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The Methodist Advocate.
ATLANTA, GA., NOV. 8, 1876.
The National Rcspository,
We learn from Dr. Curry, that the
editorial work of the National R e .
post lory is completed, and that ths last
form is now rapidly passing through
the press. It is the purpose of the
Publishers to have it in the hands of its
readers about the middle of this month
(November.) A copy will be furnished
to every Methodist pastor for examina
tion, and to be used in canvassing. Sub
scriptions may be taken at once, and the
first number will be promptly forwarded
by Hitchcock & Walden, Cincinnati or
Nelson A Phillips, New York, or from
any of their depositories. Terms, three
dollars a year; specimen copies will be
sent ior twenty-five cents. A prompt
and liberal response would, no doubt
be acceptable.— N. Y. Advocate.
Memphis District Conference.
The eighth semi-annual session was
held in connection with the district
camp-meeting, October 12th. L. A.
Rudisill was re-elected secretary, and
A. L. Walker assistant.
William Shimmin, A. L. Walker and
E. C. Blakely were recommended for
admission into the traveling connection.
Harmony was selected as the place
for the next session, and Smith’s Chapel
as alternate.
It was resolved to hold only one ses
sion a year.
The following were adopted:
Whereas, Rev. 0. O. Knight has
faithfully labored as presiding elder of
the Memphis district during these four
years, and has greatly endeared himself
to preachers and people; therefore,
Resolved , That we return him our
profoundest thanks for his able services
and fatherly counsels, and we should
be very glad to retain his personal in
fluence and ministerial labors with us
in the district.
2. That our prayers shall attend him
in whatever field of labor he may enter.
Your committee on Fraternity re
spectfully submit the following report:
We are greatly rejoiced to learn that
the fraternal spirit between the Meth
odist Episcopal Church and the M. E.
Church South is inefi-easing, and al
though in some parts of our district the
old prejudices still exist, yet in other
parts we are enjoying the blessing of
fraternity, and all is quiet, peaceful and
tranquil. We offer the following reso
lution for your adoption:
Resolved , That we hail with gratitude
the fraternal movements now going on
in our midst, and renew our desire to
promote fraternity between our Church
and all other branches of the Christian
Church, and hereby pledge ourselves to
continue (as we have ever done) to use
all honorable efforts within our power
to promote fraternity between the Meth
odist Episcopal Church and the M. E.
Church South.
In view of the faithful and prompt
performance of the arduous duty of
secretary of this district conference by
our present secretary, Rev. L. A. Rud
isill, (both at the present and other ses
sions of this district conference), we
would offer the following resolution;
Resolved , by the members of this dis
trict conference that our thanks are due
and are hereby tendered to our worthy
secretary, Rev. L. A. Rudisill, for his
faithful performance of the work of
secretary of this district conference.
Pianos and Organs at the Centennial.
The piano-makers are having an inter
esting time about the awards at the Cen
tennial. Twenty-three of them have got
“the first medal,” including some of the
best and some of the poorest. Classifica
tions of merit are of course only in the
Judges’ reports, and half a dozen are try
ing to show, each, that his particular re
port is most favorable. The thing to do,
gentlemen, is not to spare printer’s ink. A
poor report well advertised is better than
a good one unpublished.
With the reed-organ makers the case is
a little different, for the judges have so
decidedly and unequivocally given the
first rank to the Mason & Hamlin Obgan
Company that there is little chance for the
others. These organs are assigned the
“first rank,” not in one or two respects
only, but in “the several requisites” of
such instruments. Other organs have
measured praise, but not one of them is
assigned the first rank in any thing.
There seems to have been no doubt in the
minds of the judges in this matter, at least.
The presiding elders of the Georgia,
Alabama, Central Alabama, Savannah
and Tennessee Conferences, will please
send me their post-office address. Ad
dress me for present at Cleveland, East
Tenn. J. B. Ford.
There has been a sudden increase in
the mortality at Savannah. On the Ist
inst. thirteen interments were reported;
of which seven were from yellow fever.
Refugees should not return until a
black frost. To do so, is suicidal.
The address of Rev. C. S. Smith, Cor
responding Secretary of the Central
Tennessee College, has been changed
from Murfressboro, Tenn., to 25 Wash
ington-street, Nashville, Tenn.
Meeting of General Mission Committee
The General' Missionary Committee will
meet in the Mission Booms, November 15,
at ten o’clock, a.m. David Terry,
Becording Secretary.
805 Broadway, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1876.
§ § § Give your preacher your name and
:$2 as soon as possible, so that he can order
your Methodist Advocate continued for
*1876, and we will pa/ the postage, if the
cash is received in advance.
Seventh General Conference District.
