In the Court of
?hillp VVllhelm
VS.
.ry Ann Wil-
Common Pleas of
! Elk County, Bent.
Term. 1877 No. 107
niVORCE.
im.
Subpoena and alias subpoena having
Issued In the above entitled case and
returned "not found In the County,"
you are hereby notified to appear be
fore Bald court on the fourth Monday
of January, A. D. 1878, to answer sale)
complaint. .
DANIEL SCULL, Sheriff.
per W. S Horton, Deputy.
Sheriff's Office. RldRway, Pa,
. , , Dec. 22d, 1877.
HYDE'S
NEW OPERA HOUSE,
Ridgway, Pa.
GRAND OPENING
PERFORMANCES,
January 29th,30th, 31st.
SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT OF
Connelly &t Wood's
Philadelphia Dramatic Co.,
Who will appear In the following highly en
tertaining Dramas:
Tuesday Evening, Jan. 29,
The Worm itenowneu uruma 01
"Uncle Tom's Cabin,"
With Great Scene of
Tha Freeman's Defencsj
in the Mountains,
Eliza's Escape on the Ice,
Legree Plantation, &e.
Wednesday Eve. Jan. 30
Connelly Jt Wood's Great Specialty' Drama,
br performed by them over GUO times, entitled
tThree Years in a Man Trap,
With 118 grand iconic representation!) of
Glenn's Home Destroyed by Fire,
State House, Philadelphia,
A Snow Storm by Night, &c.
Thursday Eve. Jan SL
Bouclcault's Successful Drama of
'The Octoroon"
With scenes showing
Destruction by Fire of
Western Steamer,
Banks of Mississippi,
Southern Canebrake, &c.
In addition to the new set of Scenery, just
painted for the Opera House, Messrs. Con-lu-lly
& Wood will bring several (Special
ricenes of the above plays.
Admission SO cents.
Reserved seats 85 cents.
Children under VI years 25 cents.
Children unoccoinpanied by their parents
not admitted.
For full particulars see programme.
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Address, JAMES VICK,
Rochester. N. T.
REGISTER'S NOTICE.
Notice Is hareby given that the following
accounts have been tiled In my oltice and will
be presented at the next term of the Orphan's
Court for confirmation:
1. Final account of Charles Luhr and
Charles Hitter, excutors of the last will and
les lament of udreas Htemal. late of
Benzinger township, Elk county, deceased.
2. Final aocount of Charles Luhr, executor
of the last will and testament of Charles
Brcekl, lute of St. Mary's Borough, Elk Co.,
8 Final account of Henry M'Cready, ad
ministrator of the estate of Hugh M'Cready,
late of Fo township, i.lk county, deceased,
jaieoi ro .rkdbChceniNu, Register.
Count, Weigh. Measure Everything
you Buy at the West End Store.
n42tf.
THURSDAY, JAN. 24, 1878.
Notes.
Hon. Henry Souther Is now at
Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Shipping tags are printed cheap at
this office. Call on us.
The ''beautiful snow," has paid
another visit to this section.
Hon. C. R. Earley will please ac
cept our thank for valuable public
documents. '
O. B. Orant Is reported to have
said that he would put down an oil
well in the spring.
Bears are reported plenty, aud
several have been killed, near Cooks
burg, Forest Co.
An Educational Meeting will be
held at Highland next Friday night,
Address by the County Superintend
ent. Next week Is court week and a
good time to call on McAffee, the Mer
chant Tailor, and leave your order for
one of those cheap suits.
The "Auditors' Settlement" will
be published the first week in Febru
ary. The settlement shows the
county to be In a good financial con
dition. H. 8. Thayer has purchased of
Mrs. Houk, about fifty acres of land,
next the cemeteries, which he has
commenced to clear up, with the in
tention of having a farm.
National Greenback Is the title of
a new, well printed, well edited, and
altogether well gotten up paper, re
cently started in Erie City, devoted
to the Greenback cause, the first num
ber of which we have received. Send
for a specimen copy.
Two weeks ago last Saturday, Pat
rick Malone of this place, got a hem
lock sliver in the front part of his left
hand, since which time he has re
moved part of the sliver but enough
remained to cause it to swell to twice
the size of an ordinary hand, and to
cause him to suffer terrible pain.
