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The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], Virginia Conference (search)
ng called and passed,) Presiding Elder of the Farmville District, said this year had been the most laborious of his life. He had attended nearly all his quarterly meetings. Methodism was much esteemed there. About $25,000 have been raised in the district for the uses of the Church. There was an improvement in the church buildings. The negroes were well cared for. The missionary collection was large, and would have been larger had not the financial pressure come upon the country. H. B. Cowles, agent for Randolph Macon College, reported that he had collected $12,000, and would have gotten much more but for the depressed financial condition of the wheat and tobacco growing country. His character was passed. B. R. Duval reported that since November, the date of his appointment as agent of the Book and Tract Society, he had sold 180 shares of the stock, making in all 760 shares at $100 each, making in all $76,000, besides collecting sums amounting in the aggregate to $7,835.