This report was adopted with remarkable unanimity, but when the vote was taken for delegates, it so happened that at least two of the men who had been most clamorous in its support, failed to secure an election.  This result, however, did not come from a real difference in sentiment on the main question, but from a desire to send to the General Conference a delegation that would not defeat the desired end by a manifestation of zeal without prudence.  The Chairman of the Committee, however, was elected to lead the delegation.  The Delegates were P. S. Bennett, I. M. Leihy, Edward Cooke, Elmore Yocum and Chauncey Hobart.

During the session of the Conference, a meeting of the principal members of the Church and congregation at Racine was held, to take into consideration the condition and wants of the charge.  The deliberation had resulted in laying before the Presiding Bishop a request for the appointment of the writer.  The appointment was accordingly made.  But a removal to the charge was attended with no little difficulty.

During the latter part of the spring term of the Lawrence University, the typhoid fever appeared among the students, and in several instances proved fatal.  To prevent the like result in other cases, the inhabitants opened their doors to receive sick students who could not be suitably cared for in the dormitories of the College.  Four of these were taken by Mrs. Miller, and, in every case, it was believed that their lives were only saved through her kind intervention and care.  This kindness to others, however, proved disastrous to her and the family.  Before her charge was well off her hands, she was herself attacked by the same malignant disease.  Then followed weeks of suffering on her part, and not a little interruption of my work as Presiding Elder, especially unfortunate in the closing part of the year.  She passed down to the borders of the grave, and on two occasions the beating of the pulse seemed to cease, but in the good providence of God she was spared.  Her return to health, however, was slow, and meantime her sister, now Mrs. Gov.  C. K. Davis, of Minnesota, who resided with us at the time, was taken with the same disease.  This latter case was also a severe one, and for several weeks delayed our removal to the new charge.  But as soon as it would do to attempt the journey, we were on our way.  Unable to walk, I was obliged to carry the invalid from the house to the carriage, and from the carriage at Menasha to the steamboat.  We reached Fond du Lac in the evening and tarried for the night.  The following morning we took the stage for Sheboygan.  The roads were excellent and the coach comfortable, but it was necessary to carry the invalid literally in my arms the entire distance.  On arriving at the shore end of the pier at Sheboygan, the steamboat, at the other end, gave a signal for her departure.  Hastily leaving the coach and sending the family forward with all possible dispatch, I chartered a common dray, the only conveyance at hand, placed a trunk upon it, took the invalid in my arms, seated myself on the trunk, and bade the driver to put his horse on his best speed.  The race was a most creditable one, and before the boat had time to get under way, we were nicely on board, to the great merriment of all concerned.