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w. w. Duncan, OF ;. ", presiding. Inc
opening sermon was preached the night be-
fore by Rev. J. R. Van Horne of Shepherds
town. Rev. James E. Armstrong was
elected Secretary.
Rev. DR.. John I. Wightman. for several
years past pastor of Chatsworth Independ-
ent Methodist Church, was admitted into
the Conference
Rev. Rumsey Smithson, presiding elder
of Winchester district, reported as follows:
"The financial condition of the district is
fair-over half of the churches in the dis
trict increasing their payments for minis
terial support. The Sunday-school inter
ests are gradually growing, and there have
been between 800 and 400 conversions
The following were admitted on trial;
John w Beall, VIM. T. Gaver, VIM H. Fl.
Joyce, Harry C. Febry. John S. Engle (of
Berryville), John L. Grant, Isaac G. Mitch
ell, John T. Wllhide, Chas. A. Scanland.
Readmitted-Jo John Kyle Gilbert.
The Womans Foreign Missionary Society
of the Conference raised during the year
Sl,69593.
Rev. C. \. Buchanan, of the Texas
Conference, was received by transfer.
On Friday night the missionary anniver-
sary was held, and addresses were made by
Rev. ]. II. Boyd, of Roanoke, Rev. DR..
Morton, of Louisville, KY, and Bishop
Wilson.
Bishop Duncan, after preaching on Sun
day morning, ordained the following dea-
cons: John w. Beall, VIM. NJ. Waters,
Charles X. Millican pastor of Jefferson
circuit the past year, VIM. T. Locke (of
this county,, John Kerns White, Carlton
D. Harris, Charles 5. Stanton, Charles NJ.
Bragg.
On Sunday afternoon the missionary an
niversary of the Sunday of Emmanuel
NJ. Z. Church, South, was addressed by
Bishop Duncan, Hon. Geo. Cotton, and
Senator Colquitt, of Georgia.
On Sunday night, after sermon by Bishop
Wilson, Bishop Duncan ordained the fol-
lowing elders: Chas. E. Hill, Thos. J. Lam
bert, VIM. H. Ballangee, Christopher Syden-
stricken, Sam'l A. Parker.
The whole amount raised during the
year for foreign and domestic missions was
sl5,l97.
The superannuated relation was granted
to Rev. H. w. Kinzer and the supernumer-
airy relation to Rev. D. L. Blakemore.
Services were held on Monday night in
memory of the members of the Conference
who died during the year-Revs. Lewis G..
Miller, Geo. R. Jefferson, ellison Mauzy,
VIM. T. Quinn and Andrew Robey.
Rev. w. S. Holland, of the NJ. E. Church,
Was admitted into the Conference.
The following ministers were elected del
egates to the General Conference, which
will meet in ST. Louis in May Rev. Rum
sey Smithson Rev. Dr. John A. Kern, Rev.
DR.. J. S. Gardner and Rev. DR.. Samuel
Rodgers. Clerical delegates were elected
as follows: Geo. R. Hill, I. j. Magruder,
c. F. Digs T. T. Fishburne, ]. n. Nc
Whorter and A. l.. Pugh.
Hide Awake for April opens with burst
of Easter beauty and hope; the frontispiece,
by w. L. Taylor, Easter Offerings, embodies
the spirit of youth and bloom and gladness,
while Mr.. Butterworth's beautiful story,
The Pilgrims Easter Lily, ought to go far
to settle the question of Americas national
flower. w. J. Rhees of the Smithsonian
Institute, under the title, What's In
Name? gives a brief history of the English
founder of the famous institution at Wash
ington, with three portraits of Smithson,
and then goes on to give fifty or more ex-
amples of the mistaken ways in which peo
pie address letters to the Institution. The
Difficulties of a Darling, by Mrs. l.. B.
Walford, is an amusing story of the way
little sister proved her devotion. How
Simon and Sancho Panza helped the Revo-
luton, is first-rate true historical story
by Olive Risley Seward Work and Play,
by Mrs. Fremont, is another true story of
this number, showing a delicate woman's
business energy and success. Nervy's
Wicked Summer, by Lucia Chase Bell, is
also true, evidently; the kind of story that
children read eagerly. The Fugitives Of
French Cross is pathetic Acadian story,
true also, by Grace Dean Mcleod.
Mrs. Salie JOY White has a second crisp
article on Newspaper Workers, written for
girls who intend to become journalists;
Mrs. Frances A. Humphrey has pretty
Dpen-air paper on The English Primrose.
The farm-boy hero of Mr.. Stoddard's serial,
Granger, conducts operations with rapidity
and shrewdness that would do credit to
Wall Street The young hero and heroine
Of Mrs. Catherwood's new serial, Bony and
Ban, have won the interest of hosts of
readers and seem likely to hold it to the
end. The poems of the number are by
Edith NJ. Thomas and Harriet Prescott
Spoford and Emile Poulsson; the illustra-
lions for Mrs. Spohord's are very beautiful,
full-page of the famous Donati
comet. Men and Things is delightfully."-
full of original anecdote and re-
niniscence.