Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-24
BY YESTERDAY EVENINGS MAILS.

/ VIRGINIA ANNUAL CoSrEKEScE-FlrTn
DAY.-Conterence proceeded TO the examina-
/ ton Of character, and the following elders
passed: L. NJ. Lee J. B. Dey. |. Il. Finley,
| c. ii. Hall, JOS r. Riddick, l. \. Cash. j.
McMullen, J. W. White, J. W. Howard, }. j..
Edwards, J. H. Amiss, VIM. |. Nortleet j..
D. Lumsden Frank Stanley and I. Diggs.
DIP. Wills, 2. ii. d. Wood, passed in ex-
animation Of character. and were continued
on the Supernumerary list.
4 Some objection being made To the action OF
D. p. Wills, in leaving his pastoral work
without the appreciation OF the Conference
u take charge Of Wesleyan Female College
\ Murfreesboro' lie stated the reasons Tor his
I course, which were satisfactory 10 the Con
ference.
E.E. Wiley, D. D.. President of Emory
and Henry College, was introduced to the
Conference, and invited TO q seat within the
bar.
J.B. McFerrin. Agent Of the Methodist
Publishing House at Nashville, addressed
the Conference at some length on the pub
fishing interests Of the Church. lie IS very
feicitous in setting forth the Improperly
Vi pprniciuus tendency OF patrnn;zing North
ern literature. particularly thrt species I'M
mical to Southern institutions. lie made \
very earnest appeal 10 the preachers to AID IN
circulating Methodist books and periodicals..
In answer u question, DR.. Mcferrln
stated that the Publishing House became EN-
barrasSed from numerous causes. Extensive
grounds, buildings, stock and fixtures We're
purchased; expenses incurred in the law
suits with the Northern Church. had to he
paid. and about 100000 expended for various
incidental expenses, connected with the tim
erancy, including four years salaries OF the
Bishops The principal difficulty he stated
to be, that the patronage Of the House hau
not been proportlUned to the investments
made in the concern. While the House
had incurred expenses attending AL siihi-
lar mercantile establishments, 1t had ais"
been burdcned 10y expenditures author
lied and required by the General Con
ference outside Of regular business. lie
hoped to BE able to present 10 the next Ten
eral Conference quadrennial EXHIBIT that
would make the Southern Methodist Church
proud of her Concern.
DR. Taylor, Corresponding Secretary OF the
Sabbath School Society of the Methodist r.
Church. South, addressed the Conference,
urging the preachers TO take a more decided,
earnest and active part in the ). b cause.
Conference resumed examination OF char
acter. and passed the following elders: John
| III. Watson, q. w. Charleton. Mlntun Thrift,
| b. Nj. Williams-all Of whom were contn-
tinued in the Superannuated relation Lynch-
| bury (nyinida.
A al Ia al tn
ESQ.,, ofJetferson county, and two carriage
horses, were burned on Sunday, 18th inSt.,-
the work of an incendary.
The same evening several stacks OF wheat
and oats and Il thrcShng machine, the pro-
perty Of COL J. ". Ware, OF Clarke CO., were
iurned--the work Of an inccndlary; loss
$1,000,
On Thursday night last, the stack yard of
Walter Shirley, near Cameron Depot, Jc'ier-
son county, was burned by an incendlary-
loss from = to thousand dollars.
We have heretofore stated that the barns
Of DIR. Stephenson. and j. ID. Larue, OF
Clarke, and the stack-yari of Vim. Lucas, OF
Jefferson, were burned by incendlaries-ma-
king in all Sir destructive fires recently IN
jefferson and Clarke and thus far no clue
has been had to the miscreants who commu-
nicated the fire Winchester )ny'"tan.
| GREAT DAMAGE TO the SUGAR CRor.-The
| New Orleans Delta, of the 10Th inst. says:
The effects oithe great northern OF Satur-
day last. and of the several freezes since.
| have been disastrous on the sugar crop
| The loss throughout the State by these un-
precedented visitaton- of extreme cold, is
yariou>ly estimated from seventy to one
I hundred thousand hogsheads.'
John Bailey, laboring man. well known
about Stnunton. died suddenly At the house
of John Serrett, about three miles from
Staunton on Sunday night last. The Cor"-
ner's jury brought i'll verdict that the de-
ceased came to his death by poison.