Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-02-21
Personal and ImpersOnal.

of six lectures.
Garfeld's tomb is still protected by q
military guard.
St. Adams w. G. T. U. held musca
festival on February 2lst and 22nd.
The census Just taken shows France to
have IL population of 3S,672,000.
Mechancsville Methodists gave Rev
w. G. Oliver donation of $50 in gold.
Mr.. Gladstone reads Dante, Homer
and Virgil in the original for recreation.
Senator Edmunds was formerly presi
dent of the Burlington base ball club.
Rev. C. d. Hills, pastor of the Saratoga
street Methodist church, Boston, is serious
ly i'll.
During December the exports from the
United States amounted to $3O00,000 a
day.
Rev. Mr.. Riegler, professor of Greek at
the academy at Saxton's River, has gone
home i'll.
The little daughter of the Rev. Mr..
Bell, pastor of the Bristol NJ. E. church, is
seriously i'll.
Susan B, Anthony has been left a
fortune She will, however, not retire
from public life.
Rev. C. w. Thompson, formerly of
Danville, is to make his home in New
Haven, Conn.
| The new missionary report of the M. +.
board of missions is out and is document
we'll worthy of study.
DR.. J. NJ. Buckley believes in sermonic
literature, but thinks it should be used Jas
cane and not as q carriage.
Rev. I. w. Peach of Heath, Mass, has
been invited to supply the Congregational
church at Pawlet, VT, for year.
Gov. Butler has ''stirred up things"
generally in Massachusetts by removing
Warden Earle Of the state prison.
Rev. John r. Cow, pastor of the Bap.
fist church at Fairhaven has been compel
led to leave his work from ill health and
go south for the winter
Daniel j. Noyes, d. d., for more than
80 years professor in Dartmouth college,
has been compelled to resign her position
because of failing health.
The address of Rev. c. NJ Brown,
formerly of Chelsea and well known in
that section, is Forestburgh, Dakota, of
Rev. o. S. Basford, Redfield, Dakota.
The latest returns of the quarterly
conferences of the Canada Methodist
church MITIGATE that the basis of union
will be accepted. The laymen seem to be
much more in favor of it than the clergy.
Lyndonville young ladies attending the
Methodist church have formed society
called the "Odd Girls and have already
secured over S75 toward painting and
kalsomining the interior of the chapel.
Leadvlle, Colorado, has 800 Methodists,
$50 Presbyterians, 100 Baptists, and so
Congregationalists. The Y. NJ. C. A. has
lS5 members and holds regular Sunday
meetings.
1t gives us great pleasure to note an
article in the Couqregationa iSt by a
Boston physician concerning the benefit OF
eating at night. He says it is always
harmless to eat lightly at night if one is
hungry.
Rev. Russell Jennings of Chester, Conn,
has lately given $4,000 each to six Baptist
churches in the vicinity of his residence.
Mr.. Jennings, who retired from the
ministry quarter of a century ago, has
got rich by making augers.
According to E. w. Gilman's estimate
the southern whites in 1850 will number
$4,000 900, while the southern blacks at
that date will number $4,000 600, and
before the twentieth century there will be
twice as many blacks rs whites in the
southern states.
A little Moslem child accounted for her
preference for the Christian religion by
saying, II like your Jesus because he
loved little girls. Our Mohammed did
not love little girls With unerring
instinct she had seized upon at least one
of the great differences between the two
religions.
In Utah the various evangelical denom-
nations rate us follows: Presbyterians,
1s clergymen, 80 members. 81 teachers,
1000 scholars; Congregatonalists, z
clergymen. $50 members. 10 teachers, 700
scholars; Episcopalian, cergymen, 1876
members, 5 teachers, $50 scholars; Meth
dists, 10 clergvmen, 1879 members, 81
teachers. 430 scholars.
At Athens, Greece, January II, 1888,
Rev. Frank f. Woodruff and Miss Ellen
Eliza Hamilton were united in marriage
in the presence Of q large number of
American residents, friends of bride and
groom. The groom, the Rev. Frank E.
Woodruff. is son of John Woodruff, |
Esq, of Underhill, Vt. He graduated at
tne university vi NeEuOnl III the CLASS OF |
rs. From 1875 to 1873 he was principal
of the Barre academy. The bride is the
only daughter of DR.. II. W. and Mrs.
Eliza Hamilton, late of Brandon (now of |
West Rutland.) Fitting for college under
j, S. Cllley of Brandon, she passed the |
two first terms of the freshman year at
but entered the university of
V ermont with the class of rs; at the |
of the third term, being the
first. and for time, the only female pupil
in the university. She graduated in the
class of 70.
Is PAPER TO DE THE RAIL OF THE FL
TURE.-lt is well known that one of the |
best materials for Car wheels is paper. 1t
is now stated that paper can be utilized for
the manufacture of rails, in place of steel. |
which has almost dis; LACED the use of iron. |
1t is said in favor of the new material that |
the cost per mile will be less by one:third
than that of steel, and it will last much |
longer, being almost indes.ructble. There
is M pxnanSion Or contraction from, hoo. |