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We hare received the first number of the litusviUe Gateiu, a paper that ha* been brought into existence by the “oil fever” raging in that part of our “moral rinyard ” it professes to be independent in politics, and devoted mainly to the “oil question.”We dropped in at the Hardware store of J. C. Selden Co » the other evening, and .were shown the “entire animal1' ft* our friend Ely quaintly expresses it, from the primitive hair on hit attenuated proboscis, down to the last kink in his sytnetricai tail. A better arranged and better looking stock of Hardware will hardly be met with. Our thanks for “creature comforts.”We do not wish to set ourselves up for censor in affairs involving questions of ttiquetU, and especially not in cases where obedience to custom may serve as a partial excuse for the non-observance of the usual requirement* of society. But we cannot • help alluding to a custom which prevails, to some extent, with the congregations of a number of our churches—that of^turnisg the beck to the officiating clergyman during singing! It is generally supposed that the congregation is party to this most beautiful and expressive portion of public worship—choirs being instituted merely for the purpose of Uadmg the audience in its performance : then with what propriety, setting aside the question of proper deference to the clergyman officiating, can a congregation rise and turn to the choir to be nm? at /
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Erie Observer
Erie, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jan 28, 1860
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