Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-02-06


v and industrial training of twenty lndiar
J. youths at their institution.
y The Universalist society of Ludlow have
secured the services of Rev. A. A. Ricl,
! son of Rev. Luther Rice, well known in
that section forty years ago, and who has
no less than three other sons in the Uni
, versalist ministry.
'. Congress is disposed to grant a
pension of $3.50 Il year to Scptimia
, Randolph Meikelham, the only surviv.
I ing grandcbild of President Jefferson
She is now employed in n government
office in Washington.
Rev. Wooster Parker of the Congrega-
tional church, Belfast. Me-. from 1856 to
1870, died Friday, aged 76. He was a
native of Underhll, VT, he was settled
first as minister at Castne in 1882 and
afterward at Orno and Dover.
Minister Morton at Paris is so much
pleased with photograph of the Lafay.
ette statue at Burlington that lie has
written for another copy to send to the
present marquis of Lafayette. with news-
paper accounts Of the dedication.
The sale Of the Sund,y school helps Of
the Baptist publication society for the
present year has reached the enormous
number of 100000, the large Quarterly
| Loo - O00 Th, ,t,,ft1 fNf
the Superintendent alone is 5000.
| Rev. George w. Magill, who was at
one time well known clergyman in
Cornwall, Vt, died suddenly Of heart
disease in Amherst. Mass, on Sunday.
He was 73 years old. He removed from
Cornwall 10 Amherst several years ago.
The Baptist church at Richmond. Va.
ministered to by John Jasper, who is
famous for believing that the sun "do
move" round the earth, is still as flourish
ing as ever, though it has lately had some
little trouble, and twenty members have
seeded.
In the city of New York, the expense
imposed for protection against few
thousand criminals, most of whom have
been made such by the neglect of society
to educate properly the Young, is fifty per
cent more than the whole cost of the
public schools.
The sum of S250225 has been sub
seribed by wealthy Bostonians as a per-
manent fund FOR the Massachusetts insti.
tue of technology, to be called the
civilian Barton Rogers fund" The
income from the fund only is to be used
for he support of the institute.
Robert Gordon, a colored man Of Gin.
cinnati, recently deceased, left by will
$25 900 for the establishment of home
for aged and INDECENT eolored women;
81 900 to a colored orphan asylum. The
possibilities of the United States are
shown by the fact that Gordon was born
slave.
Low Foo, ChinamaD, when converted
at Canton, sold himself rs slave in order
that he might go to Demarara and preach
the gospel TO his fellow countrymen there.
This he has done so successfully that there
is row church Of 200 Cinnamon there
who are supporting missionalies among
their own people.
The Rev d. S;ark, of Poutney. is one
of the oldest preachers in the Methodist
Episcopal church His 18th birthday was
recently celebrated. DR.. Stark is i'll in
vigorous health and breaches occasionally.
He was licensed to preach in 1880, and
Joined Methodist conference the following
year. For sixteen years he was a presid-
ing elder.
DR.. Arthur Edwards of the Northwestern
Christian Adr0cate claims that the Metho-
dists, and not the Presbyterians were the
first to organize church in Chicago. He
claims that Father Jesse Walker came to
Chicago in 1926, and the Rev. Stephen R.
Beggs organized Methodist class meet
ing in 1881. This was The first church
organization in Chicago.
The reformed Episcopal church, which
was formed by separation from the
Protestant Episcopal church ten years
ago, claims to have 5000 commandments,
100 congregations, Sl,000.000 in church
property and 10000 adherenls. In Chi
cago, where Bishop Cheney is greatly
esteemed, one of its congregations has Just
voted itself into the Congregational fold.
The assertion is made by the Rev. Z. f.
Hale, over his own signature. that public
schools in Boston are closed by local
school committees to give an opportunity
for licensing liquor sellers. BY Massachu.
setts law no saloon can be licensed within
given distance of public school. By
the opportune closing of one of the
schools for q few days eleven saloons
obtained licenses. and then it was re.
opened. This is as bad as Tewksbury.
The London Ne,Cs is obliged to confess
luuu luc uOSu haSuihSOhl Sht W tuO
English people ever made by any person"
was that given by the late Mr.. Holloway,
the pill man. amounting to $5,000,000,
part of it to establish sanitarium for
persons of mental unsoundness, and the
rest for a college for women. The asylum
| is sumptuously fitted and furnished and
designed to have nothing about it to
remind the inmates of the purpose for
which he is there. The college has
several women upon its board of trustees
and has fine art gallery for which the
founder has been quietly gathering
masterpieces of Millais, Landseer and
other artists.
A Washington dispatch to the Boston
Herald under date of the Gath inst, says
that Frederick Douglass, the colored
| statesman, recorder of deeds for the
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