The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-05

versalist church in this city is trying the
Rev Charles p. MCCARTHY on charges of
immoral and unministerial conduct while
temporarily occupying the Rev. L. g.
Sweetzer's pulpit in the Bleecksr street
church from September 1875, to May, 1876.
The charges are nine in number. Mr.. Nc
Carthy did not satisfy the congregation
They thought HIM too rigid, and then
| little infdel, and tho trustees dismissed
him, refusing to pay what he claimed was
the tull salary due him. He sued and re-
covered $500 and 800 counsel fee, Mr..
Sweetzer, pastor OF the church, had been
abroad, and, returning, brought the accu-
sations on which Mr.. Mccarthy is now be-
ing tried. AS an offset to this, Mr.. Nc
Carthy has brought suit against Mr.. Sweet
ger in the supreme court for libel and black
mail and lays his damages at $4,000.
Immediately after his dismissal from the
| pulpit of the Third Uniyersalist church
Mccarthy established new church in the
same neighborhood, which he called "The
American Free church." and in the charges
preferred against him by Mr.. SSeetzer par
| ticular mention is made of this fact, to the
effect that it was done for purpose Of crta-
| ting discord and i'll feeling among the men,
bers of the Bleecker street congregation,
and of finally destroying it,
In the examination recently, which was
| conducted in the Bleecker street church
| building, Mr.. Sweetzer read his charges.
| They are to the effect that, while Mccarthy
was temporarily occupying the pulpit of
the Third Universallst church he violated
his trust as a minister by Grating a dis
turbsnce in the parish, using false and abu-
sive language derogatory to the board of
trustees, the society and the pastor him.
self he publicly accused the church and
| the entire denomination with entertaining
| iniidel proclivitiee, and caused articles con-
| taining those accusations to be published in
the newspapers when he imagined he had
q grievance against the trustees he went to
law for redress, instead of appealing to the
committee on ordination and discipline ; he
displayed q spirit of wickedness and disloy-
| atty in saying that if this matter came to q
| trial it would prove the ruin of the Bleecker
street church by the talk and doctrines of
| the rev church which he has organized he
has practically placed himself outside the
pale of the Universallst denomination he
moreover, asserted that the Unversalist
church was enthusiastically failure he ut
tered an untruth in saying that the Nashua
| N. H., Universalist church desired him for
pastor, and finally, he neglected to pay
his debts in this city and elsewhere is in
juring the cause of the Universalist church
by his conduc. and should, therefore, be
tried and dismissed from its fellowship.
The Rev. Mr.. Mccarthy, in written re-
ply, pronounced these charges slanderous
and malicious and in every essential par
ticularly utterly false.
ABRUPT CLOSE OF THE TRIAL-THE COURT
"BUILpozEp."
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continued III rHt e2u ntNs stie into
Hewlett, chairman of the board of trustees,
stated that Mr.. Mccarthy was dismissed
within three months of the expiration of
his term. To contradict this statement Mr..
Mccarthy produced an affidavit. sworn TO
by MIR. Hewlett on July 10, 1876, before a
notary in the court of common pleas, in
which that gentleman averred that he had
not been dismissed at ALL
81 don't like to hear you browbeat your
witness, remarked Mr. Llppencott to MIR.
mccarthy during the croas-hre that lol-
lowed.
VI won't answer MIN another question
unless the court VII protect me, SAID Mr.
Hewlett. MT. MCCARTHY mas insuited ev'
cry witness that mas Deen IN tnls chair De-
fore; L don't want TO ce led into answers
that don't intend.
MIR: Lippencott-'he court should pro
tect the witness.
MIR. Blddle trom posltion Dehlnd MIR.
McCarthy)-But not help the witness
through.
MIR. Mccarthy next had long dispute
! with Dr. Fisher, one of the court on the
difference between monthly engagement
and an engagement for month, which was
finally ended by the doctor explaining the
difference between the terms, an explana.
ton which MIR. Mccarthy at once used tc
confuse Mr.. Hewlett
Mr.. Mccarthy mispronounced Mr.
Sweetzers name.
"Don't SPOIL my name, please" exclaim
ed that gentleman.
'Oh, you'll do that soon enough your.
SELF" retorted Mccarthy.
"WiIl the court protect me from these
cowardly assaults?' pleaded Mr. SweeIzeI
plaintiyely.
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