Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-01-11
IOwA.--There has been a revival
in Ohio. A correspondent writes:

| iOWA.-- utiC lids DCCH q AO'ife%i
in Ohio. A correspondent writes:
Sixteen persons united with the
Congregational church in Ohio at
its sacramento season in November.
Eight children were at the same time
dedicated in Baptism. There is still
a hopeful state OF reliyious interest
in the community, especially among
the children. Nearly every child in
the community above the age of six
or seven years, has expressed publicly
an oft repeated wish to become fol-
lower OF Jesus The church enquiries
not: "Are the children old enough to
realize what it is to be Christians p
but, "DoeS the church realize her
duty in bringing them up to the great
Shepherd, vino said. Suffer little
) chlluren TO come unto me.
1t is a great satisfaction to know
that the earth weighs l.25G.195,O70,-
000,000,O00,00O tons.
The counsel Of Albert Jenkins
VINO with John Cunningham was com
mitted to Jail in St. JohI5bury for
killing Reuben Bean at Burke last
July-had him brought before the
court on Monday on Il writ of habeas
corpus, asking that he might be grant
ed bail, claiming that his crime was
manSlaughter, and not murder, and
therefore a bailable offense G. W.
CahoOn appeared for Jenkins, and A. J.
Willard Tor the State Much Of the
evidence taken before the justice at
the am n a ito II, was read to the
court, and Cunningham was put
on the stand and again gave his YER
sion of the affair. Judge Steele re-
served his decision.
The \. Y. Herald last year cleared
100000; Tribune 100000; Times
100000; World managed to pay its
expenses the Post made $50 600 -
The Commercial Advertiser and Sun
about $4,000 each. What is a little
remarkable, too, in regard to the two
leading journals, the Herald and the
Tribune, they are both managed by
young men not yet % Years OF age
}. Gordon Bel nett, Jr., directing the
Herald. a2d j. Russell Young the
| Tribune.
The Potomac is frozen at the city
Of Washington.
An overbearing woman in Detroit
has presented a her husband with
Tour children at a birth.
The following is tie .nub" of
yarn which is told about az DIG, wills
ky-guzzling fellow who came home
drunk one night and sat down by the |
fire 10 warm his feet, which were reg
uiar "worm-killers,' saws the legend. !
After dnzing some time. he awoke
chilly; the embers We're entirely hid /
from view, and seeing his feet mistook /
them Tor his little boy, when. with
maJesut side wave of the hand. he /
said: "Stand aside, my little son. and /
let your poor Old father warm him
self" /
The MURDER or CoL0RED SOLDIERS
IN SOUTH CARoLINA.-A Washington
dispatch 10 the Providence Journal
say@:
"lhe special House committee an.
pointed to visit South Carolina to in
veatlgate the murder of colored sol
dtrs have just returned. They find
thc Tact, as heretofore stated The
evidence before the military commits
sion seemed to leave no doubt that
the tire" white men who were con-
Vlcted, shot the coiored soldiers in
the night while the latter were on
picket. They were sentenced to he
huhg, winch sentence, through the ef-
IortS OF the South Carolina State an.
tGorltleS. was committed by the Presi-
dept to Imprisonment i'll fort Della.
ware. The committee find the facts
connected with the murder black
enough, but they will not be able to {
make satisfactory report in regard {
70 the course of the government with
the rebel murdercrs. Sec'y Stanton c
lakes the entire re possibility for a
PHolIc reasons. relieving the Ircsi- l
lent OF all responsibility in the mat e
ter As Mr.. Stanton is still some /
.hlng of favorite with the RcpubIi- t
'ans' ms reply will probably have to a
1e accepted and the subject dis. t
Missed t