The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-11
ADDITIONAL TELEGRAPH.

The Action Of Father SeuIIy, Of BOSTON,
He Refuses the Sacrament or COmmuF.
Ion TO Those Who Send Their Children
To the Public schools.
BosToN, November 9.-Excitement is
prevailing among the Catholics Of Cam.
bridgeport and Boston over Tie conduct Of
Father scully, in the former place, in com.
polling the Catholics 10 send their chill.
dren to the parochial schools. Leading
Catholics, including Alderman Reardon,
have sent their children to the public
because the paroChial schools are inferior.
Matters have been coming toa crisis for
several years, and the arbitrary practices
Of Father Scully are now coming out.
Complaints Of Scully have been made To
Archbishop Williams, but he refused to
take action on them. Father Scully re.
fused to administer the sacrament to Cath.
olics who send their children to the pub.
lie schools, which Is q terrible penalty to
these people, who are all true Catholics.
Charges OF unChristianlike character are
preferred against Sculy, and the following
facts, testified TO bv persons most interest.
ed, show how he uses his power to main.
tain the par9Chical school and keep Catho.
lie children from the public school.
An Irish woman says that she asked
Father Scully to call upon herinvalid hus.
band who could live but short time. He
said he would not till she sent her
children to the parochial school. She said
II he would come she would send them
after her husband died.
Scully replied, "Would you wish me or
any other good priest to go down there,
aud thereby damn his soul2'
LIE refused to call, though he drove by
the house twice that day, and her husband
died without the sacrament.
Another woman testified that Fathers
SCully and Mundy, and two other full
grown men, whipped her thirteen year old
son for truancy. They stripped of his
clothing, laid him on the table, and logged
him with heavy rattan, and when he
came home his shirt was soaked in blood
from the blows. For two weeks he was
unable to sit on chairs or lie on his back
in bed. She took him and his brother
from the paroChial school. Soon after her
husband was very i'll and wanted the
priest, but when he found the children
were going to the public school he refused
to administer the sa :rament. She said she
would send them tothe next term OF the
parochial school, whichopened in Septem.
Der. He said she might take the chances
Of her husbands living till September II
she chose. He refused to do anything till
the children were sent to the parochal
school. The next day the boy was sent to
that school, and at evening SCully admin.
istered the sacrament 10 the dying man.
Another woman with two boys was re.
fused the communion at the altar rail be.
cause she took them from the parochial
school on account Of the excessive whip.
pings. Many other cases Of the same ar.
bitrary action are taken down in writing,
showing how Father Scully exercises his
despotic power.
He was visited to-day by a reporter,
but refused to say anything about tho
subject. Archbishop Williams, OF Boston,
also refuses TO give an opinion on the
matter. Many leading Catholics are
strongly opposed to Scully, and hops to
get in q new priest who will not MAZE It a
mortal sin to attend the public schools.