The hand bus broken open in the
back in two places, and discharges a
large amount of blood and matter, yet
the cause of the trouble seems stuck
too fast to move.
Religious Services Next Sunday.
Episcopalian. Grace Church,
Rev. T. A.. Stevenson of Corry, and
formerly minister in charge of the
church here, will officiate. Services
at the usual hours. All are cordially
invited to attend.
Catholic Rev. M. Meagher, in
the morning at the usual hour.
Presbyterian. Rev. Gillette, at
the Lutheran church, morning and
evening, ut the usual hours.
Ministers are requested to advise us
of any change in time of holding ser
vices. Jacob and John Huntzingur, late Presi
dent and Cashier of the Miners' Trust Co.,
Pottsvlllo, wore on Tuesday morning sen
tenced each to two years' solitary confine
ment and a line ofSoOO. also to refund to
Thomas Kcarns, the prosecutor, 821,000, with
costs.
York, l'a., January 22. John Smith was
convicted of murder in the second degree to
day for the killing of Humucl II, Weaver, near
Dover, Pennsylvania. In September lust.
FR OM HON. JOHN D. 1IILLER.
Life is short and no person of him
self can literally "prove all things."
It is then the part of wisdom to render
available the experience of others.
Here it is.
Smith's Mills, X. Y Jan. 7, l7t).
Dr. M. M. Fenner, Fredonia, N. Y. Dear
Sir Please send me two (2) doz. Golden Re
llefoOc size aud one (1; doz. 81 size. This arti
cle Is proving the most popular of anything I
ever sold in this lino. Yours truly,
J. D. KILLER.
Stockton, N. Y. Feb. 1. 1876.
Dr. M. M. Fenner, Dear Sir In the spring
of 1871 my wife had a severe attack of neural
gia In her neck and shoulders'. She suffered
terribly, being unable to sleep or lie down In
bed. After trying many remedies to no pur
pose, she was finally completely and perma
nently cured by three applications of your
Ooldcn Relief. I have since tried it for vari
ous "aches and pains" and find it the best
remedy I ever used. For headaches I con
sider It a specific. Gratefully yours,
J. A. DRAKE.
Brady's Bend. Pa., Jan. 28, 1870.
Dr. Fenner I am nearly out of Cough
Honey, Uolden Relief, and Blood and Liver
Remedy and Nerve Tonic. We are selling
piles of them. Please send me a box ut once.
The people here think thero is nothing like
Fenner s medicines and I think so too.
Yours truly,
W.J. MELDREN.
For sale by dealers. Ask for a circular en
titled "People's Remedies."
For all kinds of job work call at
this office.
Paper Rags taken iu exchange for
goods 42 Main Street
Groceries, fresh and good, and the
best crackers at Hagerty's.
Neat note-heads printed cheaply
at the Advocate office.
QUOTATIONS
White, Powell & Co.
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
No. 42 irouth Third Street.
Stocks aud Bonds Bought and Sold on
Couiuiisslou.
Philadelphia, Jan., 22, 1878
BID.- ASKKD
1881.1c .. 107 10
U. S.
do
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do '65 J and J 103
do '67 do 105
do '68 do 108A
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1061
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1081
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10-40, do coupon 108
do Paoifio 6's cy 118
New 6's Reg. 1881 104
C. 1881 1064
4, Keg. 1891 104
c. 1891 104 .
New 4'i Reg. 1907 .....101
c. 1907. 1014
106
104;
104
101
101
Gold 101 101
Pennsylvania 81 31
Reading
Philadelphia & Erie
Lehigh Navigation-
do Valley.........
16 16
18 18:
41 41
United R R of N J x. div 120
12
Pittsburgh, I. Buflalo R. R ...... 6
Northern Central ex. div 16
Central Transportation 82
Nesquehoning 47
17
82
60
North Pennsylvania,,
86 87
Wilcox Notes.
Wilcox, Ta., Jan. 21st, 1878.
