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VOL. XT. PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 15, 1884. NO. 136.
fix, and joined in @ procession for Praying TOTAL ABSTINENCE. ian country pleads for it. Friends, TWO TREASURERS,
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GRIFFIN.
By Marry I. J.
“The first law of history is not to dare to tell
a lia; the second, not to fear to tell the trut
besides, Jet the historian be beyond all suspici
feo
favoting or of hating any one whomsoever. ”
XUL
For the letter given below we are in-
debted to William John Potts, Esq., of
Camden, N. J.:
From “The National Gazette and Literary Reg-
ster." Fuptishea {in Philadelphia, Wednesday,
conin exicAtioN
The following le e year
& Cathalio ler man in tiaGelphia, in
roi to inquiry fro Tom the Secretary” of ihe
Province ithe number of Catholies then In
Pennsylvania, Is worth preservation, as exhibiting |
the
state of the Catholic Chure eh at that ented
ICHARD PETERS:—Hon. Sir,
enclosed fhe number of ‘oma alot ‘i this
count of the
himsay that the whole number of Roman Catho-
lies—English. Irish and Germans—in the province,
including men, women and children, does not
end two thousan nd.
main, Hon. Sir, your humble servan*.
xr Hanprsc, ”
The enclosure in in these mber
jan Catholics, enaiish and ish, fa Pit vat
8 7, Females 62; 139,
je 25, Females By Mota 0
As will be remember d,we have already
at April 20, are d °° 72 mo
an wol a being all Irish (01 T Ene
lish).” was t the "etter given above shows
but 139 Catholics, it is probable that the
report was for the year 1756. The full
return for Pennsylvania | for 1757 reported
365 Catholics in the province. This was,
no doubt, the number of communicants,
1780.—The Spanish Government was
represented in his country by Don Juan
De Mii . h not formally ered-
ited to the new Republic, he yet exercised
f the privileges of an Envoy-Ex-
traordinary. He died in May, 1780,
he French Minister, issued
the following invitation to the members
of Congress and distinguished citizens ;
[By kind permission of Prof. W. HI. B.
Thomas, I copy frora the original ad-
dressed to Dr. Rush, now preserved in
the MSs. Department of the Ridgway
Library.]
“The French Minister has the honor
to inform Dr. that on Monday next
there will be in the Catholic Church a
divine service for the rest of the soul of
n De Mirales at 9 o’clock in the
morning.””
This invitation was endorsed
e
&
May 8th, no doubt the
day of The Chaplain of the
French | Minister was Abbe Bandol. No
ook part as celebrator of the
we on as delivering the funeral dis-
courte
As have proved that in uly, 179, St.
' Mary’s was the place of a special ‘and
grand celebration, I express the belief
was ‘the
There were not two congre-
gations—but one congregation. St.
Joseph’s and St. Mary’s were but one
chureh, but St. Mary's being then nearly
as large as it is n ust be considered
the Catholic Chureh ” meant by all
using such terms one hundred years or
more. That this is a new and, to many,
a strange view, I cannot help. As I find
facts to justify, 8o I make the record.
Lam following Pope Leo XIII’s advice.
An interesting inquiry may be here
instituted : Was the I Requi jem services
thus celebrated the occasion referred to
blished_the return of. Father Harding x
reported
a departed soul out of purgatory ; and
for this they gave the examp le of
gress and other American Teaders
former occasion at Philadelphia, some of
whom in the height of their zeal went s
themselves with what
The following poetical extract refers to
the same e'
1 183. ‘rom ‘* Poems by Philip Fre-
neau, of New Jersey” (Monmouth, 1795).
“*RIVINGTON’S REFLECTIONS.”
(Rivington was publisher of the Royal Gazet
in New York wile te British were in possession,
‘The * Reflections” were his musings after that
it.)
Tn ruth, Ihave need of a mansion of rest,
And here to remain might suit me the best
Philadetphia in some things would answer as well,
re Tories are there auld my paper might sell
But pom I should live amongst wrangling an
e foreed to say Credo the rest of my life:
It thus inet true. fa they no longer defen
I seare Wiiere the madness will end ;
Ie tite greatest amon them submit to the Pope,
{Whit Yeason have I for indulgence to hope ?
the Congress themselves to the chapel ald pass,
Yo may swear that poor JemMy would have to
sing Mass.
