Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-11-21
News OF the bay.

The annual meeting Vt the stockholders OF
the Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad Company was
h. id yesterday. The President submitted tho
annual report of the Prcsldent and Directors 70
tue stock holders. The total rev,Duc> Ut the
road, branches anu conDec'lons, tor tie hsca
year coded September 80. 1876, are given at
SIS OBJ ,23l IS. The exreuses OF working ard
kceIiug tie roads and machinery IL repair,
amcuued to 50 6O9 S56l9 being IS. Is per
ceut. upon the ca!ul0gs, Showing d G:cIease OF
2 56 per ct. compared with the previous year.
Tie earnings vi the main stem auu the branch
es, 10 comparison with 1875, have deer, ased
SSSl,SI7.9l, and the wOrklug expenses have
decreased 500 l65 80 making a comparative
decrease iu the bet piohs oil Sll6,u65 81
The iuIeral OF Dr. John Doe, IL Redmond,
last Saturday, was the occasion Of The largest
local Masonic turu out ever seen there. There
were present Masonic representatives. tfom all
parts OF the State, and 40 immense cOucuucs1
OF private citz:ns, societies, NC, to do last
honors to the i, ualus Ui this venerable Mason.
A d putalion from the British Association
of Virginia, yesterday, visited Sir Edward
Thornton, fur the purpose Of Inviting hlm TO
the Inturuaionai Exhiultlon at Petersburg 10
vi Sy next. OH LuNdiu plNtChsIO illo 'LiIuSNi
a,e patronage and his personal attendance if
possible.
DR.. Jorgensou, radical. whose elec ion is TO
be contested By Col. Hiutou, has sued the
Richmond Despatch for ten Thousand dollars
damages for reference made by II 10 an ar
t,cie IN the PETERSBURG ludex, charging him
with having embezz ID public money.
The publishers of the IeadIop daily papers OF
Hartford aud New Haven, have decided to re-
duce rates ior composition after December /,
frrm forty TO thirty. five ceDts per Thousand cms
Oh MOI Diug and from thirty live 10 thirty on
evening papers.
The virginia Bible Society met at St. Pau's
CbuIch, Richmond, yesterday evening" Rev.
D.. Mnnegcrode presided The spcake Were
Bishop Kavauau2h, Rev. DIR. Hogc, aud Rev.
Mr.. W dde!.
Among the appropriations made for mission
work by the Nj. +. Church Missionary Cou-
mtce, 10 New York, yesterday, was $4,000
for Virginia.
1t is announced lha. over 400 applications
for space in the permanent exhibition at PHI
adelphla have been received.
Mr.. Fraacis 4. LUZ, Of LoudouD county,
has been elected member of the Board o:
Trustees Of Randolph Macou College.
A FiGul1NG PREACHER During the session
of the Virginia Conference of the NJ E. Church
South, at Richmond yesterday, tic case of Rev.
James b. Maynard, who had served his two
years of probation and now applied TO- fu
membership in the conference. was brought up.
During the discussion it came out thst MIR.
II hi thar in To-, mot
speaking terms-that the whole trouble grew
out Of family matters The Rev. Mr.. Maynard
then made his statement, which was AS follows
That just before he went to the last conference |
al Danvie he, rs pastor, reproved brother
Pendlcton for an immorslity OF which BE- hid |
been guilty and that he took it kindly. After
he returned from conference one night just as
he, Maynard, WAS packing up preparatory to
leaving Spolsyivania Tor Carksvllo, PeDdeton
came 10 his rom and sat down, talking In n
go, and asked Mr. Maynard to step out, thu. hc
had u matter TO settle with HIM. They wake!
shout hundred yards from the b use, wheI.
Pendeton said he heard that he had b en- talk
ing about him and demanded Il rrtract.on, TO
which Mr.. Maynard replied that he had never
y family affair and that he would take bscs:
nothing. Pendleton said Take il back. or lll
beat you " Il will take back nothing Mr.
day nard reit, rstei. Then Pcndietun collar, d
Mr. Maynard, threw him down ard struck him
Mr. Maynard asked Pendloton to let him up
that he had been 81 k, saying if be didn't get up
hat he would draw his knife then Holiday
came up and pulled Pendleton of. and TO zn,t
WAS even drawn. Mr.. Maynar,i walked off, ana
pendleton ran after him and struck him again
Then Mr. Maynard seized fence rsil. with
which to defend himself, but did not have to ga
t. Mr.. Maynard concluded his statement by
aging that he had given no cause for such u
orutsI ass,ut After much discussion the vote
vas taken, re:u!ting in Rev. Nj Maynard be.
ng ived in full connection. Rich. State.