Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-08
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. MBTHODISTS IN SESSION. Meeting of the New York East
 Conference.
 DOINGS OF THE PAST YEAR. Showing for the New Haven District. THE DEBT OF NORTH CAROLINA. A Senate Session Wasted in Its
 Discussion.
THE DEBT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
NEW YORK.
New York East Conference.

NeVV ork EaSt COn1erences
 NEW YORK, April 7-The New York East
 Methodist Episcopal Conference resumed it's
 session this morning in St. Johns church on
 Bedford avenue. Bishop Wiley presided at the regular conference session. When busi-
 ness began the galleries were crowded with ladies. Certificates of transfer of Rev. F. W. Erreckson, A. J. Anderson and Christian o. Treider from the Northwestern Confer ence were presented and they were admitted Presiding Elders Kettle and Hill presented the annual reports of their respective dis
 tricts, after which Rev. G. A. Hubben, presid-
 ing elder of the New Haven district, present.
 ed his annual report. The district comprises sixty-seven pastoral appointments, forty
 seven of which were filled by effective mem
 bers of the conference, two by superintend-
 ents and eighteen by local preachers. Rev.
 Hoyle, local preacher, was killed by an ex-
 plosion at Milford. Rev. William H. Mo-
 Allister had severed his connection with the
 conference. The pastors had done efficient
 work and the camp meeting had been espec-
 ially productive of good results. The meet
 ings had resulted in revival services in about fifty churches. The most remarkable revival
 was at Meriden, where eight hundred were converted. During the year the churches had recovered some abandoned territory and church property had been improved in sev- eral places. The number of churches in this district is eighty and of parsonages thirty-six. The total valuation of churches and parson- ages was $S91, 400, a decrease of $17, 600.
 The proper support of the ministry had be- come serious question. There were four teen churches in sparsely settled neighbor- hoods which contributed to their pastors from $175 to $450 yearly. The most rational method of relief from these endorsements was in full return to the circuit system, but this was opposed by pastors and people, the people arguing that the partial closing of their churches on the Sabbath would hasten their final closing, and the preachers object ing to the expense, labor and exposure of travelling. The benevolent contributions were decidedly small. Wesleyan Uni versity had had another year of financial prosperity Mr. George I. Seney had increased his gifts toward it's endowment to $25O.O 900. The outlook for Methodism in the district was on the whole looked on as encouraging. The num- Der of communicants last year was 9,988, net increase of 1,342 in ten years The Aaot had been under the ban of disloyalty, had shown sincere devotion to Methodism. Upon the conclusion of Elder Hubbell's report the names of the preachers in the district were called in the usual order, and they reported their missionary collections When the name of Rev. William H. McA1lister was reached, MT. Hubbell moved that he have leave to withdraw from the conference and from the Methodist Episcopal church. The Bishop put the question on the motion, and it was declared carried by the affirmative show of hands. MT. McAllister left his New Haven charge to become pastor of a Balti- more church. The list of supernumerary preachers was then taken up, and when the name of Rev. Sensea Rowland was called there was a stir in the conference. Rev. MT. Buckley made a fierce assault on him, charging him with discreditable transaction and assault and battery. Dr. Curry replied to the accuser, and Mir. Rowland spoke in his own defence, complaining that he had been lied about. The case was laid on the table for the present.