Coasting or riding down hill, has
been the favorite pastime with the
boys during the past week attended
with Home serrloiis accidents. Johnny
Murphy had his head and face badly
bruised by running iuto a shade tree.
Anthony Cole's little boy Willie had
his leg broken, while standing In the
road, by a boy running against him
with a hand sled. The limb was set
by Doctors Straight and Bevier, and
the little fellow is doing as well as
could be expected, but his riding
down hill Is done for this winter.
A large boy had his eye blucked by
getting it too near another fellow's fist.
What is the use in riding down hill
boys unless you can have a little fun
aud have the best sleds so the girls will
ride with you V
Silas Moyer's little girl of whom I
made mention in my last died a few
days afterwards.
Timothy Leary has lost three more
children, making four deaths in his
family iu three weeks, all from
diphtheria. Only two children left
out ofa family or six. What a lonely
house it must be.
Permilla Spencer's two little
children are very sick, One of UUera
dangerously so.
John Allen is very sick, and his
wife has been, but is getting some bet
ter. Sehultz well No. 3 is making five or
six barrels dully.
Ernhout & Taylor have their No. 1
down about 100 feet and putting up
rig:i for two more.
Mr. Bevier has his derrick up, engine
and boiler on the ground and will be
drilling in about a week.
It is expected that several more
wells will be started about the first of
February.
By some means a report has been in
circulation Unit Freddie Aldrieh was
dead but I am happy to say without
any foundation. Freddie has been
quite sick, but is on the streets again
apparently its well us ever.
John Allen died about five o'clock
this afternoon, January 22ii, of typhoid
pneumonia. He leaves a wife, three
children and a host of friends to
mourn his death. He lias been a resi
dent of this place fcr ten or twelve
years, and was well and favorably
known in Ridgway as well as here.
This will be a terrible blow to his wife
and children, for a more uH'cctioua'e
family it would be hard to find. He
will be buried with Masonic honors,
having belonged to that order. His
last illness was short and painful,
hardly a week, und the last two or
three days he was not sane. But
awhile before his death lie fixed his
eyes intently on the ceiling above and
said, "there is our mother.'' Who
knows butshe who watched over him
in bis Infanncy, nnd long since gone to
the spirit world, came buck iu his last
moments to help him over the river,
and waft his spirit away to the rvalms
of lifeand light-
Our mother, how sweet those words;
how they ring iu our ears, and sink
down deep iuto our hearts And I
wonder if inj mother won't leavo the
abode of the blessed and come down to
help me through the dark valley.
The afflicted family have the heart
felt sympathy of the entire neighbor
hood, and every one is iu deep mourn
ing for an old friend. PETE.
Only $2 a Year.
Pomeroy's Democrat, in Chicago,
III., "Brick" Pomeroy editor and pro
prietor, is striding abead faster than
ever. It has been reduced in price to
'i a year, $1 for six months. It has a
new heading, a beautiful new dress,
and is printed as clean as burnished
silverware. It is now regularly illus
trated each week ; is the official organ
of the Independent Greenback party
of the United States, and contains
more sharp, hard hits, more news
items, and more original thoughts
than any other paper in the United
States. Each number this year will
contain one of Pomeroy's Saturday
Night Sketches, and a chapter of
'Brick's" very eventful life, as writ
ten by himself. These chapters are
very interesting reading for the inci
dents and history they contain. How
such a beautiful paper can be furn
ished for $2 a year is a mystery, for no
other publisher dare attempt such a
paper for less than $3 or $4 a year.
Indeed is Pomeroy's Democrat a
most remarkable, powerful, popular
aud deeply entertaining newspaper.
No wonder its circulation exceeds that
of any other political paper in the
United States. It is so greatly im
proved its old friends would scarcely
know it. Subscribe for it. Sample
copies sent free to all who apply. Ad
dress M. M. Pomeroy, P. O. Box 523,
Chicago, 111.
E. K. Thompons's Sweet Worm
Powders are more good than tongue
can tell or pen can write iu relieving
children and adults of intestinal para
sites or worms. Children seven
months old have discharged large
worms after a few doses. Not Injuri
ous in the least ; pleasant to take, con
taining no calomel, put up In glass
bottles with name of proprietor blown
in glass. Enquire of your druggist
and take nothing else; or send to E.
