Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-01-16
Personal and ImpersOnaI |.

NY.
The students of the Lyndon literary
institute have commenced the publication
Of the Institute Chimes.
The Castleton Congregational church is
90 years old and contemplates celebrating
| its centennial next year.
Miss Vera Manning, neice Of Cardinal
Manning, has entered n convent She is
an heiress to 100000 year.
Since last March 100000 copies tof a
flash literature" book have been sold by
Chicago publishing house.
The Mormon papers claimed Congress
man Iaskell's death was u judgme. mt on
him for opposing polygamy.
During the last five years the average
of human life in England has increased
from 80 8 years to 4l.9years.
The Bartboldi pedestal fund loan exhi-
bition at New York closed the LIST. The
net amount realized is about $4,000.
More marriage licenses were issued in
Bostoo on Christmas day than on any
day before in the history of the city.
New York has no 600 persons of school
age who are members of no Sunday
school, either Catholic or Protestant.
Upwards of s4OoOOoo worth of goods
are sold annually by Burlington whole,
sale dealers. exclusive of the lumber
trade.
The missionaries in China, to the num-
Der of 23l have presented another petition
to the House of Commons against the
infamous op um traffic.
Ex Congressman j. Hyatt Smith, OF
Brooklyn, is to preach again. He has
been engaged for one year as pastor of
the f ist Congregational church.
The Church of the Disciples proposes 10
raise the sum of $4,000 to sustain two of
their ablost ministers in Boston for the
ensuing wear. 7 his church has been
making rapid strides in numerical growth
the past pear.
The SPLIT between the conservative and
liberal branches Of the subdivision of the
Baptist denomination called the Disciples
of Christ is getting so bitter that separa
ton is not unlikely.
Vermont is well represented in the
Massachusetts, state government. The
attorney gene raj (Hon. Edgar j. Sherman
one senator and eight representatives are
native born Vcrmonters.
BY the will of George 0. Clark of
Milton an estate valued at $500. 900 is
left in trust for his widow and two chill
dren afe whose deceaso, and that of all
relatives, the remainder OF the estate is to
go to Harvard college.
The viii of the late James H. Frey, a
wealthy merchant Of Baltimore, makes
the Methodist Episcopal missionary soce-
ty his residuary lega,ee besides comforting
other requests upon Methodist institutions.
1t is specified that $1,000 shall be used
for endowing scholarships in the Barelty
theological school.
In France there arc more than half a
million protestants, with Il thousand Prot
cstant pastors, more than !, 200 Protestant
religious journals The Protestant Bible
society of France gives Il New Testament
TO every new Protestant commitment and
Il Bible to every newly married couple.
Nearly 500 churches have burned in this
country in tbs last nine ycarsi an average
of seven or eight month. There were
, ll9 in the II months ending with last
June, and abou one fifth of the fires were
it cendialy, half rs many from lightning
and careless janitorS, and bad heating
appHatCs made up IL large part Of the
rest,
NJ. Ctpel audac.ousy declared in
recent lecture that "by uttcrarce of
word, sharp as the click of trigger" the
Ca tholic church could compel Catholics to
iah their children from the public schools
ana send them to parish schools. a ives
terp paper asks the pertinent question.
Willy not try the click of the trigger on
the saoons?' that are 50 largely owned
ana supported by Catholics.
The largest bell in the world is in
kinta, Japan. Il is q feet high and 16
lnc res thick at the rim. 1t is sounded by
u appended piece of wood, like batter.
ing ram, which strikes it on the outside,
and its booming can be heard for miles
No body knows when or by whom it was
east, aud though its surface is covered
with characters, no scholar ha, yet been
ab lie to translate them.
The ceremony of receiving Sitting Bull
int o the Catholic church at Fort Yates has
been indefinitely postponed because Sitting
Bail cannot mako up his mind which of his
two wives he will let 90. Bishop Marty
has had him under his care for several
m onths, and his instructions were being
IA pidly absorbed by the chief; but separa-
lion from his wives proved too much, and
he will probably return to heathenism.
| in Paris, the Mc.All mission is doing a
great work. In ana around Paris it has
30 stations containing nearly G,O0O sit
tngs. There are industrial and medical
schools connected with the mission, and
the people, beholdny Christianity as a
dispensation of mercy and minis,ration of
good, wonder and come again. About
3G 900 children attended the schools of the
mission the last year, and many Of these
children never saw Bible, ard never
heard a prayer in their own tongue, until
they entered these schools.
Mr.. Kjm Ok Kim, the Corean charqe
dcB,tleS at Toklos. has under his care 50
young men who were sent 10 Japan for
their education, English to be the basis
for their requirements. s. violent was