Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-11
Religious Intelligence.

On the 10th OF June a new Baptist
Church was recognized at Franklin, and
Rev. Geo, II. Parker installed as pastor.
Sermon by Rev, DR.. Bigelow of st.
Adams.
Rev. B. P, Spaulding's post Office
address is now at West Glover Vt.
Rev. r. v Hall has been engaged as
acting pastor in Charleston.
The North Church Sabbath School,
Of Vergennes, held their anniversary and
picnic on the Goth ult.
Edward W. Bacon, son of Rev. DR..
Bacon, is temporarily supplying in Chit
tenden.
Eighty dollars were contributed to
the American Missionary Association,
Sunday before last by the church and
society at Johnson.
There is but one Universalist Soci.
ETY., one Board of Officers and one parish
in the town of East Montpelier, though
they have two places 0: meeting, two
Churches and two Sunday Schools.
Rev. Leonard Tenney, recently pas
tor at Thetford, has been engaged as
acting pastor there, and the church de-
sires that the relation may become per-
manent.
AT the recent convention of the do.
cese of Vermont, held in Burlington,
over one thousand dollars was pledged
to defray the expenses of Bishop Hop
kins in attending a convention Of Bish-
ops to be held in London
"A young man of Saxton's River, by
the name of F, A. Benton, a graduate of
Dartmouth College, and who has pur-
sued q regular course of study for the
profession Of the law, has embraced Uni
versalism, and commenced the work Of
the Gospel Ministry.
The New York (EpscopaD Theolo,
gical Seminary graduated a class of four
teen on Thursday. Bishop Hopkins de,
livered the charge to the class,
ONE HUNDRED Persons FRUSTRATED
LIGHTNING - The Buffalo Express Of
July LIST, gives the following account of
the prostration Of nearly one hundred
persons by lightning:
Last Thursday afternoon, as a large
crowd was assembled in the Fair grounds
Of the Sprngville Union Agricultural
| Association, a thunder shower came up,
and the people present sought shelter in
| the exhibition sheds. Suddenly the
! lightning struck one of these sheds
| which contained men, women and horses.
About a hundred persons were paralyzed
| in an instant falling on their faces, and
as many as fifty were rendered insensible
for five or ten minutes, while about a
| dozen were seriously burned. Two horses
were killed on the spot. An old gentle
man and two or three others are not ex-
! pected to recover. One woman was
! Frustrated and deprived Of her senses
! but not Of her power Of locomoti0n she
| instinctively gathered herself up and ran
| to the bus and was conveyed to a hotel
| and declared she had no knowledge of
what took place after the flash until she
! found herself In room at the house.
The lightning struck post in The CEN
ter Of the shed, against which a gentle
man was leaning, and to which a horse
was attached by chain halter The
horse was killed instantly, while the man
escaped by being dazed and knocked
down. A singular fact mentioned in
connection with the strange freak of the
electric fluid is that all the persons rem
dered insensible fell upon their faces. A
! young lady was quite seriously injured,
and her dress was sCorched but did not
| take fire. Another woman was struck
on the shoulder. the fluid passing down
the side raising blister in it's course. A
man was hit on the right side of the
head, and on his recovery the mark was
found to commence at the right eye, and
could be plainly traced down the neck.
across the chest and off the left arm.
| The most fearful CONSERVATION existed
| among the people until it was discover
ed how light the injuries were.
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