Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-01-09
Personal and ImperSORal.

ear load OF stove WOOD TO tne St. d Jonns
bury poor people on Christmas day.
The church. manse and school house
which it is proposed to build at Epwortt
in honor of John and Charles Wesley
who were born there, are to cost S25.0OC
Barnum has given $4,000 to the Uni
vIsai-t theological school at Canton, N
Y. 1t ia snid that he has promised t.
leave $25 900 more by will to the institu
tion.}
Rev. S. W. Dixie of Royalton, secretar,
Of the divorce reform association, is mucf
encouraged by the interest manifested II
the subject in the west, where he is calico
oflen to speak.
Rev. E iward Everett Hale exhibited to
lis congregation yesterday black velvet
sermon case, embroidered with golden
cross. which he received as a Christmas
Gift from the Iuns.
The French senate, by Il vote of 2Ol tc
Di. mas U'CIuIi W lc.CoIdUli5h Itlo odi%i y
lhe acrh bishop of Paris rt $4,000 francs
per unnum, the chamber of deputies
having reduced it to 10000 francs.
Ou' oi the 325 members of the house oi
representatives, 22l are lawyers, 10 manu-
rcurcrs. IS farmers, 10 editors, 8 mer-
Giants. bankers, 5 doctors,2 lumbermen,
9miroad presidents, 2 railroad operators.
Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, late pastor of the
American chapel in Paris, is residing
omporarily in Woodbury., N. j., and it is
l.adcrstood that the doctor intends to
r.,ume tie work of the ministry in this
country.
Mr.. Joseph Cook will begin his Boston
course Of lectures on the first Monday Of
february, in fremont Temple. Last
season he delivered twelve lectures, but in
the coming course the number will be
eight,
The Modor Indians of Lava Beds fame
have dwiaded down to little over 100
souls They live on reservation of 1000
acres and are becoming agriculturists.
Taey are losing their warlike character and
are assisted by the government.
Rev. Dr. w. W. Scudder has resigned
his pastoratc at Glastonbury, Conn.,,
hwcause he felt pressing call to return to
missionary work in India, where he had
spent % years. He has received an
urgent appeal from the American board
t. re,urn 10 the field.
The pu5}ic printer of the United States
is Il tho head of the biggest printing
in the world, employing
over . 200 men and turning out annually
shou 100000, 900 blanks, envelopes, ETC.,
3!5 600 blank books, and 10000 900 PAM
M,lsand books. lie uses up every year
abg - 100000.
The will of Prof. Sophocles of Harvard
college,, after several private bequests,
give, he rest of the estate to Harvard
college, the income TO be expended annu
ally n the purchase of Greek and Latin
books. Provision is also made for pub
i ming u Greek lexicon which was in
lr,paration by the deceased at the time of
his death.
Ell Mahdi, the false prophet, is reported
20 b. abou 40 years old. tall, and of a
-oppcry red complexion. An emissarv
sent to interview him some time ago
f unl the Mthdi at Abba, su rounded by
500 or GOO followers, all of them naked,
wi h IRON chain belts ronnd their waists
and with broad swords in their hands
The Mahdi occupied raised seat in their
midst, ana in bis right hand he held a
NrDhet's staff,
Think of the "outcast poor in New
York Women make shirts at even less
than 81 gross 1t has been testified
before n coroner's jury, and that too
within twelve months past, that woman
living in Jersey City made coarse "hicko
ry" shirts for % cents per dozen and
them in this city, paying her
ferringe each way, thus reducing her
actual pay 10 IS cents, or l and 1-2 cents
each There are thousands of women
who do not earn over 50 each per week,
and yet they remain virtuous.
The following anecdote is told of the
late Prof. Sophocles: "He had a great
hatred of imposters of every kind, and it
was not very safe for any such to approach
him. y man recently called on him with
some manuscript, protesting to be auto
graphs Of some of the early fathers of the
church. He exposed the pretensions Of
several without losing his composure;
but when at last the original manuscript
of the Athanasan creed, in the writing of
st A!hanasius (J was produced he called
his visitor s attention to a large club in
The corner Of the room, and pointed
Significantly toward the door, by which
the terrified man made his escape with
some precipitation"
II will he remembered that at the time
af the St. Albans liquor raid, and
wl en- HE hotels of that town closed
doors, the complaint was made that
commercial travellers we're afflicted
Dlc effort to suppress rum selling, and
10 statement was made by committee
le grand lodge Of good templars that
umIcial travellers as class were not
luus OF the bar to The extent assumed
10 their behalf. This statement was
.n0lroverted and the argument held that
ommercial travellers were given to the
use OF liquors
On Saturday evening last the CONNER
ra travellers of Burlington held their
hId annual reunion at the Van Ness
house aud the report Of that occasion
,lys3
ut is worthy of mention that there was