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By virtue of sundry writs of Fieri Facial Levari Faciaq and Venditioni Exponas, to me directed, I will expose to public sale, at the Court House, in Huntingdon, on FRIDAT APRIL 11, 1879, at ono o'clock, p. In., the following described Real Estate, to wit : No. 1 AU tha one undivided fourth part of the following tracts of land situate in the county of Huntingdon, and known as the •`Mill Creek Furnace Property," to wit: The undivided fourth part of a tract of land situate in Brady townsh p, in said county, near the mouth of Mill Creek, containing 180 acres and 30 perches, about SO acres of which are cleared and in a good state of cultivation. Having there on a Large Blast Purnance, with necessary machinery for Liming the same either by steam or water, au EXCELLENT GRIST raiLL Y with four run of E tones, smut ma{ 'line a 9,1 a SAW MILL. A full complitncnt of dwelling houses for manager and hands to reside in. All which buildings are near the Pennsylvania Cana! and railroad. [Ex cepting therefrom three small pieces or parcels thereof, viz: One thereof conveyed by E. A. Green and Joseph Green and wife to Daniel Hawn by deed dated May,-1866, and recorded in Record Book W, No. 2, page 175. Another conveyed to Moses Lightner by deed date! 23 July, 1869. and recorded in Record Book Y, No. 2. page 109, and the other by deed of Joseph and J. Miles •4reeu to Mrs. Sarah Peightal, dated May 9, 1576, and recorded in Record B , ok li, No. 5, page 502.} (Said pieces and parcels being hereafter separately described.) Also, the undivided fourth part of a piece or parcel of laud adjoining the above described tract, and lying between the saws and the Juniata river, 15 acres and 121 perches, .4'1 , 31113in:4- Mill Creek from the of the last mentioned tract to its jat,ction with the Juniata river, and is ,_ good bottom land with TWO DW ELL iif ''; IN:3 HOUSES erected :hereon. [Ex -1,1 : cepting therefrom two small pieces or LI ' • ••'',- parcels thereof sold and conveyed by (1 1 deeds of Joseph Green and E. A. Green and wives to wit : One by deed dated January Ist, 1867. and recorded in Record Book Y, No. 2, page 158, to George Hawn. and the other by deed- dated Sep tember 6th, 1567, and recorded in Record Book Y, No. 2, pa-;e 160, to Aquilla Long]. (Said pieces !icing hereafter separately described.) Also, that undivided one-fourth part of a tract of land adjoining. the two lost mentioned tracts and the Junititta river, purchased from J. a , ,d J. Yilliken. containing 32 acres and 120 perches, upon which are built THREE DWELL ING HOUSE'', STABLb;S. and a large ~,-., FRAME DWELLING HOUSE, ca ll ed all ; i• the MANSION HOUSE, fronting the :I: ' c e 4 turnpike and canal, with commodious -- • * grounds, garden, yard and outhouses; also, a sub stantial wharf and a railroad leading therefrom to the furnace, about two hundred yards on this tract. [Excepting therefrom three small pieces or par e:As thereof. ono thereof conveyed by deed of E. k. Green and Joseph Green and wife, to Mrs. Mary A .ilughes. by Ace I dated May 16, 1866. and '-e -corded in Record Book Y, No. 2. page 264; anoth er conveyed by deed of Joseph Green and wife and S. Miles Green to Eliohas B. Henderson, dated May 20, 1870, and recorded in Record Book Z, No. 2, page 270; and the other by deed of said Jos. Green and J. Miles Green to Porter T. Hen derson, by deed dated September 13, 1875, and re corded in he-cord Book 11, No. 3, page 136.] (Said pieces and parcels being hereafter separately de scribed.) Als , t, the undividel fourth part of nine tracts of unseated land situate in Henderson and Brady townships, to wit: One tract containing 400 acres, surveyed on a warrant in name of Daniel Ott; another containing 400 acres in the name of An drew Burghart; another containing 331 acres and perches in the name of Adams Houck : another containing 412 acres in the name of Frederilk Bates; another containing 414 acres and 155 perches in the name ofLewis Lamer: another con taining 400 acres in the name of S. M. Green and J. H. Dorsey; another an improvement right in the name of William Lightner, containing 300 acres. and the other a tract containing about 20 acres in the name of S. M. Green, adjoining the fJriner tract, John Goodman and others. Also, the tindired fourth part of a tract of land containing 156 ac-es and 43 perches, situate in said township of Brady, about one mile east of the Furnace, adjoining lands of James Lane's heirs, nod others, about 50 acres of which are cleared, known by the name of •`Duncan Pled." Also, the undivided fourth part of a tract of land situate in Brady townsilip aforesaid, containing 197 aeres and 131 perches, about three wiles northeast of Furnace, on tit:, waters of Mill Creek, adjoining lands of Thiimas Read's heirs, Miehliel (lawn and others, having :JO acres .cleared, known as the Warcfielil farm. Also, the undivided fourth part. of seven adjoin ing tracts of unzeated !ands situate on Stone mountain in Brady and Ilemierson townships, one thereof in the name of Abraham Duffield ; one other in the name of George Eagy ; one other in the nom- of Samuel Ayres; one other in the name ofJesse Hawkins; one other in the name of Thomas Mitchenor; ono other in the name of William Michenor ; containing together about 3.000 acres. [Excepting therefrom 262 acres and 10 perches, net measure. being that, portion of the tract in name of George Elgy lying upon the southeast side of Standing Stone mountain. which was con veyed to Jacob Sharp by deed ofJoseph Green and E. A. Green and wives, doted March 23, 186 S, and recorded in Record Book X, No. 2, page 332, re serving the iron ore on, in or under the same, with the right to mine and carry the same away at any ..-..' :... • • --1 *".L7i- ...- ~ . . .: .." 4 ... , ...,' 4 -1 '4.:•A I - I I '` .. „. ii___, 474 •,. ‘ , - , 4 - 0 : . 1 4 . . . . . ..‘ 7 . .': 1 3 ..ki ~. li : • . i. f:l4. , ...; 4 zc: riA 4 t' ' I -..- ' -e 1 144, _ill , ..., _..c,.. and all times and places.] (The same being here after separately described.) No. 2, Also, the undivided fourth part of that certain niessuage, tenement and lot of ground situate i n said township of Brady, adjoining lands of Daniel Hawn, Geom.) Hawn, and others, containing about acres, he the same more or less, being the same let of ground fully described in the deed frton Joseph Green and J. Miles Green to Mrs. Sarah Peightal, dated May 9, 1876, and recorded in Record Book IT, Na. 3, page 302. No. 3 Also, the undivided one-fourth part of that cer tain, messuage, tenement and lot of ground in said township of Brady, lying between the Penn sylvania railroad and the public road leading to Huntingdon, upon the N. E. bank of Mill Creek, being more fully described, and the same lot of ground mentioned, in the deed from Joseph Green and J. Miles Green to Porter 'f. Henderson, dated 18th September, 1875, and rued dod in Record Book 11, No. 2, page 136. No. 4, Also, all the undivided fourth part of that cer tain lot of ground situate , in ,aid township of Brady, in the village of Mill Creek, on the south bank .)f the waters of Mill Creek, hounded aDdtbi scribed us follows, viz : Ih•giuning at a I cult on the south bank Mill Creek at the tuinpikehrid c. thence S. 22/ 2 E. 44,1 feet to a post ; thence N. 67 E. S=l feet to a post: thence ;;4 W. 49 feet to a Fpruee; thence S. 6l W. 72 feet to the place of beginning, being the same lot of ground which was c•diveyed to Bliphaz C. Ilendiirson by deed of