Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-20
M. E. CONFERENCE

Bishop Paine presided yesterday.
The report of the Committee on the
Itinerancy was an extended criticism
upon the the books and records Of the
several anDual Conferences.
Bishop McTyeire commended the re-
port, the sedulouS care With which it was
prepared by DR.. Edmunds, and the action
Of the General Conference in adopting it.
DIR. Lee, of Virginia, read an exhaustive
argument affecting the veto power Of the
Bishops. which was made the order Of the
day for 9 o'clock next Saturday.
E CONFERENCES.
The COMMITTEES on Boundaries proposed
the creation of new Conferences; one of
North Mississippi; q White river Confer
ence; Los Angeles Conference; Kansas
City and Nebraska; East Missouri; West
Missouri; South Alabama; and North
Alabama. Changes were made in the
boundaries of other Conferences, and the
morning was consumed in the disposition
of the voluminous report.
INCIDENTS OF YEsTERDAY-A VOICE FROM
LOUISVILLE.
Last Wednesday DR.. Sehon presented
resolutions, and made a brief address in
behalf of the impoverished church at Co
lumbia, s.. G. When the Conference met
yesterday morning he said that he had a
telegram from DIR. John Bull, an excel
lent citizen and worthy church member,
who is now bringing his offerings TO the
church.. / have sought, said DIR. Sehon,
to secure aid for the Columbia Church,
and as well for the Central Church of
Memphis. I could do nothing myself,
but nv heart goes out after all these in
~terests. Or. S. read the dispatch:
LOUISVILLE, May Is, 1870.
Rev. E. w. Sehon, Overton House:
SIR; Please that I VIII give
$500 to the Central NJ. E. Church South,
in Memphis, at the dedication, and also
the NJ. E. church in Columbia, 5. @.
TSigned.1 JOHN BULL.
DR.. Bull has won great fame as a a
~faeturer of sarsaparilla, and has paid the
APPEAk many an advertising fee; u
never before did the Doctor receive a
notice at our hands which has given such
unmixed pleasure or so surely attests his
worth. DR.. Bulls revenues are said to
be eighty thousand dollars per annum,
tor which he is mainly indebted to his
wise use of the newspaper press, and we
would fain hope that he will make the
world confess that the press properly lent
itself to the promotions his fortunes.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis was yesterday on
the hOor among the members of the Con-
ference, by many of whom he was warm
" greeted. At the same time the veneer
able Bishop Andrew, whose ownership of
:. slaves caused the separation of the
churches North and South, was moving
about with kindly words addressed to
/ every person whom he encountered.
When the ultimate philosophy of the late
frightfuI conflict between the States is
expounded, many a historian Will haye
reason TO write, side by side, the names of
these TWO extraordinary men. How
wholly unlike they are! The body of the
venerable Bishop is e n by the weight
of years; his broad head is bald, like that
of Socrates his step has lost its elasticity;
he wears a homespun suit, the handiwork,
no doubt, of some devout mother in Is
rael. Mr.. Davis is rejuvenated. He is
the very im-persOnation of elegance In
OF O~Onh0mHJJe, of taultless taste
in modest apparel, and IN his social inter-
course with members of the Conference
he was the courtiy gentleman, as attract
i've and admirable as the excellent Bishop
who wins the multitude by that
| kindliness of heart and manner uttered
by every act, by his tender looksa and gem
tie words, that come from a heart trained
through three fOurths of a century TO
sympathize with human joys or gr1efs.
IMPERsoNAL.
There is another character in the Con-
ference from the west, who attracts not a
little attention. When, at n end, he
81 has the floor" at the other, he has the
ceiling.
THE BOOK CONCERN.
The committee having the subject In
charge yesterday recommended the estab-
lishLleut of a Book Agency in San Fran
cisco. The management of the establish
ment at Nashville, by Drs. Summers and
BEDFORD, was commendedin the strongest
terms.
AN ACCIDENT.
Yesterday when Bishop Paine urged
the propriety of silence and good order, a
venerable sister in the gallery nodded
assent with such vehemence that her
spectacles fell from her nose, striking
the very midst of the physiOgnOmy OF a
fat old gentleman who was leaning back
half asleep in a seat below. be snorted
like a hippOpotamus, but the sOftness OF
his Uranium saved the spectaeles, and
the rood old DANES face was a curious
picture of delight and grief-delignt, be
cause her glasses were u~nbroken; grief,
because their imprint was leS on the
bald pate of the startled dreamy.
AN INCIDENT.
A distinguished preacher, who is also
the conductor Of perhaps the ablesi
Methodist newspape published, having 8
huge head, which sadly needs a covering
yesterday found that his ~capacious hat
had been removed from his table, and q
little tile left in lis stead that wouldn't
cover either hemisphere Of the great
cGput. He must have been sorely vexed
when he went away from the church with
both hands employed in holding the
Uranium cover in its position. Some en-
terprising halter should see that this edi'
tors head is as well provided without as
within, then he will wear the finest bea-
yer in the city.
DRESS GooDs of all kinds marked down