Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-02-09
HAGERSTOWN NEWS GRIST
METHODISTS INTERESTED IN PAS
TORS TINE LIMIT.
AnKOra Goat Farm I'm PrOspect-Raii-
road Building Begun and
in Prospect.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md, February 8, 1901.
Notwithstanding the fact that the Balti-
more annual conference of the MethOdists,
which Is to meet in HagerstoWn this wear,
is yet nearly two months of, the abroga-
ton of the time limit for pastorates In the
churches is receiving more attention than
ever In religious circles. The indications
are that the number of changes among the
preachers this year will be unusually large
owing to the removal Of this time limit
While the appointment of a minister to
charge will be made by the presiding bishop
for one year, the fact that minister has
served charge five consecutive years will
not prevent his return to that church.
With the dropping of the time limit has
come an increase in congregations extend
ing calls to ministers. This practice, which
some years ago was scarcely known in the
Methodist Church, has increased rapidly,
and as consequence some ministers are
in great demand 1t now seems that few,
II any, of the ministers whose term Of five
years will have been completed by the time
of the coming meeting of the conference
will return to their present charges.
Engineers are engaged surveying the pro-
jected railroad from Little Orleans to Han
cock, this county, a distance OF about forty
miles. The route is a natural one, follow
ing the valley with easy grades. Eight
miles south Of Everett 1t Will strike the mar
row gauge road of the Everett Iron Com
pany, which is TO be widened and used to
Mt Dallas, where the line will connect with
the Philadelphia and Reading railroad.
Edmund P. Cohill Of Hancock, a large
land owner, expects to engage In an indus
try heretofore never undertaken in this
county-that of raising Angora goats on an
extensive scale. He has set aside 800 acres
Of newly cleared land for grazing these
goats. He will receive a carload Of the ami
mails In March from New Mexico. Waste
lands with stunted overgrowth can be util-
ICED in raising these goats. which are es-
pscially valuable for their hair. Should
will be followed by several gentlemen Of
the same locality who are owners Of large
tracts Of land Of this character.
Richard Chandler an old ex-cOnfederate
soldier and mail carrier from Hillsboro' to
Harper's Ferry, was buried Tuesday at
Salem. When he found he was going to die
he sent for the undertaken and instructed
him concerning his coffin, grave and pail
bearers, then settled with his doctor and
prepared to depart.
Three hundred men have been put to
work between Carlisle and Harrisburg on
the Philadelphia and Reading railroad.
This Is believed to be the initial step In the
work Of double tracking the road between
Harrisburg and Hagerstown.
Internal revenue returns show that last
year the .disttllers Of the adjoining county
Of Franklin. Pa, manufactured 1,5OO bar
rels Of whisky. and the cigar manufactures
The Hagerstown match factory-a new
industry-has started operations, giving en-
ployment to some fifty hands, both male
and female The output Of .nis factory Is
800 gross per day.
The Potomac river at Williamsport. this
county. is frozen over from shore to shore
Large quantities of ice seven inches in
thickness are being cut and housed by the
citizens of the town.
The double funeral of the late Judge A.
D. Bennett and his grandson, George Hldt