed lecture on Backbone at Baxte
Music Hall, Rutland, last week Wednes
day.
The Cunard steamship company ha
adopted temperance principles and serve
coffee to lis men instead Of grog a
heretofore. This is move in the rich
direction.
The Protestant Episcopal church hope
to raise the sum of 100000 for al
endowment of missionary Episcopates il
memory of the late DR.. living, mssionar'
secretary.
The widow of the late Francis A. Drexe
of Philadelphia paid each year the rent o
more than one hundred and fifty boo
families whose real need ana worth sh
had discovered.
Evidently the Episcopal church is no
wholly lost to orthodoxy since DR.. r
Heber Newton is to be tried for preachins
his recent discourses on and agains
portions of tho Bible.
Rev. E. 2. Roe, the religious novels,
author of barriers Burned AWAY.
From Jest to Earnest" ETC., has bccom
bankrupt by endorsing for his brother
His liabilities are nearly S75 200.
Gambetta Is among the dead, Gen
Chanzy is no more, and now the grea
.rtist, Gustave Dore, has left us. 1t i
remarkable what havoc death has mao
in France dnring the last two months.
Miss Clara Barton, the celebrate,
president of the society of the Red Cros
treaty of Geneva has been rendered b,
Gen, Butler the position of pres dent o
the Massachusetts reformatory prison 70
women.
Pres Z &. Robinson of Brown uniyer
sity has an interesting article in the las
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