K. Thompson, Titusville, Pa., Box
1185. Price 25 cents.
Pills sent by mail on receipt of 25
cents. Druggists aud dealers should
send for list and prices.
Sold by T. S. Hartley Ridgway Pa.
A new line of dress goods at J. H.
Hagerty's. Call aud see'the elegant
now stock.
Shipping tags, with or without
strings, at the Advocate office-
Greenback Meeting-
At the regular meeting of the Ridg.
way Greenback Club, No. 108, held at
Rhi ties' Hall last Saturday evening, a
permanent organization was affected,
by the electiou of the following offi
cers to serve for three months i G. T.
Wheeler, Vice President; Frank C.
Ely, Secretary ; Samuel Miles, Treas
urer; and N. T- Cummings, D. F.
Farrand, aud Chns Holes, Standing
Committee. W. S. Service, had pre
viously been elected President; '
We publish the platform as follows:
1. The Greenback dollar must be a
legal tender for the payment of all
debts, and by the Government issued,
protected and received at par with
gold.
2. The Greenback to be the legal
tender-money of the country, and to
be Issued by the Government.
8. The General Government alone
to Issue money, and this for the bene
fit of all, and not to, through, or for
the enrichment of National Bankers.
4. All kinds of property owned by
individuals or corporations to be taxed
alike. ;
5. The immediate cabling in of all
United States Bonds and the payment
of them, principal and ' interest, in
legal-tender lawful greenback paper
money of the United States, and that
every dollar of such issue of legal-tender
lawful money to be protected by
the Government as at par with other
lawful money in gold or silver coin,
never to be converted in bonds of any
rate or class-
6. Honesty and economy In the ad
ministration of public affairs.
The above platform, brief and to the
point, having been adopted by the
National Executive Greenback Com
mittee, tells the object for which we,
working men, citizens, and tax-payers,
associate ourselves for the purpose
of securing the greatest good to the
greatest number, bringing capital into
sympathy with labor and carrying our
principles as above proclaimed to the
control of political nnd financial af
fairs in the United States.
To this end, for the above purpose,
regardless of color, previous condition
of physical or political affiliation In
the past we citizens of;
Township, County, State of
subscribe our names,
for the immediate purpose of organiz
ing a Greenback Club.
Regular meeting next Saturday
evening. Hereafter the hall will be
opened nightly for the benefit of those
seeking information.
Remarkable Success.
The success of the leading literary
paper of the West. The Chicago
Ledger, is truly remarkable. Since
its introduction to the reading public,
six years ago, The Ledger has
steadily advanced in favor, and is now
acknowledged second to no paper of
the kind in the country. Its circula
tion is national, nnd has been' ob
tained through the efforts of its pub
lishers to produce a paper of high
moral character, and at the same time
sell it at a price consistent with the
present hard times. That they have
succeeded, and well, too, the thou
sands of readers of The Ledmer scat
tered from Maine to Texas and from
Oregon to Florida will bear testimony.
Tub Chicago Ledger is a large
forty-eight column weekly paper,
which contains stories both complete
and continued, in each number, writ
ten by the best authors of the day, and
a great variety of information interest
ing to every one. The subscription
price of The Ledger is only $1.50 per
year, postage paid, and it is equal in
every pariicular to other papers of the
same character which sell for $3 a
year. Three copies of this valuable
paper will be sent to any one who
sends 10 cents and their address to
The Ledger, Chicago 111.
The Amounts Due tho Troops.
Harrisburg, January 10 The follow
ing are the amounts due the various
divisions of the National Guard, as
complied from the different company
pay-rolls in the Adjutant General's
Department: First Division, $45,
008.44 Second Division, $35,433.72;
Third Division, $16,072.69; Fourth
Division, $28,741.05 Fifth Division,
$25,378.70; Sixth Division (two
months,) $71,010.12, Seventh Divi
slon,21,368.09 ; Eighth Division, $10,
337.99; Ninth Division, $12,157.68;
Tenth Division, $17,340.35- Twenty.
first Regiment and extra companies.
