Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-06-26

Conference AIjnurns AZ r Trausnct, ~
business OF ,mpOrirncs.
The conference of the African NJ j.
church for the snuth"aStCru district Ul
nsylyania rcassemblrd IN tho Straw
berry street church al ,. III, yesterday.
The committee on tho = larry ut the
presiding oldor reported resolution ap
portiOulug the expenses of the presiding
eldershlp on each of TIL inTty.on churches
Of the district. The Assessment was liked
at tive cents each ON the $500 church
members Oi thu district, TnO ruSOlutlUu
was unanimously adopted.
After number had spoken hOp5iully oi
tho success of the new system of having u
presiding elder, which went into effect
Juue /, with Itoy. & G.. FelH, Of phiadcl
phia, as first occupant of tho office, some
resolutions were offered on Sunday school
aud church work Their introduction
occasiouod discussion until adJoulumcnt at
l:3O o'clock
Ats y. IN the conference again assem-
bled and unanimously adopted tho resou
tion presented by Rows. Thompson and
Robinson on Sunday school and church
work. A bauk form for the class leader's :
report to quarterly conference, embracing
statistics OF the class temporal and
spiritual, was thea adopted.
A resolution was agreed to recon nond
ipg tho stewardcsscs and presidents Of the
different church organizations as honorary
members of the quarterly conference. A
form Of report was adopted for sunday
school supcrintcndCnts and other officers
in making their reports to conference.
Rev. A. A. Robinson, OF Mount Pisgah
church, Philadelphia, was appointed as
fraternal delegate from this district 10 the
Delaware district conference. 1t waS 70
solved to hold tho nexS meeting of con
ference in Allen chapel, Philadelphia, on
the last Thursday OF April, 1880.
Resolutions iudOTsiug Rev. FcltH' +
course ~ presiding elder, and thanking
the members of the church for their kind
reception were then adopted, after which
at 1890 o'ClUCi tho conference adjourned
with prayer Dy tho presiding elder, and
benedicton by Rev. Norris.
Announcement was made prior to tho
adjournment that the first quarterly con
ference by the presiding elder in tho loca
church would DO held aC 3 o'clock this
evening.
PREPARING FOX COMMENCEMENT
Forty.FiVe Graduates at Miliersvinc-rour
sCisuiiiic graduates.
Tho Millersville normal school exami
ulJloilb, WHNCH bCpiu On hOuutly OlCbSI
at noon yesterday. The examiners wer,
Il. Il. liigbee, state superintendent ; DR.
n. &. Schaeiior, principal of KutztOwI
Normal School Prof. NJ. j. Brecht super
intendent of Lancaster county; ID. G.
Williams, superintendent of York county
and Prof. Shaub.
OF the forty five graduates this year
four are from tho scientific and forty ar
from tho elementary department, as fol
lows
Scientific Course--J. w. Cooper, w
N. Ehrhart, w. 9. Jacobs, Neryl Preston
Elementary Course: Alice NJ, Arnold
Mary 3. Brosius Melissa M. De Wore, ELL
l.. Eberman. Lucy Harris, Alice Hun
sickcr, Anna M. Hutchinson, Harrie
Hutchlns, Elizabeth A. Kemper Emm
l.. Jones, Amanda Longeneoker. Carr
Il. Myers, Lillian X. Mellinger, Martha III
Michenor, Belle II. Mooney, Isabel Nc
Spartan, Amelia Nier, Emily M. Oberlin
Emily N. Potts, Emily Prutzman, Ev
Stevenson, Hester Specht, Alice O. WheC
Ter, Jane NJ. Woods, L. U. Buchanan, j
B. Batdorf, 5. Il. .Custard, IL. ii. Christian
!. \. FELTON,, ID. J. Grifiiths, Howard I
Kyle, q. +. Kapp, J. Il. Hirst, j IL. Mohl
j. Il. McIlwain, q. +. Michener, j. II
Miller, w. II. Nauman, b. 8. Sharp, /
w. Shultz, w. III. Watson.
Mr.. V. Preston passed tho oxaminatio
in both courses, Miss Emma V. Bake,
Lancaster, was examined with the GLASS
the elementary course and received
practical teachers certi6oat'.
The examinations were nearly all
writing and took in wide range of lear
ing and accomplishments. DIR. High,
conducted the tests in mental soieno
school economy and teaching DIR. Schae
fer in mathematics and natural philos0ph
Prof Brecht in orthography, rhetori