Joseph Green and wife and J. Miles U reen, dated May 2d, ISMU, and recorded in Record Book Z, N 6 2, page 270. No. 5 Also, all that certain inessuage, tenement and lot of ground situate in Brady township, adjoin ing lot of James Hampson's heirs and others, con taining two acres net measure; being more fully described in a deed front Joseph Green and E. A. Green and wives to 510;,es Lightner. (Intel July 23, 1869. and recorded is Record Book Y, No. 2, page 109. No. 6 Also, I he cud 1 vided one- fourth pert of all the in terest which John 11. Dorsey had and held in and to a tract of land containing' 30fi acres and 35 perAes, surveyed on a warrant in till Larne of Israel Pennington, on which is the Dorsey Ore Bank., situate in Franklin an-I WarriorF , antlik No. 7. Also, the undivided one-fourth hart of a et.rtain messuage, tenement and tract of land, situate in Brady township, containing about 140 acres, ad joining lands of Samuel G. Simpson, D. Isenberg, A. Simpson, and others, and tile Juni ita river including the canal and turnpike, . z ,,,,.... on which are erected TWO DWELLING glif.'l:i . HOUSES and a good FRAME BARN, ::: ' and known as the Sugar Grove or -''''."- Red House Tract, more fully described in a• deed from J3set.b. Green and A. E. Green and wives to George ' - .by. dated November 2, 17t1S, and recorded in Record Book N, No. 2, page 373. That part of said tract lying between the Pennsylvania Railroad and canal as shall be cut off from said t-act by the township road leading from the said canal to the railroad as lately laid out, with the houses thereon erected, containing about one-half acre, is excepted. No 8. Also, all that certain tract of land, in Brady township, containing 262 acres and 10 perches, being that portion of the tract surveyed in name of George Eby, lying upon the south-east side of Standing Stone mountain, and more fully descri bed in a deed from Joseph Green i.nd E. A. Green and their wives to Jacob Shar, , , dated March 26, 186 S, and recorded in Record Book X, page 332,&e. No. 9. Also, all that messuage, tenement or tract of 14nd. lying in Brady township, between the old Lewistown and Huntingdon turnpike rood and Pennsylvania Railroad, owned by George Hawn, esq., being more fully described in a deed therefor, from Joseph Green and E. A. Green and wives to AquiPa Long, dated September 6, 1567, and re corded iu Record Book No. 2, page 60. No. 10. Also, all that messuage, tenement and lot of ground, situate in Brady township, lying between the old Lewistown and Huntingdon turnpike and the Pennsylvania Raiiroad, ant adjoining lands of Samuel G. Simpson ;And the lot above describ ed in a deed therefor from Jori , eph Green and E. A. Green and wives to Goorge Hawn, dated Jan uary 1, 1867, and recorded in Record Book Y, No. 2, page 15S. No. 11. Also, all that certain piece or parcel of land, in slid township of Brady, adjoining lands of Geo Hawn. an alley, and iatds of William McAlldter, and others, containing 1 acre and 129.42 perches. being the same lot of ground described in a deed from E. A. Green and Joseph Green and wife to Daniel Hawn, dated May —, IsB6, and recorded in Record Book U, No. 2, page 175. No. 12. Also, all that certain piece or parcel of land, in Brady .township, adjoining the Pennsylvania Railroad, lot of Mrs. Lydia Civils, the public street in the •illage of Mill Creek, and others, having thereon erected a TWO-STORY ' PLASTERED HOUSE, being the same sal ;'), lot of ground which is more fully dc :lll'., .oribed in a" deed train E. A. Green and Joseph Green and wile to Mrs. Mar) A. dughes, dated May 16, 1868, and recorded in Record Book Y, N 0.2, page 264. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of E. A. Green, with notice to terro ten ants. , C;"" The above described properties will, in pursuance of an order Of the Court, he sold in the order in which they are described as above, unless the full amount of Levaria Facias No. 7:), Apiil Teruo, 1879, with interests and costs, be satistied before they are all sold. _ ASLU—AI! that c•Ttaio house and lot of ground and premise?, situated and being on corner of Washington and Bath streets, in the borough of Huntingdon, being fifty feet in front on Washing ton street and extending in depth at right angles thereto along east side of Bath street 200 feet to Mifflin street, as laid out on the ground and mark ed Id 4 Get in the plan of said In,rough, and ad joining lot late of James Hemphill on the east, being the same premises which was con veyed to the said John K. McCahan by deed cf Samuel H. Reed, dated 'March 1214 10, 1860, and recorded in Record Book I / 9 1- ,,*' U, No. 2, page 23. having. thereon erect ed a TWO-STORY F-AME UWI LLINU tiOlJz,k; Also, al the r ght. title and interest of the said John K. McCahan, of, in and to a cut fin parcel or tract of land, situated in Warriorsmark town ship,Huntingdon county. and State of Pennsylva nia, adjoining land formerly of John Henderson, deceased, now John Wait, on the south, and the Laurel Spring Grist Mill property and land form erly belonging to Thomas Weston. esq., decease f, on the north, bounded and described as follows, viz: Beginning at a post, in the lane formerly Hendersoa's, now Wait's, south 35 deg ees east, 219 perches to a post backed up with atones; thence south LQ degrees west, 133 perches to a stone heap; thence n rth 33 degrees west, 305 4- 10 perches to a post in lone, formerly Weston's, and thence north 56 degrees east, 91 49-100 perches to a post in lane (Wait's), containing 143 acres, tuore.or less, and the usual allowance for roads, abbut 100 acres cleared and the balance in timber, principally oak, the satne being the bal an3e r remainder of a larger tract of land sur veyed on a warrant to Boynton .k Wharton. dated the 2Sth day of July, 1706, which was conveyed by Caleb Guyer, committee of Benjamin Johnston to John K. eCahan as by deed bearing date the lSth day of August, 1557, recorded in B•Jult N, No. 2, page 292 and 3. Seized, taken in execution. and to be sold as the property of John K. MeCahan. Executor and Trustee under the will of John MeCahan, deceas ed. ALSO—AiI that certain house and lot, of ground, situated in W-rriorsmark town, in the township of Warriorsmark ,eounty of Huntingdon, and State of Pennsylvania, bounded and descri ded as fuilows, to wit : Beginning at post on Main street and corner of Jeremiah We ton's lot; thence south-east by said lot to post on twelve foot alley; th e nce south west by said alley to post on Spruce Creek and Philipsburg turnpike road ; thence by said road north-west to post on Main street ; thence north-east on Main street to post on erly . Jeremiah IVeston's lot, the place of §; a ': beginning, containing about one-half 111 - acre, m re or less, having thereon erect ? ed a LARGE FRAME DWELLING HOUSE, Stable, and other outbuildings. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of Bubert A. Jackson. ALSO—AII that certain tract of land, situated in Cromwell township, Huntingdon coun ty, bounded as follows : On the south by Win. (Bunt. west by Aughwick Creek, on the north by John Chilcote, and on the east by A. C. Lynn, containing about 68 acres, more *-~, or less, about 40 or 45 acres cleared and I I g' , ...' the balance in timber, having thereon a IN mall LOG lIOUSE and LOG BARN. ..4...