Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-02-20
Personal and lmperSOnal.

ing this is the year 5744.
Middletown B ,ptists have engaged Rev.
Mr.. Davis of Nashua, N. II.
Star route John w. Dorsey is stopping
with his family in Middlebury.
The state of New York has Catholic
population Of nearly 100000.
1t is said that the Mormons have raised
the sum of $l5 900 for their Washington
lobby.
Factory Point Methodis.s. having built
a church this year, purpose to build par
sonage next year.
Gen. II. Ii. Baxter Of Rutland, one of
the wealthiest men of the state, is buried
TO day, wednesday,
Thomas Harrison, the hoy preacher"
is reported to be engaged TO Miss Griffith,
Il wealthy young lady of Indiana.
Henry Ward Beechcr and Mayor Low
were among the pail bearers at The funeral
of Thomas Kinsella, the great Brooklyn
editor.
Bellows Falls built last year sonle SO
private dwellings, costing 100000. About
SIS, 900 has been laid out in repairs and
Improvements
Were the United States as densely pop.
ulated as France is, it would have popu
laton of 10000 5000 people.
A lady who had made will in favor
of Rev. DR.. Newman's church for
5000, 900 has changed 1t on account of the
opposition to the doctor.
The Methodsts of the Baltimore confer
ence, NJ. L. church, propose to build &
college for the higher education of women
and aim at 100000 this centennial year.
Vermont was he first state 10 establish
a mint. having coined copper cents ir
1873, before its admission 10 tho union
anedating both Connecticut and Mas,a-
| chusetts in The issue of coins.
Large numbers of English papers and
people are denouncino G!adstone's Egyp,
tian policy. Last Friday mass meeting
of 5000 persons in London condemned The
whole course of the government as {
sacrifice Of thousands of lives.
A notable triumph of engineering skill
in China is the construction of bridge a
Lagang, over an arm of the China sea
1t is five miles long built entirely o
stone, has 800 arches 10 feet high. and thu
roadway is 70 feet wide. The pillars arr
Is feet apart.
Tolman Wheeler OF Chicago, who ha
given about $4,000 to religious corpora
tons, has set apart piece of land Of
Washington Boulevard, near Californi
street, for a theological seminary, and t.
it he will add 100000 for the building
and 100000 for the endowment of tn
seminary.
Among the ten Prussian universities
Berlin leads in point of the number c
students. She has 4,G35. Halle come
next with l, 544, then Breslau with ,42e
and Gottingen with 1,0G4. The gran
total of students is 12,769, Of whom 2,43
study theology, $3.50 law, 1928 medicine
and 5,l14 philosophy.
Tho largest steam Yacht ever built
being constructed FIR Baron Rothschilt
She is 246 feet long ard p feet beam, an
is expected TO be the fastest as we'll a
biggest steam yacht in the world. tn
interior fittings are to be of the mo:
luxurious character and will be furnishe
from Paris.
In speech before the Law and Orde
society, of Boston, Dr.. Philips Brook
said: IF we could sweep intemperant
out of the country, we would wipe OF
almost all the poverty in the land. Thel
would hardly be enough left to Civ
healthy exercise to the charitable in
pulses"
The French Diblolheque National,
which claims to be the largest library
Europe, has 100000 volumes. TIL
manuscripts are bound in 90 900 volume
and the coins and medals number 144, 0O'
The library possesses in addition 10000
engravingS, filing 500 volumes and 400
portfolios.
New York is not likely to have its CO
leoe of music after all. The will Of San
uel Wood, who left enc million dollars ft
the establishment of such an institution.
contested by two sets of relatives, both
whom are opposed 10 the college. A
extensive litigation is fast destroying tt
hopes that were raised by the bequest, f'
the round million has been eaten ava
by the lawyers and is rapidly dminishin
, under their inroads.
A crew OF sailors, who, to use their ow
PHRASE, "did not take any stock
missions to he caunibals," by q somewh
rough experience, changed their mind
Cruising among one Ct these Pact
groups, their vessel struck n reef. ar
foundered. There was no alternative b
to take to the boats and row ashor
although, according to their information
it was choice between the sharks and tt
natives. The part of the coast where the
landed happening to be uninHabited, the
hid themselves in hollow until it BEGAN
necessary to procure something to ea
: even at the risk of being eaten themselve
) At length, one of the boldest ventured
: climb to the top Of a hill, where he cou
) look over Into the populous valley beyon
, All at once his fear stricken companion
! saw him spring to his feet and swing b
hat shouting, Come on boys, 1 see
church"
Vermont Conference.
ITS COMING SESSION AT MONTPELIER.
IT, Con foropoa will bor;,