The presiding elders of the Tennessee,
Holston, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana,Texas,and Arkansas Conferences
are requested to inform me about what the
Churches under their charge can reasona
bly be expected to contribute next year
for missions and Church extension, and
about what appropriations will be required
to carry on the work. Also any other in
formation which they deem important to
be laid before the General Committee of
Church Extension or the General Mission
ary Committee. J. J. Manker.
Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 21, 187 G.
God will bless tbe Cheerful Griver.
If any of the benevolent members of our
Church will make a donation fund and re
mit us what they are willing to give, we
will send The Methodist Advocate at
$1.15 a year to such subscribers in the
South as are needy and not able to pay for
the paper, who would be thankful if some
Christian will pay their subscription.
God will bless those who will help in this
good work. We will acknowledge all ra
ceipts for this cause, and have the preach
ers send us the names of those who are
poor and worthy of this favor.
44 ts Hitchcock & Walden.
The most important business question
with us, just now, is to ascertain, and
that soon, how much the subscription
list of The Methodist Advocate for
1877 will exceed FI VE TEO USAND,
Contents of the November Magazines.
Golden Hours. —Frontispiece;
A\ hite Doves; What Mary Heard
and Saw, by Henrietta H. Holdrich;
Ihe Cheer-up-Club, by Mary Hart
well; The Sweet Story of Old, by
Mrs. Lake, Sarah Loudney; Bennie’s
Beginning, by Kate W. Hamilton;
Centennial Sights, by Mrs. Meriba
Kelly; Persie Wynn; or, Every
Little Helps, by Mrs. 11. G. Rowe;
Waif, illustrated; Over the River;
A Pretty Good Talk; Solomon Owl;
Owldom.
St. Nicholas. —Frontispiece. The
King-Orders a Tart as big as the
Capital. The Kingdom of the
Greedy; A Reminiscence of Abra
ham Lincoln; Granny’s Story; A
little Boston Girl of 1776; The
Bees that Went to the Sky; Leap
Year; All about Lead-pencils; The
Owl that Stared; Listening; A
Queen and not a Queen; Benita;
Good Times; Story of a “Tolerbul”
Bad Boy; Sea-foam; A Parable;
lar Away; Carlo and the Milk-pan;
Borrowing a Grandmother; Flowers
in Winter, The Sunday Baby; Part
ners; Tinsie’s conclusion; A Cen
tenial Pen-wiper; Jack-in-the-Pul
pit; Our Music Page; Little House
keeper’s Page; For Very Little
Folks; Young Contributors’Depart
ment; The Letter-box; The Riddle
box?»-
Wide-Awake . Frontispiece,
“Striking right and left with the
wet blanket;” Dolly’s Last Night;
Grandmother Gray, Poem; A Co
coon Enterprise; A Child’s Thanks
giving Hymn, Poem; Yamazawa;
Even-Song, Poem; Nan, The New-
Fashioned Girl; Dick Whittington
and his Cat; Poet’s Homes; Pussy-
Cat-Mew, Poem; Good-for-Nothing
Polly; Another Way, Poem; Ghosts
and Water-Melons; Funny Little
Alice; Baby’s Frights, Poem; The
Fire-Fly That Tried to be a Star;
Four Doll-Mammas, Large print;
Little Runaway, Large print, Poem;
The Magic Carpet: A Dolls’ Fair;
Work for Little Fingers; Guess-
Work; Sunday-school Department;
The Post-Office Department of
Wide-Awake.
Harper’s. —Magnus and Moona;
Dawn, a poem, by Bayard Taylor;
Medseval Furniture; A Puritan
Gentleman in New England; An
English Woman among the Himal
ayas; • A Woman Hater; Only a
Study; Tombs in Old Trinity; The
Laurel Bush; A Grand Business
Man of the Old School; The Dona
tion Party at Willow Brook; The
Storm, a poem; Editor’s Easy Chair;
Editor’s Literary, Scientific and
Historical Records.
Atlantic. —The November At
lantic contains the conclusion of
General Howard’s account of The
Battles about Atlanta; a descrip
tion of the Ascent of Takhoma
(Mount Ranier) by Hazard Stevens;
an essay on Early Provencal
Poetry, by Harriet W. Preston; a
striking story,by F.D.Millet,entitled
The Fourth Waits; an Oriental
sketch, The Fair of Moses, by
Charles Dudley Warner; a paper
on Pottery at the Centennial, by
Charles AVyllys Elliott; Mrs. Kem
ble’s Old Woman’s Gossip; Mr.
James’s serial story, The American;
and Poems by C. P. Cranch, T. B.
Aldrich, Kate Putnam Osgood, Ed
gar Fawcett, and H. R. Hudson;
with reviews of Recent Literature
and Music.