$11,900; total, $301,361.43. The pay
rolls were made out on the basis that
the troops should receive a full
month's pay for ten days' or more
service. Senator Dunkel's bill,
which the finance committee had be'
tore it to-day, provides for the pay
ment of only $290,000 to the troops.
A Mew Militia Bill.
Adjutant General Latta has pre.
pared a bill for the reorganization of
the militia of the state which was in
troduced in the senate. It fixes the
pay of privates, corporals, musicians,
etc., at $1.50 per day for actual time
served, and sergeants at $2 per day
The number of major generals will be
reduced to three, aud brigadiers to
five. Uniforms aud equipments are to
be furnished by the slate out of the
$400 allowed each compauy under the
existing law. All officers will be ex
amined by a board consisting of a
brigade commander and' the regi
mental commanders before receiving
their commissions, and a board will
also be created by the bill to examine
into the physical condition of the ap
plicants for membership into the dif
ferent companies.
A man fell through the floor of
the Mill creek sawmill last week,
striking on a revolving wheel. The
only damage he sustained other, than
h thorough shaking up, was. several
bruises on his mouth and chin.
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State Notes.
Sheriff Walters, of Butler county,
who has been ousted by order of the
supreme court, claims that proceed
ings were commenced against him for
blackmailing purposes, and he says he
could have settled the affair for $250,
and that he could have proved him
self innocent if given an opportunity.
Terrance M'Cabe, night watchman
on the Pennsylvania raiiroaa nt
Greensburg, has traveled on foot over
his route, since January I, 1855, the
enormous distance of ten thousand,
seven hundred and forty miles. He
has never missed a night since he was
appointed to the position of watch
man. Among the witnesses who were be
fore the grand Jury of Carbon county
on Tuesday was the notorious Jimmy
Kerrigan, who gave some important
information relative to the murder of
George K. Smith In 1803. True bills
were found against all the accused--Charles
Sharp, James M'Dornclland
Thomas Durkln.
S. S. Haines and Geo. Haines, who,
at the time of their arrest, gave their
names as "Frank Long" and "Frank
Smith," were tried on Tuesday morn
ing last, for stealing a horse and buggy
from S. H. Irwin, last summer. They
were found guilty, and each sentenced
to five years and six months, at sepa
rate aud solitary confinement in the
Western Penitentiary. Clearfield Re
publican.
Pottsville, Pa., January 20. The
Mr. Allen who was bitten on New
Year's day by a dog at Shenandoah,
died this morning, after passing
through a most terrible night. He
lay in spasms from nine o'clock last
night until three o'clock this morning,
when he relaxed into a stupor and
from that time he lingered until nine
this forenoon and died in this uncon
scious condition. Hydrophobia was
the caupe of his death.
The Pottsville Jmtr' Journal of
yesterday says that the suspension of
mining in the Schuylkill region,
which began Jast week, shows its ef
fect in the greatly decreased ship
ments over the Reading Railroad,
there being a falling off from the pre
vious week's shipment of nearly 60,-
000 tons. The 19,341 tons curried was
principally obtuined by clearing out
the breakers, together with 2,600 tons
for the use of the compuny, and the
product of a few collieries possibly
half a dozen in all which have con
tinued to work. Practically, how
ever, the suspension of mining dur
ing this and Jast week has been total.
Neither the Mahanoy nor the Gordon
planes have been in operation, und
most of the coal locomotives have been
idle. It is expected that shipments
will be generally resumed next Mon
day.
Pottsville, Pa-, January 20. On
Saturday evening several arrests were
made for the murder of Patrick Burns,
who was killed at Tuscarora, this
county, on the ICth of April, 1870.
Burns was clerk for the firm of Socar
rez & Co., coal operators, and was
killed through a spirit of revenge, he
having intimated to his employers
that he was being robbed by an inside
boss named John Kaue, who murdered
his brother in 1S67 and was convicted
of murder in the second degree, but
was pardoned by Governor Geary.
Kane instigated the murder, and
among those who participated in it
are James M'Donncll (now iu Mauch
Chunk jail charged with the murder
of George K. Smith, who was killed in
Carbon county in 1863;) Michael
Bergan, arrested on Suturday evening;
Kane, before mentioned, and another
who is vet at large. The arrests,
though not generally known to have
taken place, will cause general excite
ment throughout the region to-morrow.
