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“IMMACULATE VIRGIN, PRAY FOR US.
VOL. XIV.
PHILADELPHIA. JULY 15, 1886.
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- CATHOLIGITY
PHILADELPHIA.
[CoPpYRIGHTED, 1883.)
“By Mantin L. J. GRrerrN.
os
i SECOND SERIES.
. : CAPTIVE MAIDEN.
The following advertisement appears
in'the Pennsylvania Gazette of July 2d
1761.. It gives Bs a view of froatier life
in ont State 12
zabeth Bal s who was carried off | and
. Cocheague, desives her parents to be in-
formed that she is at preset x
vent at Montreal, in Chad and that if
her parents or Telations, will acquaint
Wm. Allen Esq. of their present residence | Sine
he will forward it to Gen, Gage, Governor
a atestantisn was tri-
umphant in the New World’?
Denny: reclaimed. yet the Catholic Re-
ligion "was permitted free exercise in
Canada,’ ‘after its Conquest by England.
‘other St Louis de Gonzaga, of the
_ Ursulipes ! of Quebec, writing to the
der hay Paris, i in 177 said,
see is perfectly free at present.
Te ny depart from their duty it is their
? People say that itis pot the
i re Teligious communi-
tne in Pi
fies suffer
to Np aa a were Guriged to make
our festival, pelehyating theg o!
~ heatifleation of our Blessed Mother ‘An-]
ela. We have no such difficulty” under
the government of the English. Ut is.
Ursulines Quebec, p. ]
_, A MISS AND HER BEAU.
Extract from A Jaunt to Philadelphia
in 1762, by a daughter of James Alex-
2, afternoon —.‘* Went
Cox, to the Romish Chappel,
an radar building, “ine organ, an in-
different altar and mean congregation.”
Mag. Am, Hist. Mar. 1886. p. 400.
“RELIGIOUS LIBERTY BUT NO OFFICES.
John Dickinson’s speech at State Tlouse
May 24, 1764, in speaking of “the par-
Heular privileges of Pennsylvania” said.
lace we here enjoy that best
and’ arenieas ofall Tights, a perfect re-
ligious freedom. ests of honor and
probit are unfettered with oaths or tests
id therefore are open. to men whose
abies, strict regard to their conscien-
ious persuasion and unblemished charac- |
ter qualify them to discharge their duties
with credit to themselves and advantage
to their Country.” » [Political writings
ffJohn Di Diekinsou, vol. 1, p. 23, Wilming-
on,
Yet, De, Chas. J. Stille, in his admira-
ble address befo: he Pennsylvania
Histovient Society, on eel eligivus Tests in
Pennsylvania shows, notwitistanding the
declaration of John Dickinson, that
Catholics could not hold ‘posts of honor
or profit”? because they could not take
the test oaths. Dickinson speaking to
Protestants of many sects, seems to have
Catholies were nol
legally known to exist, because the law
id t England at that time did not allow
them ‘perfect> religious Jiberty”? and
hence they were not the kind of “men”
he was referrin;
'en_years afterwards in Oct. 1774,
John Dickinson was the author of U
Address of Congress to the Inhabitants
Of Quebec, in which he told them that
ZF
. difference in. ai
Catholic Canadians and the colonies.
As John Jay had written for Congress
ss to the inhabitants of Great
Brittain tg in which he denounced Catho-
licity as a religion fraught with impiety,
itreligion and rebellion the Canadians
crea out “Perfidious Congress.
Westcott, the ‘Historian of
Pua states that Father Harding
in 1769 addressed a letter of approval of
‘The Farmers Letters” to Jolin Dickin-
Son, their author, We have made a lon,
bah for the reference on which this is
based but have not been able to discover
any mention ‘of it. Who ¢ can tell us?
CATHOLIC ACRES IN MARYLAND.
For the use of our Jesuit friends in
as Gov. | conve!