Scribner’s The Charter Oak
City; The Beginning of Life; Then
and Now; Conceit and Humility;
The Miner’s Story; Submission;
Audenken, from the German
of Matthisson; To a Bird; That
Lass o’Lowries; Philip Nolan’s
friend, or, Show your Passports; A
Scottish Loaf Factory; Day’s and
Voices; Pictures from Rome; Eng
land; Under the Rose; College
Expenses; Beds and Tables, Stools
and Candlesticks; Rodney Maverick;
M’ere Giraud’s little daughter; In
and about the Fair; Topics of the
time—Wagner at Bayreuth, etc;
The Old Cabinet—Centennial travels
—The Hope of the Republic—ln
side Politics, etc.; Home and So
ciety—A letter to a young mother
—Rural topics—Storing Vegeta
bles, etc.; Culture and Progress—
George Elliot’s “Daniel Deronda”
—French and German books, etc.;
The World’s Work—The Cromotype
—Safe storage of Kerosene, etc.;
Bric-a-Brac—The fair Isolinda—
Intensity of expression, etc.
Popular Science.— What Ameri
can Zoologists have done for Evo
lution; The Early History of Fire
(Illustrated); Physical Science in
English Schools; Nature of the In
vertebrate brain (Illustrated); Pre
natal and Infantile Culture; Prof.
Huxley’s Lectures. I. (Illustrated);
The Moon’s Influence on the
Weather; Difficulties of Develop
ment as applied to man; The So
called “Conflict of Science and Re
ligion”; Astronomy in America;
Is The Development Hypothesis
sufficient? Sketch of Dr. Arnott,
(with portrait); Correspondence:
Getting right on the Record; Edi
tor’s Table; Literary Notices; Mis
cellany.
Serious Illness of Mrs. Manker.
The many friends of Mrs. Manker,
wife of Rev. J. J. Manker, pastor of
the First M. E. Church, will regret to
learn of her serious illness. On Mon
day afternoon she had an attack of
hemorrhage of the lungs, and on Tues
day she suffered with three very severe
attacks, prostrating her completely,
and for a time almost all hopes of her
surviving the attack were given up.
Yesterday she had only one hemor
rhage and was some better, and her
physicians, Miss Dr. Davis and Dr.
French, entertained some hope that she
would be able to get up again. Her
condition is very critical, however. Rev.
Mr. Manker has the sincere sympathy
of his people, and of all who are ac
quainted with his estimable lady, in
this his sore trial.
—Knoxville Chronicle,
The five largest nations, according to
population, are in the order named,
China, Great Britain, Russia, Germany,
United States, Brazil; according to
standing armies, Russia, Germany,
France, Austria, Great Britain.
Summary of Latest News.
PERSONAL.
Mark Twain has invented a scrap
book.
Mr. Huxley arrived safely at Liver
pool on the 4th.
The Harpers give Nast S2OO a week
for his services.
Dr. Cummings, ex-President of Mid
dletown University, has been nominated
for Governor of Connecticut on the
Prohibition ticket.
A change has been consummated in
the proprietorship of the Toledo Blade ,
by the resumption by D. R. Locke of
his old position as managing partner.
President Thomas A. Scott, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has
contributed SIO,OOO to the Centennial
fund in aid of the Washington and Lee
University at Lexington, Va.
George Thompson, a Rhode Island
colored man and formerly a slave, has
just returned from the South, with his
wife, whom he has found after a separa
tion of fifty years.
Col. E. Y. Clarke has retired from
the Atlanta Constitution , and is suc
ceeded by Hon. E. P. Howell, and Mr.
H. W. Grady has been added to the
editorial staff. Mr. Hemphill contin
ues as business manager, and Mr.
Finch as editor-in-chief.
Commodore Vanderbilt was more
comfortably on the 20th. In the even
ing he was placed in a reclining chair
and rolled into a pleasant front room,
and there he laughingly listened to the
reading of his “obituary” as published
by an evening newspaper.
SOUTHERN STATES.
Tennessee is now sending about fifty
emigrants per day into Texas.
A large number of cotton-seed oil
factories are being erected in Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi.
“No rain,” is the complaint that comes
up from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and northern Georgia and
portions of Texas.
They are beginning to estimate the
coming cotton crop in the South. It is
said that it will vary between 4,350,000
and 4,500,000 bales.
The Winter travel has set in for
Florida. Passengers by way of Augusta
and Yemasse are not quarantined on
their arrival in Florida.
The Suez Canal, which has been mort
gaged to England, cost $100,000,000.
Its income last year was $1,250,000, with
a rapidly increasing business.
Houston, Texas, had a $500,000 fire.
The best part of the principal business
block of the city was destroyed, includ
ing the Western Union Telegraph office.
The vote in Somerville county, Texas,
resulted in prohibition by a a majority
of 19 in its favor. No county has voted
upon this but prohibition has carried.
Mullett are so plentiful in the St.
John’s river that three hundred bushels
have been caught at one haul of the
seine and sold for manure at one dollar
per bushel.