-- I Seized, taken in execut on, and to be sold as the property of Jacob Ruby. ALSO—AII that certain tract of land, fituated in Tod township, lluntingdon county, Pa., adjoining land of Samuel Hite, Cornelius Saylor, Samuel Saylor, David Beatly, James Banks, and others, containing about 125 acres, more or less, 711 acres of which are cleared and the balance in timber and having thereon erected a small TWO-STORIED FRAME HOUSE, Bank Barn, and oth er outiou 'dings. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of Abraham Uhilcote. ALSO`—AII defendant's right, title and interest in all that certain messuage and lot of ground, situated in the borough of Huntingdon, Huntingdon county, Pa., adjoining lot now or late of Peter Swoop on the south, and lot now or late of John Shirley on the north ; fronting 50 feet on Penn street and extending back at right angles thereto 150 feet to a fifteen foot alley, being lot No. 5, in Block No. 11, in the ' recorded plan of the Wharton, Miller & lel Anderson addition to West Huntingdon, I having thereon erected a TWO-STORY a -= FRAME DWELLING HOUSE, and other out buibliegs. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as th property of Abraham Baker. ALSO—AII that certain lot of ground, situate in that part of the borough of Huntingdon known as West Huntingdon, at the north-west corner of Twe fth :mud Min streets, fronting 50 feet on ...aid Mifilin street and extending Lack therelnan 150 feet to a 15 foot alley, being lot No. 211 ie J. Edgar Thompson's addition to said borough' of Huntingdon. and having thereon erect ed a FRAME CHURCH BUILDING, together with all and singular the build i_llsit ina.s ' improvements, roads, ways, rights, las • an a ,liberties, privilege , hereditaments and - appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining. and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof. Seized, taken in execution, and to he sold as the property of, with notice to Harlin Saylor, L. P. Egolf, J. L. Etter. Alfre i Ciaybaugh and David Lam),ersen, Trustees of tha United Brethren Churchof Huntingdon ALSO--All that certain niece, parcel or lot of ground, situate in Henderson township, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania. fronting on the nor.h side of Turnpike or Public Road, lead ing from Huntingdon to Mill Cre k, adjoin ing lot of Peter _Miller on the east and north, and lands of Laban Hall on the went, con taining one half acre, more ar less, and ja- ' hiving thereon erected a LOG D WE LL- a ING HOUSE, weatherboarded. Tne premises being at present occupied by Calvin Long as 'enact. Seized, taken in execution, and lobe sold as the property of Jesse M ills. ALSO—AIi that. certain piece or block of ground, situate in West Huntingdon, in the borough of Huntingdon, and State of Penney fronti• g four bun , red feet (400 ft.) on the west side of Penn street, bounded on the north by Eighteenth street, on the east by said Penn street, on the south by Seventeenth street, and on the west by the right of way of the Pennsylvania ailroad, said block being designated "I)." in the recorded plan of West Huntingdon, as laid out by Wharton. Miller and Anderson, having there on erected ONE LARGE BRICK c rag- PLANING MILL, ONE ERECT (NG SHOP, ONB ENGINE HOUSE 4 : 4 l * liiial AND STACK, One Large Black •••• smith and Machine Shop, One Form ing 1 urn ea, One Transfer Table, together with Railroad Track and Siding, and outbuildings, One Fifty-horse Power Double Connecting Engine and Boller, One Lewis & Phillips' Bolt Header and Furnace, One Rotary Mortis Machine, One Large Power and Tainter's Planer, Shafting, Be ting, and ail the Machinery, Fixtures, and Convenien ces, known as the HUNTINGDON CAR WORKS. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of Orbision & Co. ALSO—AII that certain tract of land, situate in Carbon township, Huntingdon county, Pa a bounded on the south by lands of the 11, & B. T. R. It. Co., on the west and north by lands of David Putt., nod on the A east by lands of Thomas Caiberry, de 111 a ceased, containing 9 acres, more or less, /: having thereon a SAW MILL in good aa— running order and good water pow: r. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of J. S. Hooper. ALSO—AII that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in Oneida township, Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, ad joining land of lion. George Taylor's heirs, and others, containing about 22 acres, 3 roods and 20 perches, the courses and distances of which are fully set out in a deed therefor inter aUu from Jacob Fockler to William Dorris, John Anderson and Thomas P. Campbell, dated 9th November, 1S:38, and recorded at Huntingdon, eed Book 0, No. 2. page 358, &e., excepting therefrom about three-fourths of an acre n w owned by lion George Taylor's h.irs, which was part of said 22 acres, 3 mode and 20 perches. Seized, taken . in execution, and to be sold as the property of Stephen WeldILA, Adolf Oily, John Gily and Franz Thomasberger. ALSO—AII that certain lot of ground, situate in Lincoln township, Huntingdon county, 'a., bounded as follow on the south by Lewis Kreiger, on the west by David Morn inzstar, and north and east by James Cresswell, containing about 41 acres Mile clew ed. having thereon a NEW TWO- II: . STORY LOG HOUSE. Also, all defendant's interest in about one-tourt h of an acre, adjoining the above described lot on the north, hawing thereon erected a Frrme Stable. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of John Cunningham. ALSO—AII defendant's right, title and interest in all those two certain lots of ground, situate in West Huntingdon, now part of said borough of Huntingdon, adjoining each other and each fronting 50 feet on Washington street and extending in depth at right angles to the same 150 feet to an alley 15 feet wide, being A c .:. lots numbered 9 and 10 in Block 17 in lllli the plan of said Wharton, Miller A An . derson's addition to said town, having :77 thereon erected a TWO-STORY FRAME HOUSE, and other outbuildings. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of P. M. Burbank. ALSO—AII that certain tract of land. situate in the township of Walker, and county of Huntingdon, bounded on the north by lands of John 1' Watson and George W. States, on the east by lands of William Isenberg, Jacob Lining er, and others, on the south by lands of John Heffner and Hieronytnous Diehl, and on the west by lots of Walker township school district, Joseph Ltenberg,!tnd others, containing seventy-six acres, more or less, almost the whole of said land being cleared and fenced, being part of a larger tract of land described in a mortgage given by Joseph McCoy to George Hawn, recorded in Mortgage Book No. 4, page 366, the residue of the said tract having been previously sold. The tract above advertised, being the unsold portion of the same, and constituting Nos. 7 and 8 in a draft or plot made by J. Siuipt - on Africa, for the pur poses of the Orphans' Court sale made by the Administrators of Joseph McCoy, deceased. [See Orphans' Docket L, page 255.] No 7, lying on the west side of the Broad Top Railroad, and containing about 50 acres, (excepting however, ther-from about one acre at the south east corner, sold to Grove Brothers.) No. 8, containing about i 6 acres and lying on the east side of the said railroad. Seized, taken in execution, and to he sold as the property of the widow and heirs ofJos.McCoy,dec'd Al.4o—The undivided half part of five lots, pieces or parcels of ground, situate in Shirley township, in said county of Huntingdon, bounded and described as follows: No. 1, containing seven acres and ninety-seven and a half perches, bound ed by Aughwick