‘of. persecution; we are | thi
7 Sixth, south side,
Maryland, we refer them to a letter fom
Maryland, ' dated Oth 1764,
Genilemen's Magazine, Jan, 1765, p. 13,
giving nim! of acres in Maryland,
held by Protestants ‘and number held by
Catholics—Table by Counties. . Protes-
tants bad °363,6325, Catholies 316,150
acres,
In Pennsylvania Gazette, Mareh 1, 1764
per ‘by Savage offers for sale at vublic
Vendue, on March 15th two ‘good n
three story rick houses and lot situated
side of Pruan St. between 4, and
5th” a heels ‘o the northward of the new
oman Chapel. 1 house 60ft. from 4th
St., is 133 by Sb [lot 20! ae ait £21
to John Sheber, next. y 15 by 20,
pext t the lot only... ane lived in
se. This is the earliest reference to
st. Nia aty’s I have thet with.
gave £2.10 to the ground and £22.10 for
the Church,
CATHOLIC MERCHANTS.
Garrett and George Meade, Catholics,
were merchants on Walnut St. in 1764.
George was the grandfather of General
Meade, of Gettysburg. What became of
Garrett i is not known even to compilers
of the family genealo;
Pa, Mag. vol. I.) - Other Cathole
Merchants signing it were John Byrne,
White, Jobn Flanaghan, Bernard
aud Jugies, "John Cottringer.
I have already given from official
records the history of St. Mary’s ground
now occupied by chureh and grave yard.
e then the discovery ot the brief of
title gives this new poin
ani i Swan,
May 23, 1763, Tho:
Malaby, John Cottringer and Jas, White
y to Rev.. Robert Harding, a part
of thé ground 50 by Soft. (sor. from 4th
St.] on which to build a chapel. et
witnessed by Patrick Farrel, Bryan
"Hara, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Thomas
Tevorded Jan, 22, isii, inl C.
‘0.1 . B48,
‘tus item enables us to fix the‘time
1. which St, Mary’s «was il
Darby Savage, on Mar. 14 1764, in ofter-
ing for sale houses in. Prune St. describes
em as.nearthe new Chapel ~ There is
2 gpentic of the beginning, or enget iow
schajel in any Philadelphia
pay perso 108, “reoas erected Sn Sumi
and Fall of 1’
“Itis traditionally related by Mrs. Maria
Shea, t that the work done during the day
wi own at night by enemies, un-
til Tobias Rudolph, Captain of a militia
company wit i some of his men, stood
ard at nigh
av know iat hing in the publie spirit of
destruction,
Rudolph, as an officer of the militia in
1763 and I greatly doubt if a Catholic
could then have held any such office.
ention the tradition in order to re-
cord it for future confirmation or de-
struction.. My own investigation has not
confirmed it., In this connection we may
mention that we have been many times
spoken . to about the statement lately
made in public. though privately printed
. Joseph’s chapel
sustain this statement but we do not con-
trovert it. There is nothing in the pub-
lic records concerning it and hence the
175% as not much of an anti-
Catholic spirit, as «Protestantism had
become triumphant in the New World”
as Gov. Denny proclaim
To return to Tobias Tea olph. In the
yoport of Pemusylvania Hospital for 1761-
ta he is named as contributing for “‘un-
own persun,’? £10 or $26.67, to that
institntion, Ue gave
purchase of St. 2 Mary's | ground and £5,10
fou the rection of the
In 1765, he kept the “ote called “The
Three Wise “Men, on Market St. above
The present Decatur
days called’ Rudolph’s
aie ‘The Red
old
‘itey, His. voile P. 441.)
Lion Hotel of my bo;
the site of Rudolph’s ephree Wise
The building of C.' H.
now stands on the ground.
portion of a bond for £900
Wistar.
Tobias always paid, by his
When the Revolutionary War ‘came on
Tobias Rudolph became a contractor to
furnish the Pennsylve oard of War
with 10,000 tons of as from Virginia.
[Pa. Archives Vol. I, p, 559, 2d Ser,
In 1785, he kept the’ General Wayne
Inn, at Penn and Pine Sts, [His. Phila.
Men.””
&
2
“i ed in 1794, as Letters of Admin-
1795.
This son Jgua-was born on a farm
yoere is now Stl and Spring Garden. In
Revolutionary War he was 2d Lieut. of
aptain Dicker’s Co. of 5th Penna.
Battalion, mustered in State service May
Savage One
er | as,
chair m:
s
“ uithority must De private records, After [on
‘ood days stood on | we read
The credits upon iv fhow that] 2
istrati jon granted his gon Jolin were issued | do not use.