The Gwinnett (Ga.) Herald says the
farmers of that county are building new
corn cribs in order to house the present
crop, which will be the largest made
any year since the war.
There were 163 votes cast in Live
Oak county, Texas, at the recent elec
tion, and every one for prohibition. So
the Local Option Law is in full force
and effect in that county.
Five new life-saving stations have
just been completed on the coast of
Florida. The main purpose is to save
the lives of shipwrecked sailors and
others who reach land in a destitute
and starving condition.
Mrs Robb, of Corpus Christi, Texas,
is believed to be the largest land owner
of her sex in the United States. She
has 75,000 acres of laud, on which
15,000 beeves are fattened for market
every year.
Under the river and harbor bill the
appropriation of $20,000 is retained for
the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers.
The Coosa river gets $30,000; Etowah
$10,000; Ocmulgee $15,000; Savannah
harbor $62,000.
Prof. J. D. Putnam, of the Academy
of National Science, Davenport, lowa,
states that the Georgia grasshopper sent
him is quite a different species from the
Western grasshopper, and don’t think
they can in future be destructive.
A farmer of Stewart county, Ga., in
forms the Lumpkin Independent that
he made eight forty-gallon barrels of
rich syrup from three acres of Imphee
sugar cane. Five gallons of juice made
one gallon of nice yellow syrup. This
beats cotton badly in the little matter
of profitable farming.
GENERAL.
The Lee monument fund amounts to
$25,000.
Indiana polled over 400,000 votes at
the late election.
The public debt was reduced $2,915,-
365 during September.
Richmond and Norfolk have been
visited by heavy storms.
The Scranton passenger and coal
trains collided, killing five and wound
ing thirteen persons.
The quarantine restrictions in Au
fusta against persons and goods from
avannah has been moved.
The income of the Atlanta Water
Works exceed its expenses by over six
thousand dollars per annum.
There are thirty-two ladies in the
allopathic department of* the Univer
sity, and two in the law school.
The office of Stern Bros., jewelers,
66 Nasau street, New York, was robbed
of $20,000 worth of goods. There is no
clue to the robbers.
Dick Jackson, a Miller county des
ferado, recently shot and killed Isaac
'. Bailey, a highly esteemed citizen.
Jackson has fled.
A book of three hundred pages, con
taining copies of all the letters written
by cousinly claimants of the late A. T.
Stewart, has been published.
The Centennial arithmetic man has
been at work, and estimates that $95,-
000,000 has been left in Philadelphia
by visitors the past six months.
The highest trees on the Sierra Ne
vada, California, which have yet been
found, reach only 456 feet, the average
hight being from 300 to 400 feet.
Anew vault, to be lighted with plate
glass windows to expose the interior to
view, is to be built for William B. As
tor on a side hill in Trinity cemetery,
at a cost of $25,000.
Hon. John A. Dix has been nomi
nated by the Republicans for Mayor of
New York City. Comptroller Green,
Democrat, who has been a candidate,
has withdrawn from the contest.
A man named Rhodes, herding cattle
near a branch on Horse Shoe river,
forty miles north-west of Fort Laramie,
was killed, scalped, and his ears cut off
by the Indians on the 9th. His body
was brought into Fort Laramie.
The heirs of William Penn now re
ceive from the British Government, and
are to receive “forever,” $20,000 a year,
in compensation for their proprietary
rights to Pennsylvania.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
been notified of the shipment of three
quarters of a million dollars of gold by
Rothschild, direct to the United States
Treasury, in payment for four and a
half per cent, bonds.
A quantity of nitro-glycerine in a
magazine at Port Colborne exploded on
the 30th ult. A man named King was
blown to atoms. The crib was shat
tered. A number of houses in the
neighborhood were damaged.
The amount of meat consumed an
nually per head in Spain is 25 pounds;
in Italy, 38; Sweden, 54; Prussia, 58;
Austria, 54; Belgium, 57; France, 73;
South Germany, 77; Mecklenburg, 85;
England, 205.
Two large buildings of the Miami
Powder Mills, located fourteen miles
west of Cincinnati, blew up with terrific
violence on the Ist inst. One man was
blown to atoms, and several severely
injured—damage, $15,000.
John A. Lee, a native of Indianapo
lis, but for many years a. resident of
Augusta, committed suicide at the
Central Hotel, October 31st, by shoot
ing himself in the head. Mental de
pression was assigned as the cause.
It is reported that the authorities of
Blue-Earth Cos., Minn., have paid for
2,000 bushels of locusts, and that in the
entire State where these insects oc
curred, not less than 50,000 bushels
were destroyed in the present season.
There has been a strong effort by the
coal companies during the past few days
to put up the price of coal, but without
effect. The backbone of the monopo
lies having been broken, it will be diffi
cult to mend it while labor remains
cheap and abundant.