Creek, lands of ichard _ _ Shower, and others, having thereon erected a DWELLING HOUSE, GRIST 111 MII.b, SAW MILL. and other improve- :II ments. No. 2, containing two hun dred and thirty-nine perches, neat measure, bound ed by the foregoing No. 1, on the west. No 3, con taining about two acres, and adjoining No. I on the south. No. 4 containing about two acres lying on the south-eastern bank of Aughwick Creek, and adjacent to No. 3. No. 5, containing about five Imes, the whole tract having at onetime con mined about fifteen acres, but a part of it amount ing to some ten acres, having been retaiNed by Joseph Rhodes and John Bigley, former owners, is now in possession of Joseph Rhodes. The part herein described as No. 5, and oontaining about five acres, being bounded as follows: Beginning at a point on the north—eastern boundry of the tract as it was before the division, adjacent to lands of John Enyeart, at or near the road lead ing from Mount Union to Shirleysburg by way of the Whetstones, and thirty-two and a half perches distant from post at eastern corner of said tract, and thence by a lino running parallel with the oath eastern boundry thereof, being south 50 decrees west, about twenty-five perches until said division line inrets the south-western boundry ad joining lands of A. L. Funk. - Seized. taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of Charles G. Baird, and Margaret Baird, his wife. ALSO—AII that certain thessuage, par• cel of land, and Glass Sand Quarry, situate in Brady township, Huntingdon county, and State of Pennsylvania, beginning at a locust on the Pennsylvania Canal; thence by Daniel Igo's tract of land, south three degrees west forty-two and eight-tenth perches to a post ; thence by tract of land in name of David H. Porter, south thirty five and three fourth degrees west forty-four and fou--tenth perches to a Buttonwood on the Penn sylvania Canal; thence by said canal north two degrees east fourteen perches to a post ; thence by same north nineteen degrees east twenty-four perches to a post ; thence by same north twenty eight and one-half degrees east thirty-one and four-tenth perches ; and thence by same north HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY APRIL 4, 1879. twenty-one degrees cast thirteen percbe9 to the place of beginning, containing four acres and six ty five perches, and allowance or' six per cent. for roads, together with all and singular the build ings, improvements, wools, ways, rights, liberties, privileges, bereditarcents and appurtenances to the same belonging or in anywise appertaining, and the revision anti revisions, remainder and re mainders, rents, issues and profits thereof. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of John McComb. ALSO—AII the ri , ght, tide anti interest of defendant, being a life interest, in all that cer tain tract of land, situate in Henderson township, adjoining lands of Samuel Hemphill, John Sny der, William Wagoner and Pennsylva— nia Railroad on the south containing ;, 21 acres and SO perches, more or less, I and having thereon erected a substan tial FRAME DWELLING HOUSE, 1 :5 , -, and Log Stable. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of D. J. Walker. ALSO—AII that certain lot of ground, situate in the borough of Mount Union ; Bunting don county, Pa., fronting - feet on Railroad street, and extending in depth - feet .5 to an alley, having thereon erected a 111 ', TWO-STORY BRICK DWELLING V: . HOUSE AND FRAME STABLE. and ~ other outbuildings. . .. . . Ate°, ail that certain lei of ground, adjoining the above described lot, contain ng about two acres, more or Res., fronting on Railroad street. and extending back to said alley. Also, that certain lot of ground, situate in the borough of Mount Union. Huntingdon county. Pa., fronting 50 feet. on Water street, having there on erected a TWO-aTORV FRAME DWELLING HOUSE, a nix other outbuildings. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of Samuel Miller and .D. Douglass, trading as Miller Douglass. ALSO—AII that certain lot of ground, in the borough of Coaluiont, fronting fifty feet on Evans street, and extending back at right angle'. one hundred and fifty feet to a fifteen loot alley, adjoining Schell a reet on thy, north, and lot now owned by Joseph Shoenfeler on the south, hat tug thereon erected a TIV 0-STORY FR AM E PLANK 110 USE, Stable, and other .04y - 4 - outbuildings, being the same premises 1 :hat C. K. Horton, Trustee to sell the real estate of Thomas 31. lledding, sold to Luther W. Flanigan by order of the Orlin:Los' Court of Eluntingdon county. which sale was con firmed absolutely by said Court on the 27 t h of August, 1877, as will appear by the records of said Court. .t. , eized, taken in execution, at:d to 13‘:, zohl es the property of Luther W. Flanig4n. - - ALSO—AII defendant's right, title and interest,in all that certain tract of land, situate in Clay township, Huntingdon county, Pa., bounded on the north by Samuel Wagoner. on the south b, John Jamison, on the east by H. Shop• , and on the west by J. Id. Moreland, containing eight and one-half acres of timber land, more or less. Also, all that certain other tract of land in Clay township, Huntingdon county, Pt., adjoining lands of Charles McCarthy, U. W. Cahill, stcli*4 , vx.., and others,containing seventy five acres Ills '": with good young orchard, good meadow iir and brick yard, and having thereon ere , ted 'IWO SMALL DIVELLINti BOUSbS and Barn. Seized, taken in execution, and to besold as the property of George W. Bough. ALSO—AII defendant's right, titk. and interest in all that certain tract of land, situate in Warriorstnark township, Huntingdon county, Pa., bounded and described as follows : Begin nine eta post or corner of said lands and lands of Michael Grazier; thence by said G razier's lands north fifty-two degrees east 68 perches to a poet ; south 87i degrees east 53 perches to a hickory ; north by lands of John Eycr 48 degrees east 13 perches to a post; south 40 degrees east 64 perches to a post; south 41 degrees west 24 and 2-10 perches to a post; south 37i degrees east 103 and 5 10 perches to a post; thence by lands • f An shultz & Co., south 30 degrees west 65 perches i o a pine knot; thence by other lands north 371 degrees west 248 perches to the place of begin ning, containing 94 acres and the usual allowan.e of six per cent. for roads, being the same tract of land more fully de,cribed in Deed Book E, No. 3, page 107, together with all and singular the buildings, improvements, ways, waters, water courses, rights, liberties, privileges hereditament:3 and appurtenances whatsoever thereto belonging or in any wise appeitaining, and the revisions and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof, and all the estate right, title and interest, and property claim and demand what A... ever, ever, having teereon erected a TWO- VII I . STORY FRAME DWELLING HOUSE, :1:.,i.. , Bank Barn, and other necessary out buildings. