The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-08-14
PETERSBURG.


,.,.r~yony At roMf-Goop rEEi.ING ALL
,,>c THE IIXES---THE CHURCHES on Sun
,xrry MR. llAZEN--THE METHODIST
r,crp1,-r coNFERENCE--MRS. LYON BORNE
~ THE GRAVE BY HEI soNS-SALE or \
v,1l-HITCuCoCK's CASE-DEATH OF CIT
,zrN-sERENApE TO GENERAL MALONE
Personal, &C.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Wspa,ch.l
AUGUST Is. 1877.
All the delegates 10 the Convention and
other attendants upon that body have mo
andcrcd back home. and are going about
their usual business rs il nothing eNtraor-
binary had occurred. The excitement that
marked the city during the middle OF laSl
week, and which seemed 10 include every
clement Of the population. appears 10 nave
entirely subsidized. No examinations or re-
examinations arc ir dul.cd, and all goes merry
n amarriagc-beI People OF opposite ways
~ thinking avoid the discussion OF what
ever sore subjects there may be, and this IS
thc hest and most ctticaciouS way Of pre-
venting trouble. X j The genera! impress
sion that no opposition worthy OF the name
will DC made to Colonel Holiday, and hence
the political world * a quiet and serene rs
II politics we're forever tabled.
The churches were well filed yesterday
in despite OF the heat. Al tJc Tabh-Strcet
PRESBYTERIAN church Rex. j. X. iiazcn. late
OF Alabama. and now OF Elchmond. h!icd
the pulpit in the absence oi Dr.. Withcr-
spoon. and made decidedly favorable I'M
preston. In the absence Of Or. Hams,
The uulai: Of st. Pa,'s church was filled
hv Ecy. Thomas Spencer. The Methodist
ministers having returned from the session
Of the District Conference preached rs usual
20 their congregations.
At the session OF the latter body, Rev. y.
G.. Brown pastor Of the High-Strcct church.
submitted an interesting report on church
property in thc.diStrlct, from which the TO-
lowing facts and Ii@rrcS are taken There
are iiity-f"ur church edifccS III the district.
valued al SIo9.@00: i've parsonaSes, valued
III Sl4.coO-t"taI, Sl2j,"Oo. inc enterprise
81 district parsonage ii"f 'ne accoulIioda-
it"n OF the presiding ciu'I WIS uiGeu Il, oi
great importance, ana Inc Zc''l ana IlDcTailiI
q; the thurcii were lh'Hco III tn'S ntilah.
Mr.. kiddick had to ask leave OF absence
20 conduct the funeral services O; Mrs.
Agnes Lyon. Al Inc luhcTai Oh this DC
loved lady her i've sons actcd H. pall-Hrtr
cr>. III accordance WIN hcF wish. Inc
scene Is said 10 nave hc"n yer! aHtet'ns'
Rev. Or. Lee was III "'lenualice Oh Tue
Conference. ana maze an adorcSS urging
the support OF l2lthiUi pastors DE the
Church. RESOLUTIONS 81 sympathy with
this venerable servant Of God were adopted
by the Conference.
y large excursion from Farmriilc passed
through town to-day on It's way 10 Norfolk.
lhc croWu j. >ai" /" nave Decn 'hc iaiS eSt
that has yet &on" ON sucn mission. ihouSn
II WAS gotten ny hE the coIorcu brethren OF
that village lor the h"ncht OF 'ilclr bap,iS'
church, there were tii"" Si'":iAi coachc> loE
white people, ana All were wen hilcu.
The trustees nl M">>rs. | u. Gates 90.
have sold the EI9IH NIiIS, lu>t outside the
corporation Limits. near iampbcIl's bridge.
10 TcN-r>. l. u. stewart " CO.. lor Slu."o
cash. NcS>r-. stewart 4 Co. began Their
operations t"-''"H.
\ c"ilfocati"h 81 me hlI:>copli ministers