The Atlanta and Richmond Air-
Line Railroad, together with all its
franchises, lands, buildings, machinery,
rolling stock and material, and other
property, will be sold at Atlanta on the
sth of December.
The forest along the line of the Pied
mont Air-Line Railroad from Gainsville
to Atlanta is on fire, caused by sparks
from the engines. The citizens of
Flowery Branch were (fighting fire all
day last Wednesday to prevent it from
burning the town.
A sad accident occurred to Henry
Hempel, of Whitewater, Wis., while
out duck shooting. As he was getting
into a boat his gun was accidentally
discharged, the charge of shot passing
through his lungs, injuring him fatally.
He is the son of the former cashier of
Whitewater Bank.
The bankers of Northfield, Minn.,
have subscribed SSOO to the widow of
Haywood, the bank cashier murdered
by the robbers, and have printed a cir
cular, which they purpose to send |to
the banks in all parts of the country,
asking offerings on the part of each as a
recognition of his rare fidelity to duty.
An account of the loss of the brig
Almira states that the crew of five, in
cluding the captain, took to a raft, and
after terrible sufferings, the captain
and one of the crew died. Another
became insane and jumped overboard.
The remaining two were rescued.
Avery brutal murder was committed
in Calhoun county one day last week,
the victim being Mr. J. E. Bailey, a
very clever citizen of that county, who
was shot by his brother-in-law, a man
named R. F. Jackson. They had a
difficulty a few days previous, but not
a word had passed between them on the
day of the killing.
An organization is being perfected
by which facilities will be afforded to
exhibitors, both foreign and American,
to continue goods on exhibition in the
main building on the Centennial
grounds after the close of the Centen
nial exhibition. That building has
been purchased from the Centennial
board of finance for the purpose of
creating a permanent exhibition.
Henry Pollard, a clerk for Reynolds
& Cos., N. Y., was sent to the Custom
House with $554 in gold to pay duties.
He met John Burks, another clerk,
and they began to spend the money in
drinking and fine clothes. They were
arrested and a portion of the money re
claimed. Pollard is a son of the former
editor of the Richmond Whig, and
nephew of the historian of the Confed
eracy.
An accident occurred on the New
Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Rail
road, near Kenner, by two freight trains
colliding. The jar, though it threw
only a few cars from the track, caused
an explosion in a car loaded with pow
der and other inflammables, and the re
sult was the burning of ten cars filled
with general merchandise. No one
was injured save a brakeman.
Read Dr. Parks’ “Opium Habit,” at
the head of a column on this page.
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1 11 Do not lose a moment, but canvass
early and late for your Church paper. It
is your standard to rally around.
Atlanta Frices-Current.
WHOLESALE.
Methodist Advocate Office,
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 4,1876.
Cotton—Market firm; middlings 10}c.
Stock on hand, 12,851 bales.
Money—Gold, buying, 107; selling, 110.
Produce —Eggs, 17@18. Butter —Coun-
try, 15@20; Tenn., choice, 21@25. Poul
try —Grown Chickens, 20; Spring Chick
ens, 12j@fl5; Geese, 50; Ducks, 15@20.
Feathers, 55@60. Beeswax, 26@28. Bags,
2}@3. Potatoes lrish, $ barrel, $3.
Dried Fruit —Peaches, unpeeled,halves,7@
7}; peeled,lo@l2J;Apples,unpeeled3@3};
peeled, 3}@4.
Live Stock Common cattle, I}@2};
good North Georgia cattle, 2@3; Tennes
see, 3@3}; Shoats and light hogs, 6@6J;
sheep, 3@4.
Grain,Meal, etc. —Corn, prime white,old,
68@70; yellow and mixed, 65. Meal, 72;
new, shelled, 60; new, ear, 65@70; Grits,
$5. Wheat, seed, $1.50@51.60; millers’
wheat, $1.40@51.50. Bran, 75. Barley,
SI.OO. Bye, SI.OO. Oats, 75@80. Hay—
Timothy, $1; clover, 75@$1; Tennessee,
75@$1. Peas, none. Onions, barrel, $3.
Cabbages, averaging 10 lbs. head, 17}.
Molasses—barrels, 30; tierces, 28; hogs
heads, 27.
Mackerel-
No. 1 half barrels, $7.50; kits, $1.75@52.
No. 2 half barrels, $5.50; kits, sl@sl.lo.
No. 3 barrels, $9; half do. $5; kits, sl.
Coffee —Bio, 21@23; Java, 33@35.
Sugar—A Ilf; white extra C 11}; extra
C 11}; New Orleans, —; Demarara, 10}@
11}.
Flour—Fancy, 7.50@57.75; Extra Fam
ily, $7@57.25; Family, $6.50@56.75; Ex
tra, $6@56.25; Superfine, $5.75.
Bacon Clear sides, none; clear rib
sides, none; shoulders, 9c.
