Show ure PRE IN enester CHESTER oena PENA SYLVANIA from letters which reached this city a short abort time since we learned that r ishop bishop 1 13 P F sheets and elder uder byron groo had been disturbed la in hol hoi dinga meeting I 1 colin county ty pennsylvania which had been appoints appoint ed at the request of friends and relatives of the Bisho bishops pIts who resided iu lu that town we were somewhat surprised at the h news for chester county has an established character amo among n our elders and people for good order toleration and a love alove of fairplay fair play oun our elders always having enjoyed there the liberty of speech alid and action which every american citizen who does not trans transcend cendt he bounds of law has guaranteed to him by the constitution in every part of tha babad land many of our best eitl elti citizens hall hail from chester county pennsylvania and they naturally take considerable interest in the news from that quarter ar ter from the papers published ville we get an account of the disturbance the crowd according to the papera papers was a vast one and bishop sheet sheets was making an exceedingly interesting address when helas he was interrupted after appealing to the he disturbers disturb ers to keep quiet without alta elia stall I he declared the meeting adjourned the following extract is from an article in one of the local papers on the subject of the disturbance tur bance the events just narrated transpired so quickly and gre were so entirely unexpected that the law abiding portion of those present had bad not time to collect their thoughts before the whole aclair affair was a matter of the past but tut when the excitement had passed away and on the following baythe matter being calmly talked averit was discovered that this was a premeditated attempt arranged bo forehand beforehand to break up a public meeting and when it was further consid ered that those men therein engaged were not of the tam of society but menor men rot position would be leaders of our people men meri of years and of wives of children and and ever evea of grandchildren grand children in fact the very creme crement cu ta la creme trems of our community people were astonished but one expression 0 of outspoken condemnation was heard and the general er alwish wish was that the chofe whole party gan in might be e arrested and punished no because there was any sym sympathy p a th y with I 1 th mormonism but the character of our iown town town for nor good order orden had been seriously affected by men who should have been peen 1 the consert acors of other her hec honor this took look shape on monday by summonses being placed in the hands of constable baum naum for their arrest then these gentlemen discovered that they could not disturb a public meeting with impunity and they were wonderfully keen in hunting the prosecutors and nowise stingy in I 1 n 4 shelling out the greenbacks green backs for the I 1 purpose purpose of staying proceedings another paper ln alluding to the matter says if those men did not like his bis remarks which were not in the least out of place nor his doctrine they had no business to be present it then quotes from the law in reference e to disturbing meetings and says that it will be vigorously enforced for the sake of old chester cheater we are glad to hear of the prompt action which has been taken in this instance the law abiding abidi citizens are deter determined mined apparently apparel rits to crush out the tendency to which has manifested itself there and they have taken the only proper and sensible course which they could take under tha tho circumstances mobs cannons guns pistols swords and other violent arguments and measures hive have failed to prevent the spread of truth and the increase of its adherents thus far in this age an and t they ey who think they will succeed any better in the future have failed to profit by the elsons essons of hist history orv it is worthy 0 of that the man who was most noisy a aube the meeting re swalls berred to above in hi about polygamy was if we may credit the report in the papers a person whose own life was so notoriously impure as to call forth the retort from foin those in the audience that imen men who live in glass houses should never throw stones whenever a man I 1 is very denunciatory of patriarch 4 al marriage and indulges in loudmouthed comments upon its heinousness it is a sign that he himself is corrupt a sign which time and experience demonstrate to be thoroughly reliable he needs watching |