The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1890-07-10
THE DISTRICT CONFERENCE
OF THE VI. Il. CHURCH.
Other News.
From the Telegram.

MT. OLIVE, n. u, July l, '9O.
The New Berne District Confer
ence convened in the Methodist
Church promptly at $3.50 O'Clock a.
III. Thursday Of last week, Rev. w.
S. Roam, Presiding Elder, called
the Conference to order. Rev. w.
w. Rose was elected Secretary.
Conference sessions were held morn
ing and evening, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. The attendance was
large. All the preachers in the dis
trict were present except two, NJ.
II. Tuttle and 7. c. Lovin.
The following visiting ministers
were present: Revs. d. II. Tuttle,
Of Wilson; j. NJ. Rhodes, of Little
ton Female College; II. b. Ander-
son, Of Wilmington; F. d. Swim
dell, p. Il, Of Wilmington District;
7. J. Gattis, Of Durham; DR.. F. l.,
Reid, editor Raleigh Christian Ad-
vocate; Prof. J. F. CroWell, Presi-
dent Of Trinity College, and Prof.
Dred Peacock, of Greensboro Female
College. a majority of the dele
gates were present. Everything
went on smoothly and we had. the
pleasure Of listening to some mighty
good preaching. Messrs. c. p. Dey,
7. A. Green, c. B. Price and Hon.
o. II. Allen were elected delegates
to the Annual Conference. Kinston
was selected as the place for holding
the District Conference next year.
Religious services were held at II
a. N and $3.50 p. n. every day. We'd
nesday night Rev. W. W. Rose
preached Thursday at II a. m., T.
?. Ricaud at $50 p, H., n. NJ. Jur-
ney Friday at II a. m., 7. J. Gattis
at $3.50 p. m. G. F. Smith, Saturday
1880 a. NJ, II. D. SWindell, at $3.50
p. m., J. F. CroweI, Sunday 1880
a. NJ, in the Methodist Church, w.
$. Roam III the Presbyterian CnurCh
3. r. Hall, COlored Free Will Bap-
tist Church, J. d. Carpenter; at $50
p. IN in the Methodist Church, NJ.
d. Hix, IN the Baptist Church, w.
w, Rose; in the Free Will Baptist
Church, colOred, J. D. Carpenter, in
the a. NJ. +. Church, T. S. Becton,
in the a. NJ. f. Church, Friday
night, r. 3. Gillian.
A Sunday School Mass-Meeting
was held in the Baptist Church Sun
day afternoon, that being the larg-
est church. Appropriate speeches
were made by Revs. J. G. Johnson,
I. J. Gattis, F. S. Becton, B. r.
Hall and Hon. o. H, Allen.
Love Feast was observed in the
Methodist Church, from $3.50 to 1850
Sunday morning. 1t was presided
over by Rev. j. V. Williams and
was real Glove Feast" indeed to
many who were there.
The severest thunder storm that
has visited this section in several
years came Monday afternoon. The
weather had been very warm and
was beginning to be mighty dry
During the storm lightning struck
Mr.. J. b. divers house in which
Mrs. DR.. Smith lives. 1t struck the
west end chimney and ran down il
tearing it up pretty badly and knock.
ing off both mantles and breaking
everything on them. The parlol
mantle was thrown across the room
and against the organ. Everything
on the centre table was broken into
atoms. Luckily for the occupant:
Of the house that they were in al
other room. A strange mark Of the
| lightning at the above house wa:
shown on our streets on Tuesday
A photograph which was in Mrs. 81
parlor has q picture of an angel jus
over the head. 1t is perfectly plair
| to the eye. Previous to the storm
the photograph was perfectly clean
1t is not known how it got there un
less it was transmitted to the photo
graph by the electric stroke from an
other picture which may have beer
in the room at the time.
The lightning struck an old kitch
en- at Mr.. w. S. Cheyney's house
near here Oh Monday and did som,
little damage.
A severe hail and wind visited tn
section Monday afternoon in which
Mr.. C. F. r. Kornegay lives. Th'
hail stones were very large and tn
crops are reported to be badly dam
aged. Messrs. I. w. Hatch, B. F
Kornegay and d. e. Stevens ar
among the sufferers. a shelter fel
down on Mr.. Kornegay's new bugg,
and broke it up badly. Severa
large trees were blown up by tn
roots Although it is about thre
miles from town several persons say
the cloud, and it being SO black an,
restless it was described as havin
the appearance of the smoke from
| house on fire. We had a delightful
rain.
We would like to have a persona
column and tell the readers of TIL
TELEGRAM who was here last week
visiting the Conference but we hav
not, neither the time nor a page O
the paper to spare in which to tel
, you; so we will simply say tha
, they were here from all directions
ANY size and age, from the infant t
aged grand parent. Our town wa
full and everybody seemed to enjo
} themselves. II. w. Nick.
/, ENIGMA.
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