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold es the property of Israel Miller, whose administrator is John Miller. ALSO—A II that certain messuage, par eel of land and Glass Sand Quarry, situate in Brady township, lluntingdon county, and State of Pennsylvania, beginning at a locust on the Pennsylvania Canal, thence by Daniel Igo's tract of land, south three degrees we-t forty-two and eight-tenth perches to a post; thence by tract of land in the name of David R. Porter, south thirty five and three-fourth degrees west forty four and four-tenth perches to a buttonwood on the Penn sylvania Canal; thence by said Canal north two degrees east fourteen perches to a post; thence by same, north nineteen degrees east twenty-!bur perches to a post; thence by same, north twenty eight and one-half degrees east thirty one and four-tenth perches to a post; and thence by then same, north twenty-one degrees east thirteeg perches to the place of beginning, containin, four acres and sixty-five perches, an.l allowance havfmg thereon erected a Glass Sand Quarry, a Railroad to P.Jinsylvania Railroad, Steam Engine and Gearing, Buildings and Machinery. Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as the property of It. Bruce Petrikin, Trustee and Dan iel Crowley and Eliza Crowley, his wile terre ten ants. TERMS :—The price for which the property is sold must be paid at the time of sale, or such other arrangements made as will be approved, otherwise the property will immediately be put up and sold at the risk and expense of the person to whom it was first sold, and who, in the case of deficiency at such re-sale shall make good the same, aid in no instance will the deed be presented to the court for confirmation unless the money is ac tually paid to the Sheriff. Purchasers who are lien creditors must procure a certified list of liens for the Sheriff, in order to apply the amount of bids, or any part thereof, on their liens._ SAM'L 11. IRVIN. Sheriff. March 21, 1879.] Legal Advertisements. PROCLAMATION.—Whereas, by precept to me directed by the Judges 01 the Common Pleas of the county of Huntingdon, bearing test the 26, day of February, i 879, lam commanded to make public proclamation throughout my whole bailiwick, that a Court of Common Pleas will be held at the Court House in the borough of Huntingdon, on the let Monday (and 7th day) of April, A. It., 1679, for the trial of all issues in said Court, which remain undertermined before the said Judges, when and where all jurors, witnesses, and suitors, In the trials of all issues are required. Dated at Huntingdon, the lint day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine, and 103 d year of American Independence. Marcd 21, 1879. SAMUEL H. IRVIN, Sheriff. PROCLAMATlON—Whereas,byapre cept to me directed, dated at Huntingdon, the 28th day of February, A. D., 1879, under the hands and seal etthe Hon. John Dean, President Judge of the Courts of Common Pleas, Oyer and Terminer, and general jail deliv ery of the 24th Judicial District of Pennsylvania, compo sed of Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria counties; and the Hons. Uratrus Miller and Adam fleeter, his associ ates, Judges of the county of Huntingdomj notices assign ed, appointed to bear, try and determine all and every indictment made or taken for or concerning all crimes, which by the lawn of the State are made capital, or felonies of death and other offences, crimes and misdemeanors, which have been or shall hereafter be committed or perpetrated, for crimes afoiessid—l am commanded to make public procla mation throughout my whole bailiwick, that a Court of Oyer and Terminer,Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions and general jail delivery will be held at the Court House, in the borough of Huntingdon, on the second Monday (and 14thday) of April, 1579, and those who will prosecute the said prisoners, be then and there to prosecute them as it shall be just, and that al l Justices of the Peace, Coroner and Constables within said county, be then and there in their proper persons, at 10 o'clock, a. m., of said day, with their records, inquisitions, examinations and remembrances, to do those things which to their offices respectively appertain. Dated at Huntingdon, the 21st day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine and the 103 d year of American Independence. SAM'L. EL IRVIN, SEMITE. PROCLAMATlON—Whereas,byapre. -A- cept to me directed by the Judges of the Com mon Pleas of the county of Huntingdon, bearing test the 26th day of February, A.D. 1879, I am commanded to make public proclamation throughout my whole bailiwick, that a Court of Common Pleas will be held at the Court House, in the borough of Huntingdon, on the 3d Monday, (a d 21st day,)of April,A. D., 1879, for the trial of all iss;les in said Court which remain undetermined before the sai Judges, when and where all jurors, witnesses, and suit s, in the trials of all issues are required. Dated at Huntingdon, the 21st day of March, in the ye . @four Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine, and the 103 d year of American Independence. SAM'L. H IRVIN, SHERIFF. EXECUTORS' NOTICE. [Estate of JACOB MUSSER, dee'd.] Letters testamentary on the estate of Jacob Musser, late of Brady township, dec'd., having been granted to the undersigned, (residing at Airy Dale, P. 0.,) all persons knowing themselves in debted are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims to present them duly au thenticated for settlement. HENRY S. ML'SSER, JACOB SHARP, Mch. 2S' Executors'. 12. e Riitscs' f)atner. Joy WM Find You Where You Are. 13V ELLA 31. BAKER Yearning hearts, ye long, ye crave, Having, maybe, all things, save Some one soul's desire that could Only make possessions good. Verily, ye do no wrong, For immortals here mast long : To wish, yea. to anticipate, Is their birth mark in this state, Yet though thirst and famine sore Exercise thee, heed this lore ; Bide thee patient la thy place ; Do its work and take its grace; For, come joy from near and far, It will find yOu where you arc. Restless hearts, ye wander wide, Questioning on every side, Roaming wearily, with mind Bent to find what none e'er find— Joy's bird house, the secret throne Where she lives atone, unknown. Thou wouldst thence fain wrest her best ; Clumsy pilferer! foo:ish guest.! Be more c'nildiike ; wait thy turn ; With humility this learn : Bide thee patient in thy place; Do its work and take its grace ; For, come joy from near and far, Joy will find you where you are. Humble hearts, to whom delay Datil taught silence day by day, Deem not overlooked, forgot, Your rcnown less, modest let. David walked the sheep about ; There the annointing sought him out; Gideon threshed, there no less Angels found him by the press. Bide thee patient in tin place; Do its work and take its grace; For, come joy from near and far, Joy will find you where you are. Waiting. Learn to wait—life's hardest lesson, Conned perchance, through blinding tears, While the heart-throbs sadly echo To the tread of passing years. Let us wait—hope's slow fruition ; Faint not though the way seems long ; There is joy iu each condition; Hearts through suffering may grow strong. Constant sunshine, howe'er welcome, Ne'er could ripen fruit or flower; Giant oaks owe half their greatness To the sefttliing tempests' power. Thus a soul untouched by sorrow, Aims not to a higher state ; Joy seeks not a brighter morrow— Only sad hearts learn to wait. Human strength and human greatness Spring not from life's sunny side; Heroes must be more than driftwood Floating on a waveless tide. Ely 0. to r s p Er II t r . MY MIDNIGHT PERIL. A THRILLING SK ETCH OF BACKWOODS LIFE The night of the 17th of October--shall I ever forget its pitchy darkness. the roar of the Autumnal wind thr,-lugh the lonely foreets, and the incessant tiownpouring of rain ? "This comes of short cuts," I muttered, petulantly. to myself, as I plodded along, keeping close to the trunks of the trees, to avoid the