26th 1776, his commissios dated January
8th 1776, he being credited to Darby,
Chester Co,
knows a Catholie in the Revolu-
n that,
Washington's sta
Lieut.’ Feb, ‘Ist 1777; wa
prisoner Nov. 16th 1777, ane nd Get
ith 1780. [Pa Archives, 2 Ser. Vol
exyept Moy!
‘ vet
OJ
Rev, Ferdinand Farmer pur-
chased from James Eddy, on Feb, 28th
1768, the southern part or German sec:
tion vt St. Mary’s burial ground, J
Iph was one of the Trustees o:
cu Cathol
Te had thee wives 5 j the first when he
was 19 years old; had two daughters.
née died in infi aney, other married a
Protestant named Longstreth. She died
a Catholic but her daughter was a Pro-
testant. Ilis second wifé was Mrs,
Schifte, who did not live lon
The third wife was Jane Lloy
ter of Thos, Tloyd, the ok et
Stenographer to Congress. In 1799, he
was a merchant at Burlington,
‘arm on whicl. Villanova College
the
i Both per were e signers cd ‘the hon. ae Me been ane 'e country seat of
100 gre of Nov. nol bias,
Oct. Sth. vide May, Amelia, Jane 1877 it we aie Sold the Augiwstinians by Mrs
wate Taudotph, was first in business on
his own account, then with Richard
Sweetman, a Catholic, then with Bernard
Fearis, a Cat « earis was a school
teacher and jon Rudolph was his pupil.
Fearis afterwards became clerk in Ru-
dol’ employ and then became his
partny
Tv ere are no descendants of Jobn Ru-
dolph living.
The Daniel Swan, pamed in the legal
conveyances as “‘coacbman” called
self by advertisement in Pennsyleania
Journal of Oct, 14, 1750 **a chaise maker.””
e then advertised as a ru way “an
Irish servant man nav ma
who had absconded from his place *%
site the Three Tuns on Chestnut St.”
Pennsylvania Gazette of Oct. 11, 1759, he
called himself a ‘‘cha:r maker.” » He then
lived “four doorafren cign of the Indian
Queen,-on Market St?* ard one’
Guitfingady: ephises alo, as being in Swan's ‘8
Cubs.
~ “Coachman,” “chaise ‘ maker,” and
call a wagon builder,
IN ROME,
Our Cath tholie Dapers are | telling how the
Italian Minister of n affairs
‘not ashamed to show himself a practical
Catholic”? because he would not on Ioly
Thursday accept an invitation to dine
with the Japanese Minister.
This Italian muddle is "weakening to
the loyalty others. than’ Italians give the
pacy. Tere is er government:
founded on the | spoliation of the Holy
=
aker’? were what we might now s
A LOOK AT 1.0.B.U SOCIETIES.
—The Hon. Dennis Dwyer society, of
Philadephic has 79 met
—No. 453, of Middletown N N Ya ined
9 members and $139 within 6 months,
—No. 481,° Archbishop Ryan Society,
bas increased 49 members and $500 dur-
ing the year,
—No. 337, of Tancock. Md., gained 1
member in a year and has al
money, $192, for 24 members.
—No. 188, of South Easton, has in-
creased 10 members and $200 in a year.
It has 106 members and $1900,
—No. 92, of Pottstown, by its latest.
report shows a loss of 8 members but a
gain of in six months,
—Hibernian,—of Baltimore,
has increased 5 mem! nd
‘00.
—St. Patrick's, No. 466, of Providence,
has run back 1 r and 0
six months, No. ¢ 90's law would bea
good one for it.
—No. 123, of Pittsburg, Brotherhood
of St. Naty’ of Consolation, reports 57,
a gain. of, 6, $900, a loss of $50.
| Adopt No. ors law.
0. 98, of Dubuque, Towa, gave an
excursion which was one of the largest
that ever left the city. It has opened a
Parliamenta ‘w
—No. 59, at Phiudelphia, that has $30
a@ member took the JoURNAL’s sugges-
tion and Jessened its annual receipts by | ms
striking on the annual tax of #1.
cof Kingston, Canada, has
lts Eresident
been selected to go to the Landaston
Convention.
