VEUILLOT, LOUIS. 



NAMES. 



Rutland Savings Bank $1,814,120 10 



Rutland Trust Company 126,855 00 



Richford Savings Bank and Trust Company.. 52,101 88 



SpringfUd Savings Bank 404,804 42 



State Trust Company, Rutland 867,032 fil 



Vermont Savings Bank, Brattleboro 2,045,482 98 



Wilmington Savings Bank 258,27688 



Winooski Savings Bank 186,408 21 



Windham County Savings Bank, Newfane 868,945 80 



West Fairlee Savings Bank 80 210 54 



Windsor Savings Bank 602,495 OT 



Total $18,421,67814 



The number of depositors is about 45,000. 

 Schools. The following are the school statis- 

 tics for the year ending March 31, 1883 : 



School districts 2.330 



Public schools 2,558 



Average number of days of school in the year. . . 181 



Pupils enrolled in the public schools 72,842 



Average wages per week for male teachers $812 



Average wages per week for female teachers $4 83 



Total revenue for school purposes $548,610 45 



Total expenditure for school purposes $558,289 84 



Appropriations to normal schools $7,620 00 



VECILLOT, Lonis, a French journalist, born at 

 Boynes, Loiret, in 1813 ; died in Paris, April 7, 

 1883. His father removed to Paris and opened 

 a wine-shop, and Louis, at the age of thirteen, 

 was placed in an attorney's office. The attor- 

 ney's wife took an interest in him and excited 

 his literary ambition, and when he was nine- 

 teen, M. Thiers, then Minister of the Interior, 

 engaged him to defend the Orleans government 

 in the semi-official organ at Rouen. His po- 

 lemic talent was at once recognized, and in the 

 following year he was made editor of the simi- 

 lar journal at P6rigueux, and in 1837 was 

 summoned to Paris to write for " La Oharte," 

 which he left to take the chief-editorship of 

 " La Paix." At this period he bore the repu- 

 tation of a free-lance, actuated simply by pro- 

 fessional ambition and government pay, to 

 write in the cause of his employers with a ve- 

 hemence and acerbity which involved him in 

 several dueling affairs. This circumstance, in 

 conjunction with certain intrinsic qualities in 

 his style, always suggested a doubt of the per- 

 fect sincerity of the opinions he upheld during 

 the rest of his life. In 1838 he visited Rome 

 with a friend, and was so impressed with the 

 religious pomps of holy week and the rever- 

 end majesty of Pope Gregory's manner, that 

 he returned a devoied Catholic. His life, as 

 well as his writings, bore witness to his con- 

 version. He published in the next two years 

 several books of meditation, romance, travel, 

 and poetry. Accompanying Gen. Bugeaud to 

 Algeria, he wrote a volume on the " French in 

 Algeria," interspersed with religious philoso- 

 phy. He was appointed, on his return, chief 

 of a bureau in the Ministry of the Interior, 

 but resigned to become one of the editors of 

 " L'Univers." He soon took the management 

 of the paper, and made it the chief organ of 

 the clericals. For attacks on the University 

 he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment. 

 All the changes effected by the Revolution of 

 1789 he condemned, taking the extreme ground 

 in favor of absolute monarchy by divine right. 



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The Revolution of 1848 was hailed by him as 

 ushering the return of theocratic absolutism. 

 The pamphlets entitLd " Les Libres-penseurs," 

 " L'Esclave Vindex," " Le Lendemain de la 

 Victoire," "Petite Philosophie," and "La 

 Legalite," written between 1818 and 1862, are 

 masterpieces of style. While the bishops were 

 disputing as to which of the ancient classics 

 were improper for the study of youth, Veuillot 

 argued vigorously in favor of relegating to obliv- 

 ion the entire heathen literature. The Arch.- 

 bishop of Paris warned his flock against such 

 extreme views, whereupon Veuillot posted off 

 to Rome and obtained, through the general of 

 the Jesuits, an apostolical letter, ordering the 

 prelate to make peace with the "illustrious 

 Paladin of the Church." Napoleon III, in- 

 stigated by the Gallican clergy, finally sup- 

 pressed "L'Univers" in 1861, and forbade 

 other journals to print contributions from 

 Veuillot, who again sought revenge at the 

 hands of Pius IX, but could not induce the 

 Pope to quarrel with his political ally. Six 

 years later Napoleon had need of a brilliant 

 polemic to defend the threatened temporal 

 power of the Pope. When " L'Univers " re- 

 appeared, it waged a fierce war against the 

 Gallican clerics for not upholding the Syllabus. 

 At the (Ecumenical Council, Veuillot was the 

 only layman present. After the fusion at Frohs- 

 dorf, when the royalist politicians claimed to 

 have persuaded Henry V to renounce the 

 white flag and accept a constitution, Veuillot 

 showed himself more royalist than the King 

 by declaring that he no longer deserved the 

 support of good Catholics. Veuillot insisted 

 on identifying the restoration of the power of 

 the. Pope with the royalist cause, on which ac- 

 count his paper was repeatedly suspended dur- 

 ing the septennate of MacMahon. Of his nu- 

 merous published books of fiction, philosophy, 

 history, etc., all of them stamped with his ex- 

 treme religious views, the most remarkable is 

 " Les Odeurs de Paris," a terrible satire, de- 

 nouncing the corruption of manners under the 

 third empire. As a writer, Veuillot ranks 

 among the greatest masters of French prose. 



VIRGINIA. State Government. The following 

 were the State officers during the year: Gov- 

 ernor, William G. Cameron, Readjuster; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, John F. Lewis ; Secretary of 

 State, William C. Elam ; Treasurer, David R. 

 Revely; Auditor, S. Brown Allen; Second 

 Auditor, Henry H. Dyson ; Attorney-General, 

 Frank S. Blair ; Superintendent of Public In- 

 struction, Richard R. Farr; Commissioner of 

 Agriculture, James M. Blanton ; Superintend- 

 ent of the Land-Office, J. W. Brockenborough ; 

 Railroad Commissioner, George A. Martin. 

 Court of Appeals : Chief-Justice, Lansford L. 

 Lewis; Judges, R. A. Richardson, T. T. Faunt- 

 leroy, B. W. Lacy, and D. A. Hinton. 



Political. Although the November election 

 of this year did not include any general State 

 officer, but was confined to members of the 

 Legislature (half the Senate and the entire 



