Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-04-19

fined $40 aud costs for violating the
prohibitory law, on Tuesday, and Lo-
renzo Pierce $40 and costs.
There are in the United States >
220 Baptist churches, valued at So
$4,000.
Rev. John Gregory has engaged to
supply the pulpit of the Universallst
Church in Essex, Vt, during the en-
suing year. He will reside in North
field.
The Catholic Mirror says that the
present number of Sisters of Charity
in this country is 95l, being net in
crease of 30 during the past year.
They have now under their charge
% hospitals, 80 orphan asylums, ~
parochial schools, 4 houses of charity,
and | acadcmy-making a total OF
lO0 establishments, extending from
Boston to San Francisco.
A revival is in progress in the Bap
fist and Methodist churches in Rut-
land, nightly meetings being held and
much feeling being manifested at both
churches. In the latter some eighty
members have been admitted upon
probation, and the number of converts
in the former is large. La the Con-
gregational church, Rev. Norman
Seaver, D. D., there is also consider
able religious interest.
The Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle,
reviewing the Connecticut election,
says:
"What we would say, therefore, is
/ this: Let not the South as usual fly
off at the helve about the Connecticut
election: let Us not fall back again
in hope upon the Democratic party
We have suffered sufficiently by delu,
sions of this sortin the past two years"
a distressing case of foolish yield
ing to the dictates Of vanity occurred
at st. Louis few days ago. A young
lady had been in the habit of lacing
very tightly for a long while, and had
caused a hook to be placed in the
wall of her room, and she would fast
en- her corset strings to it to enable
her TO draw her corset tighter. She
had done it SO long with impunity,
that she grew careless, and the other
day, in repeating the torture, she
threw herself too heavily on the
strings and broke blood vessel, from
which she died in q few hours. A sad
commentary on attempting to make
the form, from u mistaken idea of beau
ty, different from what it naturally is
DEMONSTRATING the fire last
week, some thief took farmers team
which was standing in front of Coles
store on Church street. with a sack
Of meal in it just purchased, drove in
to Coles yard, broke into his store.
loaded 2p with a tub Of maple sugar,
six hams, and other articles, and drove
off unobserved. In King street the
wagon some way was upset, and the
horse ran down - the Lake where
it was caught, AMI eventually brought
back. The thief found the sugar too
heavy to carry off, and left it beside
the broken wagon; but the hams he
waS seen to carry away. The person
suspected left town next morning, but
the police are ip pursuit of him.
Free Press.
NILLANoUS ATTEMPT AT CHILD MUIR
DER.-On Friday, a German named
Fritz. who resides near Poughkeepsie,
New York, made a horrible attempt
to murder his step-daughter, a little
child six years of age. He enticed
her to a lonely road, and when near
a stream of water knocked her down
and beat her with a heavy stick
He atterward jumped upon her. Aft
err he thought life had fed he raised
her from the ground and was drag
glng her to a pond to throw her in,
when a man who had observed the
whole transaction at a distance, and
who was Fastening to the scene, made
his appearance. Fritz, on beholding
his approach, dropped the body and
absconded. He has, however. been
arrested. The child lies in a very
critical condition.
MINISTER TO 4UsTRIA.-The fifth
appointment of Minister to Austria is
probably intended to pay off the ser.
vices OF Hon. Henry J. RAYMOND in
engineering and writing the address
Of the Philadelphia Convention. Con.
sldering the value of the work. the nav
is good, even if the Senate withholds
Its confirmation. But bearing in mind
the peculiar eccentricity of Mr.. Raw.
mond's political career-"here TODAY
and gone tomorrow" as Corporal
rrlm salp-it seems that a better
place than Austria might be selected
for him. There is the proposed ncu,
tral state of Luxembourg. Its peo-
Pile are In favor of joining France, the
government is controlled by Holland.
and Its stronghold is garrisoned by
Prussia, while for the sake of peace
1t Is proposed to give it an indepen.
dence desired by nobody. Mr.. RAY
mond would sustain himself handsome.
ly there.
The Wisconsin Senate, on the 4th
INST, adopted a resolution to submit
to the people the amendment to tho