Bulk Meats Clear rib sides, 9f@lo;
clear sides, none; shoulders, none.
Hams—Sugar-cured, 17}; country, 12}.
Lard —Tierce, leaf, 12}@13; refined, 12;
kettle, leaf, 13@13}; kegs and cans, 13}@
14; buckets, 14.
Cheese —Cream, 15.
Dry Goods —Ticking, 16}@20; Stripes, 8;
Osnahurgs, 9}@ll; cambrics, 6@7; prints,
s}@7}; brown sheetings, 7@7}; shirtings,
6}@7; bleached sheetings and shirtings,
4}@l3.
Domestics—
-4 4 7}@B
7-8 6}@6}
3-4 s}@s}
Yarns 90@95
Leather —Hemlock sole, good damaged,
19@22; good, 24@27; white oak, 33@40;
black upper, 26@45.
Salt —Liverpool, $1.50; Virginia, $175.
Bagging—Domestic, 2} lbs., 13}; Borneo,
2} lbs., 13}; Gunny, 11.
Iron Ties,6; Pierced,none;arrow, 6}@6}.
Powder—Blasting, $3.90; rifle, $6.40.
Shot—Buck, $2.90; Drop, $2.65.
I@“We expect to add many articles to
this list next week, and to carefully correct
the whole weekly.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 30,1876.
Received of Rev. H. R. Parmenter, Treas
urer of the Georgia conference, Method
ist Episcopal Church —
For the Missionary Society $99 90
Sunday-school Union 7 15
Church Extension Society 19 75
Freedmen’s Aid Society.... 18 95
Total amount $145 75
Transferred to Hitchcock & Walden,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 1, 1876.
Received of Rev. James Mitchell, Society
collections handed to him at Huntsville,
Ala., for the Central Alabama Confer
ence, Methodist Episcopal Church:
For the Missionary Society s2l 85
Freedmen’s Aid Society 1 50
Church Extension Society.. 4 00
Episcopal Fund 8 00
Conference claimants 65
Total $36 00
Other collections were made, but the
funds were not sent to us. We transfer
the above amounts to Hitchcock & Wal
den, Cincinnati, 0., this day.
Hitchcock & Walden, Agents.
Tennessee Conference Minutes.
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Cleveland, Tarn., Oct. 30, 1876.
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Quarterly Meetings.
Dalton Diet., Georgia Conference.
FIRST BOUND.
Morgan ton, November 25, 26.
Ellijay, December 2,3.
Jasper, December 9,10.
Marietta, December 16, 17.
Spring Place, December 23, 24.
Tunnel Hill, December 30, 31.
McLamore’s Cove, January 6, 7.
Lafayette, January 13,14.
Dalton and Eesacca, January 20, 21.
L. D. Ellington, P.E.
LaGrange Conference.
FIRST QUABTRB.
Newnan, November.il, 12.
Hogansville, 18,19, Hogansville.
LaGrange, 25, 26.
Grantville. December 2,3, Grantville.
Loyd-street, Atlanta, 7, 10.
Markam-street, 8,10.
West End, 9, 10.
Troupe circuit, 16, 17, Burk’s Chapel.
Fairburn 23, 24.
Newnan circuit, 30, 31.
Palmetto circuit, January 6, 7.
Carroll and Bowden, 13,14.
Decatur, 20, 21.
East Atlanta, 23.
I shall expect each preacher to take the
quarterly and conference collections.
Brethren, see that The Methodist Ad
vocate is in all your families.
H. R. Pabmenteb, P.E.
Memphis District. Tennessee Con.
FIRST ROUND.
Benton and Henry, November 4, 5.
Memphis, November 11,12.
Adamsville, November 18, 19.
Shiloh, November 22.
White Sulphur, November 25,26.
Dixon circuit, 25,26, by Rev. O. O. Knight.
Camden, 25, 26, by L. A. Rudisill.
Decatur, 25, 26, by L. A. Bedwell.
Indian Creek, December 2,3.
Wayne, Dec. 2,3, by Rev. Wm. Clayton.
Lawrenceburg, December 9,10.
Dixon, 9, 10, by M. T. Brown.
Saltillo, 9,10, by J. W. Droke.
Buffalo, 16, 17.
Lexington, 23, 24.
Clarksourg, 30, 31.
Weakley, January 6, 7.
Lake and Lauderdale, 13,14.
Alamo, 20, 21.
Carroll, 27, 28.
The district conference will convene at
Harmony, Saltillo charge, Feb. 1, 1877.
Opening sermon at 7 p. Jt., by Rev. J. E.
Cole; alternate, Rev. Wm. Clayton. Pas
tors will please notice the requirement of
Discipline in the recommendation of local
preachers. As there will be but one an
nual session, it is specially desirable that
all local preachers and candidates for li
cense be present. L L. Chandler, P.E.
