Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-10-05
Meodx Comfrg to Na.hington.

Last night a meeting of the convention of
pastors and delegates of the evangelical
churches to invite Messrs. Moody and Sankey
10 this city was held at the Congregational
church. Rev. Mason Noble presided, ami
after devotional exercises. Rev. DIR. J. p.
Newman gave short account of the recent
visit OF Messrs. wethersby and Hoiroyd 10
this city.
Rev. g. A. Hall gave an interesting &C
count or his visit to Mr.. MoOdv and Of The
work in which he - hOw engaged. He said
that Mortified. his native place being a
Unitarian stronghold, had scarcely had a re
VIVal of religion for a hundred wears and
that he felt il to be his duty to .sweep before
his own door" by commencing his work i'm
this country there. Some conversions had
already occurred, and there were indications
o. most gracious outpOuring of Gods spirit
With regard to his advent here, Mr.. Hall
said that Mr.. Moody exclaimed with empha-
sis. Hall, am coming TO Washington; but
how soon cannot tell. feel n deep concern
Tor the hundreds OF young men there who are
out of Christ, and want to point out 10 them
The way OF salvation, through His blood. /
Ian try to come, and do this as soon as the
door seems TO be opened" Mr.. Moody was
To start on visit TO New York and Phila-
delphla 10 day. and would probably COM
nence 10 Ia Dor in one of these cities soon; ne
lad not committed himself to any one in
spite OF all the newspaper statements TO the
contrary, and If, on reaching New York and
Philadelphia, he found things not as favor
able as he expected, he might come on To
Washington next week. This, however was
only Mr.. Halls opinion, basel on his init
mate knowledge of his character and mode
Mr.. Noble then stated that the subject
for consideration this evening was the eXpe-
diency of starting daily evening PRAYER
meeting at 3 p. M, 10 be held in different
churches, one week at a time. A general
discussion Ofhis proposal ensued when quite
q difference OF opinion was apparent Rev
DTs. Gray, Dashiel and Chester decide IIy
favored il, while Rev. Mr.. Pitzer oppOyed IL
lie thought we already had services enough
in our respective churches and the Y. M G.
A. meetings hal
daily. Rev. II. l.. Hastings submitted
whether union in prayer at q certain hour
every DAY, Wherever each person might be,
would not be just as effective as travelling
mile or two to attend union meeting and
consuming an hour or two in going and COM
ing. fter some further discussion the meet
ing adjourned to meet next Sunday, at3L
O'Clock p. m, in Lincoln hall.
The ALEXANDRIA LOTTERY SwINDLE-
The Alexandria Gazette of yesterday after
noon says: 1.-THE committee of ticket holders
appointed to examine the tickets remaining
III the wheel after the drawing of che Mont
pclier Female Humane Association lottery
last Friday met this morning i'm the room of
the ASSOCIATION, in which the wheel, after il
had been closed and sealed was deposited for
safe Keeping when the drawing was over. As
soon as the wheel was seen IL was apparent
That at least 81 buShel of brass tubes contain
ing tickets had been put i'm since 10 was taken
rom the stand, for they were at least ten
inches higher than q mark which hal been
put upon the wheel previously by one OF the
ilcktt HOlCerS, tnOugh the seal was unhrOkPu
anu had The same stamp that had been upon
IL publicly. They were those of the butt end
OF knife, and current gold coin which
could easily nave been put upon new wax
In the investigation which ensued IL was
discovered that the arrangement of the draw
ing had been entrusted solely TO parties from
New oTk, and that all the money obtained
from the sale OF tickets, except some six or
eight thousand dollars, had been left In New
York, and was not subject to the draft of the
oIncers OF the association: The parties pre-
sent appointed committee to proceed at
once to New York and endeavor TO recover
such OF the money as could be obtained, after
which they adjourned to meet again tonight
with closed doors. There is great excitement
on the street in consequence of the discOve-
~. III is believed that not a single dollar was
drawn by any bona fide ticket holder but
mat The whole OF IL has been retained by
New ork Sharpers, who are accused of the
entire fraud. About half a million dollars
worth of tickets were sold in this lottery.
AL the meeting tonight the committee APP
pointed a subcommittee TO make thorough
examination, and enjoined the strctest Sc
crecy. The committee appointed to proceed
10 New York consists of Judge Williams
Captain w. III. FOwle and Mr.. Eichberg
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ARRESTED IN SYSTEMATICALLY. De-
tective COomes brought from Alexandria
James GALLON, who had Just served ont a
sentence in that city. Gallon is charged
with being one of the parties who robbed a
son OF Mr. w. Il. Webb of some of his cloth
ing. Gallon made his escape at the time.
and going 10 Alexandria committed some
offence, for which he was sentenced to two