The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-08
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The farmers are now generally done
threShing their wheat, aud The Yield isabovs
| an average one, and vet its IS nor no good nj
was expected at one time from every Id.
dication the present corn crop viii be more
abundant than any previous one since the
war. As for tobacco, that Is q most signal
failure. For the want of plants and seasons
there was not, aas you are apprised, more
| than a fourth Of an average crop planted. In
the outset, of this not more than one. fourth
stood, and that that did stand Is looking I'm.
usually bad at this time. .l
The District Conference OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church South closed its annual
meeting with the Meadow church, In this
village, short time since, Of which your
readers have doubtless had an account ere
this but perhaps few lines from your cor
respondents standpoint would not be out of
place. Quite number of preachers were in
attendance, several Of whom were distiu.
guished not only 10 this Church, but in the
country at large.
Bishop Doggett having taken the chair,
and the meeting otherwise permanently or.
ganized aud ready for, work, the Chair an.
nounced the order OF business, embracing.
first, the reportof the preachers Ia charge Of
several stations and circuits In the district.
aud as the Bishop would call out the station
or the circuit the preacher In charge would
rise and stand upon his feet, and the presid.
ing officer would proceed to ask him such
questions as he thought proper. '5 ,s
The meeting was conducted in dignifed
manner, and was in many respects truly in
terssting. The preaching on Sabbath by
Bishop Doggett and DR.. Duncan was of q
mastery order. There were perhaps fifteen
hundred people present, nearly all Of whom
We're in tears, so far, at least, as your CORE
spondent could see. -
Soon after the adjournment Of this meet
ing the Blue Ridge Baptist Association COM
menced ITS sixteenth annual session with the
Sycamore Baptist church, in the same coun.
ty. Here there was not such n turnout of
representative men in the Baptist Church,
yet the meeting In many respects proved to
be equally interesting. The usual routine of
| business in such meetings was gone through
with in the regular way, being interpreted
occasionally by special provision in the or
der Of business with devotional exercises,
| which aided in giving the session that devo.
tional cast that we have rarely seen before.
Rev. William Hawkins, of Franklin coun.
| ty, preached the opening sermon from the
| words "Let brotberly love continue" The
preacher seemed 10 be very feeble, and no
wonder that he was, as we learned after
| wards that be had walked from his home to
the Strawberry Association, in Bedford
| county, q distance of forty or fifty miles, and
started in few days after returning to thi:
meeting on foot again, over the mountains
| thirty or forty miles. Rev. Mr.. Hankins is
an acknowledged fious man by all who
know him. He is about sixty years old; and
| from choice walked on his preaching tour:
heretofore, but is now anxious to have O
horse, which have no doubt will be given
to so devoted 4 man. -.
The hospitality of the people about Syca.
more was unsurpassed. The gentleman with
whom your correspondent staid had on one
occasion between sixty and seventy persons.
and nearly as many horses. t....
The next meeting of the body meets with
the Truvino Baptist church, in the eastern
portion of Henry county, 20 miles from Dan
vile. HENRY.