Quarterly Meetings.
Springville Dist., Central Alabama Con.
FIRST round.
1876, November 11,12, Cornhouse circuit.
• “ 18,19, Lineville.
“ 25,26,jHillabee.
December 9, 10, Howell’s X! Roads,
at Center.
“ 16, 17, Lebanon.
“ 23, 24, Gadsden.
1877, January 6,7, Chocoloco.
“ 13,14, Pine Grove,
at Pleasant Hill.
“ 20, 21, Springville.
“ 27, 28, Blount Springs,
at Mulberry.
February 3,4, Birmingham,
at Village Springs.
“ 10, 11. Autauga.
N. B. Where the place of holding quar
terly meeting is not named above, pastors
will please appoint the place and notify
me by letter immediately at this place,
Alexander City, Ala.
O. R. Franklin, P.E.
West Tennessee Dist., Tennessee Con.
first round.
Memphis, November 4, 6. Memphis circuit, 11,12.
Crittenden, 15,1 G. Lafayette, 18, 19. Mason’s, 25,
26—District Conference, 23d. Brownsville, December
2,3. Cypress, 9,10. Bell’s, 16,17. Trenton, 23, 24.
Gardener’s, 30, 31. Greenfield, January 3, 4. Mans
field, 6, 7. Marlboro, 10, 11. Dover, 13, 14. Paris,
21, 22. Henderson, 29, 30. Purdy, December 5, 6.
Clifton and Linden, December 13, 14. Waynesboro,
December 13,14. W. S. Butler, P. E.
M’Minnville District, Tennessee Con.
first round.
Shelbyville, November 4, 5. Tullahoma, 11, 12.
Red Springs, 18, 19. New Middleton, 25, 26. Mon
roe, December 2,3. Long Branch, 9, 10. M’Minn
ville. 16,17. Hollow Springs, 23,24. Liberty, 30,31.
Bloomington, January 6, 7. Bedford, 13,14. Sparta,
20, 21. Farmington, 27,28. Unionviile, February 3,
4. Nashville, 10,11. Cookville, 17,18.
District Stewards’ Meeting, Shelbyville, Nov. 4th,
at 2 p. m.
PROGRAMME OF QUARTERLY CONFERENCE SERVICES:
Educational meeting, Friday, 7 r. m.
Sunday-school Institute, Saturday, 10 A. m.
Quarterly conference, Saturday, 2 p. m.
PreachiDg, Saturday, 7 p. M,
Love-feast, Sunday, 9 a. m.
Missionary Sermon, Sunday, 10% A. M.
Preaching, Sunday, 7 p. m.
W. B. Rippetoe, P. E.
Memphis District Quarterly Conference,
The district conference will be held at Masons,
Tenn., November 23,1876.
Charles Gilbert to preach the opening sermon, on
the Witness of the Spirit.
H. W. Key, Sin in Believers.
J. P. Price, The Repentance of Believers.
M. Morrison, Salvation by Faith.
H. Primm, The Spirit of Bondage and Adoption.
W. S. Butler, P. E.
West Alabama Dist., Alabama Con.
FIRST ROUND.
Sulphur Spring circuit, November 18, 19. North
River circuit, 25 26. Ballard circuit, December 2,3.
Cedar Creek circuit, 9,10. Winston circuit, 16, 17.
The brethren will call a leaders’ and stewards’
meeting, so that they may be able to report at the
first quarterly meeting and enter at once on a sys
tematic plan of the work. J. L. Freeman, P. E.
Cleveland District, Holston Conference.
FIRBT ROUND.
Marion circuit, October 28, 29. Washington cir
cuit, November 11,12. Rhea circuit, 18, 19; Deca
tur circuit, 25, 26. Tyner’s circuit, December 2,3.
Chattanooga station, 9,10.
Brethren, be true to your trust, and take the col
lection for the Sunday-school Union and Tract socie
ties, during the first quarter. A. P. Melton, P.E.
Murfreesboro District, Tennessee Con.
FIRST ROUND.
M’Minnville circuit, October 28, 29. M’Minnville
charge, 28, 29. Shelbyville, November 4, 6. Lewis
burg and Lillard’s, 8, 9. Springkill and Columbia,
11, 12. Franklin, 15, 16. Mill Creek, 18, 19. Alex
andria, 22, 23. Cartilage and Caney Fork, 25, 26.
North Lebanon, December 2,3. Lebanon, 9, 10.
Murfreesboro, 16, 17. Murfreesboro circuit, 20, 21.
Woodbury, 23, 24. Stone River,27,2B. Clark Chapel,
30, 31. Nashville circuit, January 3, 4. Gallatin,
6, 7. Mitchellsville, 10. 11. Hartsville, 13, 14.
Springfield, 17, 18. White Bluff, 20, 21.