—No., 456, Jas. D. Howley, No. 2, of
Piiindeiphihe has 282, an increase of 24
and $1669 a gain of $313. That is doing
ell. It shows its union spirit by send-
ing a full delegation to Lancaster.
—No, 455, of Union City, Ind., has for
officers: Pres. Mathias Kelly; V.-Pres.
‘Thomas Shean; Sec. Louis Gruber; Treas.
John Caron, 3°19 members ard
892¢end ak is riches enough, —-+-
What has become of the ‘Catholic
Congress at the United States” project
tarved by and to which the
BUS ae 3. C. V. appointed
dat
of Philadelphia, of which
Hon Tas C, Hasset is President bas lost
3 members but gained over $200 in the
year, It has 172 members and $1351
altnbugh it paid $715 in benefits.
— , the United Sons of Erin, of
Champaign, Il, has ine in mo
bership to 27. It still holds $1056. or
over $28 a member. Thisis an excellent
condition and if it were made known in
the town would atraet ree.
obver King, denounced by .
faithful Catholics, dies and he-is given | >No. 135, St. Joseph's TT. A. Soci
iven «| of Summit aoe elected their oflcers
Wasbington of Ital Ilis son succeeds
him and will not receive as American
Minister one who condemned his father’s
airs of his government, seated ri
in the dominion of the Holy See yee usur-
pation and not right, is so scrupulously
have condemned so vigorously the Robber
government, then parade this scrupulous
minister as a practical Catholic, Well] g;
we would like to know after al what is
a practical Catholic? Wp are not, of
course, versed in the intricacies or 3ub-
Ueities of theological principles, but it | Se,
with such a
could not ve |
thy of com-
aE
despoilation of the Papac:
a practical Catholic or be
mendation but is a ext
person to be shun
Then again much So was made lately
about the Propaganda. We were told
eration or
Churches and religious insti
=
z
tions, Yet
Rome that
the Benedictines and Fratciscans are
building’ great Colleges, th¢ Carthusian
monastery, the Sisters of el¢ven various
orders are building churchesor conven
ther religious
Buitd-
300 churches in the City, and the ‘one
ment “taking” ‘ ecclesiasticd
when they wish, with the peo| 16" aroat
under taxation” and
why this erecting 80 many Mow cnureles
of millions wher those th
soverncrent allows to remain,
5
cA)
®
‘The impression these thing} make on
people here is that the ‘Italian occupa-
of Rome” was not such @ serijus affair
after all, that ofe can ary strict
Catholic and be commended foit and at
thesame time bea supporter of udirpation,
we
Ss
*, re
momunicated | f<°
lemolition of | my,
ts | $14.80 for benefits in the year,
r | Sessment.
ting, | I
he people Gow
for the ensuing term as follows; Pres,
Edward Harkins, Lansford, Carlton Co.;
y.-Pres. Hugh Sharpe; Ree. Sec,
Gallagher; Oy Sec. Bernard ‘Boyle;
Treas. Johit D. Kelly.
“—St. Patrick’s, of Greenville, O., with
assets of $237. The
oflicers elected for ensuing year are:
Pres. B, Blottman; V.-Pres. Wm, Irvin;
Sec. T. Longenbaker; Ast. Sec. Thos.
Maher; Treas M. A. her; Trustees,
Pan Ryan, Desinio ‘nn Rody Ryan.
e A. M. Keiley Society,
Pine lost 23 mbers but
ained $83 during the yea “itis finan-
cially strong with $1038, but it ought to
gain mbers. Its officers are; Pres,
fobn J. ‘Walls V.-Pres. Louis J. O-Neil;
Be August. Pool; Treas. Martin Gillen}
lessenger, Peter | Haughey.
ts of Trenton, N. J. ‘has in-
now has 40 mem-
of
Catholic historical .researctes and is
er of the subject as relates to the
Chureh in Trenton and vicinity.
—No. 327, Brotherhood of St. Joseph,
at Pittsburg, has increased to
bers, a gain of 31.- It lost $200. It paid
ih
only a pro rain of fla ber this
ciety needs No. 90’s jaw tl that any ‘deficit
See to this
—St. Patrick’s'society, of Norfolk, Va.
has elected the following oflicers; Pres.
Donovan; arty;
C.
