Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-09-26
Personal and lmDerSOnaI.

The standing army of the United State
7 numbers $4,000.
1t is estimated that not one in ten of thu
poor people of Russia can read.
The sales of four of Will Carleton
books of poems has aggregated 5000, 900
Col. Geo. A. Merrill bias resigned biz
T position as president of the Howe seal,
works.
President Hopkins expects to resign The
the presidency of ABB. G. F. M. on account
of failing health.
Not more than one third of Great Britain
is embraced in the membership of the
established church.
The new Methodist church of Canada
will have 1854 ministers, 2O36 churches
and 1G8, 83l members.
DIR. Cutler of the faith cure notoriety is
building $4,000 church, securing his
money solely by prayer.
The illiterato population of Kentucky
outnumbers the entire population of Ver-
mont and New Hampshire.
Manitoba university receives $4,000
and fine library from the late A, X.
Isbister of London, Canada.
The resignation of Rev. j. X. Williams
of the West Rutland Congregational
church takes effect October lst
DIR. Garland Chancellor of Vanderbilt
university, Nashville, Tenn, caught eight
hundred trout during his vacation.
In 1880 the corn crop of Iowa exceeded
in value the entire income of all the gold
and silver mines of the United States.
The 10000 commercial travellers of the
country get an average salary of $1,000
and expenses which average So day.
Prof. harrington McIntire of Boston
has been appointed professor of astronomy
and geology in Lewis college. Mortified.
Senator Morrill's son has entered the
law Office of Congressman Tyler, Brattle-
boro, having been recently admitted to the
bar.
The Colorado conference has elected
Ex-Gov. Evans of Denver as delegate 10
the next general conference of the M. E.
church.
The million dollar gift to Indiana
Asbury university by Hon. W. G. DePauw
has been called "a very generous De-
Pauwsit."
On recent Sunday 682 Mormon immi-
grants arrived at New York harbor. All
paid their own passage and purpose to
"gather to Utah"
The citizens of Frankfort. on the. Main
average to be more wealthy than those
of any other city in the world, having
over $4,000 apiece.
Said Schiller: Every man stamps his
value on himself. The price we challenge
for ourselves is given us. Man is made
great OR little by his own will"
Hugh Hastings, proprietor of the New
York Commercial advertiser, died last
week Wednesday. He was prominent as
an editor, a politician and a Catholic.
w. Ii. Mllburn. ID. d., the celebrated
blind preacher, gives the opening lecture
in the course before the Delphian society
of Troy conference academy, Poultney.
Hon. E. A. Rollins of Philadelphia has
offered $50, 900 for the erection of a chapel
for Dartmouth college on condition that
$50 900 more be raised before January l.
Prof. Porden p. Bovine. Phi. D., has
returned from Il fifteen months tour of
Europe and will resume his duty as pro-
fessor of philosophy in Boston university.
The American Bible society will issue
about 100000 copies of Bibles ard Tes
tamens the present year. The new cam
vass being made shows one family in six
to be destitute
Rev. ID. f. Estes of the Vergennes
pulpit has resigned his pastorate at that
place to accept professorship in the
Biblical department of the Freedman's
school at Atlanta, Ga.
Rev d. r. Lowell of the Rutland NJ.
E. church opened the Rutland county
court with prayer and Rev. Geo. + Martin
of the Bratteboro Congregational chulc
the Windham county court.
Among the inscriptions on the banners
at the recent labor parade in New York
were: Every man must have breech
loader and know how to use il, ""Prepare
for the coming revolution" etc
Rev. James Nudge. formerly of India,
takes the pastorate Of the Nj. f. church at
Newtonville made vacant by the resigna-
ton of D. Dorchester, Jr., to accept a
professorship in Boston university.
Miss Gabrielle M. Greeley bid off at
auction her fathers seventy thousand dol
lar Chappaqua farm for ten thousand
dollars. No one bid against her as all
respected her wish to retain he farm in
the family.
The CongrcqatiOnalist groans over the
fact that some of its largest conventions
and anniversaries are held in Methodist
churches because better accommodations
can be found there than in their own
Concordia college, German Lutheran
theological seminary, was dedicated at ST. |
Louis, September 9th, by large concourse
of clergy from various states, Ten thou.
sand people were present and the occasion
was n notable one.
The earl of Dunmore owns 100, 900