ravine, through which I could hear the roar of the turbulent stream fcrty or fifty feet below My blood My blood ran cold as I thought what might be the possible consequence of a misstep or a move 111 the wrong direction. Why had I not been content to keep in the right road ?" Hold on I Was that a light, or are my eyes playing me false ? I stopped, holding on to the low, rosinous boughs of a hemlock that grew on the edge of the bank. for it actually seemed that the wind would seize me bodily and hurl me down the precipitous descent. . It was a light—thauk Providence—it was a light. and no ignus fatuus to lure me on to destruction and death. o o !" My vt,ice rang through the woods like a clarion. I plunged on through the tangled vines, dense briars, and rocky banks, until, grad ually nearing, I could perceive a figure wrapped in an oilcloth cloak, or cape, car r)iug a lantern As the did light fell upon his face, I almost recoiled. Would not solitude iu the woods be preferable to the companionship of this withered, wrin kled old wan ? But it was too late to re cede cow. "What's wanting ?" he snarled, with a peculiar motion of the lips, that seemed to leave his yellow teeth all bare. "I am lost in the woods; can you direct mP to R- Stari.in ?" Yes; R- Station is twelve miles from here." "Twelve miles !" I stood aghast. •"I es." "Cat) you tell me of any shelter I could obtain for the night ?" "No." "Where are you going 7" -To Drew's, down by the Maple Swamp." "Is it ;i tavern 7" “N o "Would they take me for the night ? I could pay them well." His eyes gleamed; the ellow stumps stood revealed once more "I guess so ; folks don't stop there." •"It is not far from here ?" "Not very ; about half a mile" "Then make haste, and let us reach it I am dr.•ached t•) the skin " We plodded on, my companion more than keeping pace with me. Presently we left the edge of the ravine, entering wlrtt seemed like a trackless woods, and keeping straight on until the lights gleamed fitlully through the wet fliage. _ _ It was a ruinous old place, with the windows all drawn to one side. as if the foundations had settled, and the pillars of a rude porch nearly rotted aw.y. A woman answered my fellow traveller's knock. My companion whispered a word or two to her, and she turned to me with smooth, voluble words of welcome. She regretted the poverty of her ac commodations; but I was welcome to them, such as they were." "Where is Isaac ?" demanded my guide. "Ile is not come in yet." I sat down on a wooden bench, beside the fire, and ate a few mouthfuls of bread. "I should like to retire as soon as pos sible," I said, fur my weariness was ex cessive. "Certainly." The woman started up with alacrity. "Where are you going to put him ?" asked the guide "Up chamber." "Put him in Isaac's room." "No." "It's the most conalortable." "I tell you no." But here I interrupted the whispered colloquy. "I am not particular—l don't care where you lodge me, only make haste." So I was conducted up a steep ladder that stood in the corner of the room, into an apartm-nt veiled with sloped beams and ventilated by one' small window, where a cot bedstead, crowded close against the board partition, and a pine table, with two or three chairs, formed the sole attempts at furniture. The woman set the light—an old oil lamp—on the table. "Anything more I can give, sir?" "Nothing, thank you." "At 4 o'clock in the morning, if you please, I must walk over to It— Station in time for the 7 o'clock express." "I shall be sure to call you, sir," She withdrew, leaving me alone in the gloomy little apartment. I sat down with no very agreeable sensation. "I will sit down and write to Alice," I thought ; "that will soothe my nerves and quiet me, perhaps." I de=scended the ladder; the fire still gloweti ruddily on the hearth beneath; my companion and the woman sat beside it, talking in a low tone, and a third person sat at the table eating. a short, stout, vil laincus looking man, in a red flannel shirt and muddy trousers. I asked for writing materials, and re turned to my room to write to my wife. "My Dear Alice—" I paused and laid down my pen as I concluded the words, half smiling to think what she would say, could she know of my strange quarters. Not till both sheets were covered, did I lay aside my pen and prepare for slumber. As I folded wy paper, I happened to glance toward the couch Was it the gleam of a human eye ob serving me through the board partition, or was it my own fancy 7 There was a crack there, but only blank darkness beyond,yet I could have sworn that something had sparkled balefully at me. I took nut my watch; it was 1 o'clock It was scarcely worth while for me to un dress for three hours' sleep. I would lie down in my clothes, and snatch what &umber I could. So, placing my valise at the head of my bed, and barricading the lockless door with two chairs, I extin guished the light, and lay down. At first I was very wakeful, but grade ally a soft drowsiness seemed to steal over me like a misty mantle, until, all of a sud den, some startling electric thrill coursed through my veins, and I sat up excited and trembling. A lurninoc.s softness seemed to glow through the room—no light of the moon or the stars was ever so penetrating—and by the little wind.pw I saw Alice. my wife ' dressed in floating garments of white, with her long golden hair knotted back by blue ribbon Apparently she was coming to we with outstretched hands, and eyes full of wild. anxious tenderness I sprang to my feet and rushed toward her ; but, as I reached the window, the fair apparition seemed to vanish into the stormy darkness ; and I was left alone. At the self-same instant the sharp report of a pistol s >undcd—l could see the jagged stream of fire above the pillow, straight through the very spot where, ten minutes since, my head had lain. With an instantaneous realization of my danger, I swung myself over the edge of the window, jumped some eight or ten feet into tangled bushes below, and as I crouched there recovering my breath, I heard the tramp of footsteps into my room. "Is he dead ?" cried a voice up the lad der—the smooth, deceitful voice of the woman with the half-closed eyes. Of course he is," growled a voice back ; "that charge would have killed ten men A light there, quick, and tell Tom to be ready." A cold, agonizing shudder ran through me. What a den o midnight murderers had I fallen into ? And how fearfully narrow had been my escape! With the speed that only mortal terror can give, I rushed through the wood, now illuminated by a faint glimmer of star light. I knew not what impulse guided my footstep. I never shall know how many times I crossed my own track, or how close I stood on the brink of the deadly ravine; but a merciful providence encompassed me with a guiding and pro tecting care, for when the morning dawned, with faint, red bars of orient light against the stormy eastern sky, I was close to the high road, some seven miles from R—. Once at the town, I told my story to the police, and a detachment was sent with me to the spot. After much searching and many false alarms, we succeeded in finding the ruinous old house, but it was empty—our birds hail flown ; nor did I recover my valise and watch and chain, which latter I had left under my pillow. "It's Drew's gang," said the leader of the police, "and they've troubled us these two years. I don't think, though, they'll come back here just at present. Nor did they. But the strangest part of my story is Ei yet to come. ome