VOL. 43.
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Sheriff's Sales.
SSHERIFF'S SALES.
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
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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: '
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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
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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
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- 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...--
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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
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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.
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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.
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NO. 14.