The district conference to be held at Murfreesboro,
commencing December 13,1876.
C. Pickett, P.E.
Asheville District, Holston Con.
First Round.
Morristown circuit, Union sh, October 21, 22.
Parrottsvilie ct, Mt Zion, October 28, 29.
Leicester ct, Mt Tabor, November 4, 5.
District Conference, Bull Creek, Nov B—lo.
Asheville ct, Stroupe’s chapel, Nov 11, 12.
Catawba ct, Bethlehem, November 18, 19.
M’Dowell circuit, Pleasant Grove, Nov 25, 26.
Hendersonville ot, Avery’s Creek, Deo 2,3.
Waynesville ct, Chinkapin Grove, Dec 9, 10.
Webster ct, Webster, December 16, 17.
Newport ct, Emmitt’s Cove, December 23. 24.
Mossy Creek ct, Ebenezer, December 30, 31.
Lick Creek ct, , January 6, 7.
W. C. Graves.
Powell's Valley Dist ., Holston Con .
First Round.
Sneedville, November 4.
Rogersville, November 11.
Rutledge, November 25.
Fincastle, December 2.
Speedwell, December 9.
Maynardville, December 16.
Tazewell, December 23.
Jacksboro, December 30.
Clinton, January 6.
Huntsville, January 13. .
The first District Conference for Powell’s
Valley District will be held at Rock Castle, on
the Tazewell circuit, commencing on Wednes
day, the 20th of December, at 9 o’clock in the
morning. J. B. Little, P. E.
Birmingham District, Alabama Con.
First Round.
Coosa, first Sabbath in November.
Rocky Mount, second Sabbath in November.
Hurricane Creek, third Sabbath in November.
Irondale, fourth Sabbath in November.
Marshall, first Sabbath in December .
Murphree’s Valley, second Sabbath in Dec.
Village Spring, third Sabbath in December.
Kelly’s Creek, fourth Sabbath in December.
District Stewards will meet at Brock’s Gap,
the fourth Sabbath in November, 1876.
L. A. Clifton, P. E.
Lebanon District, Alabama Conference.
First Round.
Ashland, first Sabbath in November.
Barnesville, second Sabbath in November.
Wedowee, third Sabbath in November.
Edwardsville, fourth Sunday in November.
Terrapin, first Sabbath in December.
Guylesville, second Sunday in December.
Maynard Cove, third Sunday in December.
Scottsboro, fourth Sunday in December.
Sand Mountain, first Sunday in January, 1877.
Lebanon, second Sunday in January, 1877.
The District Stewards will meet me at Ed
wardsville, the fourth Sabbath in Nov., 1876.
J. J. Bbasheb, P. E.
South Alabama District.
First Round.
Milton and Molino, second Sabbath and Sat
urday before in November, Bogia.
Gravella, third Sabbath and Saturday before
in November, camp-ground.
Garrison, fourth Sabbath and Saturday before
in November, Bethel.
Rose Hill, first Sabbath and Saturday before in
December, Rose Hill.
New Tabernacle, second Sunday and Saturday
in December, Post Oak.
The preachers will please have the Church
officiary notified and as many of the members
of quarterly conference present as possible.
N. Baggett, P. E.
Chattanooga District, Holston Con.
First Round.
Chattanooga, November 4, 5.
Ooltewah, Snow Hill, November 11,12.
Cleveland, November 18, 19.
Cleveland circuit, New Salem, Nov. 25, 26.
Chatata, Mt. Zion, December 2,3.
Duck town, December 9,10.
Murphy, December 16, 17.
Athens, December 23, 24.
Athens crcuit, Cedar Springs, Dec. 30, 31.
Riceville, Walnut Grove, January 6, 7.
John S. Petty, P. E.
The collection for Sunday-school Union
and Tract Society, by Conference resolu
tion are to be taken during the first quarter.
Knoxville Dist., Holston Con.
First Round.
Knox circuit, November 4.
Campbell station, November 11.
London circuity November 18.
Madisonville circuit, November 25.
Maryville circuit, December 2.
Little River circuit, December 9.
Sevierville, December 16.
Fair Garden, December 23.
Thorn Grove, December 30.
Knoxville —First charge, January 6.
“ Second charge, January 13.
District stewards’ meeting, at Knoxville,
January 6, 1877.
F. M. Fanning, P. E.
Kingston District, Holston Con.
First Round.
Scarboro circuit, November 11.
Wartburg circuit, November 18.
Jamestown circuity November 25.
Sulphur Springs circuit, December 2.
Washington circuit, December 9.
Hamilton circuit, December 16.
Jasper circuit, December 23.
Battle Creek, December 30.
Pikeville circuit, January 6.
Croßsville, January 13.
Kingston, January 27.
District Stewards’ meeting at Sulphur
Springs, December 2,1876.
T. H. Russell, P. E.
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