three weeks subse quently I receives a letter from my sister, who was with Alice in her English home —a letter whose intelligence fiiled me with surprise. must tell you something very strange," wrote my sister, ' that happened on the night of the 17th of October. Alice had not been well for some time ; in fact, she had been confined to her bed for nearly a week, and I was sitting beside her reading. It was late; the clock had just , truck one, when all at once sbe seemed to faint away. growing white and rigid as a corpse. I hastened to call assistance; but all our ef forts to restore animation were in vain. I was just about sending for a doctor, when her senses returned as suddenly as they had left her, and she sat up in bed, pushing up her hair, and looking wildly around her. " 'Alice !' I exclaimed, 'how you terri fied us all ! arc you ill ?' '• 'Not ill,' she answered, •but I feel so strange. Gracie, I have been with my husband !' '•All our reasoning failed to convince her of the impossibility of her as-ertious. She persists to this moment that she saw you and was with you on the morning of the 18th of October. Where and how she cannot tell, but we think it must have been in dream. She is better now, and I wish you could see bow fast she is im proving." This is my plain, unvarnished tale. I do not intend to explain or account for its mysteries. I simply relate facts. Let psychologists unravel the labyrinthical skein lam not superstitious, neither do I believe in ghosts, wraiths, or apparitions, but this thing I do know—that, although my wife was in England in body on the morning of the 18th of October., her spirit surely stood before me in New York in the moment of the deadly peril that men, aced me. It may be that to the subtile in stinct and strength of a wife's holy love all things are possible, but Alice surely saved my life. (sclat glisteltanp. Methodism--No. 5. SIi.ETCUES OF ITS EARLY HISTORY. J. R. FLANIGEN From the Philadelphia Record.] Inastiauch as we have had occasion in preceding papers to recur to the tenacity with which the first preachers of Merho dism in this c.niutry clung to —the Estill) listed lurch." it is worth while to remark upon the fact that the material out of which this great organization was formed in America was drawn from an altogether different source, and the same statement is true as to the element from which its mem• bers were derived in England. The first promulgators and founders of organized MethAism iu New York were what we may style Dutch Irish. They were descend ants of the refugees who were compelled to fly frAn the Rhine Palatinates at the beginning of the eighteenth century. These persecuted Germans found a temporary asylum in England, from whence some of them migrated to Ameiica, while a num ber of families were settled, under the pat ronage of the good Queen Anne, in Ire land Mr. Wesley introduced Methodism to these refugees, and many of them em braced it cordially, and in after years, sons and daughters of the fugitive Palatines found their way to the New World, set, ding down for the most part in New York city. Philip Embury, whom we think was the first roan who preached Methodism in that city, was a son of one of these Pala tine families, aull had been converted in Ireland under the preaching of Mr. Wes ley or some one of his preachers sent over there by him. So of the necks, Paul and Barbara, his wife, who was one of the fore most women of early Methodism, and the Switzers. Senses, the Taylors, Chaves, Gasners. Schuylers and a few others who were the vary earliest of the Methodists in what has grown to be "the Empire City." These people had been, if anything, be fore their conversion, Lutherans. THE MORAVIANS7 too, made considerable contribution to the Methodist societies as the work progress ed, the manner of worship and doctrines taught by the Wesleyans seeming to be much in sympathy with the ideas of the " - United Brethren." The element from which the new denomination drew supplies in Philadelphia was less marked, or rather more diversified, than it was in New York at the beginning, the names of the first Philadelphia Methodists indicating differ ent nationalities, as, for instance, the Budds, Haskins, Kelleys, Harveys, BA kers, etc. Referring to the Moravians, a somewhat remarkable circumstance is recalled, name ly, that Mr. Wesley himself seems to have been converted through the teachings or by inspiration derived from that denomi nation of Christians, and he very frankly acknowledges his obligation to the United Brethren for the manifestation of Divine grace of which he was made the recipient. Mr. Wesley, as will be remembered by some of our readers, came to America in 1735 as a missionary to the colonists and Indians in Georgia. While in this coun try he became acquainted with some Mor avians, who, as it appeared, were good Christians, and through his intimate as sociation with these be made up his mind that he had not yet realized the experi ence of a converted man, and in his journ al he says : "I went to America to convert the Indians, bat oh ! who shall convert me ?" And he adds : "I have a fair sum mer religion ; I can talk well ; nay, and believe myself, while no danger is near, but let death look me in the face, and my spirit is troubled, nor can I say 'to die is gain' " Mr. Wesley returned to England, where he renewed and continued associa tion with the "United Brethren," and in 1738, as he informs us, at a Moravian prayer meeting : "I felt my heart strange ly warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone. for salvation, and an assur ance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of death." Wonderful and mysterious workings of Providence ! Fur several years the great preacher had been calling sinners to re pentance and exhorting them to be wash ed in the blood of the Lamb, and only now was he enabled to read his own title clear, but "To know ourselves diseased is half our cure." And so it was with the founder of "this mighty organization " Right in front of old St. George's church, and between the two dcors of entrance are buried the remains of EZEKIEL COOPER A marble slab covers the (*rave, and on a tablet of the same material, inserted in the wall of the church, is inscribed the brief record of his birth and death, with other appropriate inscriptions Mr. Coop er was among the earliest of the Metho dist ministers in America, and we shall not err when we add that he was among the nmst distinguished preachers of his time. He was not an orator in the modern sense of that term, nor was he celebrated for forensic attainment; neither could he be considered as a particularly eloquent public speaker, but he uttered such burn ing words of truth and soberness as stole into the hearts of many thousands of men and women. Our first recollection of Mr. Cooper is when we were a boy, at which time we thought him an austere and rath er forbidding gentleman, an impression very likely to be made on a youth by a se rious, ever-thoughtful and devout person ag'. He was tall and straight as an Indian, his thin and whitened locks, as we rewem ber him, straggling over a head that was indicative of more than usual intellectual power. Making no pretensions to oratory or style, he was nevertheless a powerful preacher. A cogent, logical reasoner, with great analytical power, he was qualified in an eminent degree to convince the multi tude, and was hence a most successful preacher. He had a "wee," or external tumor, on his