A libel suit of much interest to
other papers was decided in Common
Pleas Court, No 2, Pittsburgh on the
llth inst, William Booth brought
suit against FreiheWa Freund to re
cover $10,000 damages for libel, the lat
ter consisting in the publication of
Booth as arrested for larceny when he
was only arrested for receiving stolen
goods. The case was tried before
Judge Kirkpatrick, who affirmed the
following points of plaintiffs counsel :
That the publication was libelous per
se; the words, being libelous perse,
were therefore malicious, tho law pre
suming malice ; that the defense, not
being justified, or, in other words, not
proving that what it did publish was
true, and the publication being libel
ous per se, the defense of privilege
could not be sustained. The defense
of privilege, however, was excluded
on the ground suggested by the next
point, namely, that the publication,
not being a correct report of judicial
proceedings, was not privileged.
This point was affirmed. The ques
tion as to whether a reporter has the
right to publish-any and everything
be finds on the docket did not arise in
this case, and the Judge said that he
would not pass upon it. All the ma
terial poiuts of the counsel for the de
fense were denied. The jury gave a
verdict of 6 cents damages.
For a nicely fitting suit of clothes
cull on M'Afee the tailor.
St. Louis was behindhand with its
bay-show swindle, but it was a large
one when it cauie. The manager ad
vertised lavishly, and promised to give
away $3,000 in prizes ; but on the last
day of the exhibition he left the city,
and the mothers got nothing.
A man down in Bradford, Pa.,
cured himself of dyspepsia by chasing
a cbromo agent over a mountain nine
miles high. We look to see this
remedy more generally adopted. The
only trouble with It is that there may
not he enough mountains to go
around. Burlington Hawknya.
For the Aovocai k. . ' ,
A Sicwii Review of the Rir. Mr. Oil
ettc's Thanksgiving Sermon, and hi
Defence thereof, Communicated to
the "Democrat" of HI igway, Pa., in
tho issue of January 3d, 18 78. I
(Concluded.)
Iu one breath Mr. Gillette speaks of
tho "errors and crimes" of the catho
lic church as "past1' and in the next
says "she rejects nothing" of her
ancient dogmas and practices. Hence
he contradicts himself. Yes, it is
true, she retains all her ancient dog
inns and practices ; semper eadem al
ways the same, is her proud boast, and
the non possum us we cannot of
Pius IX rings as clearly and unfal
teringly iu answer to the threats and
double meaning proffers of Vic
tor Emanuel, as did that of Peter the
fisherman, in answer to the iron
heeled Nero. Her teaching has al
ways been the same and her infallible
dogmas of faith and morals, which
Christ commanded the world to hear,
never reversed. Our Lord has told us,
"hear the church," Its head St. Peter
and all succeeding Popes, never told
us hear the Bible, Martin Luther or
Mr. Gillette. She does not teach the
existence of hell to-day and reject it
to-morrow, as some of our dissenting
brethern do, who indeed should curse
the day, and will sooner or latter, that
the first "Reformers'', caused them to
separate from the church of Roman,
and be carried about by every wind
of doctrine since. Now especially we
find them going to pieces, more and
more everyday, on the hell question.
Where now is that "one-faith, one
Lord, one Baptism ;" why now not
listen to that church our Lord com
manded us to Acre; and established for
the express purpose of teaching us our
faith ? True Mr. Gillette and all of
his kind claim infallibility personally
and advance their opinions without
proof or reason as infallibly true on
the most abstruse and difficult ques
tions, everyone of tbem is a church in
himself aud infallible, so many mem
bers so many different opinions essen
tially differing, each of course infalli
ble, so many minds so mauy
churches. So it goes with our Prts
byterian neighbors. They never
know their faith and are boiling down
the little they have every day aud
now want to cheat the devil out of
hell. Hear how Dryden beautifully
describes their faith in tho following
stanza :
By vurlous texts we both uphold our claim.
Nay, often ground our title on the same ;
After long luuors lost and time's expense,
Both grant tho words, and quarrel for the
sense.
