Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-12-22
Afoony AND SANKEY.-The services of

Noony AND SANKEY.-The services OF
Moody and Sankey in Philadelphia appear
; to be of much more popular and religious
importance than those they held in Brook
lvn. The evening audiences have num-
bered as high as $4,000: The mluuay
prayer meetings have had from 4'ooo 10
& 600 attendants, and the special meetings
for men, for women. for drunkards' etc.,
have had large and Interested audiences.
Thi. is despite of very bad weather. the
cold rains making very little difference:
The evening crowds are sad to be almost
wholly made up of the working classes,
even people from the slums and alleys
coming in numbers. Two meetings have
been held to pray for drunkards' ut one
of which some 400 requests for PRAYER Tor
special cases were presented, including
petitions for Incorporate sons. brothers
and husbands, for sots and for women IN
high life who indulge in drink; most OF
these being from women A few even
incs ago, according to the Philadelphia
Times, Mr. Moody took census OF his
converts, having asked them all to meet
him at Dr. McCook's church. They num-
bered 1874 persons an average OF Al 20 a
week, OF IL little over three souls to each of
the ~ meetings held. At the meeting
they told their experience. and one OF the
converts expressed his satisfaction that he
was not rs other men are, by referring to
his late associates as I" the most desperate
set of black guards ever in the city, The
women among the converts, numbering
81, Mr.. Moody sent down into the base
ment to talk it over with Mrs Moody.
He expressed to reporter his in
tention TO remain in Philadelphia us long
rs the middle of January, and perhaps Ion
ger. Meantime, his tabernacle in Chicago
i, finished, and his friends, Whittle and
Bliss, have been preaching and singing in
it. having finished Il lively sea>o on of revi-
val in Milwaukee. The church will be
dedicated on the first Sunday of the new
year, all four of the evangelists taking
part in the work. Then Whittlc and Bliss
are going to Pittsburg,
The first exhibition of the Quechee val
ley poultry society-it being also the first
exhibition of the kind in the State-was
held at Woodstock Thursday, and was
very successful. There We're over one
hundred coops of fowls entered. nearly all
being pure breed and in fine condition.
and the attendance was so good As to more
than cover the expenses. The varieties
shown included. besides y few turkeys,
geese, etc, Loghorns. Cochins, Brahmas.
Hamburgs. Polish, and 4 few other we'll
known breeds, there being very few fancy
birds Brown Leghorns Were the most
numerous, after which came the Asati, 5
The breeders in the valley have been at
work for several wears, and think they
have as good hen stock as anybody IN the
business. The fowls shown were nearly
all raised in the valley. the most notable
exception being a fine exhibition of Brah-
mas by Mr. George Davis of East Montpe-
lier, which was in fact the most notable
single feature of the Fair In connection
with the hen show Mr.. Charles X. White
Of Woodstock. exhibited u collection Of
stuffed birds, which deserves mention from
from being, perhaps. the finest collection
of Vermont birds in existence. 1t is not
large, numbering only l25, but it includes
4 large proportion of the singing birds
which SO few know by sight, and rs Mr.
White himself studied their attitudes and
habits in life, and killed and stuffed them
with skillful hands, the collection is ex-
ccedingiy valuable.