neck, which he sought to conceal as well as might be in the folds of an ample white cravat, such as was gener ally worn by the members of the Confer ence in those days. Mr. Cooper was born in Caroline coun ty, Maryland, in the year 1763, and enter ed the ministry as early as 1783, when he was about twenty-two years of age. His father was an officer in the Revolutionary army, and Ezekiel is supposed to have been awakened, when a boy, under the preaching of Freeborn Garrettson, on an occasion when the distinguished Methodist preached to the soldiers in Maryland. He was, of course, cotemporary with the Wes legs, with Whitefield, Asbury, Jesse Lee and all the Methodist preachers of the olden time, and enjoyed the friendship and confidence of the founder of the Church during his life. He was a connecting link of the old and the new. His knowledge and experience, "Like some grave mighty thought threading a d ream ," served as an inspiration to the younger members of the Conference, and he was leeked up to as truly a father in Israel, dying in 1847. at the advanced age of eighty four years. Mr Cooper was styled by those who best knew him "a living en cyclopedia of Methodism," and what he did not know about its rise, its progress and its condition during his lifetime, was perhaps scarcely worth knowing. His first field of work was on Long Is land, after which he traveled the New Jer sey circuit, when there were but ten Meth odist preachers in the Conference of that State and oily about twelve hundred mem bers, and when he finished the work of his Master on earth, there were thirty thous and Methodists in that State, with a mem bership in the United states that was rap idly approximating to a million. He was at times during his long anti active life Presiding Elder of the Boston district, book agent and editor of Metho dist books, by appointment of the (leper al Conference. He was a bachelor, and, what is most extraordinary, left some, five thousand dollars of an estate. At the time of his death he was considered to he the oldest Methodist preacher in the world, and the last letter Mr. Wesley wrote to America is said to have been addressed to Ezekiel Cooper. Many old Methodists still live in our city who can recall the tones and teachings of this old pioneer and patri arch of the Gospel, and some of them, doubtless, realizing again the ponderous but persuasive words by which they were brought to a sense of their great need for salvation under his preaching, will seed up anew thanks and praises to the . "God of our fathers, from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand." The Third Methodist church edifice con structed is our city was BETHEL. rip L 7 on the east side of Sixth street, 'above Lombard, where the sons and daughters of Africa have been want to worship for more than eighty years This church, however—as we learn from a sketch of Bethel church, by Mr. W. C Banton--was not constructed by the societies of white Methodists. Up to about the year 1794, the colored Methodists were connected with St. George's charge, and if they had separate religious services, which we do not understand to have been the case up to that time, the preacher was supplied by , St George's, but at about that period taste s tioned serious disagreements took plate between the white and colored Methodists, and the latter struck out for themselves, or seceded. Mr. Lednum, in his "Rise fal . : Methodism," says : "The next place of worship erected by the Methodists in this city was for the use of the colored people, and was called Bethel," and adds that it was opened in 1794, but the statement itrt more liberal toward the whites ths,p the+) facts in the case, as we have gathered them, would seem to warrant, beside which Bethel church was not built until the year 1800. It was very shortly after the seces sion, or what Mr. Banton considers the ejectment, of the colored people, that "Dickey Allen," as he was familiarly termed in those days, purchased theieß , . where the church new stands. Subsequent:, ly he bought a frame smith shop and had it hauled on to his ground, and in that' shanty the colored Methodists of the" southern section of the city continued UPI worship for six years. The new house, which was completed in the year 1800, s i p may be seen inscribed on a tablet that is inserted in the front wall, was built with the "smithy" standing inside of it, and when the brick structure was completed the smith shop was taken down and car ried out in pieces through the front door. There would seem to be a good. deal of history connected with the early struggles of colored Methodists that is not found ia the books, hut it would lengthen this arti cle beyond oi.r usual space if we were to enter upon a detail of it. It tarty be re marked, however, that they owe their ex.—) isteoce as a distinctive organization ta . 4 Richard Allen, one of their own race, who was born a slave in Philadelphia, and who purchased his freedom for the sum of one thousand dollars when slave property was tolerated even here. Uneducated, and learned only from nature, he was rather an extraordinary. man for his times. He had great difficulty in keeping his flock together for a while, and at one time, when his people voted unanimously in favor of a connection with the English or Episcopal Church, Allen stood almost sol itary and alone, but his energy and seal shortly afterward triumphed. Ile was the first Bishop of "the African Methodist Episcopal Church" and was ordained as such in April, 1816, the ordination cere mony being by prayer and the laying-on of hands by five regularly ordained ministers, one of them being Absalom Jones, a priest of the Pe)tescant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The Bethel church of' 1800 although of brick, was a very modest affair. We have been in it when it was packed, as we lay of theatres, "from pit to dome," and we have seen the white boys, who entered not only to see, but to make Tun, hustled out without ceremony. 111_18-11 tho church was rebuilt, and the existing structure 4s a neat, commodious and well app9inted affair. The membership is stated at 325, with about 25 probationers. The African N. E. Church connection embraced in " 1876 a membership of 325,000,. witiC about sixteen hundred itinerants eugage4 in the weik. _ i PrT , rti 1,04 - - ABOUT CA,NARY BIRDS.—Place the eige so that no draught of air can strike the bird Give nothing to healthy birds' but rapo and canary seed, water, cuttlefish bone, and gravel paper or sand on the floor , or the cage. No hemp seed. A bath three times a week. The room should not be overheated—never above seventy degrees When moulting (shedding feath ers) keep warm, avoid ail draughts of air. • Give plenty of German rape seed, a little hard boiled egg, mixed with crackers grated fine is excellent. Feed at a certain hour in the morning. By observing these simple rules birds may be kept is fine con dition fur years. For birds that are sick or have lost their song procure bird tonic at a bird store. Very many keep birds who mean to give their pets all things to make them bright and happy, and at the same time are guilty of great cruelty in regard to perches. The perches in a cap should he each one of different size, and the smallest as large as a pipe stem. If perches are of the right sort no trouble is ever had about the bird's toe nails grow ing too long, and of all things keep the perches clean. ■ NO. 14.
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