The title of St. Mary’s was in tl
of Daniel Swan, Thomas Mallaby,
doin pottringer, Edward Harrington,
Hussey and James White. ‘They
me made declaration t that the property
was conveyed to t lirection an
appointment of ‘he Tmembers of a con-
regation professing the Roman Catholic
religion and belonging to
Catholic chapel on south side of Walnut
street,”? and that the property was Pur
ased by voluntary subscerij
‘ou | embers of said congregation.
After the close of the Revolutionary
ONT, . | War the feeling that affairs ought t to be
placed in a better condition ler
systematic management appears to! have
moved the congregation.
The temporal affairs had been directed |e
‘* Managers.” Fi what date I
now not. The church from its erec-
tion, in 1763, had been without galleries.
It was resolved to erect galleries, add
more pews and improve and ornament
the chureh generally. - Accordingly, the
amee exed subscription list was presented | il
0 Catholics and others :
Allowing £1 as the contribution of Jos. Boehm,
the total contribution amounted to £1204, 17s., 1d:
—Here’s the way the total abstainers
of great Chicago declare their senti-
ments. Don’t they make your heart
There is no timidity or half
heartedness about their spirit, They ar
strong, resolute and aggressi'
ane the delegates of the Catholie T.
A. Union of the Archdiocese ¢t Chicago,
assembled at our First Annual Conven-
tion, have been gratified Oy the reports
resulting from organized and
fraternal association, but above all by
the incomparable power of religion, by
Keeping our organization ind our efforts
der the constant gui and influ-
ence of the Chureh of Christ ; wi hile we
are organized to promote temperance
and oppose drunkenness, we make the
solemn declaration that _we are impelled
to this work from motives of religion,
humanity ‘and patriotism. We are sin-
cerely thankful to our Most» Rev. and
Beloved Archbishop, to his Very Rev.
Vicar-General, and to all the priests who
he | have aided and encouraged the cause of P
| Of “free and easy’
the cause of total abstinence,
to advance the cause w
desire to embody our “convictions in the
following resolution:
Resolved, That we regan drunkenness
as a vice condemned by the laws of God
and the dictates of reason,
In ord
humanity, and
tends to the Subversion of every princi-
pol of good govern:
Resolved, That we are fully convinced
that this vice owes its prevalence to erro-
neous ideas regarding the use and sale of
intoxicating liquors, whereby private
habits are formed and public customs
established favoring and encouraging the
VResolved, That in our judgment the
remedy is: @ correct sentiment as to
nature and tendency of all. alcoholic
drinks, the practice of total anstinence
‘rom motives of religion and liimani
and a system of righteous laws co- sport
ing with moral influences for the over-
row of this enemy of God and man.
Resolved, That we re-aflirm the resolu-
tions of the National Convention at
Brooklyn which declare: ‘*That we de-
plore the conduct of those who, through | ro
selfish motives or cowardly silence, have
failed to denounce this vice and its
abettors.
“+ Resolved, That it is a dire calamity to
intrust the mauagement of public affairs
and the making of laws for the common
good of the whole community to un-
principled men who hold office at the
and drunkard-makers; because they donot.
construct suitable legislative safeguards
along the worn and beaten track of
human crime and misery that leads from
the doors of low saloons to the jail and i
poor-hot
“ Resolved, That Catholic total abstain- | ©
ers and advocates of ten mperance shou!
fearlessly perform their duties as citizens | ©)
by public. prone Against laws calculated
to Joster intem
Resolved, TI hat we look with horror
upon the apathy of an enlightened people
who entrust the reins of authority and of
government, to men who hold their cau-
cuses around a saloon-counter and make
their appointments to public offices at
the bidding of saloon-kee
d, That we rely for ‘the sucecss
on the ‘Bnetainents of the Church, on the
influence and example of pledged. abstain-
ers, and on a Vigorous use of those edu-
cating agencies which mold and direct
public senitiment—the press, the platform | m,
and the pulpit.