Thus all disputes forever must depend,
For no dumb rule can controversies end.
Let us hear Shakespeare :
Mark you this, Bnssanlo :
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
In religion what damning error
But some sober brow can bless It
And approve It with a text.
To deprive Mr. Tilden of the Presi
dency was bad enough, but to deprive
the devil of his internal throne is too
much ofa good thing. God himself
will have to look to his heavenly abode
else our dissenting brethern will
euchre him out of it. The following
epigram would seem to express pretty
accurately, the confession of faith
adopted by Mr. Gillette and his assent
ing friends.
We now reject each mystic creed,
Tocommon sense a scandal ;
We're more enlightened yes Indeed,
The devil holds the cuudle j"
Let us take a glance ut tho world of
to-day and find out where do we find
"the thumb screw and the auto de fe"
that my adversary says, are iu the
catholic church.
There is not one catholic govern
ment of Europe which now persecutes
for conscience sake ; on the other
hand scarcely is there one protestant
government, which does not in one
form or other, even nt this day ; Bel
gium is catholic, and Belgium allows
equal rights to all, protestant and
catholic. The inquisition has been
long since banished from Spain and
Portugal, aud those no longer perse
cute dissenters. France is catholic
and protects protcstants equally as
catholics, pays protestant clergy more
than the catholic as the former have
wives and families. Bavaria is catho
lic; and Bavaria aliows equal civil
rights to Protestants as to catholics.
Austria is catholic; and Austria
adopts the same equitable policy.
Bohemia is catholic; and Bohemia
imitates the example of the other
catholic countries ; and the same may
be said of Hungary which, like Bohe
mia, is a dependency of the Austrian
empire. Italy is catholic; and
Protestants, even when the Pope
ruled supreme in Rome, were allowed
places of worship and public ceme
teries at the very gates of the eternal
city itself. So far has this toleration
been carried under Pius IX then
King and Pope, that but a few years
since a parson of the church of Eng
land delivered a course of lectures
against "popery" at Rome itself; aud
Cardinal Wiseman answered them
Polaud, poor bleeding and down trod
den Poland, is catholic to its very
heart's core ; and Poland wus seldom,
if ever sullied with persecutions;
Ireland was ever catholic, and Ire
land never persecuted though she had
it in her power to do so at three differ
ent times. Finally it was the Catho
lic Lord Baltimore, and the Catholic
colonists of Maryland, who, in 1648,
first proclaimed on this broad contin
ent of America as a settled law, the
great principle of universal toleration,
while Puritans were persecuting
brother protestants in New England,
and Episcopalians were doing the
same thing in Virginia. (See Ban
crofts History of United States, vol. I,
Maryland ) With all these noble ex
amples of catholic toleration we will
find short-sighted dissenters telling
us in opposition to all history even
that now the catholics use the "thumb
screw and auto do fe ; "and that were
It now in their power tliey would per-
cute. With the open pagesof history
telling us of the active part catholics
took In tho signing of the Declaration
of Independence and of the blood they
shed profusely on the battle fields in
the warfare for tho same we now Hurt
violently prejudiced dissenter-i pio-
clalmlng aloud that the only dangers
now threatening the liberties ot
America are from the catholic people
and their "essentally despotic
church I I " Any Impartial spectator
cau perceive that the catholics of to.day
love the liberties of America as well
as, If not more than, their protestant
neighbors and did necessity require it
would now, as In tho past, spill their
blood as freely.
For the Intolerance and "thumb
screw and auto de fe!' of our Protes
tant neighbors they alone practice it
now-n-days look to New Hampshire,
look to the old "Blue Laws" of Con
necticut in the past in contrast with
that of the CathollcColonlsts of Mary
land. And what now has the German
government been doing, that govern
nieiit that our Thanksgiving Rev.
