Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-12-08
THE OLD DOMINION.
A Days Happenings As Told
By the Wires.
FOOTBALL IN CONFERENCE.
Col. Hampton Hoge Arrives at
Roanoke from Ell Paso, Texas
tainted at the VerdiCt-Pul-
aski Courthouse Burned.

The last day OF the Virginia Methodist
Conference at Danville was very interest
ing one in the matter OF debates. The first
subject discussed was football, brought up
by resolutions offered by DR.. A. G. Brown
condemning The manner OF playing football
at the colleges as being brutal, demoralizng
in Influence, Injurious to health, and dan
gerous to llmls OF contestants, and urging
that faculties of colleges under the care and
patronage Of the Methodist Church do all IN
their power to put down football.
Some Of the younger n mister, who have
just left college, defended football, one CO.
ing so far as TO ridcule the resolutions, de-
clarlng the conference about to make spec
tacle oil ITSELF He offered substitute that
committee be appointed to draw up set
OF rules 10 be known as conference football
rules and that students OF Randolph, Macon,
and other colleges under the church be re-
quired to play by them.
Another substitute modifying the language
OF the original resolutions and merely ex-
pressing disapproval Of the evil tendencies
Of football was adopted.
The following memorials were adopted {;
That the General Conference shall be COM
posed OF delegate to every As members that
paragraph 80, answer 3 Of Discipline, be
sighly amended that the right to perform
marriage and communion service be con-
ferred upon all pre- schers in charge when in
the Judgment of conference they are worthy /;
that the conditions OF admission to church
membership be made more stringent; that
all applications for admission to conference
shall in future be considered in COMMITTEES
instead of in open conference.
T The following memorial created lengthy
discussion That the General Conference
order the Virginia Conference divided into
North Virginia and South Virginia Confer
ences and the following lines be observed
From the Blue Ridge mountains to Hampton
Roads, along the line Of the james river;
thence up Eliz lbeth river by the Southern
branch 10 the Albemarle and Chesapeake
canal thence through the said canal ;thence
along the North Landing river to Currituck
sound thence to the Atlantic ocean, to Old
Currituck inlet, and that said division be
made at the conference of 1894
The most interesting, earnest and animated
debate OF the conference session was on this
subject. In answer to minute question thu
following statistics are given Number OF
local preachers in the conference, l4O church
members, 81 $3.50 increase past year, 2,O9l;
infant baptisms, 1927 adults baptisms, 1861;
number OF sunday-schools, 799; officers and
teachers, s, 203 scholars, &C. 402 amount col
lected for supersnnuates and for widows and
orphans OF deceased ministers, 81, 052. So;
for domestic missions, &c. 1856. 81 for foreign
missions, SIG, 6s! 60; paid Tor church extern
sion, $780,; number OF church ediflces, 754;
value OF same, 81, 7S4, SO number OF parSon-
ages, 1871; value of same, s 4S,25).
Following are the assessments for the en-
euing year: Conference, $4,000; bishops,
$3.50; eduction, $500; church extension,
$1,000 domestic missions, Sl3,5o0; foreign
missions, {22, 500 annual conference, $4,000;
general conference, $500.