Resolved, That in the name of religion
and civilization we appeal to the press to
publish truths as will
direct public attention to the evil of in-
mperance,
and we beseech the clergy, in the name | perance.
of our holy religion and for the sake of
immortgl souls, to present the claims of
this great cause whenever and wherever
occasion may 01
Resolved, That we strongly recommend | tiv
the formation adet societies wher-
ever possible, as. on youth rests the hope
of society, and in their sympathy and
hearty co-operation will te found the life
and maintenance of the y
Resolved, That the claitns of the Catho-
lie faith are such that all good Catholics
should feel their religion demanded they
should lead in this temperance movement.
She world expects it, humanity urges it,
dred, home and
heaven,
strugg!
Resolved, That the officers of the local
societies are urged, between this day and
the time of the next General Convention,
n July 13th, to make a noble and gal-
fant struggle to increase the membership
of their societies to much greater pro-
loved ones, God and
all becken us onward to the
rtions. Let there be no local jeal
sies, Let the best men stand at the
helm. The field is big enough for all.
Intemperance is still doing its full work
amongst our brethren in race and reli-
ion. et every society take the Demon
qeopel by the throat and shake off his
deadly hold on our people. Ty
parish, where there isa T. A. society let
the fair form of Temperance rise, like the
angel of the resurrection, clothed in rai-
ment white as snow, and let its influence
grow and expand, widen and develop till
the whole community is leavened by it.
—There is a Branch of the C. T. A. U.
of A, forming in Steubenville.
—Father Nugent, of Liverpool, now
gives free entertainments in the evening
to counteract the temptation of the gin
shops whici entice the people by means
” shows,
—The Cathedral Society at is January
meeting admitt ew A
committee of seventy- five wore appointed
to canvass the parish for mem)
that was the result of the first veliort.
The Parish has been ff,” and
every mi and youth will be
sought and solicited to become a total
abstai
2
3
a
enrolled in the membership of the total | j
abstain
—The Board of Government of the
Connecticut Union in| an address to the
societies say: ‘Asan organization en-
joying the sanction of the highest eccle-
ing the voice of profanity in our midst ;| 8%:
to change the lamentations of famished
little ones into the we tow prattle heard
in the halls of plenty ; to wipe out forever
the only sti igma thet jnasouitied the bright
be of Erin Mavourneen since first she
knelt a captive nation at the Cross of the
Crucifix, To accomplish these result, we
need pecuniary aid; will you help us »
Brooklyn friend writes: **Tem-
perance societies here are alive and mak-
ing themselves hear any of our
clergy actively interest themselves, and
elia as energetic as ever.
Mary Star of the Sea Society is fortunate
in having Rev, Father O*Boyle, a priest
of great ability and zeal, 2s Spiritual
irector. n earnest supporter
of total abstinence in Ireland and an
advocate of the most pronounced kind | a
of Irish rights. He did not hitherto
2
onducted in a manner
hat could not en nlist his sympathies.
d Now that he has come amongst us, so to
ak, I expect our people here will fnd
that a prophet has risen up,’?
—‘'It is something deplorable beyond
the power of expression that the Irish
ople in large cities have become the
political slaves of saloon-keepers, and
whenever, as a rule, they choose men to
represent them in high places of trust,
they choose saloon-keepers or the friends
the saloons. The need of the hour is
to free the Irish people from those cruel
k-maskers, whose tyranny is far more
cruel and degrading than that of a Crom-
well or a William o! Cromwell
and William tinughtercd hosts of Trish-
ls ose Irishmen died in the
possession of their ri
heroes.
keepers. Slaughter have been fii
prived of reason, degraded to the level
of brutes, deprived of all hope i time
s
B.
and in eternity.” W. Chroi
—The Chicago Union declares: ‘* The
Catholic total abstainers and advocates
of temperance should fearlessly perform
their duties as citizens by public protest
against laws calculated to foster intem-
e. Weconsider the high license
bill of Illinois, known as the Harper bill,
a most salui law, tending as it doe:
to remove and diminish the temptation
rink and, consequently, the incen-
es to crime by effectually closing up
groggeries and dens where sin revels
Diminish the number of saloons and you
diminish the number of drinkers. We
look with horror upon the apathy of an
enlightened people who entrust the reins
of authority and of government to men
who hold thee caucuses around a saloou
make their appointments to
public ‘oftcers at the bidding of saloon-
keepers,”
- thirty, ‘one dollars,
vice of intemperance | ;.