John R. Coleman; Treas. Wm. Newstead;
Sereat Anns, D, Donovan; Tovestigating
mittee. M. Glennan, Joho
‘Lawler: Spiritual Director, Rev Mt M.
o ‘Keefe,
—In January 1882, St. Joseph's of Col-
umbus, Ow No, 292, reported 125 mem-
bers, an increase ore prior epee of 10.
Every report since then is 125 members.
No other society has been sv steady in
bout same | Fo
$200 within | $35.
a year. It now has 120 members and} M
. delphia.
lea
70 mem- | —;
NO. 194
membership. It has $1700 the same it
had in Janu: 1885, Perbaps the Na-
tional Convention of 1887, may meet in
Col us.
The Brotherhood of St. Mary" 's, of
Consolation, Pittsburg, Pa., No. 123, L.
C. B. U. has members and "B00.
That's a good condition,
Pres. Martin Gav
>
Lauri .
Patrick Laurle; Stewards, Jos.
hn Golden and Jobn Conly;
Marshall, John Flaherty; Janitor and
Door keeper, Jos. Lawlor.
No. 233, Catholic Benevolent Society
of And , has shown a practical
proof of 3 devotion to Irish iiberty.
It has forwarded the National Secretary
$181. for the Parliamentary Fun nd. Of
this $55.50 wi ed in Andover,
50 i
voy.
this method and their example of practi-
eal support to other towns.
‘No. 90,”? is running oR in member
ship ‘and will soon ‘the
Pius ix socie' ety also of Philadelphia,
No. 90, now 426 membe in of
56 in a yee It has $3578. It spent
$1195 for benefits the past six months.
It has the wise law that any annual de-
ficet shall be rep: wi the treasury by pro
asses may gain greatly i in
money bat wi I not be allowed to ri
back a dollar hen over all previous gains,
oan 494, of Brookville, Fa., has 24
Tt has a Dramatic Com pany
tor aid in support of the parochial schools,
The local paper says of the last perform-
>
5
ce.
“The entertainment given in St.
Joseph’s Hall, by the children of the
Catholic school and the members of the
. B. U. society, were quite | well at-
d were successful in point of
furnishing real enjoyment for those
One of the finest. performances
une
“The Quarrel | Among the
Flowers,” and none Duchess of Mans:
field”? was equally good. “the little girls
acquitted themselves ‘admirably -in- all
their performances, 1e you ing men of
the Union Society performed their parts
in a really meritorious manner, surpass-
ing their record 0! inter,. Their
parts were well assigned “und a cted out
in such a manner as to cause almost up-
roarous laughter and “applause in the
audience. We enjoy these performances
by our home talent, because we like to
see evidences of the talent they possess.
THE YOUNG MEN SALOONISTS.
—‘Brother Gridin, of the LC. B. U.
denounces the C,
JouRNAL, very just
tion con
lie young men frequenting saloons. He
promises to make vt warm for them in
the future.”—New Record, Indianapolis. °
—The Wisconsin Union of total ab-
stainers adopted a resolution as follow:
‘We especially the Catholic
Young Men’s National Union, viewing
the saloon as pre-eminently the source of
evil to young men, to induce the societies
connected with it to use their utmost
endeavors to prevent Catholic young men
from visiting saloons, an to dis-
countenance by all means possible the
drinking customs of soc
This is in the very we of the resolu-
tion twice voted down by the C. Y.
N. U, Convention. So Wisconsin total
° | apstainers rebuke the Saloon Young
en. -
—The following is part of a coramuni-
cation in The Brooklyn Examin
“<I would call yourattention toll the con-
vention of the Catholic Young Men’s
National Union held recently in Phila-
Would it not surprise you
rm that a resolution “that the saloon
is pre-emij inently a source of eyilto young
men,” and that “the drinking customs
ciety’ be discountenanced, as
twice voted on, and each time voted
down... The Rev. President of that Union
ig men,
so that he did not § allow the. convention
saloons,
which its action signed and he decided
the motion carri aid that five-
eighths of the Geiegates soted against
the resoluti Those who so voted dis-
8
t! wy, honored the Council of Baltimore, their
”
own Union and themse!
108, , Power.
Examiner has a reply to the above
fran a “Young a We attend
him on another The more these
Saloon Catholice Young Men hit back the
worse it will be for them,