orator said "attempts to protect all ? It
has undertaken to limit the clergy
and hierarcy of the church in regard
to the exercise of every power and
function which their Divine Commis
sion comprehends. Priests and
Bishops are prohibited under grevlous
penalties from discharging any duty
or function whutever without permis
sion from the government- Tbo re
ligious orders of the catholic church
have been banished. Her bishops aro
prohibited from ordaining priests or
appointing them to parishes, and the
clergy from discipling the laity ex
cept under conditions that imply ab
solute, unconditional submission to
the State in matters spiritual as well
as civil. Their salaries, derived from
church property tyrannlcnlly taken
from the church by the State, are
withheld unless this submission is
made, a submission no christian can
make consistently with his belief in a
divine religion. Thousands of catho
lics are deprived of any place of
worship, their churches have been
taken from them and turned over to
little squads of so called "old catho
lics" consisting iu many instances of
Jews, Infidels and persons who
habitually do not attend any religious
services. Catholics cannot even build
with ther own money a new church
edifice without government permis
sion ; no priest or Bishop is allowed,
by the new ecclesiastical laws of the
German Government, to teach tho
doctrines of the catholic faith as the
church defines them tc, &c. Look
through all the protestant countries
and if you do not find a bloody perse
cution, you will at least in some form.
Compare them with catholio
countries and where then do we now
find tho "thumb screw and auto de
fe," which indeed were never used
with the sanction of the catholic
church, even in the Spanish Inquisi
tion, as letters of the then reigning
Popes prove, urging tho Spanish gov
ernment to mildness with dissenters.
Coming home to our own America,
witli all its boasted freedom, and we
find religious freedom deprived in al
most all our government Institutions,
and just now we learn that a Bill,
brought up before our State Legisla
ture at Harrisburg a few days ago by
our honorable and worthy representa
tive, C. R. Earley, to provide for free
religious liberty of the inmates of all
Stale Institutions, is about to meet
strong opposition ! Liberty, things are
now so changed, thy name is intoler
ance !
The ninny truths embodied in this
article may grate harshly to thoso
heretofore unacquainted with them,
but such must remember the charact
eristics of truth like the operations
of the physicians hurt the diseased
before curing. As Mark Twain says
we must "speak the truth unblush
ingly," "facts are facts and facts are
terrible things."
A CATHOLIC.
Ridgway Pa. Jan. 10th 1878.
List of Jurors.
Drawn for January Term 1878.
OK AND JVKOIM.
John Mulroy Benezette township.
D. B. Winslow
John Gahn Benzinger "
George Decker '
Joseph Bloesel "
Joseph Young " "
Patrick Jordan, Fox '
E. Hovencnmp, Highland "
Joseph Chamberluin Horton "
Hiram Howard Jay "
JHIIICS iU. IH'OOKinS
John N'ist
Jones "
Owen Dutl'y,
j. 15. wens
Adam Zimmerman Millstone "
John Vanorsdull Ridgway "
Adam 1'lstner " "
P. A. Meud
Hiram Eiseuman Spring Creek "
W. A Irwin "
Michael Ktetilch St. Mary's Borough.
Patrick Rogun " "
Charles Wels "
George Imhotf, '
TKAVEH.SE JURORS.
Jnmes W. Winslow Benezette township.
Timothy Guiltbyle, " "
George Snyder " "
Geo. T. Rolhrock "
Christian Kreckei, Benzinger "
George Fritz " "
Joseph Krleg, Jr "
John l.unzcl
Anthony Goetz
August Flcderman, " '
Philip Kreckei
William M'Cauley Fox
Kphruim Morey "
Samuel Brown, '
Andrew Cross,- "
H. B. Moyor " "
Thoinus Burchfleld, Horton
James Trumbull, "
Geo. W, Clinton "
Ollvln Dodge Jav
William G. Thomas
John Ernhout, Jonos "
John Weidert, "
Sterling Holcomb,
George Murkert, " "
Campbell Blair Millstone
Louis Gurrett, Ridgway
H. A. Parsons
Jerome Powell "
E. T. Grunt .
James D. Fullerton, "
GBllon;:::::::::::: M.ttry, Bor?uh-
Thos. J. Burke
James Rogun,
M, F. Frey,
Kew Meat Market.
Mercer Brothers have moved their
meat market fromD. D. Cook's, build
ding to W. 8. Service's hardware
store, where they Invito all wishing
beef, pork, veal and sausage to give
them a call.
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