St. | given tosecurity. Th
the pw of the ‘‘estates” of Reu-
ben er and Charles C, Iughes,
Tate ot Pratl, have been adji udi-
cated before the Cow
Mr. Longaker five tn West Dede
phia, was supposes
sogthy. Claims to the amount of er. -
P1000 were presented against the estate,
which “unounted 0 but one hundr ed and
Among those who
er ¥ doss are the Wyoming ‘Buildin ing
and Loan Association $6,177, the Mos-
cosco Tribe of Red Men $3, 912, the Lib-
erty Lodge $261. He w: as ‘Treasurer of
all these organizations,
In the case of the late Chas. C. ILughes,
well-known member of Catholic socie-
ties, claims for $14,000 were allowed.
The amount for distribution was $65:
The principal creditors were Mary E.
Bradley, Adeninistrator of Owen Quinn,
$3, G85. ue Beneficial Society, No. 405
598, due on the decedent's
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ylum, $2,980,
The last claim Fepresented the proceeds
f a ball given for the benefit of the asy-
lum by the Catholic Philopatrian Insti-
tute, of which Mr. Hughes was Secre-
. Bie proceeds came into his hands,
but weme never turned over by him to
he asylum. A dividend, the rate of
which is to be calculated by counsel, will
be awarded the cred
The tr: Transactions. ‘ot Mr, Hughes, as
aegrelary of the Charles Lafferty Build-
an an Association, are not in-
chided i in this account.
bravely and are rebuilding the society.
The amount due to St. “John’s Orphan.
Asylum will, we believe, he not wl wholly
Mr. Jenn nings, Ex-President of the
Philopatrian Institute, ha
in greater part.
r, Jennings twice
tomary with the annual charity contri-
bution of the Philopatrians, The illness
of Ifis Grace did not allow of
interview. .
ugbes, Death
ame in, and repayment was impossible.
Mr, Hu, ighes was Treasurer of the St.
Elizabeth's Society also. e@ were paid
the claim of that society two weeks after
his death because attention had been
e Erin Society were
simply deceived by accepting fraudulent
stock of a building society as security,
as did many others who ‘reposed confi.
dence in Mr. Hughes, His financial
operations astounded ail who knew him,
and the mystery has been what became
of all this money!
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So
ST. MARY'S UNION.
‘y’s Union is a pious organiza-
tion “eeatheneg February 2d, 1882, with
© permission jue approbation of the
Re Rev. M Farrell, D. D., Bishop
of Trenton, N.J., and designed to sup-
port homeless childrei
rhe annual alms, entitling to a certi-
ficate of membership for either the living
or the dead, is only twenty-five cents.
Hardly any one eannot flora this small
sum, which procures the benefits of a
daily Mass and many other spiritual
privileges,
Masses are also said for Solicitors:
those who procure a number of certifi-
cates of membership and dispose of them
among their friends, Each Solicitor pro-
curing fifty members will re
some volume of choice Cathiolie reading,
An 8-page illustrated paper is Published
at the beginning of each year and sent
to all Solicitors for gratustons (ise tri {bu
tion among the members on
Certificates of membership in ‘uate,
French and German, : Mourning certifi-
cates for the di ead.
ersons desiring to become solicitors
or met rs are invited to dropa Postal
to the Director of the Union, Teves jas.
A. McFaul, Long Branch, N. J.
—The Chicago Union fe
of. high license.
tres in favor
method of contracting the liquor traffic.
In St. Paul, Minn., the same principle is
in high favor.
—Since last March the Rev. James
Hagan, President of the Chicago Union,
has administered the pledge to 11,648
persons, a record that challenged that of
any other priest in the temperance work.